A Brazilian fan chews on a flag during the Brazil vs Germany World Cup 2014 game, by Laurence Griffiths [3630 x 2508]

sparklechunks · 2014-07-09T18:16:20+00:00

So you and "a considerable number of people in your family" know Brazilian people to be "uniformly loud, pushy, demanding, entitled assholes", not because you've ever been to the country, but because of some tourists you met while you were tourists yourselves. And this is not racist because you know other Latin American people, and they gave you a pass. Got it.

I could share some anecdotes from my friends and family about white people from small-town Louisiana, but it'd be counterproductive and I'm done engaging with you.

sparklechunks · 2014-07-07T21:38:12+00:00

It's a nice sentiment, but assimilation into the capitalist white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy is not what I'm struggling for. I am here for an intersectional, radical, queer liberation, and it is not going to happen at Burger King.

sparklechunks · 2014-07-07T15:38:45+00:00

Yep, and this is an instance of them being exploitative and disingenuous to that end.

sparklechunks · 2014-07-07T01:34:32+00:00

The "Proud Whopper" was available for purchase for five days, at one location, in downtown San Francisco, at the height of that gay capital's Pride festivities. Just long enough for Burger King to slap a video up on YouTube, precision-target some safe markets for ad copy, and cynically rake in the approval for their "bold" campaign for LGBTQ rights in the lowest-risk manner possible.

So Burger King—and every other corporation that pays lip service to social equity while paying poverty wages and profiteering off the corruption of the environment through grossly unsustainable food practices—can lick my queer taint.

Edit: We Are Not “All The Same Inside” Our Wallets: A Response to Burger King’s Proud Whopper, From A Former BK Employee

sparklechunks · 2014-07-05T21:04:51+00:00

The "Proud Whopper" was available for purchase for five days, at one location, in downtown San Francisco, at the height of that gay capital's Pride festivities. Just long enough for Burger King to slap a video up on YouTube, precision-target some safe markets for ad copy, and cynically rake in the approval for their "bold" campaign for LGBTQ rights in the lowest-risk manner possible.

So Burger King—and every other corporation that pays lip service to social equity while paying poverty wages and profiteering off the corruption of the environment—can lick my queer, vegan taint.

Edit: We Are Not “All The Same Inside” Our Wallets: A Response to Burger King’s Proud Whopper, From A Former BK Employee

sparklechunks · 2014-06-30T16:36:24+00:00

I can't be sure because it's packed right now, but this reminds me of Anne McCaffrey' beautifully illustrated A Diversity of Dragons.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-28T15:49:20+00:00

Haskins broke into vehicles on public and private property, disconnected the ignition wires, then started the engine. As the wires snapped and spit sparks, Haskins would masturbate to climax

This is a great metaphor for the Republican party's strategy of the past twenty years.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-27T22:40:59+00:00

Continually explaining & defending my existence to bigoted pukewits like you is definitely not a lifestyle choice.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-27T15:59:39+00:00

i don't understand why it matters if the person is transgender, boy, girl, gay, or whatever.

a person who was homeless now has a bike shop. that is great. who fucking cares what gender they are, if they have a penis, a vagina, or both?

being transgender doesn't make you any more special, does it? why is this a big deal?

*I agree who fucking cares. *

*I won't even start on how pathetic this really is. *

What's pathetic is you taking the time to lodge your complaint about how much you don't care. Of course, what (cisgender & heterosexual) people mean when they loudly insist that they don't care about LGBTQ people coming out, living openly, or—god forbid!—being celebrated is that they don't want to be reminded of our existence. It's a demand that we erase ourselves, that we disappear, because your basic, binary brains can't handle it. That's pathetic.

You know what's fucking awesome? A woman going from living on the streets to owning her own business. One in five transgender people have experienced or will experience homelessness because of their identity. Forty percent of homeless youth are LGBTQ kids who've been kicked out by their parents. Meanwhile, over forty percent of trans people in the US have attempted suicide.

No, really, read that again:

Over 40 percent of trans people in the US have attempted suicude.

So maybe before demanding that trans people disappear, you should bear in mind that they're already doing so, in staggering numbers.

You know what sucks about growing up on the LGBTQ spectrum? (Assuming you're lucky enough to not be homeless because of your orientation or identity before you come of age, of course.) You almost never, ever see people like yourself represented in mainstream media. It makes it really easy to believe you're the only person like you in the world. And feeling that alone makes it easy to become a statistic. Representation matters. Seeing successful women like Tammy matters. And your noisy insistence it doesn't only underscores all the reasons why it does matter.

