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thueenz · 6 months

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wait I thought the dodo posted animal welfare/rescue content? What is shady about that corporation/brand? :0

hi i just woke up hopefully i can word my thoughts! so sorry if none of this makes sense ahshshg im not like a professional in these spaces just someone very into animal welfare so bear with me here. this is all from memory as well because i refuse to watch a bunch of dodo videos but i doubt they have changed at all judging by my quick skimming of their account lol

basically it...is and it isnt. Not all the dodos content is bad on technicality. but the people behind it clearly dont actually care about accurate information or animal welfare at all, or at least not in a way that actually helps animals.

concerning point one: improper keeping of wild animals. theres many videos on the dodo of wild animals being kept as household pets, where they most certainly are not thriving lmao. Most of their content is dogs atp at least but theres still a hefty amount of wild animals. foxes, deer, raccoons, opossum, and monkeys i just saw from a quick scroll. not the monkeys good lord the poor things. the dodo promotes and shares this content, these wild animals playing with domestic ones (unsafe), the keeping of monkeys is especially bad they cannot mentally thrive in a home environment and should not be cuddling dogs 😭 all these animals are going to suffer. they are not domesticated, they are not fit to live by humans and get their needs met outside of a zoo where they have an entire enclosure and team of people looking after them. opossums are also if i remember incredibly tricky to keep healthy in captivity and almost always become dangerously overweight in the hands of pet owners, if not always.

ive seen the dodo post 'heartwarming' videos of baby animal rescue by the layperson and how 'cute' it is that the animal got attached and now has to live as a pet. its not cute. its not heartwarming. what you did was fail to rescue the animal. take it to a professional so it can be released properly. if the animal gets habituated to humans, then you failed. it is a failure of a rescue, not cute. organizations try their best to PREVENT that usually.

concerning point 2: promoting dangerous animal pairs. small prey animals and cats are the most common. cat saliva is dangerously toxic to small rodents, lizards, and birds. they should never be put together. every time i see a video of a cat 'playing' with a little hamster or something i die a bit its so stressful. these animals are often stressed by the cats as well. cats have prey drive, instinct. they are going to kill your hamster girl. they just are.

concerning point 3: rampant anthropomorphism. im not sure if people understand what i mean by that so let me try and explain. anthropomorphism is the name for the human tendency to apply human thoughts, emotions, and morals, to inhuman objects and creatures. its what we do. we view things from the only lens we know. however, to do this to animals so freely without a second thought is horrifically damaging. animals are not people. the dodo promotes false images of what animals are feeling and thinking, and applies human concepts of what 'freedom' and 'respect' is to them if that makes sense. its the basic thing all animal rights activists do- which, animal rights activists advocate for animals to have the same rights as humans. the term gets watered down and accepted but most of them genuinely want this, something incredibly damaging for these animals.

anthropomorphism leads to abuse. each animal is different and needs different needs for its own health, not what a human thinks it would want in the animals place. a common point is to say "what if that was you" to a farm animal. its not me. because i am not a cow. a cow has no concept of caring about freedom. it cares that its well fed and healthy. or insisting animals are feeling guilty for something, or insisting they dont have instinct or prey drive and 'would never' because they 'know hes family', or other human views of what animals are feeling instead of understanding what is really going on, which, surprise, damages the animal greatly. they need to be cared for as an animal, not a human.

concerning point 4: a common talking point among animal rights activists, as you can guess, is veganism and completely stopping animal agriculture. this is obviously not good. i wont get into veganism right now unless someone wants me to(but living in a house with a family of animal rights activists vegans, i know first hand unfortunately.) i dont remember what videos exactly but i know the dodo has spread these points in the past, maybe not outright, but with falsified information about farms and livestock. animal farming is not evil. if i have to see one more video of "omg the mother cow is crying for her baby 😭think before you buy meat.." and its a cow crying to be bred bc shes in heat i will explode LMFAO. and then they bring in a calf to reunite with her thats clearly an entirely different breed they just bought for the video to make people sad. not talking about a dodo video there just a general genre of video but i wouldnt be surprised if the dodo posted one of those too 💀.that space is rich with dangerous misinfo about animal welfare and animals themselves, prioritizing human feelings over what the animals actually need. anyway the dodo tends to post content from that point of view

im sure the dodo fakes a lot of the content. in general like. livestock arent just laying near dead on the road from farm trucks after falling out. and other stuff but i dont remember specifics but its a pretty common thing in the animal rights activist scene. believe it or not farmers want their animals alive and healthy for good product if nothing else. mass factory farming and neglect is a product of capitalism not a product of "inherently unethical farming"

