Yep. I read a lot of these TERF screeds as kind of “they’re choosing to be women now so they can reap what we’ve sown.” Like, a cisgendered man would suddenly decide to give up his entire identity in order to “take” what feminists have labored to achieve.

It is nearly impossible to convince some people that others aren’t looking for “special treatment” they just want the SAME treatment.

That zero sum mentality is honestly such a challenge. It’s how we end up with this All Lives Matter bullshit, because people are so worried that someone saying Black Lives Matter must imply that their own life matters less in that moment.

The issue there though, especially more in the US it seems, is that “The Left” is considered overlapped onto “Progressive” which isn’t the case. I’ve met too many people who are economically left-wing but in terms of social policy are severely lacking or rather conservative.

“Instead, point out how boring it is to think people should be punished if they don’t conform. How tedious it is to think that the contours of your own thought enclose all that is worth knowing. How embarrassing it is to be cruel.”

I really like Return of Saturn, Tragic Kingdom, and some of her solo stuff. I always thought “Simple Life” was her wrestling with wanting to settle down with kids or pursue her career. It’s interesting how much cultural appropriation was going on back in those days and not only given a pass but elevated. The bindis,…

The Blind said the Musk got bored with a solo relationship with Amber Heard. Which just seems like winning the jackpot on a slot machine only to walk over to a roulette table, bet it all on 00, and have the ball land there, too.

Given Tesla’s quality control issues, I’m assuming this was merely an opportunity for Musk to disappoint two women at once.

Yeah, every video of every BBQ Becky that’s come out over the last few years - there’s absolutely no fear involved. Women know what fear sounds like.

Yeah, there was zero fear there.

To be quite frank, part of the unnecessary rehabilitation is on Christian Cooper, himself. I’m black, so I’ll police his response without feeling any guilt. He was an integral part of this rehab. We have black people have to stop falling into this pressured default of forgiveness or guilt when we’re made victims of by…

Agree with everything you said, and wanted to add that when white men shoot up schools, we get article after article about how they were bullied and ostracized and couldn’t find girls to date as if that somehow humanizes the atrocities they committed. As if people of color and LGBTQ kids and women aren’t subjected to…

THIS.

I cannot speak for Jezebel here, but the article has a point.

The only thing I’d suggest is that this line doesn’t strike me as correct: “Their first instinct was to react with fear...”.  I think rather, their first reaction was to act like they were in charge and that the person they were talking to was not their equal.

What cracks me up about her interference the most is that it’s just chalk! Even if it weren’t his property, it would’ve washed away with 20 seconds of a garden hose. I hope she thinks it's worth it.  

Gods, that reveal on the Lisa Alexander video is so dang creepy. Like, lady, at what point did you decide that posing like a haunted, malevolent doll was gonna be a good look? If you dropped her into a forest with that look, she’d be some prime creepypasta.

Hun, she didn’t wrongly think she knew the owners. She was consciously lying as a flex to put a person of color in his place, never dreaming for a minute that she was speaking to the owner himself. 

Probably because she didn’t actually think she knew the owner?

I guess she assumed he just didn’t know what ownership meant, since all minorities must rent? Just ugh.