Stuff and things (a Zander tumbler)

isuggestlandback:

vehiculartheyslaughter:

identitty-dickruption:

I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country

this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you

the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:

• inherently dangerous
• uninhabitable
• empty

this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism

@isuggestlandback any thoughts?

I have a suggestion

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cipheramnesia:

elodieunderglass:

cricketcat9:

dchan87:

ralfmaximus:

triquizzies:

ampervadasz:

Unmute !

these guys are vicious predators btw

birb with revirb

This is also where the generic “jungle” sounds in movies come from

He has a lot to say

Hear him out!

As if we have a choice

I get to hear these things sometimes from the comfort of my own bedroom ^.^

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geekandmisandry:

geekandmisandry:

I feel like I need to remind people that I am Australian. You cannot insult me by calling me a cunt.

A cunt is who I am, by nature. You, by not being Australian, merely adapted to the cunt. I was born from cunt, into cunt, by a cunt. The daughter of a cunt, the sister of a mad cunt, a grandchild of a cunt so powerful she put Liz Taylor to shame with her many marriages.

You cannot try and shoot me with confetti, with bubbles, with feathers or lacy, gently wafting curtains. A gun loaded with cunt cannot harm me. You could send a nuclear cunt to destroy my whole country and we would warm ourselves under the glow of that cunty radiation.

Coming onto my post and being funnier than me is still illegal, even if you leave it in the tags.

doubleca5t:

captain-athos:

thinkig about when the 2000s olympics was in sydney and these two comedians introduced an unofficial mascot called fatso the fat arsed wombat which looked like this

and everybody in australia just started acting like he was the official olympic mascot to the point where ppl were winning gold medals and bringing a plushie of him up to the podium

and the olympic committee got so mad about it they had to implement all these bans to try and preserve the integrity of the games or whatever but literally nobody else gave a shit so he just kept . showing up everywhere

This is the most Australian thing I’ve ever seen. Deeply unserious country. Troll capital of the world.

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do-you-have-a-flag:

apas-95:

apas-95:

i’ve been staying with family in australia for a bit and this cannot be a real fucking country

SLONKING THAT SHIT SILLY STYLE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU FROM MELANOMA

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seravph:

seravph:

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

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transexualmothman:

bough-and-arrowx-deactivated202:

fearsomeandwretched:

Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there’s such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don’t

This shouldn’t be hidden in tags!

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#you can’t reconcile the feminist idea that men and women are equals with acting like they’re different species

#the feminist idea that women are more than their reproductive systems with the one that womanhood is defined by a reproductive system

#the feminist idea that women don’t need to adhere to arbitrary standards of femininity with the one that they do or they aren’t women

#the feminist idea that women are allowed to have body hair and be tall or muscular with the one that they’re to be scrutinized if they are

#the feminist idea that women as equals to men should be allowed to compete with them with the one that both must always be separated

#i can not consider terfism to be feminism in any fucking way

#and don’t say ‘no true scotsman’ that’s not it

#i don’t consider feminists for the same reason i don’t consider the democratic people’s republic of korea a democracy #or nazism socialism. having feminist in their name does not mean their ideas are automatically feminist

#i’ve yet to meet a terf that actually cares about women more than about hating on trans folk

#there is no feminist belief that can come from someone who views women as vaginas with legs that are too frail to do anything men do

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duck-lord-of-the-colour-spectrum:

aufigirl:

oopsishittedagain:

avengethewholockians:

420goku:

420goku:

MY DAD GAVE ME A GOLDEN GAYTIME IVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER

I DIDNT REALISE HOW THIS MIGHT SOUND TO NON-AUSTRALIANS IM REALLY SORRY

i feel like you australians are just fucking with us now

THIS ANCIENT AUSSIE POST IS BACK

REBLOGING THIS FOR THE DECADE

WOOOOH! Great icecream.

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kaeebonrai:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

deathsmallcaps:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

Foreigners tend to assume that the big cultural confusions between Australians and most other countries are gonna be based on our food, or social services, or weather, or weird animals. But it’s never that. In my experience, the real cultural confusions re: Australians are about The Respect Thing almost one hundred per cent of the time.