if anyone thinks "well, the dodo might not know all this" then they should not be running a widely viral brand about animals. full stop. they dont care. if they did they wouldve long since changed. they care about what makes people feel good, not what is good for the animals. there is no excuse to not know at least this basic information if you are running an account like that. i see a lot of abuse online from people who dont know better because the average person knows next to nothing about animal welfare beyond how to keep a dog alive. and i wish desperately there was more education on this stuff but it is what it is. i will never blame someone for not knowing something as long as they are willing to learn. the disconnect from animals and understanding them in this world is a huge problem, especially the disconnect of where you get your food. but they do not get that excuse.

tl;dr dodo promotes neglectful and dangerous keeping of animals, and false information about them.

#i hope this makes senseeeeee #if anyone knows more about something and i was wrong on smth or has smth to add lmk #like i said not an expert so i was a bit vague lol #i may be underestimating my knowledge level tho idk whats considered a lot #if u have any questions lmk <33 im happy to talk about this stuff and try and spread better welfare knowledge #oh on that topic if youve only seen the term animal rights activist #'animal welfarist' if i remember is if someone actually gaf about the animal #the terms get used interchangeably at this point by like media which is awful bc they are VERY VERY DIFFERENT #i hope i remember the name right tho if i didnt lmk 💀💀#pers #originally turned off rbs but then edited to turn them on bc why not if someone wants to share dodo slander

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pearl-tarotist · 2 years

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Hai Pearl! Congratulations on your blog and that many followers! 👏🏽💐

Initials: VAM.

Reason why I follow: I follow you cause I'm interested on what you have to say on your readings. I appreciate all tarot readers like yourself who run a blog and help people. The blogs aesthetic caught my attention as well when I first run into it. Happy for you and gald it not just me following but everyone else hope another 1000 lol

Hii! Thank you for your nice words! Let's hop for another 1000! <3.<3.🤗🤗

The photo:

The placement: Aquarius South Node in the 12th house. (It makes senseeeeee! So, from a past life you could have gotten your interest in spirituality, and that makes you trust in the universe 🙀)

Channelled stuff: "You are doing well"; "you are on the right path", "orange blankets"; "psychedelic rainbows".

<3.

#m game

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causewealwayshaveeachother · 3 years

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girls, am i right

yeehaw it’s reggie appreciation week (@reggiepetersappreciationweek) which means im deciding halfway through to actually make shit happen for day 5 (alternate universe) and knockin out a couple scenes for an au i’ve been picking away at for a while

this is the riot grrrl au! an alternate universe where everything is exactly the same except instead of being haunted by the ghosts of a 90s boyband, julie is haunted by the ghosts of a 90s riot grrrl band.

well. for a given value of “exactly the same”

featuring: -regina “reggie” “femme in a black leather jacket” peters -lucile “luke” “dipping in the ocean is basically a shower right” patterson -alexis “alex” “luke, what the fuck, no” mercer.

more information forthcoming as soon as i get motivated to put together some Posts

wordcount: 626

“Cause we’re standing on the edge of…”

Luke reached up and gently tucked a strand of Reggie’s long hair behind her ear, hand brushing down to grip her neck. Reggie was acutely aware of the point where Luke’s thumb rested against her jaw. She swallowed, wide-eyed.

“…great.”

“Wow.” Alex’s voice startled Reggie back to reality. “I see chemistry.”

Reggie nodded jerkily. “-That was pretty hot,” she gulped out.

Luke smirked, kissed her fingers, and pressed them briefly to Reggie’s mouth. Reggie’s focus narrowed down to the press of Luke’s callouses against her lips, the phantom kiss. Then they were gone, as Luke turned to pick her guitar back up, leaving Reggie frozen for a moment.

Reggie coughed awkwardly and hiked her bass back up into playing position. “Boys, am I right?” She smiled shakily.

Luke grinned back. “Yeah.”

“No <3.” Alex picked up her drumsticks, starting off the beat for the song, and Luke and Reggie jumped in.

Reggie lay sprawled across the couch, left leg hooked over the back, her head and one shoulder hanging off the edge of the seat. One arm hung akimbo in the air, absently swaying. She stared across the upside-down room at Alex’s drumkit.

Her hand drifted down to press against her lips again, and her cheeks warmed with a blotchy blush. She pulled her hand away to scratch at her side.

