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Questioner: [what do you mean by] Unintentional grooming? Questioner: explain further pls cuz i’ve thought about that but never like- processed it fully >> I am doing my best to avoid getting really psychological here, but the basis of the concept is that the human mind avoids thinking about things that threaten your sense of self and reality. This is a well-documented and extremely strong instinct. So like, people don't automatically assume that they are doing something bad. Nearly every person will seek out and find justifications for everything they do. A 40 yo isn't going to suddenly get up and say, "I've never had an interest in younger people before, but I suddenly want to take advantage of someone's naivety." Becoming an asshole like that is a process shaped by exposure to the abuse of others (not usually direct abuse, surprisingly) and being enabled by social expectations and unfettered access. They do not believe that they are doing anythin...

image, as always, direct from pexels... 《　Malcom X was the least popular civil rights leader, and actively made MLKJr’s approach a lot harder for him. MLKJr would be utterly ashamed of what’s going on in today’s society. And he was killed because he was a highly praised black man that was making the greatest leaps in tearing down racist inequality. Malcom X, however, created a lot of tension and made hate crimes more common on both ends.  《　Riots lead to destruction, destruction leads yo implicit bias, implicit bias leads to prejudice, prejudice leads to more riots. They solve nothing, nor have they ever solved anything at any point in history... no wonder it’s doomed to constantly repeat itself I don't fully agree with you but I don't fully disagree with you. I definitely agree that MLK Jr would look at today's society and be incredibly depressed that his life's work meant so little - but as I said before, he had already noticed that by the time he was kill...

When a feel-good story focuses on the heroism of an abled 'savior', it's considered "inspiporn". Same kind of concept as when a story focuses on a white person doing things for POC, and comes from the same psychology as the man who says "we gave women the vote". These things infantilize the marginalized group and normalize/enable the problematic environment. Even the stories of disadvantaged people creating things that make them equal to non-disadvantaged people are cringey for the same reason - the environment is seen as normal and "overcoming" is, although celebrated, still somehow taken for granted. Do you constantly rely on the kindness of individuals to meet your needs, or spend time with people who constantly insult and bully you? In these kinds of stories, it's made clear that those are expected behaviors for marginalized folks. We are expected to go without if people don't provide; we are expected to willingly be abu...

Creating engineer's drafts is not a job you can do with children around. Sources are a PITA demand on Pinterest, you know. Links being blocked and all. Especially on controversial pins, the moderators delete comments like crazy. Google is free, you know. But, since I've already done the Googling and I happened to have the time and energy, here's an article by an independent beancounter firm comparing actual and adjusted men/women wage gaps for the employees of the companies that use their services: j.mp/WageGapAnalysis . It shows that when setting people with equivalent jobs and equivalent time working at that job next to each other, a 2% gap in income still remains between the two major genders, decreased from 19% total average. It also goes on to explain and even attempts to quantify the impact of factors such as the glass escalator on job placement. In opposition, here's an study analyzing money earned at supposedly blind-hired jobs in an online marketpl...

written mostly at one go in the Pinterest reply box with minimal editing and far too many notifications to the asshat it's intended for. If it seems reminiscent of the work of someone you love, I would love to know because I'm sure I would love that person's work too. Photo by Life Matters from Pexels The one thing that can free us from the crippling debt and inhumane lifestyles common to the lower classes, worse for the disadvantaged, is abolishing the exploitative system that sees us all as fodder, abolishing the system that gives power to the cruel-hearted who turn us against each other so we don't turn against them, abolishing the language that forces us to think in classes and binaries of "us" and "them". We are siblings, cousins, nakama, comrades - we are people, impossibly diverse and improbably fearful yet infinitely similar and intimately familiar, marveling at how one hand fits in another, as if we were made from one piece of something ...

Heather, from Pinterest, writes: Occasionally, there's something about trans folk that rubs me the wrong way, like them claiming that they feel like a woman because they like dresses and makeup? It makes me feel like they're claiming that there's a wrong way to be a woman. Or when they hate on lesbians for not wanting to fuck a penis, or when they try to shut us down for talking about periods... Also, I caught this misogynist douche here on Pinterest creating fake accounts with my name and picture while making posts saying "I am a feminist and I absolutely hate all men." He even posted to parenting boards that as a feminist, I hate my husband and son. He had then screenshots of him fake posting as me and posted them to Facebook and Reddit. He had done this to multiple other women too. So yeah, I don't believe any "feminazi" claims anymore. The biggest issue I have with certain "feminist definitions" is that I'm so super 'gender ...