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American infrastructure is turbofucked on truly fundamental levels. We measure shit with bespoke ratios like ounces per cubic meter and gallons per foot and we insist on calling relative density specific gravity instead of relative density.
I feel like an absolute clown every time specific gravity comes up. It feels like meeting a nuclear physicist or something who insists on being addressed as a doctor of natural philosophy.
Listening to the Fallout 4 soundtrack and.... LYNDA FUCKING CARTER?!?!?
That is NOT my middle name.
inspired by @prokopetz‘s post here
I’m here to talk about a concept I am currently referring to as power-jacketing, especially as it relates to the queer community. This is when a marginalized group is painted as having power over others in their marginalized community when this is not the case. Power-jacketing and its consequences are a form of lateral aggression and tie into the idea of oppression olympics.
The point of this term is to understand and discuss the cycle we’ve seen of the queer community misrepresenting a queer group’s experiences to claim they have power over other queer people. An example is the way asexual people on this site a few years ago were misrepresented as “basically straight” because they aren’t often called slurs or physically assaulted for their identity. This idea was used to accuse them of taking away resources from “real” queer people and justify harassment towards them. It relied on ignoring the very real and sometimes unique problems that asexual and other aspec folks face, like being called less than human for not experiencing sexual or romantic attraction and the way aspec identities continue to be viewed as something to eradicate by the medical system.
It is power-jacketing to claim something associated with a marginalized group is a privilege and grants them power over others when that isn’t true. For example, having one’s identity erased isn’t privilege, invisibility isn’t privilege, and having to be stealth/closeted to be treated well isn’t privilege, but these are all treated as if they give the experiencer power over more visible queer folks. Claims of privilege are made by cherry-picking what counts as true oppression, such as murders and slurs, and then considering the target group’s reduced experience on that axis to be privilege while ignoring other, often quieter unique forms of systemic oppression the group faces. Privilege can be used to consider a group “basically straight/cis” (in other communities, basically White, abled, etc.) and deny them access to and support/resources from the community. It is power-jacketing to willfully ignore or purposely deny experiences of oppression by the target group. It is also power-jacketing to exaggerate a privilege gap between two marginalized groups while minimizing the gap between the target group and those with actual systemic power.
Currently, transmascs are being power-jacketed to explain why transfems should be allowed to talk over them and to justify their mistreatment. This comes in several forms. One is calling their invisibility a privilege compared to transfems’ hypervisibility despite the way it contributes to their oppression. The term power-jacketing recognizes that it is not privilege to swap one problem with another. Another big one is the claim that transmascs’ identity grants them male privilege. Using this term requires acknowledging that one’s social perception, how they’re perceived and treated by others, may be different than their identity; for example, trans men may identify as male but be treated as female, and transhets may identify as straight but be treated as gay. Ignoring or denying these lived realities is very much power-jacketing.
This theory is very much a work in progress, so if you have any perspectives or experiences to add please do!
I literally said, "Oh, this is good," when I read this post, and then read it out loud to my wife. I actually don't think I have anything to add to the theory itself. This is a real issue in talking about issues of marginalization, and I think in part it comes from viewing intersectionality as additive and subtractive rather than viewing it as a series of overlaps and modifications. If you add in man then obviously you add in male privilege! ... except it doesn't work that way, because the 'man' is modified by 'trans.'
peace and love on planet earth
i genuinely do not trust people who make blocklists.
the guy who catalogues all the kinds of legos: 😔
Check for understanding:
when two adhd girls link up... ANYTHING could stop us
the japanese “-ne?” particle and the british slang term “innit” serve the same function
Standard English: It’s cold, isn’t it?
Japanese: Samui desu ne?
British: It’s fuckin’ freezin’, innit?
i have to do everything around here
i hate this cause i did japanese for like a year and this explains the use of the -ne particle WAYYYY better than my teachers ever did. it took me ages to comprehend what this post makes abundantly clear.
my teachers: its like a, a little rise at the end of a sentence, to show that you are seeking a response, while not warranting the -ka particle which would make it a proper question.
me: ok. i guess i get that??
this post: its like saying “innit?”
me: oh. oh no.
fun fact: afaik, "-ne" was inherited from the Portuguese settlers/priests that stayed in Japan in the 16th century. It comes from "né?", which the contraction of "não é?", "isn't it?".
It's LITERALLY "innit".
oh so like "eh" in canadian
*un-Babels your Tower*
picture this, i give you a glass bottle and tell you to open it, but bottle openers are forbidden, how do you do it?
im talking about this bitch btw
I think the shoe trick would work on this:
Rest in Peace, Bernard Hill 🤍🕊
powering up her beam attack since 2011…
“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”
Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University
In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.
since the white house put out a ridiculous statement condemning the protests i want to reiterate again that many of the students involved are jewish, there has always been a large jewish presence at these protests in nyc and in campus organizing for palestine
A new cover for an upcoming book "Tell me a sto..." about an evolution of popular fairy-tale narratives and their oddities, both fun and gruesome.
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