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some palettes used from these flag edits (thanks julien ☆)
"DNI: freaks" do you realize how conservative you look
freaks please interact
this is the first time one of my posts has been tagged like this and out of all of them i think id be glad if this one got 100k. because firstly i need to find my fellow freaks but also we need to shame people who are anti-freak because like. why do you hate to live deliciously
"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
This also goes for academia. It might be faster for people on the ground but reseach takes time and this is often well behind the movement regardless of their intent
also if you wanna combat the "women in the past only crossdressed because of misogyny!" you have GOTTA read chapter 11 in Transgender Warriors where leslie feinberg does such a good job constructing an argument against this kind of radfem reductionism
""No wonder you've passed as a man! This is such an anti-woman society," a lesbian friend told me. To her, females passing as males are simply trying to escape women's oppression- period. She believes that once true equality is achieved in society, humankind will be genderless. I don't have a crystal ball, so I can't predict human behavior in the distant future. But I know what she's thinking- if we can build a more just society, people like me will cease to exist. She assumes that I am simply a product of oppression. Gee, thanks so much."
"First, let's talk about who can pass as another sex. My same friend reminds me periodically that she too might have passed as a men a century ago to escape women's oppression. She stares right past my gender expression as she speaks. [...] I don't want to burst her bubble. Everyone deserves untrammeled dreams. But I want to tell her that, in the dead of winter, if she was bundled up against the cold, with a hood or hat covering her head, some man in a deli might call her "sir." But could she pass as male on a board ship, sleeping with and sharing common facilities with her fellow sailors for decades and not be discovered? Of course, hundreds of thousands of women have dreamed of escaping the economic and social inequities of their lives, but how many could live as a man for a decade or a lifetime? While a woman could throw on men's clothing and pass as a man for safety on dark roadways, could she pass as a man at an inn where men slept together in the same beds? Could she maintain her identity in daylight? Pass the scrutiny of co-workers? Would she really feel safer and more free? How could females have lived and been accepted as men without hormones or surgery? They must have been masculine; they must have been trans-gendered. If they were not, how could they pass? We don't know how each of the thousands who passed from female to male over the centuries would define themselves today- whether as transgender or transsexual or drag or any other modern definition. The point is that their gender expression allowed them to transition. I just don't believe that the debate about why "women pass as men" can be understood only in the light of women's, or of lesbian and gay, oppression. It has to be viewed in the context of trans history in order to make sense."
"Look at George Sand, the nineteenth-century novelist. It's true that she could not have published without a male nom de plume at that time. But if that's all there was to her identity, why did she wear men's clothing? Why was she attacked for masculine behavior? And if it was just a question of lesbian oppression, what was she doing in bed with Chopin? If passing from female to male is simply motivated by the need to escape lesbian oppression, then why have females who have passed as males chosen other men as lovers?"
"Finally, if so many females have passed as men only to escape women's oppression, then why have so many males passed as women? While it is biologically easier for a female to pass as a young boy than for a male to pass as a woman, there are many, many examples in the modern era of those who passed from male to female."
"We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly. When we are denied those rights, we are the ones who suffer that oppression. But when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society. I have lived as a man because I could not survive openly as a transgendered person. Yes, I am oppressed in this society, but I am not merely product of oppression. That is a phrase that renders all our trans identities meaningless. Passing means having to hide your identity in fear, in order to live. Being forced to pass is a recent historical development. It is passing that is a product of oppression."
Anonymous asked:
It is a good thing that they saw him as his true gender. Most trans women can’t experience that. That’s literally your friend experiencing male privilege, he is seen as the gender he says he is and that gender is male
i........... genuinely don't even know what to say anymore.
for context, this is in reference to a response to an ask where i mentioned my friend, who is black trans man, being told that he should consider it "affirming" to experience more police surveillance and violence. i seriously cannot fucking wrap my brain around how utterly disconnected from the real world you have to be to assert that a black person experiencing more police violence is not only good but privilege?????? like. how do we come back from this? how in the world are we supposed to redirect discourse that has gone this far off track? i am genuinely at a loss here.
