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I know people like these probably mean well, but this shit is so condescending. The support for gay marraige in Japan (and LGBT+ rights in general!) is the highest in all of North Pacific, higher than Taiwan, a country that its loyalists would have you believe is the only country in the region with “gay marriage” (It does not provide the same amount of benefits as hetero marriage). I’m not even going to get into how the USA is about to have gay marriage and sex illegalized in much of its territory and get right to the point in the paragraph below.
Gay marriage isn’t even legal in Japan because of the West, specifically the United States, and its continued occupation of Japan, as well as the CIA’s funding of Japanese reactionary parties in the 1950s - 60s (a fact that the CIA openly admitted to in the 90s). Japanese government headed by the LDP that rules against the wishes of anywhere between 55% - 80% of the population’s wants and needs, depending on the issue, is a product of Western stranglehold on the Japanese archipelago and a product of resulting gerrymandering that’s made it hard for the Japanese populace to get politically active. If you want to talk about how gay marriage “isn’t even legal in Japan,” agitate to get the USA out of Japan, because the USA and its puppet government is the force holding back LGBT+ rights, continued reconciliation with Japan and victims of Japanese Imperialism, wealth distribution, and much more in Japan.
In general, Japan exists as this Schrödinger’s Tolerant Place for Westerners, for whom they draw upon a vivid LGBT+ mass art scene as being different from Western mass art scene, but also turn around and say stuff like this. Well, the contradiction was created by the West, and it’s unfair to the Japanese people for Westerners to frame the situation as if the Japanese people are intolerant in situations like this after creating the material condition in which anti-LGBT+ politics exist in Japan.
terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we’re ‘brainwashed’
and because i’m an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it’s not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.
the answer blew my fucking mind.
the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.
an excerpt:
“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”
94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.
other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.
which means, at least from my perspective, that:
a) the 'brainwashing’ terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.
b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.
you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.
literally though the aggrieved petit bourgeoisie dispossessed by capitalism and by loss of prestige/colonial resources in the imperial core were and are a major portion of the base of fascist movements
new thing i learned just now: in like 400 AD there was a monk named simeon stylites who used to live in a one room cell with a window but too many people kept bugging him for religious advice, so he climbed to the top of a pillar and shackled himself to it until he died 37 years later.
this became a cool new trend to the point where there were enough pillar monks of varying viewpoints that they would scream at each other all day
Prisons function also as production facilities, producing resources used by manufacturing companies in the city.
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i don’t really see why this is objectionable – that’s just an honest depiction of the role prisons and prison slavery plays in the US economy. honestly i find the paragraph before this one much more unpleasantly ideologically loaded:
awful shit
The role prisons play in american society is what’s objectionable throw people in cages and use them as slaves then pat yourself on the back about how civil you are.
Encourages citizens to “behave well” thats utterly fucked up, just: our beloved “order” is enforced by constant fear of the omnipresent threat of violence this is so good and wonderful isn’t it? 😁
It’s just really hard to buy groceries with $47/mo EBT, and I can’t do it regularly. I have a regular food bank in my building, and I’m using it. Sometimes it’s great. Other times, well. So many beans.
And I’m not against beans. Or rice. Or potatoes. Or oatmeal. I am well and truly grateful for a supply of staples.
But I’d dearly like the things to supplement these with that make them More Enjoyable.
There are people in more desperate circumstances, and I’m not in danger of starving.
However, I’ve going to put this out here anyway, and will pin it. I am disabled and non-driving, so I need to get my groceries delivered. I’m putting the peer-to-peer cash links out here, but I’d welcome Safeway and Instacart gift cards, too.
I’m grateful for all the help I’ve received so far! But help continues to be needed. Please reblog if you can.
Please help, if you can! I’ve got $50 to get through the next 18 days. I hope to donate plasma again soon, which should help (I’ve been on a 56 day deferral). But it’s a long month.
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