peyton feignedremote buddy read club!!!

Yay! Okay following up on my post from yesterday, I am taking initiative (scary!) and proposing some options for books we might like to read. I am tagging people who commented on my previous post but of course no pressure to partake and also everyone is welcome not just those I tagged! Just want to make sure you see this post if you previously expressed interest :) Tags: @frostbitfawn @deathlonging @astar-on @chevaliermesfait @yentling @en-scribed @headlessbride @juanjosecastelli

I am making a poll, but also feel free to comment if you would like to voice your thoughts that way. Okay poll here, I am going to put little descriptions of the books below the cut. Also, I'm not really sure of format for this buddy endeavor... we could just post our thoughts on here or I could make a discord? Comment if you have any recs for that aspect too :)

Descriptions + book length below

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patriarchy will have wives and daughters in torture chambers 24/7 but then pretend that its somehow actually men that are tough and always enduring and people will be like ohh soft and lovely things are for women and children because women and children are ~protected by the patriarch <3<3 and harsh rugged things are for men because men push through any pain >;) and people take it at face value and will start saying ohhhh men deserve comfort too!! like. okay take a look at mens shoes and womens shoes and tell me which gender is the comfortable gender. and i know the story they will be like oh but you see men have to wear practical clothing because they have to be ready for rugged action at any time!! meanwhile women are dainty ~protected creatures that won't be engaging in combat or daring adventures you see? but the reality is jakey and i are both working in the same office or going to the same party and you're expecting only me to go in high heels and freeze in a mini skirt like shut up. and the small truth to the "men always ready for action" bit: if i have to run away from jakey after he tries to rape me when he offers to walk me home after the party who's gonna run faster with shoes like these, me or him? if we are both about to miss the bus, who is going to be the one who can dash a bit and ask for it to stop and save the day? it's just this self-fulfilling prophecy. it's women who endure. women. women. shut up

“In 1691, an English magazine was asked the question: Who was Cain afraid would kill him? The answer was: the people of the future.”

— Eliot Weinberger, “Adam and Eve”, The Ghosts of Birds

heartbreaking: hostess powdered mini donuts taste much worse than previously remembered and so my plan to shove like 7 of them in my mouth for breakfast has been thwarted on account of it feeling like eating dusty mattress foam

actually i am gonna give you guys a genuine answer to that. not the anon because they obviously don't actually care, but the rest of the new followers i seem to have picked up off that youth lib post.

why do i give a shit about social media restrictions? well, i went to the library three months ago with my two teenage brothers to sign them up for new library cards (they just moved) and i was told that under 18s can't have a library card, even a restricted kids-books-only card, without a parent there in person to give consent.

that's fucked for abused kids for sure but that's also fucked for kids whose single mum works two jobs and can't get to the library while its open. and there is NO good reason for it except to appease parents who want to control what their kids can read.

people coming onto my posts telling me 'kids should just do X' have not actually looked into the possibility of doing what they are suggesting. kids now cannot do what you did when you were a teenager even a decade ago. abused kids, disabled kids or kids from low income families ESPECIALLY cannot do those things. they are running out of places to go.

interviews and studies with teenagers repeatedly prove that they WANT to hang out with their friends in real life, and it is getting harder and harder to do it. the internet is one of the only places they can all spend time together, unsupervised, without spending money or getting hassled or moved on by adults.

social media bans won't fix that. they won't even keep kids off social media. they're just going to make life harder for everyone, increase the amount of tracking and monitoring EVERYONE is subject to, and force kids to lie about what they're doing to any adults that actually DO give a shit about them.

"actually," i tell my mother, who has responded to my coming-out with linguistically impossible norms of gender, "farsi is a gender-neutral language, so you should not even be able to hold the idea of transphobia in your head, for you lack the symbolic concepts that constitute its precondition". unfazed, she reaches past me for a english-persian dictionary i've failed to conceal. i try to swat it from her hands in a panic: "no! the dictionary is epistemic folly! words are untranslatable! there's nothing for you there!" but she dodges my hands and flips deftly through the pages, stopping on "B", "G", and "T". i claw at her to no avail, watching her eyes widen with her conceptual horizons as she discovers gendered language. she turns her now-baleful gaze to my tearful face and takes a breath. "so does this mean you're gay?"