Happy International Women's Day

tumblr users be like instead of giving your money to those scammer genocide victims who make me feel bad you should give it to a Real Charity™, which are famously incorruptible and only ever have the purest intentions

Just a reminder that these messages are scams, & no refugee going through such crisis would guilt trip people over Tumblr dms, threatening to kill themselves & their children. This is disgusting, & is a classic tactic to get you to panic & donate without thinking. If you wish to donate to refugees, there are MANY charities you can choose from. Never give your money to someone sending you random links in dms.

we need more art that is unpleasant and makes you feel bad

Imagine being this fucking dumb.

to much trans masc 'fitness goals' content is focused on being ripped or being a twink. what if I wanna be built like Brennan Lee Mulligan

if you're looking for further antipsych readings, i heavily recommend bruce cohen's psychiatric hegemony: a marxist theory of mental illness.

it would be one of the published academic books on the topic of psychiatry i would have the least amount of caveats for - together with anne harrington's mind fixers: psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness.

if you are already convinced that psychiatry, together with other sciences, evolved alongside capitalist development to serve bourgeois interests, ensure social control and legitimize the hegemonic world order - and that no amount of intradisciplinary reform can change this, short of total abolition - then you will likely not be learning much from this book. it does however lay the arguments very clearly, together with concise, clearly explained marxist theory about labor. it then goes on to tie psychiatry with other hegemonic structures - the family, most notably.

interestingly enough, it manages to completely avoid two of the most common pitfalls of this kind of text: it never places the issue with the use of drugs themselves, but with forced medication and lack of available information - and it never blames capitalism itself for the coercive and punishing character of psychiatry, inventing a precapitalistic mythical past where crazy people were fine.

a solid recommendation if you are trying to give an introduction to antipsychiatry concepts to someone!

not to freudpost, but it seems very obvious to me that the vitriolic nature of election discourse stems from the need to repress the agonizing reality of just how disempowered you are.

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"misandry harms queer men and transmascs too"

#now I'm gonna be pedantic and say that the kids in narnia don't have powers #unless you think being british is a superpower #which c.s. lewis low-key did believe so actually your kind of right

"magical girl" is not just a girl with magical powers, it's a specific genre. magical girl characters need to be from a work within that genre or they can be from a work that doesn't fall into the magical girl genre if the particular character plays on the tropes of the magical girl. think about the definition of "superhero" instead. captain america is a superhero bc he comes from the superhero genre. the crimson chin from the fairly oddparents is a superhero bc his design and behavior draw on the superhero genre. but you would never call the kids from narnia superheroes just bc they save the world using their powers

ppl are always saying that women are "allowed to cry" more than men are but I don't really think being expected to is the same as being "allowed" to without judgement, because generally the social judgement is still extremely present and imo not made much better by it being a "typical behavior from the likes of you" flavor of contempt