trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

ok but why does "art that makes you uncomfortable" mean rape porn half the time? like i was just having a conversation about how one of my favorite films triggered a literal panic attack, i promise the critique of rape porn isn't primarily driven by "discomfort" or "ick" or whatever.

The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way of his agenda? | Moira Donegan

"The review of mifepristone marks the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has marshaled false medical claims and junk science in an effort to constrain the freedoms of pregnant women and curtail their access to relief," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.

judith's dagger has a good essay on this: immerautonom.noblogs.org/sex-desire-a...

rape is bad and sex is good, therefore rape must not be a kind of sex at all. this is absurd and very much not what feminist critiques of the "uncontrollable desire" model of rape were trying to argue. they absolutely criticized our culture for constructing "sex" in patriarchal, rapey terms.

liberal sex positive feminists have taken this basic idea - that rape is driven by a desire to exercise power, not uncontrollable horniness - and used it to cast sexual violence outside the domain of "sex" entirely. this is often rooted in a tendency to essentialize sex as neutral or even good.

yes and no. the idea that "rape is about power, not sex" was meant to communicate the first part of this post: rape is not the result of uncontrollable desire. it was never meant to fully *desexualize* rape as a practice of social domination though, and that's problematic.

y'all know you can just go to 4chan if that's your thing, right??

making it clear that everyone in a porn video consented is good actually

a lot of folks who took a principled stand in favor of platforms deplatforming fascists are about to make a hard 180 and suddenly decide deplatforming is censorship actually

Chicago Public Schools Defy Trump, Reject Trans Bathroom Ban Demands The school system has refused to capitulate, despite Trump pulling back millions in federal funds.

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms.

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Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.

Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

Jewish faculty to UC: Don’t negotiate with Trump More than 200 Jewish faculty across the UC system sign a letter expressing alarm that leaders have allegedly begun negotiating a settlement.

“The University of California will survive federal funding cuts if it must... It will not survive the sacrifice of our institutional autonomy, academic freedom, or civil rights on the altar of a specious claim to be ‘combatting antisemitism.’” jweekly.com/2025/09/24/j...

indigenous systems of knowledge production did not and do not need legitimization by way of their alleged similarity to white western science, they do not need approval from that or any other western discourse full stop

the problem with "indigenous people were actually already doing science, we were just too racist to recognize it" is that you are still upholding white western forms of knowledge production as the standard against which all others are judged

yes definitely appreciated that!

we - and here i mean marginalized critics of science more generally - absolutely do question the absolute epistemic authority of science, as well as the onto-epistemology that underlies the western enlightenment metaphysics which tends to guide most scientific practice today

and certainly it's true that reactionaries strawman these arguments, presenting them in the most ridiculous light possible. but "scientific ways of knowing and their knowledge products aren't universal or transcendent" is in fact a common argument made by indigenous sts scholars

really enjoying this. the only critique i have is he does this thing liberals often do in the face of radical decolonial critiques of science, where they try to water down those critiques bc surely reactionaries are lying when they say these scholars deny the universality of scientific knowledge

YouTube video by Shaun The War on Science

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a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me . Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

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fuck widow so fucking much

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

i'm sorry *third* phase??!? 😭😭😭

"Don't speak ill of the dead when they can no longer defend themselves." Actually their entire life is their defense. Their legacy is the sum of their words and actions, a testament to the person they were. If you want people to remember you fondly, don't leave behind only rancid memories.

Goddamn Martha

CHICAGO / SUBURBS

NEW "HOW TO REPORT ICE THREAD" - there's an important correction to one of the previous posts in this thread from 10 days ago, so I'm going to recreate that thread here *with* the correction

The argument, genuinely, is that if you use words to convince people instead of trying to kill people, you're doing liberal democratic politics "exactly" right, even if the words you are saying are that the fairly elected government of your political opponents should be overthrown.

Do any of the “Charlie Kirk did politics the right way” crowd have the courage to directly defend lying about election results, bussing people to Jan. 6, and advocating pardons of convicted seditionists? Does US politics need more lying, coup attempts and violence?

Or do they always keep it vague?

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.