Anthony Mackie: *Talks about raising his kids to be masculine which to him means respect, compassion, responsibility, protecting your family etc.*
Anthony Mackie: *Talks about how growing up in the 80s and 90s in the south you grow up misogynistic sexist and homophobic*
Anthony Mackie: My roommate was gay. I didn’t know how to deal with that. My brother is gay. I didn’t know how to deal with that. So being a MAN I used my art to better myself. I played Perry so that I could understand my brother better
Anthony Mackie:
A bunch of people online: He is clearly a homophobe alpha male type
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Look. I get seeing a headline and taking it a certain way. I get the kneejerk reaction to not read what someone says in good faith. But Mackie has been pretty open about a lot of things in his life. So you can find out pretty quickly how he feels about things and that he is teaching his kids non toxic masculinity.
Alsooo, this is important: There are plenty of masculinities that exist both in spite of and outside of patriarchy. There are plenty of indigenous cultures where patriarchy simply didn’t exist. A part of liberation for women and queer people involves redefining, uprooting and reshaping masculinity. Masculinity is not in itself corrosive and bad but it’s the type of masculinity that is taught that is the problem. Patriarchal masculinity is specifically the problem! Masculinities like Mackie’s should be embraced and nurtured.
If you ask enough questions about various social systems you’ll start noticing none of this shit is real it’s just legally enforced arbitrary categorization all the way down & everyone else will think you’re crazy if you point it out
What is gender? What is sex? What is romantic love, why is it different from close friendship? What is race, why are we different? No two people will give you the same answers for any of these. Has anyone else noticed this. The arbitrary categories are only Real insofar as they have material consequences on our lives. And they do very much have material consequences but wouldn’t it be nice if they didn’t
To elaborate on what I mean by Love Isn’t Real because that’s a really controversial one……. listen. The general consensus on What Is Romantic Attraction?, as far as I can tell, is “the desire to do things considered romantic in your culture with someone”. What a non-answer! This is nothing! It’s better than going “Oh Yknow,” “You’ll Know When You Feel It” but come on now. And our society is structured around the assumption that you’ll form culturally normative relationships eventually, so it Does Matter. But it’s nothing. This is nothing. What are you people fucking talking about. Love in the sense that people can care for one another is something that exists but the whole song and dance around it is so obviously Learned Behavior. Like how gender depends on social context. You know
I thought I was broken for a majority of my life because I could not plug in to the social matrix enough to maintain companionship.
Still cant, but at least my sociology degree made it clear that I’m not broken. The society literally actually sucks.
One of my friends assumed I knew I was ADHD and said nothing about that, and it shocked them when I told them no I don’t think so. And then they explained everything in detail, and I felt like That’s So Raven or something like that.
ICE interment population doubled during biden’s first 3 years. private prison use went from 80% to 90%. the biden administration kept centers open that its own oversight committee recommended for closure due to abusive conditions and safety risks to a lethal degree.
fr where was the ‘kids in cages’ energy??
Same place the antiwar energy was in 2009 when Obama proposed another “surge” in Iraq.
arundhati roy is an Indian leftist activist and author, and this is a criticism of Gandhi and Gandhian politics. this context is important. she’s lived through the failure of gandhi-esque politics.
[ID: Tweet by M. @nuhhhnsense posted May 12, 2021. It reads: “Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.” -Arundhati Roy. This quote knocked like 16 years of liberal pacifism out of me in one go. /End ID]
Whenever I struggled to get people to like me, people always told me “just be yourself”.
And I could never figure out why that advice was useless for me.
I now look back on my childhood and realize that there wasn’t a single time when I was even allowed to be myself, or be anything close to myself, or figure out what being myself means.
When you were a teenager and you wished to be treated like an adult, it’s not because you were stupid or a “know it all”. It’s because for literally your entire life so far, you not being an adult was used as a justification to abuse you. When that happens, it’s only natural to insist that you’re an adult as soon as it seems even remotely possible.
Authoritarian parents often say that they don’t enjoy punishing their children. They say that they punish because they have to.
Meanwhile:
They invent things to punish their children for. For example: muttering, eye rolling, heavy breathing, etc. All of which cause zero harm and an adult who got angry at another adult for doing that would easily be considered unhinged.
They punish even when their child has already suffered natural consequences and even when another authority figure has already given a punishment.
They quickly misinterpret what the child says or does in a way that justifies punishment, even though they could easily find another way to interpret it. They also add more punishment for “arguing” if the child tries to correct the misinterpretation.
They brag to other parents about how to terrify their children into submission while rarely talking about how to get children to understand them.
So, they’re lying. They very much do enjoy punishing their children. It’s undeniable.
I think sometimes people think eugenics is bad but its still true, like thinking that if people with certain traits have children it will change society for better or worse based upon what traits are promoted. I think its important to emphasize that eugenics is not only wrong morally it’s also fake and stupid bullshit
Like eugenics was supposed to be based on the idea that “If it works with animals to select only the best ones to breed, why wouldn’t it work with humans?”
well it doesn’t work with animals, that’s the thing. applying the eugenics ideas to domestic breeds of animals hasn’t made better animals it’s just made animals with more extreme expression of certain traits. turns out that when you decide which traits are the “best” and become obsessed with the genetic purity of the animals that have the “best” traits, you might well end up with some sad suffering creature like a Pug, or the Persian cats with the smashed faces that are in constant pain because their teeth and airways and brains are getting crushed by their skulls, or those meat chickens that grow so fast they can hardly even stand up after a few weeks old, or inbred race horses with tiny feet and fragile toothpick legs
like almost all traits are neither “good” or “bad” they’re way more complex than that. a long tail or a long snout or a stubborn, independent personality can be good or bad depending on the situation. Who gets to decide what is a “good” trait or a “bad” trait? It’s arbitrary and selecting for traits that are “good” in your opinion will often have both “good” and “bad” outcomes because the “good” and “bad” are part of each other and not separate its just part of being alive
Obviously oversimplifying everything but you get it. we did eugenics with dogs and how did that go? not very well
