Please put down the appropriation and walk slowly to the exit….
my brother, please….
Dude, it’s fucked when we do it too.
(Source: follealicat)
Handy Reference Guide to Identifying Oppressive Silencing
To assist you in identifying and resisting dominant and unequal power relationships in your life, we’ve compiled a list of common phrases people in historically dominant roles have been conditioned to and may use to try to silence oppressed others, particularly when they perceive their dominance to be challenged.
The quotations below were used by men against women and are thus patriarchal; however, one could expect to find similar strategic dismissals and silencing of the accounts and concerns of people of color, working class and poor people, queer and LGBTQI people, young people, fat people, disabled people, and other marginalized folks in the discourses of those who discriminate against them. The simultaneous and intersecting nature of oppression is also considered here.
These strategies, and others we may have missed, can be found in any order, but from our experiences attempts to silence us commonly go something like this:
Assert authority
Question your knowledge/judgment
Delegitimize your response
Delegitimize you
Enforce dominant point of view
Shut down debate or conversationStrategy: Assert authority.
1. No, but…
2. You’re wrong.
3. You’ve been wrong before.
4. That’s not true.
5. Are you sure? I’m going to Google it.
6. Really? I don’t believe it.
7. That’s never happened to me / anyone I know.
8. I’ve never seen / heard of that.Strategy: Question your knowledge/judgment.
9. You don’t know that for sure.
10. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
11. That doesn’t count.
12. This is a completely different situation.
13. You’re making it about (structural oppression goes here) when it’s not.Strategy: Delegitimize your response.
14. You’re overreacting.
15. You’re blowing it out of proportion.
16. Why are you making such a big deal out of it?
17. Stop getting so emotional.
18. Don’t tell me you’re upset about this.
19. You’re getting angry /raising your voice / shouting again.
20. Not everything is about…(structural oppression goes here).
21. Stop trying to make it about…(structural oppression goes here).
22. You always say that.
23. I knew you’d do this.
24. Can’t we talk about something else?Strategy: Delegitimize you.
25. (Rude laughter)
26. (to someone else) She’s crazy. Don’t listen to her.
27. Why can’t you just relax?
28. Can’t you take a joke?
29. I’m just joking.
30. You’re so serious all the time.
31. You’re so angry all the time.
32. You have no sense of humour.Strategy: Enforce the dominant point of view.
33. You have to accept that…
34. You must agree that…
35. It’s obvious that…
36. You must be stupid to think that…
37. Everybody knows…Strategy: Shut down debate or conversation.
38. This is a stupid / irrelevant / useless conversation.
39. Why are we still having this conversation?
40. It’s not important.
41. Not everything is a campaign.
42. You’re making it worse by talking about it.
43. Why don’t you just give it up already?
44. I’m done.
45. Are we done?
46. Are you happy now?
47. I’m gonna hang up.
48. I don’t debate on this topic.
49. I’m not having this conversation.
50. I said I was sorry! Isn’t that enough?All of this. ALL OF THIS. ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL OF THIS.
Can’t even contain my feels right now. Can’t even at ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL OF THIS!
(Source: , via thepersonalispolitic)
(via fuckyeah1990s)
i love art so fucking much but i hate so many famous artists
so many
and i love how my typography prof was trying to play off the history of typography to say that the first typographic text was the bible in the middle ages.
um.
scuse me bitch?
you do realize that arabs had that shit down hundreds of years before, right? that muslims practically INVENTED typography, right? have you even—FFFF
done with this basic shit. so much of the art world sucks…
(via bad-dominicana)
The Matrix of Patriarchy
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fuccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk im crying
OH GOD NO
I just almost choked on my pizza crust omgg
nightmare fuel
(via kotesticle)
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I remember these!
The voices of rape culture.
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