writing fics as a non native english speaker is so fun. my spelling is british bc of school. my vocabulary is mostly american bc of what i watch/read. my punctuation is some rules i learnt on tumblr that idk what english they fit and others i hate and ignore. confusing EVERYBODY
When you use the term “slut”, “whore”, “cum rag”, “fleshlight” etc. to describe a woman whose politics you disagree with, you are enabling a culture that sees sexual violence towards women as justified based on their disposability or their choices.
the problem is that a lot of women think they’re feminists because they hate men. but hating men is just a normal response to growing up in this world. actually being a feminist requires unlearning the misogyny you absorbed from society and actively standing for women’s rights
When people talk about "respecting" religion, they tend to be unclear about whether they mean "treating religious people like an equal human being" or "treating their religion as something sacred and beyond criticism", and this is very deliberate on their part
@km_fajardo People need to be less combative and more accepting.
It's actually very simple but when I read perfect on paper by Sophie Gonzalez it was like something lit up in my brain about the struggle of bi ppl in the community, I still have so much to learn...
Bookmarked to read later!
@earthtodora Dora, I don't know you, but I'll go to bat for you on this
My aunt is 90+, worked her whole life in a good high paying job in the biggest city and she doesn't speak anything but Portuguese.
If she, who is highly educated doesn't, can you imagine the average person?
@earthtodora I've done the same before!
I'm Portuguese and, during the fascist dictatorship, most people didn't learn foreign languages and after it most people learnt French, like my parents did
Learning English at school is quite recent over here but does the average American think of that?
@honeyvampx I'd go so far as to say that post-ssc till his death, we never see him fully clear headed (not an excuse, cruelty is cruelty), but how is he evil for his actions, while the poor nobility apparently simply had no choice but to kill those old people to further their own interests
@honeyvampx I just finished discussing a lot of mdzs w my sister and one thing I mentioned was the way people consider wwx morally gray for being cruel after being in the torture nexus for 3 months
Wen Chao threw him into certain death and yet wwx's evil for reacting violently in his trauma