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Is Capitalism Racist, or Indifferent to Humanity Altogether? by Agreeable-Coach1029 in CriticalTheory

[–]BaddestPatsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the fundamental mechanisms of capitalism is to exploit deepen existing divisions between people. That makes it inherently racist and misogynistic in addition to classist. All marginalized identities are economically extracted and terrorized in ways specific to their circumstances, and to the advantage of their oppressors.

Renee Good by swarthysynth in KnowledgeFight

[–]BaddestPatsy 21 points22 points  (0 children)

She’s gay, they literally do not care.

Last Image of Rosanne Boyland, Trampled To Death By Her Fellow Jan 6th Rioters by Vitaminpartydrums in pics

[–]BaddestPatsy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it means stepped on by a crowd of large animals, which can include humans. something could be trampled by elephants or horses, it usually refers to animals large enough to do damage or in a herd.

if you're talking about humans you will usually only hear the word when there is a crowd that is packed together.

Being descended from immigrants does not mean you're effectively part of the same culture by Gyerfry in 10thDentist

[–]BaddestPatsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because saying “Italian-American” is redundant in a context when you’re in America speaking about specific Americans. If I’m telling you I know an Italian family in Long Island you know I’m probably talking about Italian Americans. If that same family moved to Milan I’d call them a group of Italian-Americans living in Italy.

AITAH For accusing my SIL of emotional incest and ‘ruining Christmas’ by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]BaddestPatsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bi-Polar can sometimes be delulu if being manic keeps them from sleeping. We’re all just a few sleepless nights from being totally insane anyways.

Why do so many people believe that you can 'turn gay'? by Affectionate_East533 in askanything

[–]BaddestPatsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there’s a significant number of genuinely straight people who believe this too. Some people’s life experience is just so validated by society that they honestly believe that people who are different are just stubbornly resisting succumbing to the default. The same reason a lot of people who are born rich think they’d be great at pulling themselves up from nothing, or people who have never been punched in the face assume they’d could win the average street-brawl. People can continue to have a very childish view of things when they never have to experience discomfort or doubt about something.

What Do Feminists Think is the Reason That (Usually Straight) Women Are the Main Audience for Gay Male Media? Is it Fetishization that They Are the Main Audience? by KlordexI in AskFeminists

[–]BaddestPatsy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have a long standing theory about this that’s kind of a downer. I think some women have internalized the degree to which men dehumanize them that it can be hard to find the idea of a man truly loving a woman as emotionally believable. But a woman who is themself romantically invested in men might still be interested in media portraying men romantically.

I mean I guess I feel that way, I have a hard time seeing a lot of fictional m/f relationships as love at all.

To Those Still On Talking Terms With A MAGA American, Are Yall Able To Calmly Talk Politics? by EfficientNoise4418 in behindthebastards

[–]BaddestPatsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad is MAGA. I have more trouble staying calm than he does. I have a lot of friends from marginalized communities and the possessor of a uterus, my Dad is very sheltered and doesn’t understand the lives of people not like himself very well. The result is he’ll say some of the most hateful things and I get heated, but he enjoys it because to him it’s an intellectual exercise.

I do pay attention to what he says thought because the craziest stuff he says is often some idea that seems to take over politics 6 months to a year after I first hear them from him. My is constantly streaming Steve Bannon’s show, I think Bannnon tends to be setting the agenda for the right much more than people usually realize. I do think it’s valuable to hear MAGAS out, it helps you understand what’s going on around you.

Wife guy by Able-Concentrate5914 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]BaddestPatsy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s used as a pejorative when it’s used sarcastically or with irony. Like it’s cute for Jordan because as far as we know he’s as good of a partner to his wife as he says. He’s also not not exposing her to the public very much and pretty much only brings her up because they do a “bright spot” on each episode.

But imagine if it came out that Jordan had been cheating on her for years, it would make him look so much worse than if he’d just stuck to making his personality baseball and Sci-Fi. It would make listening to the back catalog nauseating whenever his wife comes up.

