Posts tagged oppression

thebestmeicanbe:

Okay, the burn out is starting to either set in AGAIN, or, probably more acurately, is getting worse.

I ranted once before about the little inner arguments over victim culture and who is the bigger victim of The Oppressor (because apparently we all agree that the ONLY oppressor ever in the history of man kind is while men, no Im not being sarcastic. We have agreed on that, and its pretty much backed up by history).  But I ranted about who has He oppressed more: LGBTQ, women, WOC, POC in general, indigenous peoples, and so on. 

And I got called out for dismissing the victimization of people and insisting that instead of comparing wounds we work on working together as one to heal.  Apparently that cant happen because according to one person we are not all One (last I checked we were all HUMAN, there for ONE species, but thats besides the point).

So whats burning me out on the “radical community” now?

Semantics (should I replace the “man” in that?).

This constant fight over what we should and shouldnt say. 

I get calling a trans-person the wrong pro-noun is insulting.  I get that the word nigger is WRONG (yo! Did I just call anyone that? No, I said the word so untwist your damned panties).   I get that ONLY LGBTs are aloud to say “queer” and “faggot” and ONLY POC are aloud to say “nigga” and ONLY womyn are aloud to say “cunt” (but ONLY in reference to our vaginas, never as an insult) and only the sexually empowered are aloud to say “slut” (but only in reference to themselves and never as an insult).

But then it gets crazy….

And there’s the first place where I will get called out as being an “ableist”.  Well guess what assholes: I am technically crazy.  I am bipolar type 1 with rapid cycling and psychotic features (occasional hallucinations and delusions), with a severe anxiety disorder, “eating issues” and a borderline personality.  If a gay person can say “queer” then I can say “crazy”, “psycho”, “nuts”, “ape shit” “batty” “loony” and so on.   So suck it.

Back to being civil……

Again I read my dash and I keep finding that instead of coming together to actually get something DONE, cause what fun would that be?, we’re arguing about what to call each other.

“Ally” is now a bad word. 

Should we, or shouldnt we call people with African anscestors “black” “people of color” or, my suggestion “humans of high melanin content”?
In that case, what do we call “white” people?  “people of NO color” isnt accurate cause I have a tan, so technically I could say I atleast have a shade.  Im not “white” per se.  “people of low melanin content” works with me. 

Cause see, thats the difference.  Its pure bio-chemistry.  Its melanin content.

What do we call American Indians?  Are they Native Americans?  Cause one could argue that they actually AREN’T “native” as they either came from Europe by boat or Russia over the land bridge (watch the NatGeo show on Clovis arrowheads and you’ll get what I’m saying). 

Everyone is an immigrant. 

See, I understand that Labels are for some reason or another VERY important.  Heaven forbid we dont have something to ID ourselves as.  But again, getting really burned on the infighting over what is and is not “aloud” to be said.

At Spore meetings we now have to waste 5-10 minutes going over what pro-nouns are and are not to be used during the discussion. 

I dont know who annoys me more some days:

The racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, hateful people of the world who make life hard on everyone,

OR

the people who are supposed to be fighting the system of hate but are too busy fighting about what we can and cant say to be bothered with figuring out how to fix the REAL problems. 

So Im gonna get on to troll the few people that actually dont annoy me (I adore you MJ) but oh my hell, this is causing me headaches and at times causing problems in a relationship that doesnt need help being messed up. 

Call me out for whatever you want.  I dont care.  Like the title said, Im fucking done apologizing. 

Now excuse me while I go out into the world and actually try to do something about how fucked up things are instead of sitting here arguing with you all about what we should say. 

PEACE!

I totally get what you’re saying.  While names and words are important, they are in themselves part of the problem.  All these labels, and having to fit into one or the other, seperating everybody into neat little categories. 

It’s definitely important for groups of oppressed peoples to have their own spaces, like women’s groups or trans groups.  But we live in this world together.  And personally, in the end, when it’s all said and done, I would like to see a world where we don’t have to worry about being different.  Imagine a world where we didn’t have any reason to see in black or white, male or female.  Not to say that being color blind is the goal, but there being no reason to be color blind.  Our differences just are.  Our diversity just is. 

(I think some people like to misunderstand things, so they can practice being snarly.)

bunnyscotcooper:

…of the bullshit. I have been even more enlightened than I have been before. The intersectionality that see affecting the lives of many oppressed people today has become a working system that is unbelievably working automatically these days. I can’t even begin to explain the frustration I feel today after reading a book called Black Feminist Thought. Am I going protesting in the streets? I want to. But am I going to let the knowledge I just gained go to waste? Feminism isn’t anti-family, and it isn’t anti-man just because it is pro-woman. And Feminism isn’t for the middle-class white American woman like Betty Friedan or Gloria Steinem have seemed to perpetuate. Its for the Black woman, Latina woman, White woman, Asian woman, of all class levels and of all sexualities.