My last post on tumblr, for adults and serious political people only.
I will not be interacting with this post here; if you want to make sure I see any comments you have, you will need to go over to where it is posted to make them.
This is my very last visit here, since I mightily try to avoid overwhelmingly-Right-wing platforms, which as I explained, tumblr certainly is.
Those of you I love (and you know who you are), namaste and please stay in touch. I am on Facebook, Twitter, etc… easy to find. (since I was doxxed by Bob Jones University years ago, my legal name and location are also easy to find, as everyone’s should be, of course).
Enough already. We give up. TERFs are henceforth abandoning our transphobic nonsense and joining the HotP’s (Handmaidens of the Patriarchy, aka libfems). But obviously there remains a huge transphobic group out there, which trans people have to tackle in the interests of equality – the TERMs, or Trans-Exclusionary Real Men, i.e. men who have the transphobic temerity to assert that their dicks are male sexual organs. This must be stopped!All such references in popular culture and medicine need to be addressed – they’re trans-misandry!!!. You could start with Viagra ads and the entire porn industry – that should keep you busy for quite a while.
Proctologists must also offer screening services to transmen. Whether they need them or not is irrelevant; you must validate their identities. Men considering vasectomies must stop mentioning them as it’s trans-misandrist to transmen. As for erectile dysfunction, don’t go there. How dare you suggest that your ‘penis’ is in any way more male than an overdeveloped clitoris? It is absolutely not necessary for you to have an erection for sex to take place. Just imagine someone penetrating your soft, male vagina and float away on waves of pleasure. Pink waves.
All casual phrases relating balls to masculinity are trans-misandrist and must be changed to include ovaries. That would be balls/ovaries of steel, kicked in a painful portion of the male anatomy, he’s got ovaries/balls. Dudes with balls are henceforth to be referred to as entesticled persons.
Radfems will assist in raising consciousness by briefly identifying as men (perhaps on alternate Sundays), going into men’s bathrooms and filling all the dustbins with used tampons (thanks, SR). Obviously, any objections would be profoundly transphobic; some men menstruate. Trans men are men. Get over it. (H/T to #ManFriday who are already doing this!)
And we assume that gay transmen will soon be getting together to plan their assault on the Jockstrap Ceiling. How dare gay cis-men refuse to sleep with them? It’s transphobic! (Perhaps you could have your convention in a locker-room somewhere, as the trans-masculine equivalent of Planned Parenthood).
Obviously ‘all-male’ spaces must be challenged and abolished, and we expect to see crude representations of ovaries drawn in pubs, at Republican conventions, and all over the Vatican. In any case, if Jesus was the result of a virgin birth then he had XX chromosomes, so was probably a transman. Just like Freddie Mercury.
Rapists will have to have it explained to them that they can no longer use their penises to rape; it contributes to the transphobic notion that the penis is an instrument of male violence. Clearly, the vagina is equally capable of being an instrument of male violence; we’re sure you’ll think of something.
We’re sure the trans lobby will deal with this as effectively as they’ve handled the TERFs. After all, we know you’re really, really committed to equality and all that. You wouldn’t want us to get the wrong idea and think you were just a bunch of narcissistic, misogynistic fetishists, now, would you?
After the last debacle, I have pretty much taken my leave of tumblr. The occasional cat, dog and goat photo is all you will get from me–going back to my old blog when deep analysis is called for. Tired of being ripped into little tiny pieces by folks who apparently arrived in politics last Wednesday.
It short, tumblr is no place for old people, and after five years of more or less constant ageist insults, finally been whupped. (they haven’t stopped coming privately either; I now get nasty messages every time I sign on.)
I keep wondering: do hate their own moms and grandmoms this much?
I think they very well might.
For the record, this circular firing squad is why the Left has lost so spectacularly and continues to lose, while the Right wins and continues to win… so if you want this to change, stop now. But of course, I have been saying that for five years–long before Trump won, as I knew he would.
If anyone wants to discuss actual politics, strategy, ideas, etc instead of name-calling and virtue signalling, I am here. Notice: I ask questions in a dialectical fashion, as I was raised by the Left to do; this means I ask questions to clarify my positions and to learn the truth and figure out what is moral and right. It seems that on tumblr, nobody ever learned how to do that and ppl think asking difficult questions = picking a fight. (How odd that leftist processes are unknown to people who think they are on the Left? And how could that be? What’s going on?????)