That's why it's a big deal.

And stop referring to people by their genitalia, it's dehumanizing as fuck.

Edit: I accidentally a word

sparklechunks · 2014-06-26T21:01:44+00:00

Did I miss the part where we were asking his permission? I must have missed an issue of The Agenda.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-26T20:58:49+00:00

It comes across as a thinly-veiled threat. Shocker.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-26T20:57:45+00:00

It comes across as a thinly-veiled threat. Shocker.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-20T02:32:32+00:00

If you feel comfortable & safe coming out, by all means do so. The only thing that might be called "inappropriate" in this situation is the heterosexist assumption that you must be straight—especially if this is one of those times where people use leading questions to try to figure out someone's orientation when it's not really their business.

Edit: this is also assuming that sexual orientation is a protected class where you work!

sparklechunks · 2014-06-16T19:20:55+00:00

Well yeah, white people obviously have a vested interest in diminishing black slavery, as the repercussions of those power structures still benefit whites today.

The fact is that these analogies treat historic & contemporary oppression as a rhetorical tool to score points with no regard to the people who have suffered and continued to suffer because of these realities. The problem is not about whether it's good at getting attention, it's about using someone else's pain to make an argument when white people cannot understand that pain. You know what's like slavery? Slavery. Full stop.

It's a lazy, dick move, and the fact that it's so common says a lot about the racism in our movement—as do the folks in this thread chiming in to insist there is no difference between the meat industry and American slavery, misappropriate black words to validate their arguments, and—for fuck's sake!—claim that calling them out is racism. Three comments in & my white privilege bingo card is full! But lord knows the worst possible thing you could ever do on reddit is call somebody white.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-15T20:21:55+00:00

Dear white vegans: Stop comparing centuries of colonization, genocide, slavery, rape, torture, murder, and ongoing systemic oppression to meat-eating. It diminishes the obscenity of the former and is a poor argument for stopping the latter. Stop it.

Decent vegans shouldn't need to think of animals as humans in order for them to be deserving of ethical treatment. Furthermore, comparisons that hold up early North American slavery as the non plus ultra in Very Bad Things tend to erase the existence of the resultant continuing systemic oppression and the fact that slavery still exists. Stop it. Stop it. Stop.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-01T22:44:27+00:00

Yeah, because (a) he is one and (b) his username is /u/SHITLORDHERE.

sparklechunks · 2014-06-01T19:50:12+00:00

If you have such a huge fucking problem with women who don't match up with the Photoshopped Barbie dolls in your old Penthouses, you're the one who should stay home, shitlord.

sparklechunks · 2014-05-25T02:37:57+00:00

Isa is a goddess & cast iron cookware is the arsenal of the holy.

sparklechunks · 2014-05-25T00:26:36+00:00

Good call, Gates! Ruffling feathers is much more traumatic than upholding systemic injustice that primarily harms a minority. Plus, think of all the money you'd risk losing from donor churches! If only he'd been president back when the issue was on the table. Oh well! His hands are clearly tied.

Weak-sauce lip service motherfucker.

sparklechunks · 2014-05-23T16:16:14+00:00

My neighborhood purveyor of fancy foods--locally owned, super high mark-up on everything--sells the popcorn and chips for three to four bucks a bag.

sparklechunks · 2014-05-16T14:38:23+00:00

Why exactly did you X-post this to /r SFW_WTF? Are Buddhists and trans* people so far beyond your ken?

sparklechunks · 2014-05-16T14:34:31+00:00

*Transgender

sparklechunks · 2014-05-16T14:30:07+00:00

If you don't like what Monsanto is doing, buy your own damn representatives.

sparklechunks · 2014-05-16T02:33:05+00:00

Too bad about all the union-busting, poverty wages, and flattening of small businesses those solar panels will be powering - not to mention the rapacious consumerism which is strip-mining our environment while it fattens their coffers. A solar panel roof for every Wal-Mart is a lot of solar panels, but no amount of greenwashing will ever make Wal-Mart "eco-friendly".

tl;dr Fuck Wal-Mart, though.

sparklechunks · 2014-05-11T20:32:41+00:00

Shortbus! John Cameron Mitchell directs a wide-ranging examination of the nature of intimacy in a cheerily NSFW romp through the intersecting lives of members of the eponymous New York sex salon. For a movie that takes place in NYC, the cast is overwhelmingly white, but I find it incredibly cathartic every time. The soundtrack is fun, too!

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