@Lazarou@mastodon.social"I've listened to Gareth, but he is not me, and I know everything, so I won't be taking his recommendations on board"
He doesn't want to do anything that JD Vance will call 'woke', does he?
The utter fucking coward.
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So as I mentioned yesterday, I'd like to share this Majority Report interview with trans actress Laverne Cox about the fascist assault on trans rights, the dehumanization of trans people, and how what I've come to define as the anti-trans pogrom fits in to the larger capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist, and ultimately fascist project. While Cox is a well informed, focused, and insightful guest that's worth listening to in any setting, as a trans woman one of the things I liked best about this interview is how the two cisgender hosts of the show allowed her to control the discussion and ultimately create a conversation that I think is equally valuable for trans people, other members of the LGBTQ community, and cis-het folks who want to serve as accomplices, not just allies, for a trans community in the fascist crosshairs as we speak.
Cox and the hosts discuss the recent history of anti-trans legislation, the larger fascist quest to eras trans people in public life, and how dehumanizing language and anti-trans propaganda serve as a permission structure for both eliminating trans people's civil rights and further dehumanization. They also talk about the reality that this project to justify and create the anti-trans pogrom is a well-funded, highly coordinated endeavor with architects across the entire American right, as demonstrated by the fact that almost everything to demonize, oppress, and erase trans people that GOP fascists have accomplished since Trump took office, was laid out in advance in Project 2025. Cox even articulates what most trans people already know in their hearts but many cis liberals treating us like a political football don't seem to understand; that the path the fascists are adopting here may lead to the genocide of trans people.
The group then shifts focus to talk about the relationship between the anti-trans pogrom, white supremacist patriarchal Christian Nationalism, and a larger fascist project that ultimately serves to enrich and empower predatory capital. Cox notes that what folks who aren't on the firing lines call a "culture war" is really about civil rights for those who are. The gang points out that policing of trans people in public life, is really just an extension of an ideology that views women as property, and that opens up a pathway to gendered power dynamics and enforced policies that harm *all* women, not just trans women. As both Cox and Vigland note, the fact that dehumanizing anti-trans propaganda ultimately serves as the thin end of the wedge for this larger fascist project and touches on other forms of targeted oppression towards non-white people, women, migrants, and young people, means that taking about the anti-trans pogrom is not a distraction, but rather a vital step towards defending us all from fascism.
Finally Cox talks about the importance of folks who support trans people actually rehumanizing trans folks in the broader culture, why allowing the right to force the discussion into a lens of medicalization is an unworkable strategy, and why nobody who isn't trying to get trans people murdered should be "consorting with the likes of Charlie Kirk." In a moment that may come as a surprise to cis people, she points out that even conceding to the idea that trans identities, trans rights, or trans existence are topics to debate, is an unacceptable level of dehumanization and helps the fascist cause. As Cox poignantly notes, "there is no middle ground when someone wants you extinguished."
The Majority Report: Humanizing Trans People with Laverne Cox.
Just saw an excellent convo about affirmations for #masculine people. I got happy. Then I got sad when I remembered what's happening in the USA. We're being dragged backward at an alarming rate. We're back to struggling merely to affirm that #women, #LGBTQIA+ people, ethnic/racial #minorities, people with #disabilities, etc. deserve the same rights as everyone else, and to be free from harassment and violence. "Advanced" things like how stereotypes about #men (and similar topics) support and entrench #patriarchy seem like almost luxuries at this point. I feel like I'm going to spend all my day-to-day social justice time explaining to people that trans and queer and #Black and #Native and #Hispanic and #autistic and female people are human for the next few years. Ugh.
Oppression can be described as the elimination of enjoyment.
People who endure oppression have to work harder to find enjoyment in life.
Also from Cyndi Saurez's 'Manual of Power'
#Oppression #Minorities #Marginalized #Power #BlackLivesMatter
#Patriarchy
#WomensRights #Capitalism
Why Asian Reality Shows show how we dismantle Toxic Masculinity | Topless Topics Rants
https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/350061da-063a-49bf-badc-15ffcce773bd
@wdlindsy@toad.social"It has taken only weeks for the Trump-Musk administration to start removing from American history any mention of non-whites and non-males from official government websites and organizations."