My experience on tumblr has been sobering, but at least I wasn’t as shocked as my leftist comrades when Trump won; I knew the youthful lefty fulminating would not translate into votes or street action. People who value being “safe” are by definition not able to participate in politics, which ain’t “safe” by a long shot.
Young folks who value safety, anonymity and conformity will have to choose whether these things are more important to them than their freedom and the freedom of other oppressed people—you can’t have it both ways.
Once more with feeling:
You cannot value safety and conformity, covering your ears and singing la-la-la, and simultaneously claim to care about social justice.
I still drop in to read, so I will still be following people. I love some of you fiercely and you know you who are. <3
@southcarolinawoman and her journey have made the entire thing worthwhile. I love you mouthy feminists who never let up–and remember, that’s the only thing they understand.
I will check in periodically, like if I should get arrested or something… which I have successfully avoided for 46 yrs now… but I keep thinking of Madea and imagining myself locked up at long last: yall betterlet me outta herrrrrrrrre! ((bangs on cell like Madea, bothers other prisoners)))
When Jack Warner was casting the movie My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews, who played the original Eliza Doolittle on Broadway, was overlook for the part, that was given to Audrey Hepburn.
That made her available to accept Mr. Disney’s invitation to play Mary Poppins.
At the 22nd Golden Globes, when she won the best actress award (she was up against Audrey for My Fair Lady), she had her sweet revenge.
THE SHADE OF IT ALL.
And she said it as sweetly as Mary Poppins, is the thing.
… this is basically already what happens and it’s already terrible
This is called Slavery.
But just remember: America was built this way. My ancestors from Ireland and England were all indentured servants. Â
Very few early “American settlers” were of the planter class…. the vast majority were enslaved black ppl, white indentured servants/workers and Native Americans, who were useful (in the short run) teaching the rich about horses, hunting and the land. Â
Its amazing what boatloads of money/gold can do. Â
Well i tried my cookies and they’re kinda on the powdery crumbling side of things.
Remember (you prob don’t, but …) in the old Archie comics, Veronica’s cookies were frequently used as weapons. Jughead once stopped a bank robbery by hitting the robber (who was drawn to look like Lex Luthor) in the head with one of Veronica’s cookies. Bonk, and down he went.
This event made it into the Riverdale News. Jughead got a medal as Veronica sobbed in shame.
I remember this story precisely because my cookies have always been more … well lets just say, more like Veronica’s than powdery. :)
I have dealt with a torrent of insane juveniles over the past few days.. spending valuable leftist time typing away at insults I did not even read.
Instead of organizing and working to rid the world of the Clown In Chief, they have spent DAYS typing insults at a 60-year-old leftist who has been doing this stuff for 46 years.
Thankfully, they can’t drive me out of the Left – but think of how many others they drive away every time they open their mouths or type their evil bullshit. (this is why I often wonder if some of the particularly-obsessive ones are getting paid)
When you are at the North Pole, everything, absolutely everything, is South.
Likewise, if you live your life here in fantasyland-tumblr, The Left Pole, then everything, absolutely everything, is Right. (even old hippies who were sitting in boring-ass Frantz Fanon study groups before you were even born.) Some of you seem to be constantly on patrol, monitoring for any tiny little deviation from leftist orthodoxy, so you can ruin someone’s reputation and get all your friends to send them mean messages and unfriend/unfollow them (tumblr equivalent of the gulag).
Grigory Zinoviev wept.
This is how I know you don’t do any real political work–if you went out in your actual communities and verbally policed comrades the vicious way you talk to me and others here whom you disagree with? You’d get it upside the head.
At the very least, you wouldn’t be tolerated for long, labeled a disruption and told to leave.
You are destroying the Left. Stop.
