Anonymous asked: Can we all just talk about the concept of "kinkphobia" and "vanilla privilege" without throwing tantrums? I think there's some serious stuff to unearth there, but I think it's fair a lot of people aren't sold on the oppressed/oppressor framework. I also think there's a LOT more critical thinking to be done around the whole concept of kink and sex-positivity.
birdsy-purplefish asked: Hey, I noticed a few other people in anons who left the SJ community because of its bullying, sometimes abusive... just creepy qualities. I'm one of them. Can we, like, form a support group or something?
Haaa.
I would be so into that.
I think it goes without saying that sometimes your opinion is unpopular because it is wrong.
Anonymous submission:
The reason I have a problem with the “die cis scum” thing that’s been debated recently is not because of the feelings of cis people — because honestly, I don’t really give a crap about that. The reason I have a problem with it is because you can’t endorse violence. I’m baffled that there’s even a question about whether or not a phrase like this is appropriate. I mean, this is something that seems to be brought up in discourse every. Single. Day. You cannot endorse violence. You can’t. That’s it. People on tumblr and in discourse outside of the internet are reprimanded for it all the time, and for good reason. Yet do it in this case and people are suddenly being accused of hating trans* people? Nuh-uh.
Anonymous asked: The "ableism" tag is filled with autistic-diagnosed people (who have no concept of much more severe disabilities) judging parents with severely suffering disabled people-people with no quality of life, zero brain function who live off of feeding tubes- fighting for the right to ethically euthanize their suffering children. This is social justice? It's a sad day when fighting ableism makes people side with the far right who take the option of letting a loved one die peacefully away from families.
Uhhhhhh?
Dear North American SJAs,
(Anonymous submission)
There’s this thing that’s called THE REST OF THE WORLD. Your concepts of oppression and privilege MUST acknowledge power relations in the WHOLE WORLD. Next time I see someone telling me how intersectionality works in my country even though they can’t even point it in a map, I’ll flip. I want to laugh every time I see a North American or British SJA talking about class and powerty and so many oppressions without realizing they don’t allow us to speak. If I disagree with a popular SJ concept because of my culture and my country, I’m silenced. If that’s not oppression, then what is it? Realize that where you’re speaking from makes your voice louder. That is privilege. Fucking buy a world map and listen to people who live outside of your area.
Anon submitted:
as a black lesbian i hate that popular bloggers here act like we’re incapable of not calling white women a slur that means female dog and is used by white men and men of color alike to degrade US with “dialect” as their excuse. of course if we disagree with that we’re being “white identified.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
LOL!!
If you’re confused by how frustrating I find posts like these, please know that “normativizing” something is a small but ever-present part of privileging it. Basically, “the privilege of being normal” this is about “the privilege of having privilege,” predictably constructed in a nonsensical way that obscures and erases the actual privileges and oppressions being vaguely referenced.
Anon asked:
I hate how the big-name social justice bloggers are able to get away with behavior that otherwise wouldn’t be tolerated. I’m not saying that they need to be paragons of virtue, but abusing people, sending them death threats and making -ist remarks are shitty things to do, especially if you pride yourself on fighting for oppressed people.
Offensive ≠ Oppressive
(Source: iamateenagefeminist, via iamateenagefeminist)
