Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@HerraBRE if you aren't going to give a damn for people unless they are "enlightened" just like you, AND a crucial step to your enlightenment is coming from a place of privilege - so you are insulated from such sources of anger - siddhartha you ain't, my dude.

saying "well it's the systems, some benefit, some don't" ignores how those systems came to be.

honestly, it reeks of a get-out-of-jail-free-card for examining one's own behavior.

@HerraBRE if you truly want people to break free, to have true equality and freedom, it means understanding that there are systems grinding them under the heel, and it means understanding they're going to be frustrated at the culprits wearing the boots.

wearing the boots includes not only active participation, but passive participation... like mocking minorities for being unenlightened when they express anger and frustration at the people hurting them.

@HerraBRE so yes, people have a right to get angry at the people who are keeping in place those systems that oppress them.

even - and perhaps especially - when people who benefit from those systems, like, let's say, a man who is also a feminist, claim their enlightenment above the repressed masses around them, despite being part of the group the system is benefitting. especially when this hypothetical male feminist then mocks frustration and anger of the oppressed.

@HerraBRE you know this has been sticking in my mind like a fishbone in my craw for a bit.

i think where you're going wrong - ironically right after claiming enlightenment -is the idea that people on top of these systems "accidentally".

these systems did not just emerge, fully-formed, as minerva from the forehead of zeus. they are not natural processes, no matter how many lobsters jordan peterson cites.

these are systems *set in place* by *people* and *kept in place* by *people*.

also i need to run the last instance before stormblood in ffxiv but

1. Fear.

2. keep misreading it as "gimlet dark" and trying to figure out what that would even be. sub in chambourd for part of the gin and blackberry puree for some of the lime? vodka gimlet with blavod black vodka?? THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW

@beebs@queer.party @ShawnEric@rightmastodon.com ah yes, the freeziest peaches of all: Only The People I Like Get To Say Things That Do Not Challenge Me Whatsoever. only the most padded and soft walled midden heap for the most delicate of turboweenies to pretend that is the entire wide world.

i think the internet needs to collectively develop a cocktail recipe, heavy on the liquor (and frozen peaches, ofc) to be the official response to this kind of nonsense. peach daiquiri, extra rum, maybe?

to illustrate my point about how :gluegun: is superior to : gun: -

@monorail @InspectorCaracal it's gargon but he's gone french or someshit

@monorail @InspectorCaracal garjon

@InspectorCaracal gif.... jargon............... soft g/j sound..... IT ALL MAKES SENSE

@InspectorCaracal nothing is a real word, have you even Seen the english language

also in the spirit of community, after yoinking so many emojis like for my discord servers from masto, allow me to give a few in return

1. :sadbutaesthetic: aka vaporwave frowny

2. :willrememberthat: aka social down from the sims, bc sometimes, that's just all you got my dudes

3. glue gun (superior replacement for any gun emoji use among crafty friends)

4. an emoji size version of this cat gif that i honestly think is probably old enough to vote by now

@darksouls i don't like this slogan for breath of the wild :(

there's a guild on balmung in #ffxiv with the tag AP-RP and every time i see it, i imagine, with no small amount of terror still there from my high school days, what exactly an Advanced Placement test about roleplay would be like

why write contrary-for-contrary's-sake opinions about the politics of people existing when you could join me in the REAL fun end of the pool:

GIF IS PRONOUNCED WITH A SOFT G

no i will not be taking questions no i will not be explaining myself don't at me i know i'm right

@HerraBRE i think you may be missing that when people express frustrations, "i hate [oppressive group]" is often shorthand for "i hate the systems perpetuated by oppressive group to keep oppressive group in power and those that continue these systems".

otherwise, honestly, this reads as "a man who claims to be feminist got very upset by a woman venting frustrations and has clad NOT ALL MEN in some wokeness so he can impress us all with his superior enlightenment".

@Sapphicgiraffic@snouts.online we talkin sexy tops bc there the answer is just 1. me, 2. me, 3. me -

OKAY OKAY OKAY i'm gonna assume shirt tops

i will hold myself back from cheating bc my usual uniform is dress + leggings, and a dress isn't REALLY a top, so

1. the blouse i have from rainbow that has fucking ridic 3-tier huge bell sleeves

2. sleep t-shirt that is very softe from target and says "be the person your pet thinks you are"

3. comfy t-shirt from rainbow with ruffledy short sleeves and bow collar