Go look up all the local folks in your community who have meetings and actually do political things: candidates, demonstrations, petitions, voter registration, workshops for kids, passing out leaflets (make some yourself! You can all WRITE very well!!!), teaching old people about social media, networking… etc etc etc. And report back to me: When someone differs from you while you are passing out leaflets door-to-door or driving the candidate here or there… what do you do? Scream and holler? call them names for disagreeing? Or do you politely and respectfully find out the reasons for your comradely disagreement and learn something new in the process?, i.e. that a decent person does not have to agree with you 100%? That in fact, there is an excellent chance your own position will change within the next few years, since everyone’s does? Being an asshole about it will just make you feel foolish later; I made fun of vegetarians for years… YEARS! And now, I have bad-vegetarian karma for that. [I became a vegetarian 20 yrs ago–after spending the first 30 years of my life making fun of them and the next 10 thinking, hm, I think they might be right and finally quit eating meat at age 40.]
I am used to the tumblr Inquisitions–so used to them, I hardly notice them anymore. But what are the reasons for these constant call-outs?
I have decided they are pernicious and a symptom of a much larger problem: politics being practiced in a vacuum. People all alone in their basements and bedrooms, ruminating about radical politics, fighting with phantoms. You will never understand what the democratic process is until you actually participate in it, and that is not possible in a vacuum, all by your lonesome.
Politics requires constant real-life feedback to work.
None of you are doing this…. so it ain’t working.
The Right wing IS doing this, so they have won.
Our demos get religiously followed by the Right, often more than even the Left does.
Where are the demonstrations in your town against Trump and when was the last time you participated? (I never see any of these on tumblr; am I the only person who posts them?) If you think carrying signs or leafleting is BS, what child care/meal prep/car rides/other work have you done for those who would like to participate in various ways but feel they can’t afford to?
In short… you know what to do. Get to work. Not typing in an echo chamber to people who already agree with you. (However, typing to the opposition and trying to convince them, certainly qualifies.) Real work, removing this person from the most powerful position in the world. This is primary.
If you are not doing this, you are helping keep him there. Those are the choices.
Flash from the past: note how this song starts out all nice and bucolic…. and then suddenly it isn’t, just that fast.
Yes, that fast.
Please don’t waste your time. I’m not wasting mine. So if I don’t reply to the torrent of abject nastiness and cruelty, sorry about that.
You should be too busy to write that stuff, as I am too busy to read it.
and this isn’t like…a revolutionary statement but someone being 18 doesn’t mean it’s like…ok for your old, dusty, ancient, prehistoric, elderly, geriatric worn out, run down, senior citizen discount at golden corral getting, fossilized, decrepit, senile, exhausted, tired, antique, CRUSTY ass to date them because it’s ‘legal’
Is all this exuberant ageism necessary? Crusty? Jesus Christ.
If you dislike us old, dusty, ancient, prehistoric, elderly, geriatric worn out, run down, senior citizen discount at golden corral getting, fossilized, decrepit, senile, exhausted, tired, antique, CRUSTY
people, unfollow me please.
and PS: stop accepting birthday gifts from your crusty grandma too–she should spend it on someone decent who doesn’t have total contempt for her.
If I knew who she was, I’d send her your dusty, ancient, prehistoric, elderly, geriatric worn out, run down, senior citizen discount at golden corral getting, fossilized, decrepit, senile, exhausted, tired, antique, CRUSTY ageist words myself, so she could cut you out of her will. :)
Wow the whole point just flew right over your head.
Apparently, yours too–since you failed to explain it.
duh!
ugh shes talking about how older people prey on younger folks who just turned 18. it really not that hard.
Nowhere in the post does she say anything about “how older people prey on younger folks who just turned 18″–where are those exact words?
Nowhere in the post at all.
How do you get that out of what she wrote? I just saw a bunch of nasty, vicious, age-based insults of old people she didn’t want to date….?
Commercial: See how things can read radically-differently, depending on where in society you are situated? This phenomenon is also called intersectionality–you mighta heard of it.
It means the very same text can be deconstructed in a variety of ways, depending on who the message is for and not for. It is therefore crucial for political people to write and communicate VERY CLEARLY (and in a NON INFLAMMATORY way), to allies, (unless you intend to inflame your allies) for this reason.
This post gets an F and this person sent to the countryside during Pope Daisy’s first (yes it is obvious I will have to conduct more than one) cultural revolution. Collective farming, starvation, Lysenkoism, dysentery, death, goodbye.
Revolution ain’t for sissies.
wtf is all of that bullshit you just typed?
Obviously its way over your tiny little head, honey.
Run along now, and stay in the YA reading section from now on, so you won’t get confused.
Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable... since 1957.
