Born, raised, lived in California over 50 years. I am leftist politically, Vegan because I feel it is wrong for me to exist by the harming of other sentient beings (positive side effect, a smaller carbon & water footprint). I am demisexual & dislike sexual references I filter NSFW, Kink & Lewd + (if I understand them). I read a lot & play board & table top roleplaying games. I am ASD, physical & mental health issues. Apatheist/Taoist, cPTSD
Added: I do not identify as transgender because in my life my gender has never changed, only my sex has changed. I was a girl when I was little and became a woman upon turning 18. I was forced to pretend to be male by society but I never have been.
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white text "To be a feminist you must be anti capitalist because capitalism only benefits the 1%, and there will always be more women in the 99% than there will be in the 1%
[photo in black and white of a dozen people of mixed gender and age standing in a queue with a background of a brick wall to the left and an empty field behind and they are bordered with razor wire] #AntiCapitalist#Feminism#LGBTQ
This originally promoted a cult I was in, I have removed the cult promo link
(I first made this a pinned post but I figured why not make it part of my intro, which I am thinking of updating)
My favorite quotes: I will add a toot full each day until I have tooted all that I have saved.
"Virtue can only flourish among equals." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness." - Emmeline Pankhurst
"You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way." - Emmeline Pankhurst
“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society--more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. ” ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.” ― Emma Goldman, Living My Life
"I was sure that no one, be it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the integrity or the desire to free people in other lands" - Emma Goldman, Living My Life
"For the government to attempt to control thought, to prescribe certain opinions or proscribe others, is the height of despotism." - Alexander Berkman
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” - Maya Angelou
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou
"But that isn't how it works. When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to ALL of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It's something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated."
Lena Dunham - Not That Kind of Girl
“The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“There are two type's of people in this world. People who don't lie and men's rights activists.” - George Carlin
"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
"And my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." - Nicholas Klein
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -- Jean-Paul Sartre
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.” ― Albert Camus
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." — Marcus Aurelius
"A civilization that exploits, but does not restore, cannot have any other result than the approach of its own end" - Nikolai Fyodorov
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” ― George Carlin
“Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers. ” ― George Carlin
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.” - George Carlin
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist” - George Carlin
“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little” - George Carlin
“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.” - George Carlin
“Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.” ― George Carlin
"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone." - Robin Williams
“Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
"No, that's the point. I grok people. I am people ... so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much ... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." - Valentine Michael Smith - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” - Anonymous (many different attributions)
"I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness." - Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson or Elbert Hubbard
"the law is a ass — a idiot." - Mr Bumble (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into." - Jonathan Swift
"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves." - Leto Atreides II (Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune)
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." - Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune) ("Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it.")
"Humans are a collective organism, and that organism performs best when its members recogize their common interests." - Sisterhood Training Manual (Brian Herbert, Mentats of Dune)
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” - Henry David Thoreau
(this quote is often incompletely given)
"I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account; for, beside that before he has fairly learned it I may have found out another for myself, I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead." - Henry David Thoreau
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena Speech
"To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A strong military, a tool of misfortune
All things detest it" - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 31
"One’s point of view makes all the difference in the world. There is a famous story of the days when Sir Christopher Wren was building St. Paul’s Cathedral. On one occasion he was making a tour of the work in progress. He came upon a man at work and asked him: “What are you doing?” The man said: “I am cutting this stone to a certain size and shape.” He came to a second man and asked him what he was doing. The man said: “I am earning so much money at my work.” He came to a third man at work and asked him what he was doing. The man paused for a moment, straightened himself and answered: “I am helping Sir Christopher Wren build St. Paul’s Cathedral.” (Source Unknown)
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.” — Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” - Rabbi Hillel
"It is also crucial for us to recognize that it is equally valid for a trans person to decide to transition and live as the other sex as it is for them to instead choose to blur gender boundaries and identify themselves outside the gender binary. There is no one right way to be trans. Each of us simply needs to figure out what works best for us and what allows us to best express who we feel we are." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
"And by the time I made the decision to transition, my gender dissonance had gotten so bad that it completely consumed me; it hurt more than any pain, physical or emotional, that I had ever experienced. I know that most people believe that transsexuals transition because we want to be the other sex, but that is an oversimplification." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
"When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” — Audre Lorde
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Mark Twain
"Sexual intimacy is not something to be given lightly. It is an experience to be earned by each from the other. We do not automatically grant trust or respect; they are earned values. Sexual intimacy is not automatic, as depersonalized sexual experience often is. It involves, in the deepest sense, experiencing the pleasure of physical and sexual closeness with another while being able to put oneself in the place of the other, taking on the meaning of the experience of the other, creating not a private but a shared joy. Such intimacy grows and is cultivated from dignity, respect, caring, tenderness. As those things grow, the most personal parts of oneself continually open for more intense and profound sexual experience for heightened erotic experiences.
