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One interesting place on Reddit is r/askhistorians, which does all the things you’re not supposed to do on the internet in 2023, at least not if you want to Promote Engagement. They allow almost no one to post except experts in a field, they expect all claims to be fully sourced, and they will delete comments that don’t meet this standard. It’s not uncommon to go into the thread of 10+ comments and have them all deleted by the automod. And what you get is…a repository of very well-sourced historical information, written by experts.
Obviously that can’t scale to the whole internet and I wouldn’t want it to (and, the historians being human, I’m sure someone reading this has an account of allegedly inexcusable ignorance or bias from someone over there). But it’s interesting to see what things are different when you ignore what you ‘have to’ do and optimize a community for what you want it to do.
just like enamored by this interaction i had yesterday and again today with this old gay man…not to be like ‘oh what a feeling to see someone who has survived’ but literally that & today we actually ended up chatting and he asked me “are you family?” which i didn’t catch at all until he gave me an extremely knowing look (chin tilt, raised eyebrow. and he really just had such a shine about him, too) and i just got flooded with this big stupid feeling thinking about how much he has seen and known…about many things but esp lgbt community as it exists offline and historically & how if i were to ask, and were somehow able to know, there are 1000 different lifetimes in his, i’m sure. his name is leonardo
oh how sad that “family” meaning queer is dying out. that’s always been such a lovely code word.
Reblog for your family
It’s an absolutely beautiful word for us. And also the mafia, so you know. People who aren’t family are left guessing until we give them some rainbow cement shoes
The majority of Americans want protection for transgender people, new poll shows
The current onslaught on transgender people in the US is extreme and destructive, and it is easy to get the impression that most Americans have become rabid transphobes. That is in no way the case.
On April 26 Fox News published a poll that showed that for the most part the majority of Americans do not support the Republican “culture war.”
When asked about the most important issue facing the country today, only 1% answered “Wokeness/Transgender issues”.
The fact that the survey saw wokeness and transgender issues as one and the same thing, says a lot about Fox, but the answer says even more about Americans. Transgender people are not seen as a threat.
So what did Americans see as important? “Economy/Jobs” (24%), obviously, followed by “Inflation/Cost of living” (16%) and “Gun control/Gun violence” (12%).
Targeting families with trans kids is seen as a major problem by Americans
60% of the respondents say that school boards banning books is a major problem. There is no call for censorship of LGBTQA books in schools.
57% say that “Families with transgender children being targets of political attacks” is a major problem. The number for Democrats is 69%, Republicans 43%. Let that sink in for a moment: 43% of Republican voters think the transphobia has gone to far.
Mixed views of trans people
This does not mean that a majority of Americans go all in on the transgender side. We have seen this in other polls too. Americans tend to believe that trans people have the right to live their lives in peace and without harassment, but they are skeptical, for instance, of transgender women’s competing in women’s sports (57%).
However, if we look at this from a glass half full perspective, this means that the Republicans have not managed to turn the argument against trans athletes into a broader support for full fledge anti-trans hate, which is good.
The fact that 48% say that “Overly accommodating transgender policies” is “a major problem” can be seen as serious challenge for trans people. It is. On the other hand, 50% see this as a minor problem or not a problem at all, which tells us – again– that a majority of Americans are not buying the Republican driven moral panic.
Conclusion
This merits repeating: A majority of Americans support trans people’s right to live their lives as they see fit. A great majority of Americans do not buy the Republican war against “wokeness”.
This is a shortened version of an article originally published over at Crossdreamers.
Photo: Дмитрий Ларичев
I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back
I love b&w proper ladies breaking character with “sonofabitch”
“OHH you’re following me, oUUhhh I didn’t know that!”
i hate when people criticise hamlet because the character hamlet is a bad person. like first of all he is not real. and what he is is a representation of grief. the whole point is that grief and depression make you angry and annoying and obsessive and self absorbed. they make you feel like you’re the only person in the world who feels the way you do. they make you take it out on others. hamlet is a manifestation of grief taken to the extreme. and not to assume things about the personal life of a guy who died 400 years ago but. shakespeare wrote hamlet after his son died. hamlet’s flaws were likely taken from his own grief. hamlet isn’t supposed to be a good person he’s supposed to show how unaddressed grief makes you fall apart and hurt people and it’s not always pretty
some tags to illustrate the point
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Image description: a traditional drawing of Merle Highchurch, Magnus Burnsides, and Taako from The Adventure Zone. They're crowded together, and Magnus's arms are slung over Merle and Taako's shoulders. Merle's throwing back his head and laughing affectionately, while Magnus is pressing his chin against the side of Taako's head, closing his eyes as Taako laughs amusedly, pointing forwards.
Merle is a dwarf with dark skin and light hair with a beard, Magnus is a human with light skin, short dark hair, and painted fingernails, and Taako is an elf with dark freckled skin and long, braided curly hair. They wear intricately patterned clothes and are seen from the chests up. End description.
The law allows any medical provider or insurer to deny care based on "ethical, moral, or religious beliefs."
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Disabled people shouldn't have to jump through hoops!!
yall know that post with all of those absolutely stunning crochet flowers? well i just bought a pattern from the shop those are from and Good Fucking Lord.
I was expecting a like a Chart or two, maybe some written instructions. not Seventy Seven full color pages for One type of rose.
this was like 8 bucks???? obviously i did some redacting but Good Lord. if you are even a little bit into crochet go throw money at this absolute Mad woman its Definitely worth it.
back at it almost an entire year later. and i can now confirm she’s this insane in all of her patterns (there’s over 84 of them????) (<compliment)
also quick faq below the cut bc idk, supporting small businesses ran by WOC is important and this lady is rad. I just genuinely love her products and want more people to know about them.
Signs of a heart attack are different for each gender yet we only really teach the male warning signs. Make sure you’re aware of both and spread it to as many other women as possible!
EVERY SINGLE TIME I HAVE TAKEN A CPR CLASS I have had to be that person who points out that the training videos ALWAYS frame the “male” symptoms as the default universal heart attack experience, while the “female” symptoms are framed as though they’re a deviation from the norm, rather than the primary symptom set that cis women experience.
ALSO: I just showed this post to my roommate, who is an MD at a clinic that specializes in care for the LGBT community in the Baltimore area. I asked her whether hormones were responsible for the difference in the “male/female” symptom arrays. I asked how that would apply to her trans patients (which, she treats a LOT of trans patients). She said, basically, that the longer you’ve taken testosterone the more likely you are to get the intense chest pressure and the arm pain, versus the upper back pressure and shortness of breath.
Obviously I am not a doctor myself, consult your own health care provider, etc.
Reblogging this comment because this is the FIRST TIME I’ve ever seen someone address what XYZ medical condition would look like in trans patients. Also this is partly why my great-grandma died: the (male) doctor dismissed her heart attack as basically indigestion, because she didn’t have the typical male symptoms.
Oh my God someone was able to answer the trans patient question!
so you think you can stone miette and spit in miette’s eye?? so you think you can love miette and leave miette to DIE?? oh mother!! can’t do this to me mother!!!
All memes left on tumblr for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Queen
“Source? Can you provide a literal example of-” No! No, I don’t always have the concrete citations of what I believe to be morally correct in my back pocket. No, in my focus on keeping my own offline life together I haven’t taken the time to collate a meticulous syllabus on this one specific subject that you weren’t going to read anyway in preparation for the Big Online Debate I didn’t want to have. No, I’m not constantly armed and ready to defend my beliefs to the death every time I log on for my afternoon doomscroll on some app whose whole business model for continued relevance relies on making everyone forget that this isn’t a normal fucking way of talking to each other
























