New video coming out this Friday-- #ToplessTopics interviews the December #Portland cast from the "Dungeons and #DragQueens Live show"! As usual, you'll be able to watch the #patriarchy-approved "female-looking nipple"-less version at https://www.youtube.com/@toplesstopics or the patriarchy-UNAPPROVED version on my website https://www.toptopicstv.org/dndQLive :D You can visit that page now to find links to all the people in the interview as well as other resources, and enjoy watching the video this Friday at 11am PST !
When your claim to be promoting a moral cause requires you to lie. you may want to reconsider whether you're actually promoting a moral cause. If you cannot convince people to adopt your moral cause by presenting them with facts and reasoning with them, you're admitting that your moral cause isn't as moral as you pretend it is.
Misogyny is a resilient beast with much to protect, ready to shape shift as its survival demands.Women have been taking a more progressive view on politics all century. It is a growing trend that is repeated in Australia.
This is something to celebrate and encourage. Instead, the commentary has focussed on the more reactionary views of some young men – which threaten to embolden authoritarians. The pattern is unmistakeable but local specifics vary and matter.
As almost half the world goes to the polls this year, we will learn whether this generation of better educated, more aware and powerful young women are able to tip the results against authoritarian populists elsewhere as well. As Donald Trump regularly demonstrates, belittling women is a marker of this world view.
Australia, in its occasional role as an early marker of global trends, embraced this movement early. In the 2022 election professional women in the teal independents remade the traditionally conservative inner suburban heartland of the Liberal party in their image. The Labor party pre-selected record numbers of women and acknowledged their power to change the agenda.
This was in no small measure the result of the grand lessons of courage and refusal to be shamed, embodied by Grace Tame, Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins. Their advocacy changed the political terrain – taking men and women on an empowering journey, changing laws, curricula and expectations.
They have since been battered by the business-as-usual brutality of the Australian political/legal/media machine.
By focussing on the political gap between young women and men, the beacon of hope is obscured. In Australia the data shows that young men are also more progressive than they were two decades ago.
WOC do not have the right to privacy. We're seen as a curiosity to be examined. This is why no white person thinks there is a problem with asking race based questions during job interviews or asking them for their white single coworkers, wink wink. And then pretend we're too stupid to understand. Because there is a lack of professional respect for WOC, they are genuinely confused when we feel slighted. They don't even know we need respect. #racism#discrimination#misogyny#feminism#work#job
Lol some Instagram man
'Are you serious? There have been several documented cases [of Stockholm syndrome]'
Yes I am serious. It is made up misogynistic bullshit that was just plucked from the air to cover for the police and blame a woman instead. So easy to look up, my guy.
The former prime minister of Canada stephen harper is head of the IDU an organization which hopes to have a right wing asshole like trump running every country on earth. #IDU#misogyny#racism#whitesupremacy#fascism#nazis
trump is using hitler's playbook letter for letter followed closely by the Canadian conservative leader pierre poilievre. North America better get their shit together or we could be the nexus of the end of humanity. #fascism#whiteSupremacy#Misogyny#hate
“'This is the blue-collar realignment of the Republican Party, and what I can tell you is for every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement,' [Florida Rep. Matt] Gaetz told Newsmax.
On Jan. 9, Fox News’ second-rate Tucker Carlson clone Jesse Watters implied that Swift’s decision to once again promote voting this past September was some kind psy-op campaign.
I'm disappointed to see so many resisters amplifying Nikki Haley. She's maybe even more dangerous than is that orange chump since she would have perhaps a better chance of defeating Biden this fall.
Anyways, be careful is all I'm suggesting. It's better to tout the things that make our side's candidate better than either of them than it is to point out how you prefer one of the other side's candidates over the other one.
Every time someone says "I'm not going to vote," or "I'm voting third-party," they're saying "I don't care if pregnant women are denied medical care. I don't care if they're forced to suffer, bleeding and in pain, for 19 hours. I don't care if they're forced to miscarry alone on a toilet, and then they get ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED. I don't give a shit."
They are saying that to you, and you should respond accordingly.
Investigators found that the executive staff of #AndrewCuomo, the former #NY governor, prioritized protecting him rather than the women accusing him of #SexualHarassment.
The #DOJ concluded that fmr Gov #AndrewCuomo of #NewYork & his executive staff subjected female #employees to a “sexually hostile work environment,” & then retaliated against several who complained, acc/to a #settlement announced on Fri.
The findings appear to largely substantiate the investigation of the #NYAG, #LetitiaJames, who concluded that Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women, amid a culture of #fear & #intimidation.
#Cuomo, who denied having sexually harassed anyone, resigned in Aug 2021, shortly after the release of #LetitiaJames’s report.
Since his departure, #AndrewCuomo has engaged in a multipronged campaign to discredit the report & James as being politically motivated, & has been slowly maneuvering toward re-entering political life.
I wonder if #NikkiHaley would also say the #US has never been a #sexist nation? Does she refuse to believe that during the founding of our #nation, #men didn't intend to exclude women? Maybe. There are plenty of women who have internalized #misogyny.
I disagree with her that the intent of the Declaration was to "do the right thing" by everyone. Certain populations were excluded on purpose, and those people have had to continuously fight to be included.
Polite reminder that, if you happen to be on an instance that isn't defederated from mastodon.social or mastodon.art, I also have profiles on there and would greatly appreciate follows, boosts, etc to help me galvanize more people to the #toplessEquality / #freeTheNipple cause:
« #Gaetz explains why #Republicans don’t need #women voters: “For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the #MAGA movement”»
We are posting here the messages from organizations, institutions, NGOs, etc. that have opened a channel on Mastodon and left #X/Twitter. Many of their arguments cite the same points as mentioned in our open letter calling the universities to become active on Mastodon and fediverse servers.
The messages represent a broad consensus among Internet users who want to bring the choice of social media in line with their mission statements. The first of these is the data protection foundation @DS_Stiftung.
It writes about itself: „Acting independently in the field of #DataPrivacy, Stiftung Datenschutz links politics and the public, academics and business. It complements existing organizations and initiatives while liaising closely with German data protection authorities on state and federal levels.“ https://stiftungdatenschutz.org/english
At the end of September, she drew the consequences and broke away from X/ #Twitter https://twitter.com/DS_Stiftung/status/1704059550335119522
Their website announces: "Due to the enormous increase in trans- and #queerphobia, #racism, #misogyny, #anti-Semitism and other misanthropic content, "X is no longer a sustainable environment for a public body," said the Independent Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination, #FerdaAtaman, explaining the decision. ... The number of hate comments had also increased so massively that the anti-discrimination office could only counter this with a high level of staffing. "It is questionable whether this can still be justified with taxpayers' money," said Ataman.
"... Ministries and government agencies should ask themselves whether it is still acceptable to remain on a platform that has become a disinformation network and whose owner spreads anti-Semitic, racist and populist content," Ataman added.