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Sexual intimacy, as true sharing, is denied by the values of individualism whereby one is preoccupies with one’s own needs. It is obscured in traditional morality where men are neither challenged nor condemned for sexual aggression. True intimacy has been difficult for women to come to terms with, as traditionally it has been the area in which women have lost their power, identity, and centeredness." - Kathleen Barry - Female Sexual Slavery
"For that reason, and in espousing individual liberty, we must not interfere with women who freely enter marriage and can leave it just as freely. Neither should we interfere with women who enter prostitution freely, be they self-employed professional call girls or high-status African prostitutes, as long as they can freely leave their work any time they choose. I assume that this liberty will take place in the context of increasing participation in new values. As new values are actively disseminated through the population, institutions of sex colonization will become less and less attractive. And I assume that we must determine a woman's ability to freely enter or leave institutions of sex colonization based on her actual conditions and not simply on her perception of them or her desire to participate regardless of the conditions." - Kathleen Barry - Female Sexual Slavery
“The roots of sexism and homophobia are found in the same economic and political institutions that serve as the foundation of racism in this country and, more often than not, the same extremist circles that inflict violence on people of color are responsible for the eruptions of violence inspired by sexist and homophobic biases. Our political activism must clearly manifest our understanding of these connections.” ― Angela Y. Davis
"There’s no other situation in which [placing the burden of desire onto the object desired] is culturally acceptable. We don’t camouflage a doughnut shop to protect dieters from the tempting sight of a doughnut, nor shutter bars to protect alcoholics, or any other such thing — one is responsible for managing one’s own cravings responsibly and appropriately. But when it comes to women’s sexuality or sensuality, it is still culturally and socially appropriate to say that any display is a temptation and that men … cannot be expected to resist such a thing." - S. Bear Bergman
"And while it is okay to acknowledge that all kinds of women, whether white, Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian, cis, gender nonconforming, trans, queer, bi, or straight might have different experiences, it's not cool to act as though transwomen are in some entirely separate category from the more general category of woman. That is something that feminism needs to be clear on - that it isn't feminism if all women's concerns, particularly the most marginalized women's concerns, aren't taken seriously." - Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
"All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being." - bell hooks
"Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past" - Lama Surya Das
“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and practice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.”
― bell hooks
"Your honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene Debs
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken
"The perfect is the enemy of the good." - François-Marie Arouet pen name Voltaire
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell." - Karl Popper
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude." - Karl Popper
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
I have been using UN and other commemorative days including from the USA
Currently no special days so a cause that I think is good
"Our Mission
Our mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side-by-side with local communities, and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity. NP envisions a worldwide culture of peace in which conflicts within and between communities and countries are managed through nonviolent means. We are guided by principles of nonviolence, non-partisanship, primacy of local actors, and civilian-to-civilian action.
Our work is guided by the overarching values of nonviolence.
In every region and in every situation, with every partner and team member, our work is guided by the overarching values of nonviolence
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