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there's literally been. a total of 8 indigenous people killed by the police forces in canada since august 29th. over two weeks. across several provinces. one of them, hoss lightning, a cree man, was shot by the rcmp after he called them for fucking help. the other was a mi'kmaw man in new brunswick who called because he was threatening to hurt himself. they fucking tased him & then shot him. this is literally so fucking unacceptable. nobody's talking about this unless they're native. FUCK reconciliation. we need ACTION.

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

This is Israel putting its genocidal concept of "shrinking civilians" to work, where Israel shrinks what it means to be a civilian by declaring everyone in Gaza to be a combatant, mainly because of their approximity to Hamas, by creating scenarios like this.

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my dear friend just joined tumblr and i was scrolling through terf tags so that they can, yknow, have a decent time on the internet, but now ive seen dozens of terf posts and i’m annoyed.

my least favorite thing is “why do the feelings of [trans women] always come before the safety of [cis] women?” like come on bro. be imaginative.

first of all, i’ve outlined many times before that most of the terf movement comes from radical feminist ideas of what men are- dangerous, always predatory and oppressive, and sexually sick. now, most men try to stay their distance, but trans women are feminine “men” who are actively trying to reside in “women’s spaces”. so they’re seen not as a passive threat you can fear but ultimately avoid, but as an active one going out of their way to harm you. they’ll obsessively point to one or two examples of this rather than the statistics on violence against trans women

its also a movement based on comfort rather than material danger, which they ironically think is reversed.

i’ve talked before on here about how discomfort is not harm- if you are in a public space and a transgender person is minding their own business, doing the same thing a cisgender woman would do, and YOU feel unsafe- that is not this person harming you, this is you being uncomfortable sharing a public space with someone. that is not on them, especially if theyre just minding their business. your problem with someone else who is doing nothing to you is just that, your problem

someone changing into a swim suit does not affect you. if you cant coexist in public, it is your job to remove yourself from a situation where you feel uncomfortable, not to demand everyone else leaves that public space for you.

there’s also the fact that even when trans women are victims, their safety is always devalued in comparison to cis women’s feeling.

take this for example

this seems insane because if you look at the reddit screenshots, it’s a trans woman saying she was abused and assaulted and was welcomed at the shelter she stayed at for her own safety. she had a positive experience with other women who valued her presence and she found she was able to be helpful in a community of other abused women. its nauseating to read the first paragraph and there is no compassion in this person’s post

she was abused! she was beaten! and she was welcomed and loved at a SHELTER! and yet op’s post with a couple hundred notes mocked her for taking a spot [from real victims] and it’s just… insane. there’s no compassion for an abused woman so long as she’s trans, because then her victimhood pales in comparison to the same situation but it’s happening to a cis woman.

i can’t have put it better than i did here

it all comes back to the idea of “the real victim” and “the clout chaser”. one is vulnerable and infantilized but ultimately cared for, defended even if they don’t need it, while the other does not need help or defense. they’re just getting off to the idea of being a victim and are, in fact, a threat.

trans female victims are always seen as secondary victims. either it didnt happen or it matters less than a cis woman who doesnt want to share a space with her. its not about cis womens safety, it’s about their feelings over trans women’s safety.

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