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Jackie
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current university lecturer, former friendly neighborhood barista, lifelong feminist. ♈️, INTP, 5w6. night owl, dog person, 90s kid. 🩷💜💙
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I might be an action figure person now because I love him 😍
a Roman Reigns action figure in black tactical vest, black cargo pants, and black boots. he is sitting on a floral pillowcase against a beige tufted headboard
February 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Judith Butler always gets it

english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
an excerpt from an interview with Judith Butler. it begins with their answer to a previous question regarding the role of gender in the US presidential election: A. It’s part of the picture. But the important thing is how we think about the gender division in relation to increasingly virulent forms of racism. Who is to say that gender and race in the person of Harris was not a fundamental issue in a country that is becoming increasingly misogynist and racist. Q. Did it prove once again that the United States is not ready to elect a woman, or was it that particular woman? A. I don’t agree with a lot of what she stands for — fracking, migration, Palestine — and I did not actively support her candidacy. But I did vote for her. We have a pernicious history of misogyny, which is being celebrated in the person of Trump. Guilty of sexual crimes, he has done more than any other American person to demean and degrade women as a class. The people who say, “Oh, I don’t like that part of his behavior, but I’m going to vote for him anyway because of the economy,” (continuing from previous image) they’re admitting that they are willing to live with that misogyny and look away from his sexual violence. The more people who say that they can “live with” racism and misogyny in a candidate, even if they’re not enthusiastic racists, the more the enthusiastic racists and the fascists become stronger. I see a kind of restoration fantasy at play in many right-wing movements in the U.S. People want to go back to the idea of being a white country or the idea of the patriarchal family, the principle that marriages are for heterosexuals. I call it a nostalgic fury for an impossible past. Those in the grip of that fury are effectively saying: “I don’t like the complexity of this world, and all these people speaking all these languages. I’m fearful that my family will become destroyed by gender ideology.” As a consequence of that, they’re furiously turning against some of the most vulnerable people in this country, stripping of them of rights as they fear that the same will be done to them.
December 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM