Day: December 6, 2020

social justice hobbyist

characterizing social justice thinking, writing and action as a hobby as opposed to a moral choice
 
even as a joke in defiance (this is in reaction to this) it frames disembodied zeitgeist capitalism as the container and arbiter of human activity
 
One of the great flaws of English is how easy that comes.
and yes, my hobbies include updating my lingo and nuance on ableist, racist, classist, anti-Indigenous, homophobic, transphobic, acephobic, misogynist, biphobic, penis and vulva-oriented, misandrist, ethnic, gendered, religious and other slurs, scolding other ww and rude rhymes.
4 panel comic. Two women at a bus stop. First wears stripy socks, calf length skirt & hoodie & has long hair in a pony tail. Second wears striped trousers, a vest sweater over a white t-shirt & has short cropped hair and a tattoo sleeve. First: "Excuse me, I overheard what you said on the phone...and I totally agree, a transsexual just isn't a woman!" Second: "Oh! Well, thank you. It sometimes feels like the whole idea of 'woman' is being attacked". First: exactly! I'm sorry but there's much more to being a woman than wearing a dress or having some surgery" Second: "Yes, yes, yes! There's something essential that men just can't buy from surgeons!" First: "You wanna know what I really hate? The word TRANSPHOBIA" Second: "Me too? The word is a scare tactic they use to silence anyone who disagrees with the transsexual agenda" First: "This is so nice...I love meeting other radical feminists!" Second: "Radical Feminist? Are you kidding? I'm a conservative Christian!"
holy shit, this cartoon by patreon.com/barry was apparently first published 2008 but I’ve watched with my own eyes how this has come true en masse in social media especially in the UK. Absolutely stunning

Letters, writing, practice, things to do

Wrote two letters, one to mOm and one to tOm, lol. Haven’t posted them yet. One of them has a fake get well card in it (SORRY TO HEAR YOU’RE FUCKIN’ POORLY it says) and the other has a snowflake which if you look very carefully is extremely non standard although it is roughly hexagonal. (There’s a very funny and extremely accidental design in the middle.)

I’m thinking of posting a song a day for a year. I have written enough songs to do that. It would be a horrific thing to take on, but I’m never going to be BETTER at singing and playing, now’s the time to do it if at all. I await a sign from the ancestors that this is a good idea. I will commence in January if I hear back from them.

Romain Grosjean has given his first interview since the crash. It’s remarkable for a couple of things, apart from his sunny gratitude for making it through one of the most horrifying and spectacular crashes in F1 history with no more than burns on his hands and ankles. One is that he admits that he was wrong to whinge about the “Halo” when it was instituted in 2018; the other is that he completely normalizes how YOU SHOULD GET PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP AFTER TRAUMA. None of this shit about gutting it out. He was weeping in the rescue car after the accident (he was burned and had broken several bones) and thank you Romain for being a human being and not endorsing toxic masculinity or trying to hide that when bad shit happens, humans need help. Also, he is one of the few humans to have survived a 53G impact and he crawled 18 seconds later (they’re trained to detach from plugs and harness in 9 seconds) from the FIREBALL of wreckage with a broken foot (the doc didn’t want him to walk but he thought it was important for the fans that he get to the rescue car under his own power and MAN WAS HE RIGHT because our relief when we saw him emerge from that inferno cannot be limned in words). Yay Halo.

@prisonculture sez CYNICISM ISN’T GENERATIVE