I like boys. I’ve always liked boys. I can’t like L- I can’t like girls. I’m straight.

Besides, it wasn’t like the Luke thing was new. Luke had always been pretty, in a rat sort of a way. And of course Reggie was going to notice when Luke happened to flash a bit of sideboob, or when the sweat stuck the wisps of her hair down to her face and neck after an energetic set, or when she wrapped an arm over Reggie’s shoulders and pressed warm against her back, or when she grinned that crooked grin and her whole face moved with the emotion of it and she lit up like the sun.

Reggie’s arm paused where it had drifted back out to resume its swaying. Okay, so, in retrospect, that is kind of gay.

But Reggie couldn’t like girls. Because if Reggie liked girls, that would change— well, everything. Of course Reggie had noticed girls looking good before; you’re supposed to notice girls when they dress up nice, that’s the point. But if Reggie liked girls, it changed the implications of every time she’d ever complimented a classmate on her outfit or her hair. Because that wouldn’t just be two straight girls looking good, that would be a queer girl looking at a straight girl.

If Reggie liked girls, that meant that she’d probably had a crush on Luke for years. Because while she’d never been smacked quite so directly in the face by them, these feelings were far from new.

If Reggie liked girls, then every time they’d gone to a show with queer bands playing back in the 90s, and she’d tried not to scream along too loud to the songs about womanhood and lesbianism — because, yeah, she related to some of it, but those weren’t her experiences, because she’s not a lesbian, and the way lesbians experience it all is different, and the fact that she can’t tell how it’s different from her just goes to show, because if she was a lesbian, she’d get it — But if Reggie likes girls, then what? It’s too late to go back and not be a straight girl trying not to encroach on the queer scene in the 90s following her friends around. She can’t just suddenly be bisexual, because it changes everything.

#reggieappweek #jatp #julie and the phantoms #peterpatter #reggie peters #jatp reggie #reggie #jatp fanfic #riot grrrl au #jatp riot grrrl au #WELL! HOPE THIS DOESNT SUCK! cause i couldnt find a beta reader to assure me that my thought processes make senseeeeee soooooo #my fic #km #fic #girls am i right? fic

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menalez · 2 years

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That crocodile woman got an ask claiming that it's offensive for her to pretend bi women don't have it worse than lesbians and she didn't even deny it. She just said "there's nuance." Regardless of what she claims to believe or not, it's obvious in those huge text posts what she really thinks, and it's clear that her followers seem to agree. They think lesbians are somehow priviledged over them.

The whole pushback against a pretty rational stance reminds me very much of the emotional knee jerk reaction of the privileged when told that they do have privilege.

This may not be a perfect analogy, but it has a similar vibe to white people who, when faced with the reality of white privilege, exclaim that they grew up poor so they never had any white privilege. You may have struggled due to classism (like bisexuals suffer from homophobia due to their ssa) but you still benefited from your white skin (osa for bisexuals.). Or likewise, gay men pretending they dont have male privilege due to their homosexuality.

It's so weird to claim that any acknowledgement that they also have osa attraction and therefore can easily choose to access the privilege that comes with being osa is met with "so you think bisexuality isn't real, huh?" And there's certainly no structural bi erasure, either. Most ssa female characters are bi, so many celebrities are praised for coming out as bi. On an individual level, sure, someone might be dismissive of bisexuality, but it is clear that the majority of people (even CONVERSION THERAPISTS) know it is real. I even used to hope desperately to be bisexual so I could more easily hide my ssa from my homophobic family.

So sorry for the long ask, but I also just wanted to add that I'm sorry you always get the brunt of the pushback over these things. You're one of my favorite people on this site, and one of the blogs I always make sure to go to and check up on.

fr can we talk about how she very blatantly and obviously argues that lesbians are privileged over bi ppl but then throws in “im not saying that gay people have privilege over bisexuals!!” thinking it somehow changes what she very obviously is arguing? it’s like if i was like idk “im not saying bisexuals aren’t oppressed, but they don’t face any oppression because [xyz]”… even if i prefaced it by contradicting what i argue, it doesn’t change what id be arguing. it’s really weird how she keeps doing that and somehow her & her followers think they’re convincing *anyone* by prefacing their arguments that gay ppl oppress n have privilege over bisexuals by saying thats not their argument. make it make senseeeeee

#im still completely baffled she wrote several paragraphs to my one sentence #while straight up lying that i have her blocked + calling me names + lying about me #insaneeeee holy fuck

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