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if america had a fursona it would be a smug punchable eagle
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.
Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.
Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.
When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?
Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?
moonymango
Omg, it’s the Equality House!
Like, this house is a beautiful big fuck you to homophobes, specifically the West Boro Baptist Church. Why?
It’s literally across the street from them.
It was bought, on purpose. Painted in rainbow, on purpose. How was it paid? By Aaron Jackson’s Planting Peace foundation.
They have hosted lemonade stands for LGBT fundraisers, had gay wedding ceremonies, etc. They are naturally targeted with anti-LGBT graffiti and worse but so far didn’t give a fuck.
BONUS:
They have a glorious next-door neighbor btw: Transgender House
How did that happen? Once per year, equality house gets painted in transexual colors for a week. One special person saw that and desired a permanent one.
An 8 year old trans girl did a fundraiser (online as well as with a local lemonade stand). And as we can see: the community agreed with her.
I’m op and I stole this meme from a friend for notes but this is actually super cool thank you
Indian Black Narrowmouth Frog aka "Space Frog" (Melanobatrachus indicus), family Microhylidae, Munnar, Kerala, India
photograph by Hadlee Renjith
Look, I think it is important that as many people as possible see these phenomenal photos of Melanobatrachus indicus, because they are damn rare, but truly spectacular.
If anyone wants to know my favourite frog, this is probably in the top five.
I'll admit that this one has cemented itself in my psyche
if tumblr ever starts forcing us to censor kill and die and murder and fuck and cunt and fag i’m deleting my account and starting an email chain with the mutuals
Wait I just thought about it and it might be cute to bring back wholesome church camp swear-swaps like frick,heck, jeez, mothertrucker. Sometimes the way ppl post we might need a lil. Swear jar,,
absolutely fucking not.
I still use "heck" depending on the context. "Heckin cute" just sounds more wholesome than "Fucking cute". It's all in the tone.
Also it's sometimes so much funnier to use non swears.
I still think about that scene from Night In The Woods where (spoilers) Mae has a near death experience and a mascot shark in the darkness says "You've been Danged to Heck" and laugh about it.
You're all missing the point luvs 💚 peace and love
"No guys don't worry getting censored is like, soooooo fun we can have sleepover activities like making up words that are less impactful to not upset advertisers " SHUT the fuck up please
A national health service and a full care system, a right to housing...
No wonder the Economist is terrified.
i just FIND IT INTERESTING that the people who say transmisandry is a unique and real and important to discuss form of oppression dont ever talk about, say, misandrynoir or society's hatred of disabled men or fat men or any other intersections being "misandry" and the experiences of other oppressed groups.
It makes exactly 0% sense to treat "misandry" as a real locus of oppression that can intersect with other oppressions only in the context of talking about trans men, and never doing it with anything else.
Black men sure as fuck experience racism in a very particular way. but to date ive never heard someone attempt to call that the intersection between misandry and anti-Blackness, because misandry doesn't fucking exist.
either you believe misandry is a thing or your dont. if you dont think misandry is real, transmisandry as a concept is completely nonsensical. if you dont understand this please read about what intersectionality actually is and how it works and stop co-opting the scholarship of a Black woman legal scholar in order to complain about how there are more trans femme serial killers in movies than trans masc ones or whatever the hell you think youre being left out of.
most of the transmisandry posters are white trans men with a self-victimization complex who cant imagine they have both some very genuine experiences of oppression (transphobia or transmisia, whatever you wanna call it) and also significant privileges. its just so fucking transparent it makes me want to join my chinchilla in chewing the walls
Literally every major post about transandrophobia/transmisandry has been written by men of color, disabled men, fat men, and transmascs with intersecting identities talking about the unique ways that they experience more than "just run of the mill transphobia" because it is specifically directed at them for being masculine or men! like what the fuck are you talking about?
I know you don't actually give a shit so this isn't the point, but there's substantial scholarship on topics like
- Butchphobia
- Antimasculism
- RACISM DIRECTED AT MEN because they are men
Trans men and transmacs face a weird version of misognyny either for being assumed to be a woman, or, because people know they aren't, but think they are being women "wrong." But this type of misogyny isn't terribly compatible with the term "transmisogny" so there needs to be language to account for it.
