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does it bother anyone else that a consistent theme in recent dr who is that it is 100% Not Okay to use a gun in pretty much any circumstance, but it's totally admissible to murder using basically anything other than a gun?

like the moral is basically "violence is okay as long as you do it as indirectly as possible" which to be fair feels VERY british

hairstyle makes a huge difference folks. Cute gay mess vs swamp hag (cw eye contact, pics of a big dork)

I will say that I'm glad that this semester instead of getting mad about white boys who know 0 things and like to talk about gun rights, I'm taking classes that let me get mad about landlords and native american rights, but I'm still mad, and this makes me even more mad

specifically, I'm watching this documentary, go watch it too and get pissed off

https://myasstodon.xyz/@Bashabez/103421722197784002

one of the main reasons I enjoy using mastodon so much is that it's a very community-oriented space and, as such, I think it's important for everyone to do what we can to extend that accessability and welcoming place to everyone we can, not everyone knows about the automatic caption detection feature and it just makes it so easy to do

I've made Italian-themed jokes about Buddhism and my own personal stuff here before, everyone had a good laugh, it was dumb/cheap, but it worked. I'll own the good and the bad of it.

What makes me think "I'm out, this is a different beast" is when I start seeing that logic extend to "you can do Spanish accents b/c of Franco, it's okay." I saw that take within the last 24 hours. Yeah? A white American doing a "Spanish" accent is cool because they're left?

most of what i see said about italian americans has nothing to do with what makes em fucked up. its the same "pasta! pizza! marrrone!" sopranos impression shit that's been THE way italians have been made fun of since the 1880s

you might say to this "well, its not that deep," and you're right. that's the problem. you know on some level that a group is worth criticizing, so you adopt the language of old WASPs who werent exactly making fun of italians bc "oh they're racist against black people"

Psycho, r*t*rd, cr*pple, these terms are ableist. Deriving insults from incontinence is ableist (and like, misogynistic towards older women). "Are you in the right headspace to..." Jokes are ableist. But saying "I feel stupid" is not. "That movie was depressing" is not. Etc.

Obviously I'm just one person so I'm not the end all be all here. It just peeves me when abled white knights go around publishing articles about this without asking Actually disabled people

a related analogy I've also found useful: bigots and the like need to be banned for the same reason that you can't be a creationist in an upper level biology class. at some point the conversation is being held back because while the class is attempting to discuss molecular genetics, some clown in the back row keeps holding up the class with questions about how come there's still monkeys if we evolved from monkeys

I’ve been to this party

it's time 😄

I'm generally the most disabled most mentally ill person most people I know know. I've been manic psychotic, I got that personality disorder Dx, I'm plural, I'm autistic, dyslexic, dyscalculic, I walk with a limp, I use a cane, I have a connective tissue disorder affecting every joint in my body, etc.

Crazy*, lame, stupid, dumb, and idiot are generally not ableist, it was able-bodied tumblr teens who started saying they were (*Crazy can be in context).

I have a degree in linguistics. The etymology of a word is not the same as the meaning of a word, and it's certainly not the "true meaning" that we somehow unconsciously absorb without knowing.

If etymology was the same as meaning we wouldn't be able to distinguish between shirts and skirts; aprons, and napkins. We'd have to talk about "evil movies" instead of "bad movies" because "bad" was possibly a homophobic term in the 1300s.

You know what I'm talking about.

You talk to your racist grandma, and you just awkwardly smile and nod, because you know it's WORTHLESS to talk to her about why she can't call POC the "coloreds" anymore.

But you tell your friend on here, "Hey, comrade, that was in bad taste"

Why? Because you know your friend will listen.

That's what we are trying to do with you.

it's a sign of respect, not of hatred. Please stop acting like we hate you.

basically do this to me

hello snouts.online

why are you all hiding from me?