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penpolyon · 1 year
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Only capitalism can create a world where a new technology like ChatGTP fills people with existential dread.
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Important to note that in the UK, the forms of direct action described in the reblog above are actually been made illegal by Thacher and her successors. it is illegal for unions to strike in solidarity, to continue to provide their services for free or intentionally mishandling work.
Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?
Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.
When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.
I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.
I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.
Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.
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penpolyon · 1 year
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I’M BACK
(You have been warned) After taking an extensive mental health break I am back guys. Thanks for the patience of all my followers, I'm sure most of you have either forgotten me or unfollowed me lol. 
So turns out I disassociate all the time  and 99% probably autistic. who’d of thought that the the girl in class that would pull out random dinosaur/animal/fungi/microplastic facts without you asking, would spend half the conversation trying to work out if you are happy or upset with her and who hated the feeling of the elasticated sleeves of coats and gloves interacting with each other would be autistic!!
No worries tho, I’m getting better, being more open about my struggles with friends and colleagues (which surprisingly makes all the difference! I hadn't quite learned that just letting people know that your are stressed or overwhelmed is better than grinning and baring it) and have been seeing specialists, might try get some more specific help at some point if the NHS stops looking like a dumpster fire. 
 There are a few little changes with how i want to run my change, nothing to drastic. I’m sure most of you where following me for my vegan and pollution awareness posts. well you are in luck because that is what I am going to be focusing on. With the odd other environmental activism so that I can make a literal difference metaphorically.  
-Penpolyon
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penpolyon · 2 years
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I legit have been feeling this for the last 3 years, I dunno what's changed, probably me, coming to greater awareness of it. But I just feel out of place, there is something deeply un homely, unwelcoming about the UK now, I've lived in this country for 10 years. And always felt up until recently that with every passing year if feel more at home, more like it was my country, but for the past 2-3 years it's been going the opposite way. And I can't quite pinpoint why. And I know obviously that my home country is by no means perfect, it has many issues. But there is something far more organic and human about other European countries that make me instantly feel at home even if I'm not in my home country. Something that Britain does not have.
I think eventually when I'm ready to I have to leave, unfortunately. I just don't see myself living my whole life here like I once dreamed of. I used to love the UK. There is still much to love about it but the thought of living another 10-20 years here sounds like a nightmare.
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Having seen this Reddit post I think there are millions of people who care and notice. The last few years have been very instructive on how the rich wage class war on us, and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say the Tories have created a tinderbox atmosphere among working people. It’s just very rare to hear dissenting voices in the media which cranks out an endless stream of articles like this:
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The people who get their news from the Newscorp and Facebook bubble tend to live in well off areas where they don’t see the long queues of families waiting outside food banks come heatwave or torrential rain, but it’s pretty obvious to everyone else something is about to snap. Rent and bills spiraling, real wages falling, the cost of living crisis is going to drive millions into poverty; it’s even more serious than the poll tax which brought Thatcher down. But it is encouraging to see things like the resurgence in union membership, Mick Lynch challenging the bosses’ lies on TV, the Don’t Pay campaign and Enough is Enough.
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penpolyon · 2 years
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Welcome to the funniest set of memes I’ve ever seen thank you
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Here (1989) by Richard mcguire (raw magazine)
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penpolyon · 2 years
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TERFS get annoyed that I a Bi woman call myself sapphic, because to them it's a sacred title only bestowed upon the purest of lesbian Wombyns (/s) rather than the wonderful word that encompasses the diverse and unifying experiences of of queer and/or wlw.
as a lesbian, one of the most damaging things t*rfs have done to the lesbian community is make the centre of our sexuality our lack of attraction to men rather than our attraction to women.
that’s why they demonise bi women as much as they do. when yes, bi women have a bit of a different experience but they have a lot of experience in common with us too and the fact they are attracted to women in common with us.
bi women are not our enemy.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/TrollXChromosomes/comments/83x5hw/dealing_with_asshole_men_the_game_of_nuclear/
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penpolyon · 2 years
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So I read this interesting post from the MensLib subreddit, about how men's issues are always blamed on men themselves and never on society. The post itself as well as the comments are a very good read in digging in to antimasculism & the ways in which feminism has failed to critically examine men's suffering under the patriarchy. For example (all bolding by me):
Here again, the problems predominantly affecting women are addressed by changing society, while those predominantly affecting men are addressed by changing men (or by telling men to change themselves). The difference is not that one approach is right and the other wrong; they are both 'right' in the sense that they highlight genuine issues, but the approach to men's problems is more superficial. When dealing with men's problems, we focus on the immediate cause, which is usually the men's failure to cope with mental strain ("he should have gone to therapy", "he should have learned to open up more"); in contrast, when dealing with women's problems, we focus on "the cause of the cause", and try to remove the systemic social issues causing the mental strain, rather than telling the victims what they should have done to better cope with it.