Ohhey that's me. If you're passing by this post I encourage you to peek at the original tag because it often feels like I was put on this earth to tell off naïve white people for their unexamined, implicitly colonial worldviews. Got plenty good essays I wanna put in there soon but I'm very tired and also trying to wrangle enough good, freely-accessible papers to cite inline.
for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you'll never guess who it's about
I laughed for a good 20 seconds after clicking the link. Very good op. 10/10, but I wouldn’t do it again.
hey guys could you share and/or donate to my gofundme so i don't end up in debt for having cancer thanks lol
oh and here are all my money-app usernames if you'd rather do that
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Hi everyone, just sharing this around again. I've raised a few hundred bucks so far, which has been helpful, but I'm still trying to reach my goal.
I'm in the middle of my first round of chemo treatments right now, and so far I'm not experiencing any significant side-effects. Hoping that doesn't change, but we'll see!
Hey so if a function f is periodic with period p, that means f(x)=f(x+kp) for all x∈ℝ and k∈ℤ.
Is there a term like, "rationally periodic" or something, where I could say a function f having "rational period" p means f(x)=f(x+qp) for all x∈ℝ and q∈ℚ? Is there a word for this?
I think I correctly assumed the definition of "rationally periodic" when I read it so I think it works, but now that i'm thinking about how such a function would actually behave it's a bit like asking your mutuals if there's "a good word for when you titanum weld a live chicken" and not saying why. I could give you a simple yes or no but the premise is so unusual I'm dying to know what the hell is going on
Where did you get the set symbols my guy?
Keyboard shortcuts, I've got lots of them.
yes you're a leftist and you reblog posts that say "yes you're a leftist but are you normal about trans men" but are you actually normal about trans men
Hey so if a function f is periodic with period p, that means f(x)=f(x+kp) for all x∈ℝ and k∈ℤ.
Is there a term like, "rationally periodic" or something, where I could say a function f having "rational period" p means f(x)=f(x+qp) for all x∈ℝ and q∈ℚ? Is there a word for this?
I think I correctly assumed the definition of "rationally periodic" when I read it so I think it works, but now that i'm thinking about how such a function would actually behave it's a bit like asking your mutuals if there's "a good word for when you titanum weld a live chicken" and not saying why. I could give you a simple yes or no but the premise is so unusual I'm dying to know what the hell is going on
Where did you get the set symbols my guy?
message to cis allies: buying your trans friend lunch will do much more good for the trans community than debating transphobes who will not change their minds publicaly on social media and making all your trans followers see how much people hate them over and over again
if you base your trans allyship more on fighting with idiots than supporting and loving the trans community you may want to rethink things a little. bc i tend to get sick of when my cis friends want to talk more about how many people hate me than anything else about my transness.
Effective solutions come from the love of people, not from the hate of systems
Apparently some people think America Ferrera's speech in the Barbie movie is "corny" or "obvious" or something like that. But here's my personal perspective
First thing out of the way: I am nonbinary. I am not a woman. I am AFAB, though, and was therefore socialized like a girl and young woman, even if I felt like those words never really applied to me. Most of the time, though, other people who don't know me will see me as a woman. It's whatever.
No, this movie is not saying anything new. It is not a groundbreaking statement to say women face all these exhausting contradictions that cause them to bend over backwards to do the slightest thing.
But I don't think it's supposed to be groundbreaking. I don't think most people at the Barbie movie are going to have a huge revelation because America Ferrera said something that never heard or thought before. In the context of the movie, the character is speaking to a literal doll who has only recently learned that the real world is kinda shitty for a lot of people. Because this doll is literally something little girls project on, and little girls very often grow into women who deal with this shit. Yes, this is feminism 101, because it's speaking to a character who, until a day ago, lived in a matriarchal society where she never HAD to learn feminism 101. The oppression she faces is literally new to her!
And let's not forget that this is being said by a Latina woman in a blockbuster film. How often do you see that? She describes herself as a "boring mom with a boring job," and then she gets to rant about the fact that she's expected to always be extraordinary, but at the end of it all, she just wants her daughter to love her back and have a good day. And because of that, she's the hero of Barbieland!
