since my last post about it did not clarify, Fran Drescher being anti vaccine mandate IS antivaxx. it doesn’t matter that she, as an individual, got the COVID vaccine. claiming to be against the mandate, not the vaccine itself is a common tactic used by antivaxxers. Many antivaxxers also do still get vaccinated while advocating antivaxx sentiment. If someone, Fran Drescher or otherwise, was truly pro-vaccine, they would not have a problem with them being mandated, period. It’s the same kind of faux mental gymnastics bigots use when they say shit like, “I don’t have a problem with gay people. I just don’t think the law should allow them to be married.” Fran Drescher is antivaxx and she’s also a massive financial supporter of the Israeli Defence Force, having donated millions in fundraising over the years to the IDF to support their occupation of Palestinian lands. Both those things are indefenseable to me and many others, but they also don’t cancel out what she has done and continues to do for labour rights in the film industry. “Fran Drescher is antivaxx and pro-Israel” and “Fran Drescher is a vital leader in current labour rights movements in Hollywood,” are not mutually exclusive statements. It just means there’s more work to do, more people to listen to, and no one person should ever be touted as a symbol of resistance for all because human rights advocacy is never going to be achieved through reliance on individuals or exceptionalism.
one time in my last job a woman came up to the register explaining that when she bought stuff a day prior the clerk forgot to scan a pair of socks worth less than €2 and it was only right for her to bring it back to the store and pay for it proper. unfortunately my manager was directly next to me at the time and took over the register to handle this serious issue. the receipt she had brought with her said which register performed the previous transaction that forgot the socks and the manager could find out who was running that till on that day. poor dude had a manager yell at him for a half hour about how much of an incompetent fuck up he was, he left the job immediately after but i couldnt tell you if he quit or was fired
i think about this moment a lot. the customer seemed like a sweet woman with only good intentions and when she paid for the socks she had a look on her face that said “i feel good because i did the right thing”. and a guy lost his job because of a pair of socks. if shit like this ever happens to you and a clerk forgets to scan an item just think of it as a small blessing or that you had good luck or something. keep it.
The fucking audacity of capitalists to lie on camera right in front of evidence of their failure is blood boiling. How the fuck do they not get the shit kicked out of them daily is fucking amazing.
If you truly believe women can be anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women are men.
If you truly believe women can look like anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women look like men.
If you truly believe women can do anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women transition to be men.
If you truly believe that women have the right to decide what to do with their lives and bodies, then you are going to need to accept that some women decide to be men.
Decide to be…?
What’s not tracking?
Isn’t it kind of harmful to say that a queer person decided to be that way? Or is that idea outdated now and I’m being dumb?
the only reason we have to rely on the idea that sexuality and gender is innate and unchanging is because the legal system in the US ties rights to things that are innate and unchanging
while for the vast majority of people, their gender or sexuality is unchanging, as most identities stabilize between age 3-5, the idea that identity (whether gender or sexuality) cannot change at all over the course of someone’s life is just simply not reality. Unfortunately, the right wing takes this fact to mean that you can successfully engage in conversion therapy - this is not true. Sexuality/gender can just change for some people over their life time. For some people it IS very much a conscious decision.
It’s a difficult conversation to have esp in the US when all human rights rely on the foundation of an innate/unchanging status.
Love learning this kind of dynamic assessment from new Tumblr friends. Thank you.
To further build on this, the Born This Way narrative was constructed specifically to counteract the (particularly Catholic) Church’s “Choosing the Gay LifestyleTM” narrative. When (Christian) bigots said we could just choose not to be queer we responded with “but I cannot choose not to be queer. I have always been this way. Are you saying God made a mistake when He made me this way?” And it was a convincing argument for a lot of liberal religious folk and got them to be allies and that was all well and good.
But the problem with that line of argument was that it conceded to the Church the right to define the question. The response instead should have been “so what if it is a choice? So what if I choose to be this way? How does that give you the right to discriminate against me?” By arguing that being queer is not a choice, we are implicitly saying that no one would choose to be queer if they could instead choose to be cishet. We are implicitly asking for their pity as humans who have been condemned by God to live a life that no human would willingly choose and to be allowed to live a life as close to cishet normality as possible as an act of mercy.
Which… Is not a narrative I will willingly accept. Whether I chose my queerness or not is immaterial to my right to experience the full gamut to human sexuality without fear of persecution based on irrational hatred or religious bigotry. So what if I chose this? I have the right to choose.
Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.
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