I'm not a car person, so I never really paid attention to car makes or models before.
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@alice @DJGummikuh It's also all of us tbh, if you are genuinely convinced you have never done at the very least a microaggression to a minority you're not a part of, you have not done enough work deconstructing your bias to notice. And that's a call to action for people, inform yourself!
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I'm not a car person, so I never really paid attention to car makes or models before. Sure, I knew that there were Hondas and Hyundais, but unless someone was actively pointing them out, I couldn't tell you which was which.
Then I became the owner of a little red Ford Focus, and I started driving it around.
Next thing I knew, I was spotting them *everywhere*. I'd come out of the grocer and there'd be identical ones parked on both sides of me! Hell, I eventually got a window decal so I could more easily tell which was mine 😋
A couple years ago I discovered I was lactose intolerant, and—bear with me, these stories are connected—I started keeping lactaid with me wherever I went (just to be safe). I started paying attention to just how much dairy was in things, and wow, spoiler: it's in like *everything* 😅
Over the past couple years, I've gotten pretty used to being lactose intolerant. I keep lactase handy, and I watch out for things with "too much dairy". It's just become background noise—like noticing other Ford Focuses (Foci?). It's just part of my life now.
A couple months ago I got propositioned by a creep in my hotel's lobby.
A couple weeks ago I had slurs yelled at me as I walked down the street with my mom.
A couple days ago someone told me to kill myself in a DM.
Every day, someone says "really? I don't see stuff like that here".
@alice
Hmm... it's just possible U may want to upgrade to a Ford Mustang or Dodge Charger -- U'r definitely lacking SPICE-in-Ur-life❗️😃 -
Just to be explicit, that post was about how all the institutionalized/everyday/inherent sexism, racism, homophobia, bigotry, etc. is invisible to most folx until it directly impacts them.
Just like I don't see 99% of the racism that #BlackMastodon does until someone points an example out to me, and just like I would've told you that I don't know anyone who drives a red Ford Focus until I started driving one myself.
It's fucking everywhere...
And to those it affects, it's just the background noise of existing while black/queer/femme/disabled/neurodivergent, and so on.
@alice
Yeah, that red Ford Focus is skewing Ur outlook just a tad❗️🙄👀 -
@disorderlyf @alice oh yeah the structure of the Fediverse compounds systemic blindness significantly. Even for trivial things we have very different views of what happens here. Even more so than on the commercial silos.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@albertone @matematica 57 e 91 sono gli esempi classici, in effetti
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Licenziano la gente, accendono l'agente.
— Antico proverbio luddista
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@francina1909 @luca @ALFA Unfollow immediato per tutti i cultori della pizza Hawai e assimilabili :D
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@afreytes More "The Fifth Element" in the world :)
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For someone who yearns to publish a book I believe my writing is pretty bad. So I go read some writing advice and...
Boy...
That stuff about "your villain must be a hero in their story!"
No! FUCK NO!
This is how we end up giving "equal time" to fascists.
Make your villains into villains, stop trying to save or absolve them. Make them triumph not because they deserved it but because others didnt care to stop them. Make them ridiculous, and unlovable. Let your story fuck your villains over.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua
Si è fatta pure la scarpetta...
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