The best of Hexbear!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/224107

Treat Defender:

• "Let people enjoy things"

• Just wants to shut brain off and relax

• Shit taste

Treat Assassin:

• Powerful crit(icism)s

• Appears out of nowhere and identifies flaws and weaknesses you never would've noticed but now can never ignore again

• Mysteriously fades into shadows when their own treats come under attack

Treat Mage:

• Nuanced, insightful analysis, can find positive/negative aspects in just about anything

• Flexible offensive and defensive options

• Susceptible to bullying, avoids direct confrontation

Treat Paladin:

• Likes good things

• Doesn't like bad things

• Simple as

• Nobody wants to hang with them because they feel threatened by their moral superiority and obviously correct takes

Treat Cleric:

• Long list of rules for not engaging with things that others find frustrating and arbitrary

• Has one specific domain of treat they enjoy

• Wouldn't watch a Miyazaki movie because it's anime

• Somehow keeps being right about stuff

Treat Warlock:

• "So bad it's good," cult classics

• Will happily explain how their favorite treat is problematic in ways you never would've considered

• Lack of practical effects their third biggest issue with capitalism

• Nobody told them irony is dead

TYS, add your own

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/31010

It has become clear that some of you need this.

First wave feminism:

• Focused on combating legally explicit oppression (mostly the right to vote).

• Succeeded in all their goals.

• Wish they had more goals lol.

Second wave feminism:

• Rekindled struggle for women's equality. This part is cool, enjoy it, because it's all downhill from here.

• New theoretical basis where women are the keepers of the ineffable moon spirit or some shit. (Okay fine, it's more nuanced than this, but not in a way worth giving a damn about.)

• Only cares about white women.

• Yes it's more nuanced than "ineffable moon spirit," but not in a way worth giving a damn about.

• We needed third wave feminism for a reason. Anybody who still identifies with second wave feminism either really likes ineffable moon spirits or is willing to put up with them so they can be a TERF.

Third wave feminism:

• Gendered oppression is just one of a number of different, sometimes overlapping, kinds of oppression in our society (also race, sexual orientation, gender expression, ability, etc). The loosely overlapping collection of kinds of oppression is called the kyriarchy.

• The ranking of people within the kyriarchy is intentionally loose. Who has less rights between a white trans woman and a black man with Asperger's? The answer will be determined on the fly, in whatever way is most convenient for people in power, in that moment, for that case.

• People facing overlapping kinds of oppression face different oppression than just the sum of the parts. The oppression that a black trans woman faces is different than the sum of the oppression a black person, trans person, and woman face. The best way to understand oppression is to look the complete intersection separately. This is called intersectionality.

• The best way to understand an intersection is to ask people who live in it. This does not mean leaving them to their own devices sans support, it means fucking ask.

• We will not win liberation for women until we win it for black women, trans women, disabled women, lesbians, and every other intersection with women. We will not win liberation for black people until we win it for black women, black trans people, disabled black people, gay black people, yadda yadda yadda and so forth for every other group.

Marxist feminism:

• Is still third wave feminism, all aspects of that apply.

• Let's add class as an axis of oppression within the kyriarchy.

• Hot damn, that turned out to be a really useful addition.

• Despite the name, not all Marxist Feminists understand class in the Marxist sense. A lot of the time they end up just meaning wealth rather than relation to the means of production. Wealth actually ends up being a useful thing to add to intersectionality too though, so I'd recommend adding both wealth and class (this time in the Marxist sense). *slaps roof of kyriarchy* this bad boy can fit so many axes of oppression in it

• Class ends up being the most important axis of oppression. However, the other ones still matter. Marxist feminists is prone to over-simplifying things and pretending that only class matters. This is called class reductionism, and it makes you a bad feminist. It also makes you a bad organizer.

• Revisiting intersectionality with class: The oppression that a black transwoman worker is different than just the sum of the oppression a black person, trans person, woman, and worker face. (Aside: holy shit are trans people illustrative here; the difference in experience between a wealthy trans person and a poor one is stark as fuck.)

• We will not win liberation for the workers until we win it for black workers, trans workers, disabled workers, lesbian workers, female workers, and every other intersection with workers.

Wondering where the classic Hexbear taglines you know and love are from? Wonder no more. Sadly mine got deleted somehow but they were

• Home of the all-you-can-eat struggle session
• Hillary Clinton is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself
• A support group for terminally online
• The internet's fastest-growing Pete Buttigieg fansite
• Welcome home, comrade

I did, lmao

Commchads stay winning, maincels stay mad

the origin of the sacred photo

hi-res version

my grandma gave me this cookbook and I was so fascinated by the cover that I posted it here

Very large corrupted image of a DPRK soldier

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/52. Lemme kick it off with the still top rated post on hexbear.net, probably worth restating for our federation friends too.

edit: this post has gained a lot of traction over the course of the last three months so I believe some clarification is needed

this title is indeed a land of contrast, and i think the following statement should do a better job at voicing what I really meant with this post:

people who think they can own one or several human beings and treat them as their property or capital do indeed deserve to die, preferably sooner than later, and not of natural causes; helping accelerate this process by loading a rifle with ammunition, pointing it at a slave owner and pulling the trigger is a good idea and should be done when possible. hopefully this clarified the stuff

The post that announces the death of Henry Alfred Kissinger better overtake this one as the most upvoted post.

edit:edit:The killing slavers fandom is dying! Upbear to murder a plantation owner right now!