AcidSmiley

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[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah patriarchy & racism don't really hurt the oppressing classes in a material way. Usually talk of this type focuses on the, idk, spiritual aspects?

It's not a spiritual aspect that cis men have a lower life expectancy than cis women, it's almost entirely due to materially self-destructive aspects of toxic masculinity. Boys are tought from an early age to treat their bodies as disposable, to accept injury and discomfort, to prove themselves through a callousness towards injury and it shows. Patriarchy has perceptible ideological overreach, but has 100% materialist roots. It is, among other material things, a gendered division of labor. The patriarchal binary does not only unload reproductive labor that is necessary, but does not generate profit on women, who are not only tied to child-raising, but are also overrepresented in necessary, but low-profit nursing and education jobs. It also assigns destructive labor like warfare to the opressor class of men, and being part of that opressor class means you can turn out to be a redshirt at any time. The same holds true to the way men are nudged to embrace self sacrifice in not physically violent positions, how they learn to see it as honorable to perfomatively overwork and overextend themselves while never showing weakness. This disregard for their own wellbeing in the name of being manly and a provider is highly exploitable on a material level, and it very definitely has a health toll. Masculinity in a capitalist system is inherently harmful, it makes men harm others for the sake of the ruling class, and that ability to be a harmer comes with a marked tendency to self harm.

I hate to do the "as a trans woman" thing, but if people have tried to raise you as a boy and completely failed at that because you just do not want to be seen as a man, this shit becomes super fucking obvious. I don't pity men, like i said they're an opressor class, but this is capitalism we're talking about, the deal it offers always sucks if you're not haute bourgeoisie. There's always a catch, that catch is always material so it pays off for the ruling class, and in the case of male privilege that catch is that performing manlyness in a convincing way gives a ton of guys a heart attack before their 50th birthday, or that men are four times as likely to die in a car crash because the way they drive is outright para-suicidal, or that they're three times more likely to drink themselves to death because they've never learned to maintain an emotional support system and so on and so on.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

This absolutely needs a CW for transphobia.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Lasers that make hairs jump out of my face are already painful enough, you gotta be one tough mf to stand a laser that puts hairs in your face.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The human body actually converts excess testosterone into estrogen, so this is a good way to get more pattern baldness and more boobs.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Yes, and i will do it again later today.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

pronouns more like amateurnouns lmao gottem stfu-terf

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Fucking number genius fried his brain so hard with studying US electoralism that he thinks an 80/20 split is "dividing a coalition in half".

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

I thought the US already has two million killer pigs the-pigs

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Let's not forget their fondness of powdered Irish skulls.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 88 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Cannibalism as a widespread cultural practice is actually super fucking rare outside of England.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Decolonizing AmeriKKKa should be real, tho.

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