Pro Palestine but not pro enough to not squat on the land you stole from them.
I don't think we should be shooting them quite so much, we should just sue them out of their homes and livelihoods
I’m very pro Palestine but it makes me angy that they don’t want to be occupied
pro-palestine
zionist
this has to be satire or a bit. if they really knew anything about either cause, they’d know that these are mutually exclusive and like polar opposites
it’s tumblr, so theres a good chance it’s genuine
No I believe there is the right combo of
to exist for this.
Pro-Palestine Zionist? Words don’t mean anything, they’re just fun little labels.
What’s next, a pro-Jew Nazi?
Well we already have a pro-Nazi Jew in Zelensky so never say never.
That’s basically what Japanese fascism is lol. They believe in the Jewish cabal, but the only reason they hate Jews is because they want to be the cabal and want the Jews’ status of world overlord
Based on the evidence, I’m guessing its a young Israeli who is pro Palestine making a cheeky joke. Something like an American calling themselves an imperialist communist.
I think spoonie culture is a little cringe but wtf are you doing appropriating the language of chronic illness to describe your entitled colonizer mindset? Fuck off.
It’s literally not even like the context you use that shit in, you have like too few spoons to be able to wash up after dinner or shit like that, if you are spending spoons on literally just passive sympathy for a political struggle then you’re operating in a new dimension of cutlery theory.
cutlery theory
I’m crying
I once had a Zionist on
start using leftist terms and tell me I had no right to criticize anything Isntreal did from the imperial core.Lol what, it’s a military outpost of the imperial core and I’m a core dweller, I am well within my rights to criticize the horror I am forced to help subsidize.
Seems like it was along the same vein as their PR push as Zionist vegans that are very progressive and cool and need to be protected from the Islamic hordes.
I think spoonie culture is a little cringe
Why?
I feel like when the idea was first introduced it was a helpful metaphor, but now it’s a weird token of victimhood? As a person active in the CI community when I meet someone who self identifies as a spoonie I roll my eyes and prepare to be exhausted.
Ok, what I’m talking about is people who engage in illness Olympics and endless one-upsmanship because their symptoms are their identity. I am allowed to be exhausted by people who belittle my experience as a chronically ill person with a multidimensional life.
Can you explain how your experience is belittled? I don’t understand that.
Person first language examples and why to use them
I understand that not everyone practices person first language, but I personally find it to be preferable to making my illness equivalent to my personhood.
Ah, ok. Well I personally consider my autism central to who I am as a person, and wrapped up in every aspect of who I am. Its why I dont want a cure, because it would make me a fundamentally different person. A cure would be murder. So I don’t like detaching autism from myself like that. But I see what you mean, I at least understand where you’re coming from now.
I guess for me I see a difference between someone who “identifies as as spoonie” (which seems silly) and someone who uses spoon theory to describe their situation (which I think any disabled person can do).
Your experiences are valid and how you want to be referred to is valid, but a lot of autistic people prefer to be called autistic people because it is part of our personhood and even the idea that we are being too attached to it as part of our identities is silly. It’s literally how we operate as people. It is fundamental my neural topology.
Weird wefwef error
I have never heard of anyone describe themselves as a “spoonie” but now that I have heard of it I give them all uncritical support and, this comment reeks of a Redditor assimilationist approach to neurodivergency. Your feelings around your own neurodivergency are your own and you have a right to them, but acting like people who are embracing lifestyles that are compatible with their brain are cringe or “annoying” is fucking infuriating. Don’t do that. Please.
Edit: I apologize for how rude that was. I am emotional and tired.
You were rude to assume that I am making any statements about neurodivergency at all.
Spoonie was originally a term to describe physical illness.
I am in constant physical pain.
That is not the same as being autistic. There is no social model for my disability. I am in agony.
I am enraged that you make false statements about my illness.
But it’s used by neurodivergent people often which is why I made the conflation, though granted, on accident. I am sorry.
Yeah, I’ve heard it used only by my partner who has CFS, didn’t know it was used as a neurodivergent thing too now.
Yeah that comment had a rancid vibe
the what culture? what the hell is anyone talking about here and why is no one else confusedSpoon = unit of measurement used to describe amount of energy someone is capable of giving to a task
Spoonie = (I assumed) someone who uses spoons as terminology to describe how much energy they have“Spoonie” specifically appears to have been started as a group of young women on websites such as TikTok describing their symptoms with what sounds a lot like chronic fatigue. The commenter is seemingly complaining about this group and views them as self-victimizing. I cannot guarantee that this is what the commenter actually meant, but it makes sense given what we know.
People who talk and complain about TikTok “disability fakers” emit extremely horrid vibes to me so I do not want to say anything more. I do not have anything positive to say.
You are mistaken about the origin of the term. Vigilantes are gross, but malingerers also do real, tangible harm to people who have to contend with the medical system and the term “spoonie” is certainly overused by a certain kind of bad faith actor in the CI community.
if they’re going to extreme lengths (such as getting ports or custom wheelchairs or service dogs) just for attention maybe they really need attention. Clearly something is wrong in their lives and they could be doing much worse things. Why is asking for attention, positive feedback, and peer acceptance such a bad thing?
- Paraphrased Reddit comment
Do you really think the statistically minimal group of people pretending to have illnesses are what is preventing people from getting medical care? The medical industry would refuse service anyways. Insurance has a direct incentive to think that people are malingerers by default. The general attitudes from doctors when it comes to chronic conditions is disbelief and gaslighting. If it wasn’t malingerers, it would be something else. The ableism in the industry is the issue, not random people it uses as scapegoats.
