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holy shit
this was so huge. the alien he’s arguing with uses standard pro-life arguments that you still hear today. he literally talks about all life being sacred (even though his plan to deal with overpopulation is to kill people with meningitis). and this aired only 4 years after contraception was legalized in the united states. in context this is actually even more pro-contraception than it appears in these caps.
you cant ever let yourself forget what it felt like to be 15. how adults treated you. being treated without a shred of respect because people think youre too young to have thoughts and feelings of your own. the lack of autonomy. you cant ever forget that because if you do you might become the kind of adult who treats kids like theyre not people
I will NEVER forget how people treated me when I was around four years old up to seventeen years old. All those years. On top of being black and neurodivergent and quiet and shy.
when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes
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!
drake in the studio right now
🦇 𝕹𝖔𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖑 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊 🦇
Piece done a few months back for @Nova_Mali's "And They Were Monsters" LGBTQ+ monster lover collaborative art book!
It was such an honor to work beside so many incredible artists, I hope to get invited to do more projects like this in the future! ❤️
Okay, so y'all know the phenomenon where American media companies say they can't produce queer stories because they'll just get censored in foreign markets? It's transparent as hell, because the dominant culture of the United States is still violently queerphobic, and in many cases, state queerphobia in other countries is the direct result of Christian imperialism. The US is not the enlightened gay haven in a world of evil homophobic foreigners, and trying to pretend that American media can't be too gay because it'll be censored overseas is asinine. We all know that, right?
Anyway, today I learned that there is an episode of the Australian cartoon Bluey that has been censored in the United States because it shows the dad character pretending to be pregnant and have a baby as part of a game of pretend. Disney refuses to air it on the Disney Channel or on Disney+. It has been made available on YouTube by the Australian rights holders.
So let's quit fucking pretending that Disney is actually scared of foreign censors, hm? The queerphobic censorship is coming from inside the House of Mouse, and it always has been.
A short, non-comprehensive list of American children's cartoons that have depicted pregnancy and childbirth:
While it's very true that pregnancy and childbirth have a long history of being censored in American media, it's still important to discuss how queerphobia may be playing into this specific incident. In an era where American transphobia is so aggressive, we have got to talk about the ways pregnant men are treated as jokes or as an obscenity.
American children's cartoons have depicted pregnancy and childbirth on a number of occasions, including a particularly infamous example of mpreg played for comedy. Why can we have those, but not the Bluey episode? What is it about the Bluey episode that differs from what has already been allowed on American TV?
Why is Cosmo allowed to be a pregnant man, but Bandit can't pretend to be pregnant as part of a game of pretend? The answer: Cosmo's pregnancy and the birth of Poof is absurdist and comedic. Male pregnancy is only allowed when it's portrayed as "funny" or "weird."
Every protein bar is called something like "double chocolate indulgence caramel cookie dough delight crunch" and tastes like clay and sawdust
cyd charisse in it’s always fair weather (1955)
Sy Snootles and the Rebo Band - Star Wars (Kenner)
So high on the Glup Shitto index that I had to check, and yeah that's what they're called. Sy Snootles is disappointingly not the elephant muppet, but the sexy CGI remaster lounge singer. The elephant muppet is named Maximilian Rebo.
She's not new to the cg version! She was originally an awesome weird puppet!
They positively butchered her design when they replaced her with cg
Awful :(
Why are Palestinians not allowed to have any allies? This is the same vein of people who lament about how “oh I only trust Palestinians to talk about Palestine” - we as Palestinians are asking you to speak up. It will always be just an excuse not to care or do anything. (And yes, what’s happening in Palestine actually does involve Americans!)
'Secure in the knowledge that push won't come to shove' they're being beaten and tazed and shot in the face, there's snipers on their University campuses. There's zionazi soldiers using tactics they copied from the genocide to attack them.
Zionazis and liberals' only tactic is to gaslight their targets into believing that fascism and authoritarianism isn't already underway.
People in Palestine have been loudly and unambiguously saying “protesters on American college campuses rock, keep it up.” In fact, Zionists use that against the protesters, citing these endorsements as at BEST ‘terrorists love these uninformed kids’ and at WORST ‘these kids are getting funding from terrorist groups.’
If Palestinians want American college kids out there, if they take time to make signs featuring the protesters, how is that in any way play-acting revolutionary fantasies? It’s all “listen to Palestinians” until actual Palestinians go ‘this rocks actually.’ It’s all “listen to Jews” until Jews are loudly anti-Zionist. Then the ‘well actually’ starts. You can’t win.
The Evil Ogre's poison trident is used to puncture the bodies of men and women
who will YOU be voting for this November?
Just a reminder for people who may not know, in light of protestors at UCLA being shot in the face with rubber bullets— rubber bullets are not bullets made of rubber. They are metal bullets encased in rubber.
Despite being called “non-lethal” or sometimes “less lethal”, they are well known to cause death and permanent disability.
Here’s a photo showing their size— these are actual rubber bullets used during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
Do not let them downplay the severity of what they are subjecting this students to for standing against genocide. Stay safe and stay educated.
