My Auditory-challenged Ass Should NOT Be A Barista But Fuck It, We Ball 😈

BOSS FIGHT

radfems/terfs are just sad

you think all men are monsters

despite saying this, you want said monsters to fix their own behavior?

you're going to what, tell your sons and those men you love in your lives they're all irredeemable?

that there are no good men, men are dangerous because they have penises etc

what about trans women, intersex people, nonbinary people, trans men, gnc folx

you completely and utterly deny any abuse done by women or women adjacent folk

radfem/terf ideology often completely leaves out intersectional feminism (how race, disability, class, etc intersect at gender/sexual orientation)

because some men hurt you? because men continue to hurt people?

ok. and what's the end game here? genocide and say they're lesser?

like... what's happening to me and people like me? lmao

stfu

(also many of you suspiciously ignore how most rapists are white men hmmmm)

Just finished rewatching Maleficent and damn I forgot revenge is bad narratives can be good.

Like, ultimately the formula they follow is person A gets hurt by person B (often scarred for life/grievously injured) -> person B moves on and starts a family - A becomes bitter and angry and gets back at B -> but eventually decides not to go through with it because B has a family/it would make them just as bad, or they do and then feel empty/it’s unfulfilling.

And I hate it. I hate that the implication is that if you hurt the person who hurt you, you are just as bad as them. I much prefer the Inigo Montoya route: revenge is my purpose because someone did something bad to me -> I get revenge and this is great, I have achieved my goal.

And I could never pinpoint why that was the case until I was rewatching Maleficent with my sib and realized that it’s because most “revenge is bad” narratives center around the harm it will cause to person B. It centers around the harm it causes to the bully, the abuser, the perpetrator. It centers around B’s family, B’s friends. It never centers around A.

Maleficent, though, does center around A in a way I don’t see too often. Maleficent got hurt by Stephen. Stephen moves on, while Maleficent can’t. Maleficent becomes bitter and angry, and gets back at Stephen via cursing Aurora. Then Maleficent decides not to go through with it/regrets it.

But Maleficent makes the choice after. After Aurora wakes up, Stephen attacks Maleficent. He burns her, he chains her. Maleficent escapes, and then she doesn’t continue attacking Stephen. She throws him on the ground, moves to leave, he grabs her near her wings(the main source of her trauma and mirroring when he hurt her) and she pins him up against the wall. She can choose to kill him.

She doesn’t. And it’s a culmination of her healing, that she moves on. She leaves Stephen behind. And he can’t accept that, so in the end, he causes his own death.

It’s beautiful because it’s clear Maleficent is a victim, it centers around her trauma and her healing. Maleficent choosing not to kill him isn’t that it’s bad to get back at Stephen, that he doesn’t deserve death, it’s about the fact that she doesn’t want anything to do with him. He’s irrelevant.

And there’s the fact that he suffers, which is nice to see. But his obsession is another post. As is the parallels between this movie because I could rave all night about that.

It is absolutely amazing to see people joining together en masse to stick it to these big corporations.

As a punk who has boycotted Amazon for years, welcome to the movement everybody!! Great job

Hey, y'all! I made these today! I release them into the world to support the cause! They're sized for 8.5x11 printer paper. Take 'em. Print 'em. Post 'em EVERYWHERE.

Or radicalize your friends

Can somebody tell my managers this?? Please? Smh

Pornal 2

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Me at work (grocery stores are sensory hell)