I think this is a great point, and something we really need to tackle. OP also goes on to talk about self-repression, comparing girls avoiding sexual harassment and boys avoiding bullying:
Boys (and men) are notorious for repressing their emotions. They have a good reason: in boys' peer groups, a failure to control your emotions is almost as shameful as a failure to control your bladder; it is a sign of weakness, and any sign of weakness makes you a target for bullying and ridicule. So boys learn to wear a permanent mask of aloof toughness to avoid inadvertently revealing any sign of weakness or uncontrolled emotion, and many keep this habit into adulthood. It is generally well recognized that suppressing emotions is unhealthy in the long run, but it seems to me that the commonly proposed antidote is misguided: boys (or men) are told to "just open up more and be vulnerable" or to "learn how to cry", as if their reluctance to show emotions were some kind of irrational emotion-phobia, rather than a perfectly reasonable, perhaps even necessary, defense against the ridicule, contempt and loss of respect that society inflicts upon those who can't keep their emotions in check in the proper "manly" way.
It's something we don't really question in mainstream feminism. Women's issues have a societal root, and men's issues are issues that men put on themselves, and therefore men just need to fix it themselves and change.
And while yes, we all have a responsibility to unlearn harmful societal teachings, just saying "men need to fix their shit" doesn't help anyone. I've been annoyed for a while at how people will react to men suffering under the patriarchy with "UGH they need to go to therapy", as if
Needing therapy is a sign of failure or a bad thing, and someone not going to therapy when they need to is them being an asshole on purpose and not potentially a sign of them not feeling safe enough to go to therapy, feeling too ashamed, not having enough money or time, etc.
Individual men getting individual therapy will solve the societal problems of forcing boys and men to repress their emotions and view themselves as only valuable if they can perform manual labor and have a lot of sex with women. It's a problem that is only perpetuated by men themselves and if they just stopped doing that, then the problem would disappear.
No self-respecting feminist would ever react to a woman obviously suffering from the patriarchy with "ugh, she needs to go to therapy and fix herself." Yes, therapy would be helpful most likely, but that's not going to actually fix the underlying cause of her issues. So why do we, as feminists, think that "men just need to fix themselves" is an okay response to societal suffering under the patriarchy?
Who does this help? Who benefits from us ignoring these issues? Why do we assume that men's experiences under the patriarchy are so one-dimensional and that we have no responsibility for unlearning our societal biases around men and masculinity?
Someone in the comments also added this quote from the "perpetually relevant" I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out essay by Jen Coates:
Have you noticed, when a product is marketed in an unnecessarily gendered way, that the blame shifts depending on the gender? That a pink pen made “for women” is (and this is, of course, true) the work of idiotic cynical marketing people trying insultingly to pander to what they imagine women want? But when they make yogurt “for men” it is suddenly about how hilarious and fragile masculinity is — how men can’t eat yogurt unless their poor widdle bwains can be sure it doesn’t make them gay? #MasculinitySoFragile is aimed, with smug malice, at men—not marketers.
And then another commenter left this (and referenced bell hooks' work on men!!):
"Do you agree that we tend to approach women's problems as systemic issues, and men's problems as personal issues?" Yes, and there's even a name for this: Hyperagency. Individual men are assumed to be immune to systemic pressures because the people at the top of the hierarchies generating those pressures are also men. "And if you do agree with that, do you think this difference in approach is justified, or do you rather think it is a case of an unfair bias?" It's pretty clearly not rooted in reality. The idea that billions of ordinary men aren't beholden to the social constructs under which they were raised is just plain silly. I'd blame the empathy gap, but honestly I feel like it's more than that. Patriarchy hyper-individualizes every struggle a man faces as a way to shield itself from critique and gaslight ordinary men. The motivations there are readily apparent. However, we see the same blind spot appear even in more academic Feminist spaces (taking for granted that "Feminist" spaces on social media are hardly representative of the cutting edge of Feminist thought). bell hooks once postulated that some Feminist women are deeply afraid of acknowledging how little they understand about men, let alone taking the steps to broach that gap.
Another person explained hyperagency by saying "Every single individual man is a hyper agent who is just expected to bootstrap his way out of the patriarchy through sheer force of will."
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penpolyon · 2 years
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Have any Omni's ever considered that they may have depression because they don't eat dog?
Do you think that perhaps you're Depressed because you're malnutritioned? Maybe being a Vegan isn't good for your mental health? Just a thought. Eating fish is very good for depression.
… what kind of question…
i’ve had severe depression since way before i was vegan, dude. in fact, it used to be way worse. the time i tried to inhale a box of nyquil pills, i was basically eating chicken nuggets and tuna sandwiches on the daily
im depressed because i have depression my dude. i havent had an easy time getting out of bed since i was like fucking 13 and that doesnt change whether im inhaling a carton of ice cream or nibbling on lettuce. trust me, i’ve tried.
what would help, though, is me being able to afford therapy and medication lol. but im wicked poor. maybe you should give me like a thousand bucks for making me see this stupid message
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penpolyon · 2 years
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penpolyon · 2 years
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“An analysis by Front Line Defenders and the Human Rights Defenders Memorial recorded at least 358 murders of human rights activists globally in 2021.
Of that total, nearly 60% were land, environment or Indigenous rights defenders.
The countries with the highest death tolls were Colombia, Mexico and Brazil.
Advocates say the figure is likely far higher, as attacks on land and environment defenders in Africa often go unreported.”
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