raccoona_nongrata

raccoona_nongrata, 2 months ago

That’s a good looking trailer. I’ve been anticipating this for a while, nice to see it’s not getting Disneyfied judging from this little bit.

raccoona_nongrata, 2 months ago

What right? The right to install CCP spyware on your phone? Lol

raccoona_nongrata, 3 months ago

The concept was introduced by terfs as a way to divide trans communities.

Terfs believe there’s no real, neuro-physical reason for trans people to exist, that it’s all a social construct based on how you were raised. The terms truscum/transmed are kind of extensions of a long running campaign to delegitimize trans people in the public eye and undermine the basis for all trans care.

Initially terfs and bigots tried to use rhetoric about how they identified as attack helicopters or nebulas etc. to delegitimize trans people. But when that kind of memeing failed, they realized they could co-opt the term “trans” itself by leveraging non-trans groups who were looking for legitimacy for their anime fetish or who had magical ideas about being part fairy and stuff, basically leading those groups into trans spaces to create disruption.

The idea was to flood trans spaces with these other groups that had nothing to do with being trans and drown out trans voices in their own communities. This is when you start seeing trans people being called “truscum” when they begin pushing back on the idea that being trans is a social invention, rather than a real condition.

It’s kind of had middling results, on one hand, yes you do see the massive social and political backlash against trans people that coincides with them having their voice co-opted by people who have no clear understanding of what being trans is and don’t really care. But on the other hand the support by the medical community has remained pretty solid, since they’re not basing their care on that kind of social stuff.

So, the short of it is; truscum is a term invented to shutdown discussion of the causes behind being trans and the conditions identifying features. It’s shorthand to prevent addressing questions that make some people uncomfortable.

raccoona_nongrata, 3 months ago

The “pick me” label as its applied to cis women is a misogynist concept used as a way to drive a wedge between women. Just as general advice from an ally, it’s probably not advisable to onboard kind of short-hand into trans communities.

Internalized misogyny takes a lot of forms, it could manifest as “pick me” behavior, but it could just as easily manifest as an obsession with hyper-sexualized misogynist anime characters etc.

The goal should be to help other women work through and get out from under internalized misogyny, not label, police and condemn them for it.

Putting down other women is carrying water for misogynists, whether it’s criticizing them for being too femme or for being tom boyish or whatever other characteristics are “bad ways to be a woman”.

As I_dont_want_to points out; these kinds of labels are easily misapplied and weaponized. Better to just criticize the specific negative behavior itself than label the person as something. In the same way that calling a person “a racist” is less productive than pointing out that they’re “being racist”. One is aimed at the nature of the person, the other addresses behaviour.

raccoona_nongrata, 3 months ago

My reaction upon reading this was simply that things worked the way they should; heavily brainwashed person makes threat of violence against someone for exercising their free speech, that person then suffers the legal consequences.

As long as that’s always the case whenever people try to undermine speech with violence, I sort of don’t have much to add aside from good riddance.

raccoona_nongrata, 3 months ago

And Hamas is not actually representative of Palestinians. The majority of people in Gaza are literally not even old enough to have voted last time there was any kind of election.

What Hamas actually is is a group that was funded and propped up by Netanyahu to create an intractable boogie man that Netanyahu could then point too and say “look, Palestinians don’t want a solution, nothing Israel can do about the situation, guess we have no choice but genocide.”

raccoona_nongrata, 8 months ago

Part of me would love to see it, and then watch the next one last a few weeks before they get eaten, and then the next and the next.

raccoona_nongrata, 8 months ago

Looks interesting, I was curious what it would be back when they announced the title.

Though I kind of wish Synder would evolve beyond his fixation on washed out black-and-blue color grading and hyper-dramatic CGI landscapes. You could take some stills from this and tell me they were Aquaman or whatever and I’d believe you, it’s not just that he has a style it’s that everything he does looks almost exactly the same.