? I realize im proving your point but what

The broader Australian culture doesn’t, as a whole, have status-based respect. Some individual groups might, because they’ve brought it from other cultures they’re involved in, but the general culture doesn’t. There’s no sense that your boss or scout leader or the guy in charge of your country deserves more respect than you, or that you should behave differently to them than you would to any random person you know similarly well. (The very rare exceptions include ritualised settings, such as courtrooms, and for some reason the fact that children use “Miss/Ms/Mr” honourifics for teachers at school.) 

I don’t mean Australians are a “stick it to the man, fight back against those in power” kind of people – we’re generally not. And I don’t mean we have a “we’re going to do the status thing but pretend we don’t and pretend to all be equal in mixed company” thing that middle-class Americans do. I mean the status-respect system does not exist, and if you try to use it, it weirds people the fuck out at best, and insults them at worst. Treating someone most countries would say is ‘above’ you differently in Australia is basically telling that person that you hate them; it’s saying “I’m forced to interact with you due to our current circumstances but I don’t see you as a person and won’t grant you the basic respect of treating you like an equal”. (When I was in America, I was constantly suppressing the instinct that random service people were sassing me because they overuse honourifics and were so keen to help me.)

This makes interacting with foreigners really baffling in a lot of circumstances. In university, my international friends would often describe Australians as “friendly, but very rude”. They thought we were all arseholes because of the way we spoke to our PhD supervisors and soforth, and wouldn’t believe us when we explained that our behaviour was respectful and that being deferential would be weird and awkward and insulting to them. Learning Japanese had a similar problem; everyone in the class could get the concept of different levels of formality and deference in language, ans was happy to memorise the usage of various words for Japanese people, but using them on each other was super weird, and we’d only ever use the most casual form of anything unless specifically instructed otherwise by the teacher.

The reason I’ve been thinking of this lately is because I’ve recently become aware that a lot of countries have like… a special respect for their country’s leaders? I don’t just mean “yeah, that guy makes the rules”, but that having that office makes them better than everyone else, somehow. Which I expect from countries with royal families, because Tradition, but I’ve recently found that Americans feel this way about their President, too. (Except the current one, who seems to be enough of a dick to break the system.) Like, if six Americans were in an aeroplane that was going down and there was only one parachute and one of the Americans was A Generic Non-Trump President, it’s just assumed that that guy gets the parachute? Like he’s automatically the life worth saving over the others, and they’d just give up their chance in favour of him? And that’s so weird to me. An Australian prime minister would have a 1 in 6 chance at the parachute; however the people decided, “this guy happens to be the leader of the country” wouldn’t be a factor. 

When Americans don’t like a President, they usually feel the need to work in how he’s “not my president”, either through sheer denial, or by finding some way he’s theoretically illegitimate (different ways votes are counted, wild conspiracy theories about birth country, etc.), and while making sure those rules are obeyed IS extremely important, I’ve recently noticed that part of the motivation seems to be that they’re invested in whether he’s Really The President because being the President somehow makes someone Special rather than just a normal dick who’s been put in charge of the group project. (You see the same thing in “THIS IS TRUMP’S AMERICA!”, like him becoming President gives him superpowers or something).

This is getting off-topic. Point is, in Australia you can run into the Prime Minister and ask him to help you fix your phone and if he’s not busy but refused to help you out he’d be kind of a dick; of course he should help you out. And if I walk into your restaurant and you act like I’m a movie star and you’re going to be super attentive to my every need because I’m The Customer, I’m gonna get creeped out. We’re suspicious and insulted by what most people in the world consider to be basic manners, and vice versa. And it makes interacting with foreigners super weird because I always feel like they’ve got some invisible heirarchical flowchart in the back of their minds that I don’t.

I also run into this a *lot* with Americans that run communities or forums, etc, online, or even random on social media - there’s this invisible concept of status some Americans carry with them and they get extremely upset when I just don’t see it / acknowledge it, its weird and tbh, its so very toxic - but they see *me* as the rude one

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