EpicKebabEater [he/him, it/its]

I no longer consume kebab

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  • I don't really have any cool insight about what hooks says, this is just a big paragraph about the book's effect on me.

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    I am just kinda surprised how much patriarchial manhood has seeped into my brain despite being a trans guy I suppose. I didn't think trans men are automatically free from toxic masculinity but I didn't expect my pre-realisation life to be a period for learning it. I thought things like suppressed rage, fear of emotions and constant attempts to justify myself as a guy were specific to me as a person due to some mental problem. This book made me rethink what I was taught about being a man and how I encountered gender throughout life.

    It also got me to be more honest towards my friends about emotions and that's been a positive change.


  • Also, how do you reach people who have little conception of patriarchy or feminism and convince them that yes actually it’s good for everyone when you educate yourself and desire to change for the better? Very interested to hear everyone’s thoughts this week!

    I think people do not engage with these things(feminism, philosophy, history etc.) because they think it's building castles in the sky. Direct usage of what you learn around them can warm people up to checking this "theory" stuff.

    It's very moving to have a moment where you read a seemingly heavy academic book and they just hit the nail on the head about what you're experiencing, then go on to explain why.


  • Anything that goes "This character is having a dream and all of the show is fake!" is terrible. It can barely be called a theory. There are some specific media where it makes sense to speculate what was real and what wasn't but "Ash is a kid in a coma and is dreaming up Pokémon" no you wanted to post an edgy thing and couldn't get better material.


  • People coming here to say this don't seem to understand we hate both candidates, vast majority of American politicians and the entire American political system.

    I am personally not in the West and the identity of the president affects nothing here. I do know trans people in America and I was hoping Kamala would win, even if I was too disgusted by her stance on Palestine, until I learned her actions as a prosecutor and "we should follow the law" statement on trans people, showing she would not be a hardliner on trans issues. That was the one advantage she might've had over Trump.

    It is because the candidates are both hateworthy and ghoulish that it's funny to laugh at people who are convinced one of them is morally pure or advantageous for the average person. We also had a few laughs at chuds who thought Trump was anti-war.

    tl;dr Trump indeed bad. The issue isn't that Trump good but that acting like Trump is the worst person in American politics or a root cause of the current problems is rather bizarre.





  • My process was a lot slower but I was radicalised after my country's election too. I was libleft beforehand but seeing the poverty constantly getting worse in my country and how voting did nothing caused me to be very accepting to/search for other kinds of political solutions.










  • EpicKebabEater [he/him, it/its]tochapotraphouseNo.
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    3 months ago

    Plural of adam would be adamlar, people is generally "insan" or "halk" and I can't work anything the first part might be so I think this is a direct reference to the mayor.

    What you're suggesting would be something like "Türkinsanı".