Visual Representation Of Common Sense.

only just remembered the conversation I had with the person who said they couldn’t read anything written by a lesbian because they were a bisexual and it would be seen as infiltrating a space that wasn’t intended for them and wasting resources that weren’t theirs to use and they were terrified of getting in Trouble.

"Empathy is what makes us human" Dawg you caught me I'm secretly a platypus

Fascism thrives on ignorance and anti-intellectualism. Here are some ways you can combat it:

There is an ongoing literacy crisis. Teach kids how to read phonetically (other methods produce poor literacy) and introduce them to fun books, both fiction and educational non-fiction.

Teach kids about critical thinking and the scientific method.

You can also introduce kids to edutainment like Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, The Magic Schoolbus, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Beakman's World, etc.

Help kids develop media literacy skills by asking them literary analysis questions about the media they engage with. Even very young children can begin learning literary analysis if the questions are phrased in words they can understand.

Learn and help other people learn information literacy, ie, how to locate and evaluate information.

Learn the red flags of pseudoscience, and educate other people about them.

Educate people and share media on real science and real history, because fascist narratives are full of pseudoscience and pseudohistory. (Miniminuteman, Gutsick Gibbon and Bart D. Ehrman's YouTube channel are great, by the way!)

Make learning a joyful experience, and show people the beauty and wonder of what's real. Being a discouraging killjoy will spoil your efforts.

"The man who popularised bdsm was himself a serial rapist who tortured women and children" wait who is this? I mean checks out but I want to know

The S in BDSM comes from Sade, Le marquis de Sade. He was a french pedophile, rapist, torturer and kidnapper. He wrote about his methods, men loved it and intellectualized it and thus the Sadist movement was born and with it sado-masochism and bdsm and kink and all that revolting shit. His methods are exactly what bdsm proponents and porn addicts love. Rapeplay, bondage, whipping, hot wax, beating etc. Sadisme, Sadism, Sadismus, Sadismo, Sadizm, etc, in most languages the word for taking sexual pleasure out of torturing someone comes from Sade, who was a real man and a real criminal. It's a movement based on a serial rapist.

He started by raping prostituted women, some were so upset with his violence and perversity that they reported him to the authorities and that's when he got arrested first. He was released but put under surveillance, the inspector telling brothel owners to never let their girls go with this man.

Sade then met a poor woman who was a widow and a beggar. He offered her a position as housekeeper and took her to his house. He pretended to make her visit the house but in the bedroom he assaulted her, tied her to the bed, whipped her, poured hot wax on her wounds, threatened to kill her if she did not stop screaming, jerked off and then forced her to do blasphemous things because she was catholic and part of what he loved was making catholic women do things that are clearly against their religious teachings. She managed to escape through a window and ran to the village. He was imprisoned for 7 months.

Then during an orgy with some prostituted women and his valet, he drugged the girls and some of them felt sick and incapacitated. Him and his valet were condemned to death for the poisoning and for sodomy. But they escaped. Sade was from a bourgeois family, their money and influence helped him a lot. He was caught later but paid the prison guards and escaped once more.

After that, there were several cases in which he would hire servants who were almost always very young girls, children, and he raped them violently too. Turns out some of the girls had been kidnapped. They had marks on their bodies showing the abuse. The parents were looking for them. One father tried to shoot Sade but the gun misfired.

Sade was on the run again, went to Italy for a while, then went back to France. But his mother in law (yes, he was married this entire time) had been working really hard to get him arrested if he ever came back to Paris and that's what happened. But he was mostly accused of "libertinage" and "obscenity", making him a martyr to our modern liberals.

He was imprisoned for 11 years at La Bastille and was treated better than most prisoners because he was paying the staff for privileges. But in prison he was still violent, aggressive and he would write filthy and offensive letters to his mother in law and his wife, describing how he wanted to see them die. So he was not released early. He also wrote that for a man like him to become mentally healthy and to be treated fairly, he should be given access to girls in his cell.

That's when he started writing his pornographic books in which he pretends to be fighting for sexual freedom and against religious prudishness. He wrote novels illustrated with pictures and engravings of naked girls being raped, tortured and killed (yes killed, in gruesome ways) in much the same way BDSM photos and videos depict nowadays. But in some pictures he had little children drawn and participating in the orgies too.

During the French revolution, The Bastille was taken by the revolutionaries and the prisoners freed, unfortunately he was one of them. However, his books were perceived as horrible and concerning by the authorities, as something beyond simple obscenity, and he was placed in a mental institution, where he kept on writing his pseudo-intellectual garbage for a few more years before finally dying.

Years later, men got to read his books about torturing, raping and killing women and rehabilitated it. And now here we are. BDSM. The epitome of female empowerment.

The whole "if we don't fuck males they're gonna Handmaid's Tale us" argument directly contradicts "men didn't give us our rights, we fought for them". You either have the power and strength to resist males and fight for your liberation or you don't. Stop depending on the government or the arbitrary mercy of males to give you the kiddie rails you apparently need to be a free woman in society.

I'm actually comfortable in this pit you put me in. I like it in here and I will resist any attempt made to rescue me. I'm happy with the scraps you feed me and I don't mind how sick I'm getting.

A lot of people don’t learn terms, they decide what they mean based on vibes and then will argue to the death that their definition they make up is correct. All the dictionaries in the world at your fingertips and social media has made people this lazy and complacent. Not every word is a slang term you can learn by vibes alone

"It's not that the women don't have the capabilities to far exceed standards; it's the fact that they don't want to. Women have NO desire to rise above their limitations. Women want to be servants, women want to be sex objects, women want to be passed around.

Men really ain't doing nothing to women that women ain't asking them to do to them. *reads screenshot out loud*

Don't you ever forget that women out here got rape fantasies, and trying to act on them. You want to be used, you want to be a servant, you want to be a slave. You do not want to be deep thinkers, or problem solvers, or leaders; you want to be submissive slaves to your ideal fairy tale man that only lives in your head."

"It's not that the women don't have the capabilities to far exceed standards; it's the fact that they don't want to. Women have NO desire to rise above their limitations. Women want to be servants, women want to be sex objects, women want to be passed around.

Men really ain't doing nothing to women that women ain't asking them to do to them. *reads screenshot out loud*

Don't you ever forget that women out here got rape fantasies, and trying to act on them. You want to be used, you want to be a servant, you want to be a slave. You do not want to be deep thinkers, or problem solvers, or leaders; you want to be submissive slaves to your ideal fairy tale man that only lives in your head."

americans will say shit like "I'm working on affirming myself" and literally be the most self-obsessed person you know