you can seriously tell a motherfucker we should have more buses, more disability accessible buses, more bikes and disability accessible bike-like vehicles, more bike lanes, more pedestrian-friendly streets, and more trains and they'll say "no." like dude your car is not freedom. freedom is options. you don't have to do an oil change on a bicycle. you don't have to worry about oil changes on well funded and well managed bus networks. cars fucking suck. but you tell a motherfucker that and they'll say "but fReEdOm" freedom from what? oxygen? plastic-free environments?
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flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn't the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community
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I wholeheartedly believe that straight men are envious of gay men and their relative freedom from patriarchal pressures. A gay man can walk into a bar and order a “girly” cocktail if he wants to. He can cry and be outwardly emotional. He can be vulnerable and sensitive. He doesn’t always have to be “in charge.” These pressures slowly crush cishet men and when they see someone free of that weight they feel a deep jealousy.
It occurs to me that this is something homophobia and fatphobia have in common.
So many diet cultists lose their minds when presented with a fat person who isn't miserable and shame-ridden and celibate. They view thinness as a prerequisite to having basic human dignity, in the same way that homophobes/transphobes view gender conformity as a prerequisite to having basic human dignity.
Body policing is the same.
Yup, not to mention that fat people undergo gender policing as well, in the form of extreme commitment to gender presentation being viewed as "bare minimum effort." Being fat and trans or GNC is severely punished by society.














