Leslie Feinberg on trans exclusion in feminist spaces.
“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”
From TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.
I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day
I take it all back everyone on this site is toxic
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i'm trapped here at work for 9 more hours and the only book i have on hand to read is fucking colleen hoover please pray for me
normally i am morally opposed to bashing other people's writing for fun, but in this case i am making a rare exception because colleen hoover is a bestselling tiktok famous author and i'm just some poor schmuck who had to lug around huge crates of her books every day when i worked at the bookstore. with that disclaimer aside: this book is not good.
the trials and tribulations of being called lily bloom
very normal thing to say to someone you just met 5 minutes ago
help me
i have to assume this is meant to be hot
playing spot the newcomer is easy because they’re the mfs who censor everything
“unalive” “k!ll” you can be free here. loosen up
i dont know how to break this to you but saying the word kill will not influence that
I've got another wild surprise for you about how Tumblr works.
I'm so glad to see @firefox-official can be trusted, thanks to those important blue internet checkmarks
oh my god i just remembered the dream i had last night where king charles died and the british government’s official response was “the public does not need to be subjected to another funeral” and they just put his ass in the ground
googling baby name ideas can honestly be really funny sometimes
my beloved bouncing baby boy, Grenade.
The group chat has decided that since I've only had one sexual relationship and it wasn't a very good one and I've since transitioned, changed my legal name, undergone hormone therapy and now had bottom surgery, that I have ship of theseus'ed my way back to being a virgin
I'm having the weirdest fucking pride month
Just shoot me
You have got to be fucking kidding me
*gets inside your mind*
* makes you gay*
*leaves*
*does not let you leave*
what am i supposed to do in here
do it again. make me gayer.
