Glad the essays got some appreciation. <3

And thanks, sadly no better, and genuinely thank you for the offer it's really kind of you, but I think it's probably all a bit much to put on a stranger..

Welcome new admins, I can't get my brain to be friendly right now (not related to you or any of this at all), so I'll just leave it at I'm glad it isn't anyone I have blocked, and good luck.

I'm in a really bad headspace right now due to irl bullshit, so I've not got around to and honestly don't have the brain bandwidth to make my own post about this right now or even discuss it in any depth (nor to fully process what you've suggested in op), but this seems like an opportunity to bring it up if not as a general discussion, then at least for the admins of this specific instance to read and consider, I think it's really important and something I've seen (and personally experienced) get people who are organisers and run communities to end up acting against their own community members and make the latter feel excluded and even unsafe, so I'm just going to leave this here.

The essays are titled "tyranny of civility", they are a bit long, but yeah, I think really important especially on this instance where we (should) take abolishing oppressive structures, even within our selves, seriously:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

E: There is also Social Power and the Oppressive Potential of Civility which is a later discussion by the same author about the series of essays, and their observations since to, in their words "hopefully highlight some issues that I believe are created by maintaining civility as an unquestioned social norm in a society where institutionalized and social oppression operates along a variety of dimensions." as a kind of TL;DR (though still read the essays if you can)

As to why, sure it’s patriarchy, but they keep putting out duds and using it essentially say “audiences don’t want female-led content”…

You've answered you're own question - they put it out there so they can say they tried, people didn't like it, so we'll continue as we were, with them (patriarchal entertainment execs and the patriarchal capitalists who fund them) maintaining their positions.

The people who complain about this shit are running governments and corporations and controlling society, wtf are you talking about?

You're really narrowing down a much much bigger issue to try and make it digestible. But the patriarchy is systemic. Misogyny is systemic. Male privilege is systemic. Gamergate is a symptom, and honestly, a mild one at that.

Patriarchy.

Privilege and with it an overinflated sense of entitlement, which result in the most fragile of egos (E: see downvote ration lmao).

That's at best.

At worst, and on top of the above, is conscious and deliberate misogyny and the unwillingness to give the privileges up.

This is the teeny-tiniest tip of the iceberg, but it sounds like you are willing to challenge your views and perceptions, so jump in, it (E: patriarchy, misogyny, feminism, intersectionality, and on and on..) is a terrifying, but also extremely well documented rabbit hole, just start looking..

It's both, and you need to zoom out and see the big picture, the one where they coexist because one necessitates the other, to really appreciate the problem

(ID: aerial photos from South Africa and India showing the vast disparity between rich and poor existing directly next to each other)

Yup, it's a trap.

There is no way the cops haven't considered this, just like there's no way they will stop ICE when they inevitably turn up.

Even if we theoretically pretend that the cops mean well (they don't) - they are prioritising being the "good guys" and patting themselves on the back over the safety of the people they're using as props to that end.

If you want to help save people form immigration raids you hide them, you don't draw them out in big groups, especially not to a violently racist government agency.

A feature, not a bug.

The police are not your friend.

Do not trust them.

Oh no, the consequences of their inaction!

The ones actually bearing the consequences, the sick children, weren't the ones rejecting vaccination.

War is a Racket