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Cake day: February 3rd, 2024
  • Grail@lemmy.worldtoshitposting@lemmy.ml•"Soulism" is a dangerous, existential threat to humanity that must be stoppedEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    The power to reshape reality isn’t science fiction, it exists right now. And right now it’s being used by the bourgeois. You don’t need to tell us it’s dangerous and it could be used for evil, we already know. All of us have suffered because of it. This power exists, and it is being used. It will always be used by some group or another, there’s no possible future in which nobody has the power to control reality. The only choice is whether the proletariat pretend it cannot be controlled, and leave it in the hands of the bourgeois, or whether we all recognise and use our collective power to throw off oppression and create an anarchist future.

    Workers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!

  • Grail@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•"How am I supposed to explain this to my children?!"English
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    18 days ago

    Oh yeah statistically it’s gotta be that some homophobes are queer. Queer people are 10% of the population, and homophobes are even higher. Two groups that large, there’s got to be crossover. Historically, it would have been even moreso the case.

    I’m just unconvinced that queer people are the majority of homophobes because that makes no sense, and I’m unconvinced that the study randomly found mostly bi homophobes. The sheer prevalence of the gay homophobe trope is out of proportion with the conditions that would have been capable of creating homophobia in society in the first place and sustaining it.

    For one thing, the study asked the men to rate themselves on the Kinsey scale. Those men fully believed they had never felt attraction to another man. And only 20% of the homophobes showed no penile reaction. Meanwhile, 66% of the gay-accepting men had no reaction.

  • Grail@lemmy.worldtoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Kayshon comes out as queerEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Actually, it was Nemesis, the god of divine punishment for hubris. Nemesis’ job is to punish any mortal who thinks they’re the equal of the gods. And in Greek society, asexuality and aromanticism were so villified that not dating anyone was equated with thinking you’re equal to the gods. It’s a nonsense stereotype kind of like the American/English stereotype that trans women are sexual predators.

    When Narcissus was born, an oracle warned his family “This boy will die if he sees his reflection”. But it’s unclear whether Narcissus falling in love with his reflection is a natural character trait, or something Nemesis cursed him with in addition to showing him the spring. It would have looked the same either way to the oracle. Either way, Nemesis knew she was killing Narcissus on purpose, just to answer the prayers of an incel who was mad he wouldn’t date them.

    Other fun facts: Narcissus was 16 when all of this happened. He was 16, and society already thought he owed other people his love or he should die.

    https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/narcissus-wasnt-an-abuser-he-was-queer-15a74e456838