transgirlnausicaa:

the real problem: men dont see women as people. like before you can even get to addressing respect and appropriate behavior thats the fundamental thing you have to fix. if you dont change that then men just see polite behavior as “the correct actions to take” rather than “i act in a way that accounts for and respects the personhood and subjectivity of women.” this is why “pickup artists” and “incels” exist. they truly dont see women as human beings who make choices and have feelings. they just see us as non-autonomous objects. sex robots. housework robots. so their actions toward us just falls into a rubric of “this is the correct thing to do/look/say to get her to fuck you.” as if we are just robots, where you enter the secret password and get sex. 

there is no “specific right way” to get sex, get romance, get ANYTHING from a woman… the real problem is within the idea that men want to GET something from us. many men view their relationships with women as either transactional, where he does the correct actions and “gets” sex or romance or domestic labor etc in return, or exploitative, where he is simply inherently deserving of sex and romance and domestic labor. 

that is the underpinning of incel ideology. they believe that there is a “biologcial lottery” wherein “chads” are physically attractive and therefore automatically receive exploitative sexual relationships with women, and “incels” are physically unattractive and therefore are automatically denied the exploitative sexual relationships with women that they apparently so richly “deserve.” 

“pickup artists” try to enter into transactional relationships with women, meaning that they try to codify a list of specific things to display, say, give to women that will “earn” sex. 

there is a MASSIVE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between wanting to be IN A RELATIONSHIP with someone, and wanting to GET SOMETHING FROM someone. 

there is a MASSIVE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between viewing relationships as things that ORGANICALLY DEVELOP BETWEEN PEOPLE DUE TO MUTUAL FEELINGS AND COMMUNICATION, and viewing relationships as A REWARD THAT YOU EARN FOR BEHAVING CORRECTLY.

there is a MASSIVE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between viewing sex as A TYPE OF INTIMATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PEOPLE, and viewing sex as a GRATIFYING ACT THAT IS GIVEN TO YOU AS A REWARD.

heavensong:

You don’t have to understand asexuality or aromanticism (or bisexuality, pansexuality, being trans, noninary etc.)  Just acknowledge it, respect it, and move on. These are real live human people we’re talking about here, just be nice.

nerdgal-dorkski:

smarter-than-the-republicans:

i-sold-my-soul-to-thefandom:

just-pansexual-things:

teaboot:

the-prolefeed:

anarcho-kaibaism:

the-prolefeed:

agentscarters:

anyway jeff bezos could eradicate homelessness. he could literally give each homeless person 100k and it would only take less than .5% of his entire wealth. what the actual god giving fuck

Why do you think they deserve it

Well shelter is a basic need, and would at the very least allow them a place where they can get back on their feet. Food water and shelter are necessary for a healthy body and psychology. There’s also the fact that they’re people too, and a little help goes a long way in making a decent community. There’s plenty of reasons

Yeah they need stuff, but why does every homeless person deserve 0.5% of someone’s income

You have five hundred apples, and just one day to eat them all. 

You pass by a small crowd of hungry children, and decide you’d rather 455 apples go rotten than give them to some snotty brat who isn’t your problem.

It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for your 500 apples, or that you aren’t the parent of any of those kids. in the moment you decide to walk away, it doesn’t matter why they’re hungry, or who owes who what.

You had the opportunity to help people, you had the ability to help people, you had the resources to help people. You had everything you needed to make a small, tiny little difference in someone’s life, and you decided not to.

What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity?

What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity

Reblogging for the very, very important lesson

Sometimes I wish there were a Hell if only for the visuals of a bunch of rich shit heads wandering around on fire asking “Where’s my money?!”

greed-the-dorkalicious:

Man I know emulators are technically considered piracy I guess, and I can see why it would be an issue with newer games (not that most emulators are advanced enough for that anyway), but I just… hhhhhh the way the video game industry operates in regards to old games is so fucking stupid. It’s like

Gamers: Hey, I’m really interested in this game you made a long time ago! Can I play it?
Game companies: No. 
Gamers: But I’ll give you money!
Game companies: We no longer manufacture, support, or distribute that game or the console it’s available on. There’s no way for you to buy it.
Gamers: Well, what about this slightly-newer-but-still-outdated game that was never released in my region? Can I play that? I’ll give you money.
Game companies: No. You’re only allowed to play games from your region. You can’t buy it from us.
Gamers: So, you don’t provide any way for me to purchase these games from you, or to play them in any form?
Game companies: Correct. We don’t care about these games anymore. They might as well not exist.
Some guy on the internet: Hey, I found some old and foreign games that aren’t sold or available to play anywhere, so I fixed them up so everyone can play them now for free! Here you go! 🙂
Game companies: ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. HOW DARE YOU STEAL OUR PROFITS. PLAY THE GAMES LEGALLY OR DIE.
Gamers: But you just said there’s no way to play them-
Game companies: FUCK YOU