+yesterday this girl in my academic writing class sits down next to me and puts 3 bananas on the desk (which was jarring by itself) and i had two bananas in my backpack so i wanted to see if she would notice if i added those to her banana pile when she wasn’t looking and when she finally looked back at the bananas she sighed and said really quietly to herself “oh my god…i have so many…” and put all five of them in her backpack
the anniversary of this legend
+hot take but “is X oppression worse than Y oppression” or “are X oppressed ppl suffering more than Y oppressed people” are pointless and impossible to answer with any kind of objective reality even if they were asked in good faith. which they never, ever are.
someone asking these kinds of questions is only looking for an excuse to not help people. stop entertaining it, stop coddling it, stop validating it as some kind of reasonable debate. making yourself small and playing along won’t make them help you out of admiration for your humility and obedience, these ppl are not interested in drawing up an objective taxonomy of all oppression ever, they are only looking for confirmation that their biases were correct and that you are, in deed, less worthy. less worthy of attention, less worthy of respect, less worthy of help, and ultimately less worthy of existing.
outside of an A&E ward in full crisis mode no actual person looks at someone hurting and, with nothing but love and compassion in their heart, stops to ask whether or not there aren’t people worse off somewhere out there in the world. people who ask these questions are not interested in helping anyone, they just want to be told that their apathy or contempt towards some people’s suffering is justified because they’re on some kind of sj-appointed Higher Calling
[W]hat does the sentence “If you eat this fruit you will die” mean for Eve who is in a place where there is no death?
Hélène Cixous, Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva (via bulgakeov) +
+something that bothers me is when cis lgb people see transphobia from cishets and say “smh straight people are so wild” like…. y’all know it’s not the het part of them that’s being transphobic? it’s the cis side? the cis side that you share with them?
cis members of the lgbt community, please remember you can be and often are just as transphobic as cishets, and you’re not immune to being transphobic. be better.
this is ok to reblog, especially cis people
10% of the notes are trans people who know exactly what i’m talking about and the other 90% are dumbasses refusing to rub their last two brain cells together to read the words in front of them
+hey shout out to PBS and public libraries
like dudes for real PBS has so many resources for education and stuff. you can watch HOURS of documentaries online for free on their site.
like no joke go on pbs dot org right now and you’ll find an entire netflix of public television with full transcripts to boot. the american experience site alone is loaded with multipart docuseries about american history
the availability can vary but even then watch pbs sometimes!! they have really cool crap on all the time. sometimes they play ballets and broadway shows. (donation ad voice) support public televisionstrange and bizarre how community-funded and supported programming and resources are made to be free and easy to access, and it’s some of the highest quality stuff you can get my friends! sorry not sorry socialism works
He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an earth too deeply asleep to notice the scratch of ant feet, the rasp of butterfly teeth, the tumbling of dust.
J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K (via quotespile) +
+The same people who think billionares stimulate the economy by buying huge quantities of useless shit they don’t need really get offended at the idea of teenagers, the disabled, and poor people earning more cash to buy a little of what is even perceived to be useless shit they don’t need
Like even putting aside the fact that someone who is poor or even middle class buying themself something for recreation actually does something good for their quality of life whereas a billionare buying themself 3 yachts or golden donuts that taste terrible almost certianly doesn’t, its clear that people who feel this way have a specific preconception in their minds of who is worthy of having spending money, socioeconomic power, and recreation and who isn’t
My point is if the idea of a teenager who only spends their summer job money on music and movies and clothes being paid $4 an hour more so they can buy more music and movies and clothes or a welfare recipient being able to spend money on chatskies and eat out offends you but not a billionaire buying their 4th house or a golf plated toilet, it reveals that what really disgusts and maybe even scares you isn’t the idea of frivolous spending and mindless consumerism, but the idea of teenagers, poor people, and disabled people having purchasing power and distractions and leisure time