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You know how it feels different? Old heads?
Theory: It’s partly because we’re going to have real change on our team this time.
And *that* could be because...
Theory: It’s partly because we’re going to have real change on our team this time.
And *that* could be because...
The people who want justice have matured, not just in age but as a society.
Xers were thought to be slackers because we said “this is fucking all bullshit but I’ll do it anyway the loudest.
Unlike previous generations, we Refused to grow out of the “stage.
Unlike previous generations, we Refused to grow out of the “stage.
Millennials were crucified for saying “since this is fucking bullshit, I’m giving you an equivalent bullshit amount of effort. Then I’ll have the balls to do me no matter how many articles you write.”
“Also ownership is a scam jackass - you just call your landlord a bank & fix your own shit. We’re gonna try to just own the part of stuff we use. Unless corporations fuck out shit up then we’re doing UBI. “
Then the Wow Generation.
Holy fuck we have no idea what to do with them and they are not waiting for us to figure the shit out.
They saw our parenting experiment and raised us visionaries who see nothing as impossible.
Holy fuck we have no idea what to do with them and they are not waiting for us to figure the shit out.
They saw our parenting experiment and raised us visionaries who see nothing as impossible.
Born with a smartphone & a tablet I forgive them when they ask me who EWF is, even as I cower in failure as a parent.
And they reward me with a full throat serenade of September with a dance routine.
And they reward me with a full throat serenade of September with a dance routine.
They can spell despite spellcheck, they speak Chinese and have theories about curing cancer or celebrating their disabilities at 12 years old
Oh and sometimes they join forces with their counterparts ON THE OTHER SIDE IF THE FUCKING WORLD to shame a man they fucking REFUSE to call President.
Using a perfectly coordinated and secret prank.
You know. When they’re bored.
Using a perfectly coordinated and secret prank.
You know. When they’re bored.
I look at that and I can’t believe it’s an accident we’re here.
And I believe the in-your-face embrace of the young ones often fluid identities and dynamics is going to demand a shift in the world.
They won’t be moved.
And I believe the in-your-face embrace of the young ones often fluid identities and dynamics is going to demand a shift in the world.
They won’t be moved.
They are what’s different.
And that these three generations woth of struggles to be recognized have learned more from past struggles that wanted freedom for some.
Which we’ve learned is not freedom.
And that these three generations woth of struggles to be recognized have learned more from past struggles that wanted freedom for some.
Which we’ve learned is not freedom.
Women ran the US during I think it was the 40s? I’m a little inebriated.
It was during a war. Books don’t reference it as much as they should but everything from baseball players to mechanics were women.
It was during a war. Books don’t reference it as much as they should but everything from baseball players to mechanics were women.
They’re weren’t enough men around and they couldn’t win with the country shut down.
Then men who had just fought for someone else’s freedom supposedly, told women to get their asses back in the kitchen.
Then men who had just fought for someone else’s freedom supposedly, told women to get their asses back in the kitchen.
Except for a few “tough broads” who were irreplaceable. Which also made them unpromoteable and rarely in charge of crucial shit
But hey “bitch logic” they figured doing doing their best would get them through to middle management AS PROMISED.
But hey “bitch logic” they figured doing doing their best would get them through to middle management AS PROMISED.
Fuck them for taking (mostly white) men at their (mostly whites women) word I guess.
So that’s just one example of how one group wanted what they saw as freedom but were leaving others behind.
Much of the civil rights movement during the 60s had so many problems with misogyny?
Black women had to reactivate some of our ancestors matrilineal
or matriarchal
power structures and rename it feminism.
(Womanism in its pure form. Too long a tangent.)
Black women had to reactivate some of our ancestors matrilineal
or matriarchal
power structures and rename it feminism.
(Womanism in its pure form. Too long a tangent.)
Affirmative action ended up setting mostly white women fre. A road built across our backs and hardly ever discussed.
Lest ye appear( in homage to the brilliant @/gray a bad feminist.
Lest ye appear( in homage to the brilliant @/gray a bad feminist.
Once again freedom for women but not all women.
Or just “real” women. The delicate flowers not even our lovers want to accept us as.
Or just “real” women. The delicate flowers not even our lovers want to accept us as.
On it goes. The more we said “rights and justice (oh except THEM)
the more we took steps back or sideways
even though it looked like it was always forward.
the more we took steps back or sideways
even though it looked like it was always forward.
And that seems to have resulted in a higher shared consciousness that we can only go far together.
for many more reasons like unity under tyranny to realizing how much we need community in the face of this pandemic.
for many more reasons like unity under tyranny to realizing how much we need community in the face of this pandemic.
And under these conditions that keep blowing up in this Administration’s face.
Threatened immigrants with deportation?
Unified the Democrats. THE FUCKING DEMOCRATS.
Ignore the isndemic murdering 130k?
Unleash the fury of the entire world for record breaking protests.
Threatened immigrants with deportation?
Unified the Democrats. THE FUCKING DEMOCRATS.
Ignore the isndemic murdering 130k?
Unleash the fury of the entire world for record breaking protests.
Can’t believe I’m alive to see this. It’s so intensely scary.
But the potential to make the world better has never felt this plausible to me.
But the potential to make the world better has never felt this plausible to me.
