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there's no platypus controlling me | UofT Alum. | he/him | 🍉

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

totally, banning kids from social media is the most urgent priority

[Diego Troffe🏳️‍🌈 @DiegoMTroffe]

En el mes del orgullo quisiera hablar de la filosofa lesbiana Marilyn Frye quien planteo hace 40 años en su tesis algo que sigue incomodando: la cultura masculina heterosexual es, en realidad, homoerotica.

Todo o casi todo lo que es propio del amor, la mayoría de los hombres heteros lo reservan exclusivamente para otros hombres (lealtad, admiracion, respeto, la reverencia, la imitación, el deseo de aprender y ser reconocidos por alguien, los vínculos profundos)

La mayoría de las cosas que hacen los hombres son para impresionar otros hombres: posesiones, trabajo, inclusive las mujeres que las muestran como trofeos.

A las mujeres le piden devoción, servicio y sexo. Lo que ofrecen cómo respeto hacia ellas suele ser paternalismo, y lo que llaman "honor" es ponerlas en un pedestal, porque es una forma de control, no de respeto.

El patrón se nota hasta en los gestos mas cotidianos. Ven deportes porque se supone que les gusta los deportes, pero solo ven deportes practicados por otros hombres, como si lo que les gustara fuera que los practican ellos, más que el deporte en sí.

Escuchan con desdén a una mujer y luego asienten cuando un hombre repite exactamente lo que ella dijo. El contenido no cambió, cambia quien lo emitio. Defienden ideologías machistas, misoginas, racistas y autoritarias muchas veces no por convicción profunda sino porque adoptarlas les compra la pertenencia a un grupo de hombres.

Los hombres aman a otros hombres (en el sentido amplio: los admiran, los respetan, viven para su mirada) y usan a las mujeres como instrumentos de ese vinculo: como trofeos, como conquista, como contraste para definirse como hombres de verdad.

Hasta el dios que adoran es hombre. Lo imaginan padre, lo llaman señor, le rezan como al patriarca celestial que crea con la palabra, desde afuera, sin cuerpo y sin entrañas. Pero la creación de la vida en la tierra ocurre dentro del cuerpo de una mujer. Lo mas cercano a dios que existe en la experiencia humana: es una mujer.

Esa es la tragedia silenciosa del amor heterosexual en el patriarcado: las mujeres se enamoran, paren hijos, envejecen al lado de hombres que, en el fondo, las detestan. Duermen abrazadas a quienes, si tuvieran que elegir entre su dignidad y la aprobación de otros hombres, elegirían a los otros hombres sin pensarlo.

A pesar de ser heterosexuales, actúan como si odiaran a las mujeres: las critican, no las escuchan, las engañan, las maltratan. Las matan.

-Resumen sacado del instagram conciencia.inquieta

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

2.5 million Ontarians don’t have access to primary care and we are spending our tax dollars on policing soccer shirts to protect profits of multi billion dollar companies.

Horrible.

[Ted Rutland @TedRutland]

If we are going to call the cost of public services a “loss,” then Canadian police forces lost $20 billion last year while delivering no birthday presents and also killing a lot of people.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Does anyone still have doubts that Palestinians are being tortured and raped? This is how Israel treats international protestors in public. What they do to Palestinians in private is a million times worse.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The Toronto Islands have been a cherished public space for generations — for rest, nature and community in the heart of our largest city. They belong to the people. 

The federal government absolutely must use its powers to stop Ford's reckless land grab.

[Christo Aivalis 🌹🍊 @christoaivalis]

Avi Lewis was correct when he said that Carney's gas tax cut would simply be pocketed by the big corporations.

Prices went down a for a few days, but shot back up as companies took the tax cut for themselves

Carney and his Wall Street buddies are laughing at us

[Tom Parkin @TomPark1n]

Carney wants to borrow $25B and give it to foreign investors to help them buy our public assets so we can pay them every time we use what we used to own

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

4/ I have an idea for the Prime Minister: why don’t we pull a Norway?

Let’s put a windfall tax on oil and gas companies that are projected to make $90B in profits this year because of Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Then, let’s use that money to fill up the Sovereign Wealth fund — and invest in projects that benefit Canadians instead of a few wealthy investors and CEOs.

[Edward Row 𓃡 @edwardrow]

talk to me about why this isn't what we've done to the King Street Transit Priority Corridor - which started as a pilot in 2017 - was made permanent seven (7) years ago in April 2019, yet continues to look like the top photo here

[Disapproving Bach 🪦🎼 @BachDisapproves]

There is ZERO need for this in Canada. WTF are we doing here?

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

🚨Canada denied travel visas to 3 officials from the Palestine Football Association @Palestine_fa who were travelling to a @FIFAcom event to respond to a report about Israel hosting games on land it illegally occupies🚨

🇨🇦 denied entry to PFA’s:
- president
- general secretary
- head of legal affairs.

In 🇨🇦, if you are a Palestinian coming to speak about crimes being committed against your people you will be denied entry; but if you are a literal @IDF soldier who has participated in genocide, you will be welcomed with open arms.

Absolutely disgusting racism.
Good luck hosting the World Cup.

@MarkJCarney @LenaMetlegeDiab @SeanFraserMP @gary_srp @AnitaAnandMP

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

Since when did we as a society decide that companies are untouchable, pristine vessels who should not be inconvenienced and have a right to make as much money as possible through any means possible. That’s how we get grocery stores consistently ripping us off

[(Censored Mastodon Link)🍉🌈 @CdnComrade]

What happens in two weeks when gas prices climb back up 10 cents? Classic conservative move, meaningless tax cuts in order to safeguard corporate profits. We don’t need tax cuts, we need price caps.

[Dallas Duncan @DallasDuncanMD]

This is a very inappropriate response to a protestor advocating for her community suffering from mercury poisoning. It gets laughs from all levels of government. We aren’t serious about reconciliation and Indigenous rights in Canada.

#ShutDownDrydenMill

[TurtleIsland2Palestine @PalestineTurtl]

A bank to fund the weapons industry.
The Carney government is a fucking nightmare.

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

We don't need any data centers, we need clean water

Canada can't even provide First Nations with clean water to drink, but they want to give out our fresh water to fucking data centers

We are in a water bankruptcy already

We need to stop this shit

[#1 fan of bad team @AU5T0N]

genuine question why not USA as well.

killing arabs is fine, but when the bombs are coming down on white euros it gets serious?

[Dark Brian Fella: It's Slava time. 🇨🇦🇺🇦👊 @The_Brian_Life]

I really fucking hate this guy. Such a dirty, lying shit bag. The fucking Chinese communists? Really??? What a pack of morons.

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

In Canada, the richest 1% are now as wealthy as the poorest 80%.

No society that is this unequal can possibly be democratic. The wealthy simply have too much power to control the media and bend the political elite to their will.

Canada ain't no democracy. It never was.

#cdnpoli