Amanda Batty

I’m gonna go take a nap now.

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I did.

Yes, yes you fucking should. And tell all your friends to, as well. If you need, go set up an LLC (or even better, an S-corp) in your state, and corporatize yourself. Your name and your existence can be and should be corporatized in a state where corporations = people and have more power. 😘

For these men, their faux masculinity is a maladaptive neurodivergent imitation of what their brains think masculinity is — an observation-based perception of social behaviors.

But due to ND social stunting, they lack healthy male role models AND are *also* surrounded by similarly inept men.

*I* am autistic, so I mirrored, imitated and adopted some crazy behaviors that looked ‘normal’ or ‘fun’ based solely on my own ‘sentient alien cow in a field’ experience: I didn’t know how to human, so I just copied behaviors I saw in movies and on TV.

That’s what they’re doing, too! 🤯

After carefully watching the antics of Musk, Zuck, Kanye & my ex, I no longer believe that toxic masculinity exists — I think it’s a *TOXIC EXPRESSION* of ✨FAUX MASCULINITY✨.

And it’s because they’re all neurodivergent, too — they’ve made it obvious for me, because I too am ADHD and autistic. 🥰

I also think the ‘toxic’ term has led to confusion — people (mostly men) assume that we’re labeling all masculinity as toxic. I think ‘faux masculinity’ is just more appropriate as it describes the full scope of the issue far more clearly, like calling a rubber snake ‘fake’.

The term ‘toxic masculinity’ leaves little room for repair of that person’s inner wounds or even any future harm reduction for them or other people, because we’ve already branded them as ‘toxic’.

That doesn’t help or solve or heal anyone or anything, nor does it bridge the rifts built.

Faux masculinity also isn’t ALWAYS toxic — it’s an individual choice, in fact, and can faux masculinity can be healed.

‘Toxic masculinity’ is straight-up damnation: it’s both judgment and sentence of an individual who is hurting and acting out in an attempt to solve their inner conflict.

Just as scientists stopped using the term ‘global warming’ in favor of ‘climate change’, we really need to stop using ‘toxic masculinity’ and start calling it what it is: faux masculinity.

A MOTHERFUCKIN THREAD:

I see way too many people talking about a general strike, and far too few people speaking of a tax strike.

You want real change?! KEEP YOUR DAMN MONEY.

Watch how fast shit changes.
If even everyday Americans stopped paying taxes, it would cripple them.

Stop funding your own oppression.

New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️

Everything I've Always Wanted: On Rejection, Acceptance, Power & Failure.

It’s been a long six weeks. 🤣

open.substack.com/pub/amandaba...

This shit is so weird, man — like, when reading history, I always thought these idiots would be scarier or smarter or whatever… or even an equal match. But now I realize that the Nazis came into power simply because they took it and understood chaos + mayhem.

It’s fucking WILD to watch happen.

Ahhhhh. Didn’t read the alt text. Thanks for the clarification.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

$10 says those aren’t feds. They’re wearing jeans with tiny pockets, for Christ’s sake. They’re TemuTactical, pretending to be feds, while carrying no badges nor ID, using shit radios.

THIS CAN GO BOTH WAYS, MOTHERFUCKERS.

Y’all don’t wanna actually acknowledge that what they’re DOING is just creating mayhem to keep everyone constantly in check — they’re using chaos theory to overwhelm good folks who care, and it’s working, and nobody on the good side has the balls to do the same thing.

This is why bad guys win. 🤷🏼‍♀️

All I’m saying is that if everyone posted about and did absolutely unhinged shit on a daily basis, there A: aren’t enough cops, tax agencies, ICE agents, etc to even *touch* the amount of mayhem that would happen and B: they would drown in frustration.

But y’all don’t wanna talk about absurdities.

Why would ICE stop doing horrific shit until someone faces a consequence for doing horrific shit

Gorgeous!

Shut the fuck up, Chuck.

“Prosecute ICE” isn’t enough — I want to see “hunt ICE agents for sport” gain some fucking popularity… because that’s what they’re doing to people on US soil now. They’re hunting people for sport now.

JUST SO WE’RE ALL FUCKING CLEAR ON WHAT THIS IS.

You know what would probably worry ICE agents the most?? If THEIR families were tracked down and harassed and bricks showed up through THEIR living room windows and folks started smashing THEIR car windows.

Violence works.

HATE IS JUST COGNITIVE BIAS COMPOUNDED WITH INTENTIONAL STUPIDITY, WHICH IS A CHARACTER DEFECT, NOT MENTAL ILLNESS

THANK YOU

a judge is sitting at a desk in front of an american flag and says beauty fades , dumb is forever . ALT: a judge is sitting at a desk in front of an american flag and says beauty fades , dumb is forever .

It’s honestly so awesome (and so damn annoying, lol) to spend months trying to get something done ‘right’ or ‘properly’ only to have push come to shove and realize that no, actually, a 20-minute Zoom+ care visit DID IN FACT SOLVE THE WHOLE ENTIRE PROBLEM.

… sometimes, I make things so complicated.

That’s the joke!

… too soon?!

But also: ACAB, and we’d be theeeeee cutest couple of lesbians to ever fuck up numerous cities’ police departments after trying to railroad a couple of badass broads.

All I’m saying is that even if she is guilty (she’s not), she’s still my kinda gal.

😉

Every day.

… numerous times a day.

Eight days a week.

HEY KAREN ARE YOU SINGLE

Your mom is a cop, you little bitch