Hell, think of the term “malingerers”. People who pretend illness to get out of work. Is this not just a repeat of the usual,
complaint about lazy workers? Children, maybe not. Faking sickness to avoid school is a common trope for a reason. But do you really think adults who are being accused of faking illness are “malingerers”? If they need to fake illness to get out of work, and in the process lose a chance to get money, then they probably aren’t able to work in the first place. Healthy, neurotypical, able-bodied people don’t just pass up working opportunities for no reason. Even if it’s for attention, same issue. Healthy, able-bodied, neurotypical people don’t just spend thousands of dollars on surgeries and equipment and accommodations just to get attention. Healthy, able-bodied, neuro-typical people don’t need attention that much. There is clearly something going on there and whatever it is probably isn’t going to be prevented by some random strangers calling them fakers on the internet.I know you have your own experiences that I could never even imagine when it comes to chronic illness, and I am mostly talking from a place of privilege. But I have been in the autistic community, which has similar issues with accusations of fakery, and it seems directly transferable to me. There is a reason that the autistic community has nearly universally agreed that self-diagnosis is valid. There is a reason that there are multiple complaints about “fake disorder cringe” subreddits on the Autism sub. There is a reason that “fake disorder cringe” was posted to r/againsthatesubreddits (and, by the way, was only prevented from getting a bad reputation because the actual Reddit site admins themselves came down from the heavens to protect ableism).
Accusing others of faking disorders is, at best, punching sideways. In situations where it is punching up, it’s pretty obvious that it’s punching up. Usually because it’s a rich person doing it.
I want to clarify that this is not about your emotions. Being frustrated at people for faking disorders is reasonable. You are experiencing hurt and, in a way, they have contributed to it. But consider the situation of a worker in a unionized workplace- It’s very similar. Yeah, it is frustrating that you aren’t getting your pay, and I sympathize with that, but the best way to get it is to join the union, not scab.
iirc the “spoons” thing started with (or was popularized by?) a youtube video about mental health, which used an analogy where you start the day with a set number of spoons, and the spoons represent how much mental energy you have to accomplish tasks. During the day, you spend your spoons in various situations, potentially running out of spoons if you overexert yourself. Conditions like depression are said to reduce the number of spoons you start the day with. The analogy helps some people to not beat themselves up for struggling to get through the day.
I just read up on it and its fine if it helps people, but why spoons? It seems to be that anyone so dense they can’t grasp that day to day activities tax your limited reserves probably wouldn’t grasp your weird spoon analogy. Why not use fuel or batteries or money or something else that people would understand as a limited resource necessary for operation?
because the person who thought of it was eating lunch with a friend. They just used what they had on hand to make the point. I think its part of the reason why people use the term. Its cute. It could be more descriptive. But, when talking about sensitive subjects people like a bit of levity. The spoons add that.
I read the story and I can see how it can help people conceptualize their struggles. I guess i just question the utility. If someone doesn’t understand that the pain you feel or lack of energy or whatever often leaves you unable to do everything you want to do, they don’t lack comprehension they lack empathy. The spoons thing seems more like its performative theatre for people who already get it. Which is fine, of course, it just sets my teeth on edge a bit for reasons I can’t really explain. Thank you for clarifying though
Yeah of course. I think it gives you gsa queer or flag wearing queer at pride energy. Like people are going to think its too much. Or too unserious to respect.
Of course, I dont think that but its understandable that it would bring that up.
I have no idea
Cause putting it in videogame terms isn’t gonna work on normal people. If some one put a hand to their head and said OOM. Us internet poisoned people would get it but we aren’t the target audience
I think its like “Spoon fulls” maybe?
This sounds likes something from the 1850s. I feel like using a battery analogy would be more intuitive in the modern day. To me anyway, feeling uncharged throughout the day makes more sense than “running out of spoons”
Oh wow, they drop all pretense the moment anything real happens.
a tiny taste of the oppression Palestinians have faced for decades and she’s ready to abandon support— because she never really supported them, she just wanted to personally excuse her complicity with Zionism by feeling bad about it
but have you considered how their struggle against my oppression might be tough for my mental health?
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Coward.
A pro-Palestine Zionist
I’m a vegetarian polar bear.
A vegan slaughterhouse owner.
It's vegan because we ask every creature for their permission to slaughter them
they never answer, of course, because animals can’t talk, but we at least asked so it’s vegan because i redefined what the word means
An abolitionist slave owner.
This is completely off-topic, but I’m still OOTL on why some screenshots these days have a filter applied to make them look underwater. What’s up with that?
it’s a tumblr thing to indicate disapproval of the post
tumblr pvp is very entertaining
So it’s like a visual tone indicator “look at this garbage I found” without having to use words for the context?
Tumblr users aren’t sophisticated enough to just reply with a picture of a pig with poop on its balls.
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Death to the settler hordes. All of 'em. You have no spoons for their oppression? I have none for your fucking life.
I keep seeing this term, but what does “spoon” mean in this context?
A theoretical unit of mental energy/labor expended per-day.
Interesting, thank you. I thought it was related to the “only a spoonful” meme.
I’m actually wondering … what if Israel instead ended up like post-apartheid South Africa (with or without the Western baggage of IMF reforms and the context of the end of the 1st Cold War)
Land back, from the river to the sea.
I would love to scare the absolute fuck out of this person in public and see what they post about it.
Probably something like this
Eve Fartlow
💨
Never gets old.
Nice way to admit you and your peers gave yourselves PTSD from internet trolling
