ursagets.excessively.gay
Podcasting and Star Trek and roller derby and gay stuff (they/them/ghaH)
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"Yes there is misogyny in the world, but it's at least partially to blame on women. I'm your ally." Fucking yikes
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www.tiktok.com/@decoderpod/...
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Ha noticed the typo after it was too late to edit. Whole thread. You should read that whole thread
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More desperation for the "one weird trick that will finally destroy the bad guy"
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Can you provide some evidence backing that up?
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I've only just started watching season 2, but I can tell you season 1 only covers about half the first book so you won't be spoiling yourself if you watch season 1
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I loved the 1st season of the show so much I did a speed run of all the books over a weekend. Really really great stuff
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Truly wild how often people who don't want to do a thing are often compelled to do it anyways. By some mysterious unknown force I guess. We'll never know
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@mskellymhayes.bsky.social I wrote this post right before I saw yours. What a range that show has
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Legit one of the best episodes of television ever made. I've seen it dozens of time and it still affects me.
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It's ancient knowledge
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AHHHH I LOVE THIS
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Oh yeah I think this culture of rugged individualism explains a lot of it. It's self centered thinking instead of community centered thinking
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I'm not a psychologist, so that could all be bullshit. But it's hard for me to see another explanation that makes sense. It just feels like most people's politics are about self soothing more than about making things better for anyone. That framework makes so much seemingly wild behavior make sense
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It's a rhetorical sorting device to make sure everyone knows the speaker is better than the thing they're critiquing. Because "gosh if this is so evil I can't even grok it, that must mean I'm quite morally righteous." The critique isn't really the point, the point is the speaker's aggrandizement.
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I really think the underpinning of that whole turn of phrase is supposed to be another way of saying "this is so (insert synonym for bad, wrong, immoral, etc) that it's beyond my understanding." And what that actually means is "I'm so much better than this way of thinking that I can't understand it"
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We totally can fathom it though! And we should be fathoming it! They don't even do THAT good of a job lying about it or hiding it
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THATS A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM. because from the POV of advancing white supremacy and patriarchy, essentially everything they do is rational, logical, and consistent with advancing those aims.
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And you don't gain that understanding to sympathize, you do it because you can't effectively counter them unless you actually understand how they think. It's fair to play to point out the contradictions and hypocrisy but to keep going "I just don't get it" and "it'll never make sense to me"
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