Oddbean new post about login | logout Earnest posting on main but I really do appreciate this tiny safe haven. I do believe things like the Fediverse will save us. One day far away and very soon.
@53de482a word. We need to grow hearth & fire; cultural sanctuary for tired poor huddled youth seeking space to celebrate joy—especially where it's hard won among lives held at arms' length from opportunity. We hit an inflection point in 2020 as we all lifted up and began to float through a cultural shakedown we see better in the rearview through pangs that bend our lives to paint around what’s gone. fediverse good but we all need to concretize at our respective scalably-sane local level.
😔 https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/05/x-twitter-report-system-transphobia/
I debated even acknowledging this, but since she is a major part of a major show on a major femme-forward network, I’d like to also point out that the call is coming from inside the house https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/05/martina-navratilova-drag-queen/
@53de482a Entirely. Also, while we're being showbiz and exposing who we really are by our actions, her relationship with her wife on RH made her seem like quite the bully and generally a pretty cold person. We should start calling her the Margaret Court of Tennis Lesbians or some such, just to accentuate the bigoted legacy of hate she's attached herself to.... *But, also, being rich and/or famous is just bad for your basic humanity. We really need to protect people from the mental health dangers of being very wealthy by taxing the fuck out of them. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/may/31/margaret-court-tennis-reaction-same-sex-marriage-opposition-is-bullying
@53de482a Martina Navratilova was still alive? Who knew? (Who cares?)
@53de482a < think we all suffer a lack of ability to understand the suffering of others, even when it parallels our own. We can at best, sympathize. At worst, we tend to deny the existence of others' pain. Or, it could be she lives a life of privilege.