That Doesn't Invalidate The Statement. Theoretical Analysis Of Oppression Is Often Necessarily Simplifying

that doesn't invalidate the statement. theoretical analysis of oppression is often necessarily simplifying because, as you pointed out, life is infinitely complicated, and sometimes you have to gloss over potential complicating factors if you want a political statement more specific than "oppressed people are oppressed by their oppressors". and once you've identified a generalized pattern of oppression, say, men oppressing women, you can begin to interrogate how that is impacted (intersected even) by other patterns of oppression

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hensteeths

5 months ago

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called “linguistics class” you'll be zonked out of your gourd

Me: yeah whatever. i dont feel nothin.

50 minutes later: dude i swear there's invisible words in these sentences

my ∅ friend, pacing: the determiner phrases are lying to us

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hensteeths

5 months ago

All my coworkers like me so so so so much!!!!!!!! They believe I am normal, which is true, because I am

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hensteeths

7 months ago

background from episode 11 of scavengers reign, from the cold open flashback to when azi first landed on vesta. image takes place in the red desert area where we first saw her in the beginning of the season

to the right of the image, taking up most of the space, is azi's landing pod, standing upright from where it landed in the desert. large, cone-like in shape with a flat top. it faces the right, the door closed and two of the pods' round windows visible above and beside it, as well as one of the launchers. a band of black sits at the top and bottom of the pod.

the ground is rocky and mostly flat, with low hills in the distance. at its flattest, it is a mixture of coral pinks and bits of yellow, while raised areas become a darker pink, broken up by dark purple rocks and even darker grass. behind the pod are large white pillars, growing from the ground and towards the sky, crisscrossing like trees in a forest. some are nearly was wide as the landing pod, while others are shorter and thinner, with even smaller bits branching out. behind it all, the sky is bright blue, nearing teal towards the horizon, with large, white clouds [end id]

background from episode 11 of scavengers reign. image from the red desert area that azi first landed in. image is a wideshot view of the red desert landscape, with its coral and dark pink ground, patches of purple grass, and white pillars.

a few budding pillars that are barely off the ground can be seen in the foreground. on either side of the image, larger white pillars rise up to the sky, skinnier ones on the left, and a particularly thicc one on the right. small pillars dot the distant landscape ahead, with a clear view of the horizon, filled with only the clear blue sky, and large white clouds drifting behind the pillars [end id]

background from episode 11 of scavengers reign. image from the red desert area that azi first landed in. image is a closeup shot from the ground, a large white pillar taking up most of the shot on the right, the bottom of it framed by dark purple grass. a little further up ahead, a lone pillar grows, with more spaced out in the distance. the bright blue sky continues [end id]

background from episode 11 of scavengers reign. image from the red desert area that azi first landed in. image shows a wideshot of the area.

a portion of the pod takes up the left foreground, behind it, the middle ground is centred on the large grey container that held levi and the bike, nestled into the pink earth. a large white pillar sits at an angle from behind it, and a few more crisscross the back. the blue sky peeks out from behind [end id]

background from episode 11 of scavengers reign. image from the red desert area that azi first landed in.

close up shot, looking down at one of the mysterious white vesta flowers. the pink earth is dotted with bits of yellow, and patches of darker ground, dark red rocks, and purple grass. the singular flower sits in the centre, rising from the ground with a delicate blue-green stem and thin, pointed leaves. the flower is closed, its petals twisted in a closed bud that has a tear-drop shape, it is blue-ish white and contains a slight glow [end id]

some backgrounds i painted from episode eleven of scavengers reign

background designs by: darina laposvskaya

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hensteeths

10 months ago

new drug called girlfriend laughter just hit the streets one hit and your feel your soul blossom into ten million flowers

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hensteeths

2 months ago

so long as we're back to social justice 101 on this stupid website, u need to be aware of the feedback loop that emerges from disproportionate scrutiny: any social group that is placed under extra scrutiny, regardless of the actual prevalence of any particular behaviour, will appear to engage in that behaviour more often.

you see this most blatantly with racialised groups (more cops in black neighbourhoods = more arrests in black neighbourhoods = "omg look at all the crime in these neighbourhoods!" = more cops in black neighbourhoods etc). even if the rate of crime is the same (putting to one side the criminalisation of poverty which is also an important related factor), one group gets away with it way more often and a new generation of racists is indoctrinated with the crime statistics which "prove" that some groups are simply more criminal in nature. we see a similar phenomenon online with particular groups (trans women being a huge example) being subjected to mass stalking, their every move documented by weirdos and broadcast as representative of the group as a whole.

tl;dr - overscrutinising groups based on existing bigotries creates a recurring feedback loop, reproducing those bigotries across generations and nominally justifying them. this is bad, and you need to remember that you are not immune to it.

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hensteeths

3 months ago

we live in a world where marriage as an institution exists and is unavoidably ingrained into almost every aspect of life politically, socially, and economically however when you talk about 'romanticizing problematic power dynamics in a way that harms people' the poster child for that is erotica that involves sensitive subject matters. it's crazy because over the past year and change i've been privy to the romantic expectations of hundreds if not thousands of people and let me tell you, middle to upper class men just still straight up think of women as either household servants, brood mares, or both. whatever sort of sexual degeneracy you think is being normalized in society because of triggering erotica is an absolute drop in the bucket compared to the fact that the current standards and norms of romance and sex are barely one degree of separation from what they were when women were explicitly considered property. sorry guys the bottom up approach of attacking horny fiction for being too morally degenerate never has and never will do anything to reduce sexual violence or spousal/partner abuse

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hensteeths

5 months ago

Twilight and her mini evil clone In a couple of hours. I was bored

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hensteeths

3 months ago

People loooove complex characters until they’re women

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hensteeths

6 months ago

the last surviving referent was just discovered and humanely euthanized by field semioticians in the salt flats of utah. apparently it was what people were referring to when they'd say. well. it doesn't matter now anyways does it.

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hensteeths

1 month ago

always remember gay men are the reason we dont have to pay for public bathrooms in canada

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