Yes, which is where Gay Furry Hackers on Estradiol come in.
Yes, which is where Gay Furry Hackers on Estradiol come in.
Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely – being fed up with the state of the industry – but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here’s what’s kept me optimistic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0
Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to “reject isms/be your own ism”
Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.
I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.
Heh, foresaw you getting hung up on “liberation”
It’s not complicated nor is it this profound thing: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16007006
It’s commisseration, really Can you just let some traumatized autisitic transfems (and others) have that?
No? Yes? Doesnt matter. Thats the point of the video, it’s not about you. Thats also part of the point of parody’ing incels (which as an aside: the concept of invcel was originally coined by a woman and was meant to be a supportive, all-gender, friendly place – before the right co-opted it.
No, i’m posting this for the next tranzqueer who comes along, who might [like I had] be unaware of these things and tend to gravitate to the Narrative of the Johns without reminders that there is so, so much more nuance, and meaning to be found in the world, beyond the limits of what is scripted, shot, edited, produced and published for the target audience composed of Stanleys & Johns.
So thanks for reading. I did not expect you to watch that whole video, but since you did, I hope your life will be enriched by the appreciation that creations, be they AAA titles or shitty memes, dont need to make sense to your perspective in order for them to have great value, both to marginalized audiences who benefit from seeing themselves humanized, but also to the rest, because in order to dehumanize someone else you first demhumanize a tiny part of yourself – and art can heal that, too.
When you’re accustomed to privilege, the liberation of others feels like oppression.
Two genders, men and political Two races, white and political.
So yeah, you’re not coming off as defensive or entitled at all /s
Lmao get out you weird bigot
https://resonate.coop/ is a spotify alternative which has been goin on for several years now. Support for small artists goes far, solidarity for all workers, Co-Ops represent a neccesary stepping stone towards a sustainable society so Subvert is nice to learn about :)
Youth liberation is so key.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc9r_BYSBia9HLaEV1kaInTB_ltiC1v4R
Ive seen most all of Andrewisms entries to this.
Indeed, Trans Kids are Deserving of the Choice to avert a puberty they Clearly Do. Not. Want.
Anything else is heirarchal domination and authoritarian violence; and speaking firsthand as a person who got to her late 20’s b4 realizing she was in denial: is deeply traumatizing.
The good news is therapy works. The bad news is “To con someone is easy, you need only to pull one over on their intelect. To convince that same person they’ve been conned is much harder: you have to overcome their ego.”
For whoever’s interested in long form vid essays about likely root cause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2R8q8GDwZ0
Looks like they have at least one more about Ireland but ive yet to watch that one.
As a tech professional, fuck AI, fuck Neoliberalism, and we need unions:
Im sorry that happened to you Or im glad for u Aint readin all that tho