@wdlindsy@toad.socialPamela Hilliard Owens says that Musk and Trump "are actively attempting to erase anything and everything referring to non-white Christian and straight males":
"It took centuries of Constitutional amendments and new local, state, and national laws to ostensibly give basic civil and voting rights to everyone, including women, Blacks, other People of Color, the LGBTQA community, and the lower and middle classes."
#Black #LGBTQ #women #racism #homophobia #patriarchy
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https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-trying-to-make
We Are Speaking · Trump and Musk are trying to make America White Again
This International Women’s Day, remember that women are disproportionately impacted by many chronic illnesses. We’re more likely to be abandoned by our spouse/partner when we become disabled, and mistreated/gaslit by the medical profession.
Women’s rights & disability rights are uniquely intertwined.
This International Women’s Day I’m saying Merci Gisele. Her unwavering commitment to ensuring rape & abuse victims know that the shame is NOT theirs has inspired countless women to come forward & share their own stories.
Abuse, neglect & medical misogyny are serious issues we must address #IWD2025
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/gisele-pelicot-medical-misogyny-and
The Disabled Ginger · Gisele Pelicot, Medical Misogyny and How Disabled People Face Increased Risk of Abuse
This year, International Working Women’s Day comes at a time when the entire U.S. working class is under attack. But it’s not too late to reverse the tide.
This International Working Women’s Day, honor the struggle of the women who have come and fought before us — join the fight for a socialist future where all women can thrive!
PSLweb.org/join
@Lazarou@mastodon.socialThey will just lie and shout and blame everyone else but themselves, in the meanwhile fleecing the country blind with one scam after another.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caAround my third year of being on City Council as a climate activist in my own community I came to a realization that there were only two truly important issues in Canada and the World.
1) Climate Action. (ie. #endfossifuels)
2) Decolonization. (ie. #whitesupremacy #patriarchy)
All other issues and solutions eventually circle back to one or both of these two things.
It is easy to see who supports, or enables, the forces that prevent those two goals from being reached.
What I didn’t anticipate at the time was how those regressive forces would converge, coalesce, and crystallize into political movements that are now attempting to destroy civilization’s incredible social progress since WWII.
Big changes are very near. That is why it feels like things are getting worse even as we all see there is so much good already in place.
It is that the pushback from the powerful few is increasing. They see their advantage slipping away.
We either fall to the past or push through this resistance and truly enter the 21st century.
But it is clear now… we will need to PUSH.
No incrementalism.
No hesitation.
We have to demand the absolute best outcome now and make it real.
/endSoapbox
“They always tell me it takes time. How much more time do you want...for your progress?”
James Baldwin
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@wdlindsy@toad.socialOur hearts should break for white Christian men. So, so discriminated against! So little power, with women heading all the big corporations in this country, heading the government—that long, long line of women, especially Black ones, sitting on the president's throne in the White House! The list of multi-billionaires: all women! Most of them Black!
White Christian men just can't get a break.
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny #racism
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"This analysis is perceptive in the sense that the exact reverse is true—we are now in the second decade of a years-long temper tantrum sparked by the election of Barack Obama—not to mention the failed attempts to elect a woman to succeed him—and the effect it had on the fragile self-esteem of people like Beattie."
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"As the Trump State Department official Darren Beattie wrote, 'Competent white men must be put in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.'"
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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@wdlindsy@toad.socialAdam Serwer says that what Republicans under Trump want to effect is the "Great Resegregation":
"What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy."
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Atlantic · The Great Resegregation
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Friday night, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who is black) and the Navy's top admiral (who is female) were fired, along with the most senior Judge Advocates General (JAGS) for the Army, Navy, and Air Force."
~ Joyce Vance
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/friday-night-massacre-in-the-military
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance · Friday Night Massacre in the Military