Husband sent me this and all I could think is "it's a new variation on #spoon Theory and #ForkTheory"
i hyperfocused on New Video Game and Decades-Old Special Interest at the same time and my neurodivergence has leveled up
"call one eight-eight-eight eight-eight-eight eight-eight eight-eight now, for no particular reason"
on the bright side, though? the other folks staffing the event were great. there were gendered restrooms (because of course there were) and a couple of us spent like a quarter of an hour trying to find one for, well, folx like me. of which, i couldn't say an exact number, but i know that one of the people i spoke with used they/them pronouns. so
basically ig the tl;dr is that rich people may be horrid pieces of shit but they can afford to hire the best people which means their staff are cool???
Part of why we say "solidarity not charity" is because the way charity is typically presented gives moral superiority to the givers - and often, moral inferiority to the receivers (or sometimes "takers," if they decide to be particularly transparent about it)
Truisms like "it is better to give than to receive" implicitly contain "it is wrong to receive help." It's wrong to ask for the support you need, to want it, even to accept it when offered. Panhandling, for instance, is often portrayed not just as shameful, but immoral - even greedy
Solidarity, and especially mutual aid, are meant to reject that dichotomy. Everyone at Food Not Bombs eats together, volunteers and otherwise, and talks to each other. Our Free Store puts "it's free because it's yours" all over its reading material - it's not a gift, not a blessing, not charity. And that makes *such* a big difference
....so, um. i had to read the phrase """"activist vacation"""" at this event i was assisting at. and, gods, i wish i could've escaped earlier. the whole thing was just a bunch of rich people congratulating themselves on being 'progressive' by uh. afaict they thought being progressive meant foisting all responsibility for political action onto the youth
there's just. there was too much of this bs to even rant about it. it was so fkn overwhelming tho idk wtf
hollering about normies' attitudes to furries & nazis
just pissed about seeing liberal/centerist normies going "Furries have standards?" without asking themselves the following up question of "And they're higher than mine?"
@hierarchon "Nobody's gender is that long. Not even Ash "Long Gender" Delta Zahlen, and it's got a fucking long gender. hence the name."
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own