hot take: the capitalist cultural construction of “humans are naturally greedy and self-centered” is just an attenuated version of the feudal christian construction of “humans are inherently sinful”; both are designed to make people internalize cultural problems and externalize morality.
building off that hot take: western individualism (the American Dream, meritocracy, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality) is actually a hopelessly sentimental cultural fantasy that stems from this toxic capitalist conceit, and it’s high time we start admitting in our personal lives and in our public policy that humans actually live in dynamic and overlapping webs of inter-dependency
Photographies de la fin de l’ère Meiji jidai 明治時代 (1868-1912).
Arnold Genthe (1869 – 1942).
En 1908, l’Américain d’origine allemande Arnold Genthe effectuait une visite de six mois au Japon. Armé de sa caméra, Genthe photographie la vie des japonais de cette période.
sometimes I sincerely wonder whether some of these tumblr-TERFs have ever actually spoken to a trans woman in their entire life. I hear some of these conspiracy theories they’re pushing and I’m like “..have you ever met a trans woman?? like ever?? in any context?? have you ever even been in the same physical room as a trans woman???”