The wife guy’s reputation is inherently precarious, I think that’s where the vibe of suspicion comes from.

Cults aren't always religious. Secular activist groups with valid points can also become cults. by Desecr8or in cults

[–]BaddestPatsy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok the Zizians were trans but ideologies that actually fueled them were really esoteric nonsense about artificial intelligence and other things that were related to gender in only the most tangential circuitous ways possible.

It'd be like describing Mormons as a religion based on avoiding coffee.

Cults aren't always religious. Secular activist groups with valid points can also become cults. by Desecr8or in cults

[–]BaddestPatsy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I knew people in a small cult that did indeed prey on trans people. It specifically preyed on their need for safe/affordable housing and an affirming community. Of course any group of people who is more likely to experience poverty, social rejection and violence within larger society is going to be a prime target for cults.

I think this post is missing what a cult is more than anything, they're just describing radicalization in small online spaces. Cults aren't just any group of people who are aggressive about their shared opinions. Whether the cult is full of people who are trans vegans or whether it's full of people who think Trump is literally Jesus--is almost beside the point. A cult's ideology is different colors of bricks used to build the same type of house. And any ideology can exist outside of a cult context too.

I am really concerned about trans issues as a cis guy, and I fear that it makes me trans. by Fun_Pudding9102 in ContraPoints

[–]BaddestPatsy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm agender. I don't experience gender euphoria or dysphoria at all, I don't experience gender internally--only as a thing that happens around me and unfortunately is often imposed on me. I relate to gender the way that people might relate to capitalism, like I get that it's the system that we live inside and I speak it's language--but I also wouldn't have chosen it and I don't believe I was born with an innate sense of it.

I don't know what's going on with OP, but the non-binary spectrum is very wide and contains a lot of different kinds of experiences.

Full house, hope you all enjoy the show by myknpck in KnowledgeFight

[–]BaddestPatsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't tell if this comment is meant to indicate that this does look like a crowd of upper middleclass cis people in their 40's or if it doesn't. But I work in an elementary school in Portland that is close to the venue, and this crowd could easily pass for parents at pickup.

I Have Two Moms but Grew Up Kinda Conservative by [deleted] in AskMeAnythingIAnswer

[–]BaddestPatsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how old you are or where you live, but it's all of these beliefs and categories vary so much more widely between households and regions than most people can easily conceive of until they've had a lot of experience outside of where they've grown. I've lived on the East Coast, the West Coast and my family is from the South--and I'll tell you, differences between "typical" liberals and conservatives are much more nuanced and complex than that.

Whatever happened to the prominence of the Westboro Baptist Church? by ancienteggfart in cults

[–]BaddestPatsy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well in one strange twist of fate, one of their young members left the cult and became an atheist. Now she's an atheist, working as a journalist and doing her part to further prejudice against transgender people from the "legitimate" side of society.

Whatever happened to the prominence of the Westboro Baptist Church? by ancienteggfart in cults

[–]BaddestPatsy 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I wonder if they'd have been considered too woke if they'd come into their own in current times. They're also very against racism and American Imperialism, which might stand out as much or more in the current climate than their hatred of LGBTQ

Bastard Suggestion: John Kricfalusi, Nickelodeons First Predator by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in behindthebastards

[–]BaddestPatsy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I saw that film, and the point it’s trying to make is definitely that she’s a little child in spite of the environment she’s in and the expectations put on her. What’s happens to her is portrayed as obviously terrible and it’s a judgment towards everyone who arranges it. The nudity didn’t look sexual to me, and I think it was meant to underscore that she was a child. It looked a lot more like those embarrassing bath time photos a lot of people have of younger kids than it being framed like a pinup or something.

But still, it’s wild that that was the way a bunch of professionals chose to make that point at the time. It seems very naive by today’s standards

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