Likewise, trans men and trans women alike who are seen as predatory men are not in that instance specifically being targeted for being women, they are being targeted for being/seeming like men. It's transphobia...and something else.
Black men being targeted for being "predatory" are very specifically gone after because the "man" part is important in the equation. It's racism...and something else.
I hesitate to even direct you to people talking about it, cause I don't doubt you or others would just shit on them, but holy hell, you are supremely off the mark and like two seconds venture into the tag would direct you to these minority men discussing this shit.
Ohhhh I feel like I could get bingo from this post, we've got:
Calling all trans men talking about their problems white (guess I'm white now also the guy who coined the currently-most-popular term isn't white either but y'all LOVE pretending that he is)
Using intersectionality as a bludgeon while dramatically misunderstanding what intersectionality is
Lecturing about black theory that blatantly DOES talk about these things but ignoring the parts that are inconvenient to acknowledge because white people LOVE to play scrapbook with basically any black content
Guess I don't exist because I talk about marginalized cis men all the fucking time and people keep quoting my posts even when I tell them not to
Saying that an oppressed population has a victim complex sounds an awful lot like white complaints about "pulling the race card" to my black ears
Downplaying the problems often spoken about (real actual violence such as rapes beatings and killings, suicide statistics, forced detransition, erasure contributing to keeping many trans men firmly in the closet or from even knowing they can be transgender, domestic violence, extreme isolation, lack of medical science knowledge, as well as facing societal and medical misogyny and being forced into silence about it) as "you're just complaining you don't see yourselves in fictional media" is an interesting choice
Even if it WAS a representation conversation, are we now saying representation DOESN'T matter??? Because to date in 30 years of life I have still only seen a single trans masc character on screen if I wasn't actively seeking out lgbt media, and that was back in 2014. He is a side character in a videogame with a handful of lines and the option to kill him off which roughly half of the players of that game did. Seeing trans men in media would have helped me dramatically in figuring myself out instead of me needing to be talked out of killing myself for being a broken and useless woman at 13.
Is this really the line you want to draw? You see a population crying out in pain that we want to stop hurting and stop dying and we want to make sure the future generations see themselves and know they're not beyond hope before it's too late, and you decide instead of listening and helping that you'd rather mock and deride? That's wild to me.
Imagine actually being so evil that you'd rather make sure your writers suffer financially instead of just paying them the pay they deserve. Hell truly has some seats reserved already, holy shit.
Okay everyone you can stop asking me for a masterpost of all my spotify playlists now (fr tho it really warned my heart that so many people love them omg 🥰🥰🥰🥰)
And of course I have learned my lesson on posting these without a link I will never do that again, here's my profile and all of them will are public for ya
This pride and all year long, I want to give a shout out to us fat queer people
To fat queer people who never get to see representation of themselves because the vast majority of queer representation is of thin people
To fat queer people who have to put ten times the effort into their gender expression just to be viewed as 10% of their gender
To fat queer people who get misgendered no matter how they look
To fat queer people who can never present how they want to anyway because affirming clothes in their size are either nonexistent, triple the price, or terrible quality
To fat asexuals who are believed even less about their identity because they're told it's just a matter of "no one wanting to have sex with them"
To fat aromantics who aren't respected because their aromanticism is viewed as "No one loved you anyway"
To fat gay people who have their identities denied because "You just couldn't find a man/woman who wanted you"
To fat nonbinary people whose bodies are viewed in the queer community as inherently gendered and incapable of being androgynous
To fat binary trans people who are always viewed as whatever gender hurts them most
To fat trans people who are denied surgeries due to medical fatphobia, have difficulty finding products like binders in their size, are told that thinness is a must to "pass" as their gender, and have their bodies weaponized by terfs
To fat queer people who are viewed as "cringe" for the crime of existing as fat and queer
To fat queer people who can't even buy pride merchandise without having to worry if their size will be offered and then have to pay more than thin queer people just to show their queer pride
To fat queer people who developed eating disorders due to the fatphobia peddled by their own communities
To fat queer people whose identities are partially influenced or entirely caused by the fatphobia they have experienced for years and decades
To fat queer people who are forced by fellow queer people into sexual positions they're uncomfortable with, such as topping, just because they're bigger and have stereotypes forced onto their body
