Oh God, Tumblr. I have such a love-hate relationship with that site. There's a lot of -ist bullshit that I cannot stand, but at the same time, I get to be nerdy wrt my fandoms and learn about some political/anti-oppression stuff. There are some good anti-oppression/educational blogs out there, but there's just as much crap, too. Bleh.
Basically, lolol. That's the perfect way to describe it. It can get very gossipy very quickly, sort of like sf_d and ontd. ALSO HIPSTERS NEED TO STOP POSTING GROSS AND BLOODY PHOTOS. Do not want at 9 o'clock in the morning.
But like I said, I've learned stuff from it. The Genderqueer tumblr is great, and there are some good political commentator-types on there.
And I like your tumblr as well, because you reblog/post good stuff. :)
Because controlling whether some people are allowed to have children primarily affects women. Many many many women were sterilized against their will on the basis of this kind of question - women of color and women with disabilities especially. In practical, historical terms, men were much less likely to be sterilized "for their own good."
I think that if a conversation like this must happen at all that it must be a conversation. Questions on "writer's block" are not a conversation, and we just get to see people parade their worst bullshit.
Right now I'm unconvinced that the primary problem facing humanity is overpopulation. It's more a matter of who gets the resources and who works to supply many of those resources. The situation is currently untenable because it's built on the concept of economic exploitation of less powerful nations and marginalized people.
The other thing is that I am pretty much entirely opposed to eugenics, which I think this kind of large scale handling of procreation seems almost guaranteed to jump into at a breakneck pace.
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Now watch what happens while I'm asleep.
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But like I said, I've learned stuff from it. The Genderqueer tumblr is great, and there are some good political commentator-types on there.
And I like your tumblr as well, because you reblog/post good stuff. :)
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Ugh.
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(even though the whole point that it's even in question is terrible.)
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Right now I'm unconvinced that the primary problem facing humanity is overpopulation. It's more a matter of who gets the resources and who works to supply many of those resources. The situation is currently untenable because it's built on the concept of economic exploitation of less powerful nations and marginalized people.
The other thing is that I am pretty much entirely opposed to eugenics, which I think this kind of large scale handling of procreation seems almost guaranteed to jump into at a breakneck pace.
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