Welcome new admins, I can't get my brain to be friendly right now (not related to you or any of this at all), so I'll just leave it at I'm glad it isn't anyone I have blocked, and good luck.
I'm in a really bad headspace right now due to irl bullshit, so I've not got around to and honestly don't have the brain bandwidth to make my own post about this right now or even discuss it in any depth (nor to fully process what you've suggested in op), but this seems like an opportunity to bring it up if not as a general discussion, then at least for the admins of this specific instance to read and consider, I think it's really important and something I've seen (and personally experienced) get people who are organisers and run communities to end up acting against their own community members and make the latter feel excluded and even unsafe, so I'm just going to leave this here.
The essays are titled "tyranny of civility", they are a bit long, but yeah, I think really important especially on this instance where we (should) take abolishing oppressive structures, even within our selves, seriously:
E: There is also Social Power and the Oppressive Potential of Civility which is a later discussion by the same author about the series of essays, and their observations since to, in their words "hopefully highlight some issues that I believe are created by maintaining civility as an unquestioned social norm in a society where institutionalized and social oppression operates along a variety of dimensions." as a kind of TL;DR (though still read the essays if you can)
Western Europe (excluding Britain) is taking this threat pretty seriously
What an odd exclusion to make.. The government might not be taking it seriously, but most others aren't either (and why would they? they serve capitalism, not society). Plenty of the people here (in Britain, in case it wasn't clear) are just as concerned as the rest of Europe (and the world)..
Just going to leave this here
So licking fascist boot is the solution?
Fuck that complicity.
Lmfao, do you live under a fucking rock?
Fascist parties have been gaining power all over Europe (and elsewhere) for ages, and have gotten significantly emboldened and actively backed by him since he became ~~president~~ whatever his dictatorial title will end up being.
Presumably, when you are speaking about these things you have first hand knowledge of reputable people and organisations.
And also, the burden of the constant demand to teach people about your lived experience, even though thousands of others who share it have already wilfully taken the time to document it extensively. We're not talking about individual experiences, but about well establish and deep rooted systemic oppression.
At the end of the day, expecting marginalised people, especially random ones you "happen upon" (would they even be asking if I wasn't here?), to be the ones constantly doing the work is an unearned entitlement that comes with privilege, and what those with that privilege should be doing instead is using it to lessen the burden on marginalised people, not increase it. Step one is learning to invest their own time and energy instead of demanding or even just expecting it from others.
As to why, sure it’s patriarchy, but they keep putting out duds and using it essentially say “audiences don’t want female-led content”…
You've answered you're own question - they put it out there so they can say they tried, people didn't like it, so we'll continue as we were, with them (patriarchal entertainment execs and the patriarchal capitalists who fund them) maintaining their positions.
The people who complain about this shit are running governments and corporations and controlling society, wtf are you talking about?
You're really narrowing down a much much bigger issue to try and make it digestible. But the patriarchy is systemic. Misogyny is systemic. Male privilege is systemic. Gamergate is a symptom, and honestly, a mild one at that.
Patriarchy.
Privilege and with it an overinflated sense of entitlement, which result in the most fragile of egos (E: see downvote ration lmao).
That's at best.
At worst, and on top of the above, is conscious and deliberate misogyny and the unwillingness to give the privileges up.
This is the teeny-tiniest tip of the iceberg, but it sounds like you are willing to challenge your views and perceptions, so jump in, it (E: patriarchy, misogyny, feminism, intersectionality, and on and on..) is a terrifying, but also extremely well documented rabbit hole, just start looking..
"Revolution is not a one time event" is one of her quotes that come to mind, have quite a few of hers saved in my collection.
ID: A drawing of a roller skating frog framed in a white bubble on a yellow background, they have on a pink hat with yellow horns coming out of either side and pink roller skates, they're smiling and holding up a drink with a straw, their bare butt facing the viewer, it has a little pink heart on it. There is vertical bubble text to the left that says "fuck em" and there are little stars all around.
Credit: Sugar & Sloth
ID: photo of someone holding up a cushion in a double-sided sequin cover where the sequins are a different colour or pattern depending on what direction they are laying.
Here the background sequins are blue, and a pattern has been brushed in the opposite direction in the shape of a slug's head complete with optical tentacles (eyes at the ends of antennae), to reveal Nicolas Cage's eyes and mouth perfectly fitting in to give the slug a face.
ID: Baby Yoda using a laptop, leaning back a little and staring at the monitor looking confused, above is text: "How tf a computer gone ask me if I'm a robot, mf u a robot"
ID: image of a crate trap baited with Blahaj
ID: Xtremely Transbian, Online @ThisACoolPerson posted:
"i imagine being a liberal is much like having a cat on your lap, in that you have a comforting distraction from misery and can't stand up for anything"
E: before people derail the conversation to offer me the fallen arm from the title - I've tried many different combinations, and they all result in a wrong looking shruggy face. Deal with it lol
ID:
"Me: *stands up really fast*
My entire body:"
Bellow are 12 different engine warning lights that you would have on a car dashboard.
ID: Drawing of a black cat from behind with their butthole on display as a white asterisk, they have a pink bow tied on their tail, and are looking back at the reader. Next to it is text:
"It's okay to tell some people to kiss Your ass you don't have to be nice to mean people all of the time"
Credit: @Radicallysunny
ID: Photo of a pink felt heart on a slightly paler pink background, overlaying is stylised text: "make the world a better place punch a nazi in their face"
ID: Photo of a white duck, next to it is plain text:
"I'm here to eat grapes and kick ass and the lemonade stand is fresh out of grapes"
for the ~~kids~~ uninitiated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q
ID: image from The Sopranos, Paulie Walnuts has a confused look on his face and is raising his hand to gesture "hold on", the subtitles say "Ain't no fucking way that whole Siberian Orchestra is trans"
ID: drawing of a frog sitting on a lily pad that is floating on a river in a forest at sunset, there are some birds flying past. In the large setting sun is text:
"Nature's little menace.
A wet gremlin.
A swamp goblin.
Fear me."
credit: @radicallysunny
Glad the essays got some appreciation. <3
And thanks, sadly no better, and genuinely thank you for the offer it's really kind of you, but I think it's probably all a bit much to put on a stranger..