I Think People Who Have A Very Oppression Olympics Type Mindset Where Privileged And Oppressed Are A

i think people who have a very “oppression olympics” type mindset where privileged and oppressed are a strict dichotomy where privileged = bad and oppressed = good are susceptible to perpetuating other types of bigotry than those they are affected by because they have an instinctive rejection of anything that could in any way imply they have some type of “privilege” (and thus are part of the Bad group)

Chrysina sp., focus stacked

honestly i don't understand people who are like "you HAVE to read all these books or anything you say about your experiences is meaningless and unimportant" as someone who not only understands things better but is more easily convinced of things when people can point to real-world experiences and material consequences of phenomena. like if you just say a bunch of shit that sounds good and don't actually give examples or evidence i don't think i have any reason to trust what you're saying and i don't get why it seems to be the exact opposite for these people (people's lived experiences and evidence like statistics don't matter if they're not using the right words to talk about it), it just doesn't make any sense

They're ridiculous clown people who should be laughed at and ridiculed into giving up their terrible clownish behavior.

If you have the ability, please learn to code.

I haven't seen many posts about this, but part of the reason radical feminists and women in general are getting effectively silenced is because men control tech, and there are few women with the skills to set up our own networks.

I'm not saying learn to code and get a job in tech, but your activism can be so much more effective if you have a solid coding foundation. Need a list of all the Crisis Pregnancy Centers (fake abortion clinics) in the USA, in a data format that's easy to track and update with new info over time? That would take hundreds of hours manually. I can write a scraping script, set up a local sqlite database, and get running in a weekend. If I want to make that list public-facing, but don't want the hassle of setting up a more robust database like PostgresQL or MySQL, I can export a JSON file and make a web page that generates listings for each entry in the file.

Automating manual data entry saves so much time. Web scraping saves so much time. Knowing how to access APIs to get the data you need saves so much fucking time.

I highly recommend Python as a beginning programming language. It's a mature language that is still updated, has wide support, has a lot of free learning materials aimed at people who are new to programming, has intuitive syntax, and it has a ton of libraries and frameworks that cover the spectrum of tech needs. If you want to do it, there's probably a way in Python.

Sometimes it boggles my mind that women can spend decades of campaigning and get hardly anywhere, still have their rights up for debate as a political ploy or chipped away over time, and can have statistics and research to back up every claim and be laughed at, but some males go “actually, we’re women because we say so” and they’re let into female spaces like ????

I’m always amazed and humbled every time I come across a piece of writing that so perfectly and succinctly predicted the future. It proves to me there is clairvoyance in art. Heller wrote this in the late 1950’s. It was published in 1961.

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

Joseph Heller, Catch-22