-
Kinda stuck on folx/womxn discouse rn because the only people I know in real life who use them are trans and gender non-conforming people, but then Twitter tells me cis people made them up because they're evil and bad.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 1 Favorite Mood -8 🙁
-
Idk at some point I realized I don't need to have a take on literally everything, and that's kind of a freeing thought.Permalink On twitter.com
-
More general point though: I notice a lot of the time leftists will see conservatives make fun of us, and immediately try and disown whatever aesthetic thing they're mocking instead of believing our ideas stand on their own.Permalink On twitter.com
-
A lot of reactionaries think leftist media analysis is stupid. That we're just calling everything problematic and making a big deal out of nothing. So I've had leftists tell me what I do is stupid because conservatives think it's stupid. That the "real working class"...Permalink On twitter.com
-
..."doesn't care about the Marxism of the Bee Movie," I've heard. And it's like, no. I'm not going shape my praxis and language around what bad faith actors think of me. I know what I do works because people tell me it does and that's that.Permalink On twitter.com
-
I couldn't really tell you the pros or cons of using womxn over women, but if part of the reason why you don't like it is because reactionaries think it's dumb and that's embarrassing, maybe stop and interrogate that for a bit?Permalink On twitter.com
-
Because what you're doing is allowing yourself to become a vessel through which conservatives control discouse in leftist spaces. I hope this thread makes sense. I'm doing my best not to speak over people but if I could do better lmkOn twitter.com