To fat queer people who joined a relationship and experienced sexual trauma because their partner only wanted to humiliate a fat person and ignore your boundaries
To fat queer people who only see themselves in queer porn as a tool for the humiliation of thin queer people who dared to have sex with a fat person or never see your body in sexual content at all
To fat femmes who are viewed as butch no matter what they do because their fatness is gendered against their will
To fat butches who don't feel able to experiment with femininity if they want to
To fat queer people who have an even harder time finding a partner in the queer community because of rampant fatphobia
To fat queer people who have had to hear "No fats, no femmes"
To fat queer people who are constantly told they're not "truly oppressed" because they "don't have it as bad as [X queer identity]"
To fat intersex people who have to deal with strangers believing they're an expert on your body because fat people can't have knowledge about how their own bodies work
To fat queer people who can't even trust that other queer people fighting for equality won't use fat bodies as symbolism for immoral behaviors and beliefs
To fat queer people who can't rely on doctors who accept queer identities to not still discriminate against them because of medical fatphobia
To fat queer people who don't believe they can be loved without being fetishized
To fat queer people whose queer identities are viewed even more as a fetish because their bodies are viewed as a fetish
To fat queer people who took way longer to realize they're queer because they never saw any queer representation that included them
And to so, so, so many other fat people with experiences of fatphobia in the queer community
You all belong. You are the identities you say you are. You do not make the queer community "look bad" just because fatphobes want to use our bodies as weapons for fatphobia and queerphobia. You deserve to be respected and have representation. You deserve to not be treated as an afterthought.
We are queer, and our experiences matter.
“ To fat femmes who are viewed as butch no matter what they do because their fatness is gendered against their will “
I have been in a ballgown and opera gloves and curled my hair and pink makeup on the full 9 as fem as I could ever get. I was still asked to be ‘the man/lead’ when going to the event.
I fucking feel this so bad. I'm so sorry. You are not less femme than a thin person no matter what shit people say to you, and I promise you that
btw centering gynecological health around being "afab" rather than being a "woman" is barely an improvement. not everyone assigned female was born with or still has a uterus/vagina/vulva. not everyone assigned male wasn't born with or doesn't have a uterus/vagina/vulva.
not caring if people think you're stupid is a life hack. recognising that you are kind of stupid is an even bigger life hack. we build entire societies to take care of each other bc we're all kind of stupid. it's fine.
actually I don't think I like the posts that say that transmascs who go "you wanna be oppressed soooo bad" to other transmascs are all otherwise-privileged white/abled/etc. assholes who don't experience oppression personally so they assume nobody else does either.
like.
look.
I get the urge to reason it that way, and I definitely agree that a lot of the folks saying that AREN'T marginalized along a lot of other axes. A lot of the people speaking FOR acknowledgement of transandrophobia are marginalized in other ways too, and that's for a reason, and it's incredibly important to acknowledge. and dismissing that oppression, assuming everyone talking about this is just privileged and whiny, absolutely erases the very real oppression- and marginalized identities- of those people.
and. and.
"you've just never experienced it because you're only oppressed as a trans man and that's basically nothing" is a bad argument, it's provably not true, and it actively works against what we're trying to fight for in the first place.
talk to these people for a moment, and hear what they're really saying:
"my suffering isn't as bad as anyone else's. it doesn't deserve to be talked about."
"we're taking up too much space."
"we're taking resources, attention, and support from the people who actually deserve it."
"we have to know our place. we have to shut up and listen. we have to put ourselves in harm's way to protect everyone else, because we don't deserve safety."
this is not "I've never experienced oppression before so neither have you", and this is not exclusive or unique to transmascs who don't experience a lot of other intersecting marginalizations.
this is what people say when they're hurting, and they believe they deserve it.
it fucking sucks when they project that onto everyone else, and when they allow that to become so loud that they won't listen to people who are hurting and need help just because validating their hurt would validate their own. a lot of them are real pieces of shit who do real harm, and who really fucking suck. you don't have to like them, and you don't have to put up with that behavior, and you don't have to be their friend.
but fuck, y'all, we have got to preserve the humanity in this conversation. they deserve kindness and support, they deserve to have their pain acknowledged, and they need the help just like everyone else does. that they refuse to see that is the problem. someone needs to see it for them.
we're fighting for them, too.