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  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyz•She-Ra Lives!English
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    10 days ago

    Didnt downvote but ill bite.

    Dont self-hate. There’s so many self-proclaimed misogynistic chauvanists to hate.

    You offer your humanity. That is unique and not about the gender binary.

    Your intrinsic traits mean people are more likely to listen to you.

    If you’re into a long form video essay, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBn5VF_On2k

    You get to be inclusivity batman

    If your up for a punk song https://propagandhi.bandcamp.com/track/refusing-to-be-a-man

    Gender is made up. A social construct used to divide, for the purpose of economic imperialism. If youre up for a book:

    https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781557100238

    Self-love is needed if you’re going to uplift others. Your intentions seem to be in the right place. Meet that with humility, humanity and accountabilty to learn and grow from mistakes and you’ll do fine.

    One more thing that feels relevant, a sentiment from a friend:

    I think that a lot of people on the left are focused on the idea of forgiveness coming from the people who were wronged, but I think that’s a misguided notion. It’s not my place to seek forgiveness from those I have wronged, and I don’t have any obligation to forgive those who have wronged me. I think that the harsh reality is that we live in an unjust world, where justice only exists if we fight tooth and nail for it, and will it into existence with our choices and actions.

    So then if you believe what you’re saying, be a part of the fight to make our grass the greener

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•How can we return to techno-optimism?English
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    2 months ago

    Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely – being fed up with the state of the industry – but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here’s what’s kept me optimistic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

    Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to “reject isms/be your own ism”

    Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

    I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule
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    2 months ago

    Heh, foresaw you getting hung up on “liberation”

    It’s not complicated nor is it this profound thing: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16007006

    It’s commisseration, really Can you just let some traumatized autisitic transfems (and others) have that?

    No? Yes? Doesnt matter. Thats the point of the video, it’s not about you. Thats also part of the point of parody’ing incels (which as an aside: the concept of invcel was originally coined by a woman and was meant to be a supportive, all-gender, friendly place – before the right co-opted it.

    No, i’m posting this for the next tranzqueer who comes along, who might [like I had] be unaware of these things and tend to gravitate to the Narrative of the Johns without reminders that there is so, so much more nuance, and meaning to be found in the world, beyond the limits of what is scripted, shot, edited, produced and published for the target audience composed of Stanleys & Johns.

    So thanks for reading. I did not expect you to watch that whole video, but since you did, I hope your life will be enriched by the appreciation that creations, be they AAA titles or shitty memes, dont need to make sense to your perspective in order for them to have great value, both to marginalized audiences who benefit from seeing themselves humanized, but also to the rest, because in order to dehumanize someone else you first demhumanize a tiny part of yourself – and art can heal that, too.