My mom used to do environmental activism.

[sahqon@beige.party]

@saeedt @smutmag It's like Rowling "protecting" women by encouraging people take pictures of them in restrooms and ask for male security to remove those they deem sus... I feel very protected, really.

[smutmag@mstdn.social]

@hananc Well, I wouldn't share it anyway, but it also wouldn't do you any good--she wasn't mentioned by name by Time, She was just referred to as a "whistleblower." She was trying not to have my dad lose his job over it, but he did, anyway.

[smutmag@mstdn.social]

@isocat Well, that was the other thing they didn't like. It was a BYO barbecue, and she brought me at...because she thought that's what a barbecue was. But everyone else was doing veggie kabobs.

[smutmag@mstdn.social]

@whitequark It was an earthy/crunchy aesthetic within the group that called for everything being all natural and not-consumerist. My mom will live without a car, and conserve utilities all day, but she loves beauty products and always has and always will. At the end of the day, ironically, the earthy crunchy people were being superficial. They didn't like what her aesthetic signaled.

[celesteh@hachyderm.io]

@deepmud

Mate . . . trans people don't actually need cis people to explain that their rhetoric is too extreme. If you want a loaf of bread, you have to demand a bakery, because if you ask for a loaf, you'll get maybe one slice.

We want self ID and informed consent, so we ask for "Hrt over the counter and for free."

Its really not necessary to assume we're uninformed.

The OP is talking about something like what's described in 'The Tyranny Structrelessness' but you're discussing an ally telling the impacted group to ask for less. These are quite different scenarios.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but your intervention was not an example of being a good ally. Sometimes you've got to just be be quiet while the kids are demanding an unrealistic, better world.

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@smutmag This isn't going to have the effect you think it's going to have. Your mother is not a hero for being fragile and unable to ignore criticism.

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@deepmud @smutmag oh you poor dear

[erwinrossen@mas.to]

@smutmag @whitequark Putting blaming individual behavior aside, how can you blame a person for not being environmentalist enough *on a barbecue* that you're organizing?!

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@smutmag that is some impressively self-defeating nonsense

[isocat@tiggi.es]

@smutmag Ah. So rather than make that clear, they set it up for maximum opportunity to performatively humiliate someone. Charming.

[saeedt@mastodon.social]

@sahqon @smutmag This reminds me of Nineteen Eighty-Four—not just flipping meanings, but controlling language.
“War is Peace.”
“Freedom is Slavery.”
“Ignorance is Strength.”
“Safety” means surveillance

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

@smutmag

I hate ‘purity tests’ within environmental activism. I think many feel they can’t live this pious hair-shirt existence, so think why bother at all?

We need everyone on board. We need to be welcoming, encouraging and supportive to all.

There is so much work to be done, we can’t be quibbling over lipstick.

We all share this planet.

[smutmag@mstdn.social]

@isocat Basically:)

[misusecase@twit.social]

@smutmag @Flowermob It probably doesn’t help that activists across the political spectrum hate women of A Certain Age

[forestine@sunny.garden]

@deepmud @smutmag "a batch of trans"

[heckinteagan@infosec.exchange]

@deepmud @smutmag hi there! Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I will say that "batch of trans" does come off as a bit insensitive and objectifying. Maybe don't do that. "Ally" is not a title you claim, it's a role you demonstrate through action. Keep up the good fight. Cheers