i wish there wasn’t such a stigma around being proved wrong, bc it’s a part of life, no one can be right all the time. if we didn’t feel as much shame about it i think a lot of things would change a lot faster
we all need to practice saying “I hadn’t thought of it like that” “I hadn’t seen it that way before” “I must have misunderstood the first time I heard about it” “if I had known those facts I wouldn’t have thought like I did”
yes
anyone else have that classic middle school experience™ where you lost a nice pen and you saw someone else using it a day later and they’d never used it before so you asked them where they got their pen and they hesitated but then they said “from my house” and you didn’t have any evidence so you couldn’t accuse them of stealing it from you but you always knew deep down
this happened to me except I had my mom write my name on the inside of the bit you screw off to get at the ink, specifically for this reason, so when I found this girl with my pen I dragged her over to the teacher and when she tried to blow it off I had proof and I loved it because I was a vindictive 5th grade bitch
that’s wild
so like i know you have parody books like william shakespeare’s star wars but omfg i need victor hugo’s star wars like !!!!!!
i need 60 pages establishing obi-wan kenobi then he disappears for 100 pages while the homestead is established with a solid ten pages about uncle owen. and then when “ben” shows up and the author pretends the audience doesn’t know it’s obi-wan for like 46 pages while also discussing the tuskans travelling habits in depth.
IN FACT I WANT A WHOLE 60 PAGES “BOOK” ON TUSKANS COMPLETE WITH A CHAPTER ABOUT THEIR LANGUAGE
and like i fucking need “volume two: luke, book the second: the space craft falcon, chapter xi: a man whose nature may or may not be revealed in his last name of solo”
and like i need “vader derailed” with like 10 fucking pages detailing vader’s inner landscape and upheaval but only like one sentence about him actually tossing sidious into the abyss and the abyss itself gets a two paragraph description
in my heart i know that helga hufflepuff would have accepted squibs into hogwarts and let them take academic classes like astronomy and magical history. and classes that don’t require wands like potions and broom flying. and even set up an apprenticeship program for them based out of hogsmeade or something, to learn to make wizarding tools and elixirs or nonmagical occupations still found in the wizarding world whether its cooking or making shoes or binding books, anything.
helga hufflepuff said she would accept anyone into hogwarts and treat them just the same. she wasn’t about to turn any student away from her school, she certainly isn’t going to encourage squibs being exiled and erased from the magical community.
Obsession with “correct” language plays an enormous part in making social justice inaccessible to many people. Feminist terminology changes practically every day, it seems, and making a mistake with it can be cause for intense social backlash.
And no, I’m not one of those folks who is always moaning about how the “PC generation” is ruining the world. I know what it feels like to be constantly misgendered, to hear racist slurs about my people casually tossed out as a joke.
I believe that when people say things that reinforce oppression and cause pain, they should be made aware of it.
However, I’m also starting to realize that being considered a “good feminist” is an endeavor that can require an enormous amount of privilege: It takes time and certain kind of education to read and keep up with social justice ideas. Not everyone’s style of learning or thinking lends itself easily to learning new ways of thinking and talking.
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible — Everyday Feminism (via brutereason)
This is creating the same grammar, style and punctuation crap that Sj calls ableist/elitist/prejudiced in the rest of society.
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This is a good point actually. It’s worth considering to learn to look at people’s actions/opinions rather than their choice of words. Sometimes you’ll run into people who say things in the most cringeworthy ways possible because they don’t know the latest lingo, but they’ll really come through for you when it comes to standing up to bigots. The opposite is true as well, sometimes you’ll run into people who have very oppressive stances on issues, who think that what they say is perfectly acceptable because they sprinkle their shitty opinions liberally with the latest ‘hip’ words.
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it’s incredible how futuristic sci-fi stuff is self fulfilling??? like. back to the future created (or at the very least increased) a demand for hoverboards, flying cars, and now we actually have shoes that can self lace. it’s just amazing to me.
and then you’ve got stuff like star trek, with PADDs that became tablet computers, and communicators that influenced modern mobile phones. REPLICATORS BECAME 3D PRINTING. so much media dreamt of video phone calls and landing on other planets and wireless broadcasts. edward bellamy predicted the damn credit card in the 1800s, for god’s sake
in conclusion: WRITE ABOUT COOL THINGS THAT DON’T EXIST. real people in the future will also think they’re cool. and then they’ll make them for you