Yes, it's cheesy. No, it's not subtle in the slightest. But sometimes, it's nice to hear someone say the words out loud.
And honestly, if you're going into the Barbie movie expecting subtlety, that's on you.
ah spoilers but i genuinely think the majority of the real feminism actually happens in the final scenes of the movie, not in this part of the movie.
the "feminism 101" part of the movie, as you said - is still groundbreaking when a latina gets to say her piece to an actually-receptive crowd. nobody interrupts her. nobody shouts her down. she says her piece, and it's correct, and it saves the day.
also (like you said!), in the context of the movie: these women never actually needed feminism 101 until then, because the influence of the patriarchy literally hadn't even been known to the world. ken brings an invasive species into the world, one without any natural defenses. these women need basic feminism because they haven't had to battle injustice in the same way. this is also notably not framed as the climax of the movie.
because i think the climax might be barbie - stereotypical barbie - turning away from an idyllic world of basic feminism ... and accepting something else entirely. she has seen the humanity of the real world (that first moment with the old woman) and she knows it is loud and obnoxious and strange and complicated. and then she turns to her creator (a woman!), and she asks her creator: can i be a person?
feminism 101 is "it is hard to be a lady!" and "i am woman, hear me roar!" ...and it is still occasionally exceptionality. it is still assuming we are all powerful and smart and brave and supermom whatever else. but sometimes you are just 30 and bad at math and you're still a fucking person. feminism isn't just "women can be presidents" it's women can be failures. they can be cruel, manipulative, violent. because women are humans.
a woman's personhood shouldn't rely on how palatable she is. you shouldn't have to be white and thin and pretty and pouty with bouncy hair and margot's face in order to be taken seriously. being a woman is also the """"ugly"""" parts that men fucking hate thinking about - being a woman is also hair caught in a zipper and eye gunk and sweat stains and and blood chunks and cellulite and ripped earlobes and yes going to the gynecologist.
the final scene of the movie isn't a woman who accepts her role as president or who is gleefully ready to try to rebuild society: it's a human person having to deal with her human body. it is her Creator giving her the same choice she was given at the start of the movie - perfection, feminism 101, the ideal! ... or mortality, and just having to be a person inside of the patriarchy, every single fucking day.
and this time... barbie chooses the world where it is hard, and ugly, and painful. she chooses the hard way.
and that's a kind of feminism i think... like. might have gone unnoticed. that's all i am trying to say.
New year, new deathclaugust, continuing on at twenty three with Gemstone! A very rare process of living mineralization, and one that has few seen specimens as most never make it to hatching due to their organs being petrified. Lucky survivors only have it affect scale growth.
Bismuth called, it wanted to thanks for getting its mineral structure right.
I really hate to say this, but it is genuinely to the point where ANY AFAB person who still identifies as female (to any degree) will get called a TERF for being female, and for talking about sex based oppression - the very real thing that they face.
And the thing is, this is largely the fault of the TERFs. They've got people genuinely confused as to what is and is not feminism.
TERFs have people so wound up that they see someone identifying as female or talking about sexism and sex-based oppression and immediately just call that person a TERF.
So I would like to say, resoundingly: Fuck TERFs. Fuck you for muddying the waters so much that you've basically made everyone more sexist than they were before.
And I fear it was the goal. To REINFORCE patriarchal norms and making sexism "hip and trendy".
I don't agree that this was the goal of radical feminists, and I don't think it was the goal of trans exclusionary radical feminists. Because they are feminists - they're just feminists who are deathly afraid of destroying the sex binary.
But that is a central and structural force of the the patriarchy. You can’t destroy the patriarchy without destroying the binary both as the construction of two genders and the logic that joins the two. To uphold either of them is to uphold the patriarchal.
Although I suppose that it would generally uphold any gender hierarchy but the patriarchy is what exists.
emergency post
iris needs $1000 to get around in philly, get food, find accommodations for them to stay at for an extended period of time in only 3 hours from now. this is a huge emergency please share around anywhere you can they have lupus and absolutely cannot be out on the street in this heat.
they made it somewhere else and are now safe. thanks everyone for your help. please don't hesitate to send more just because they're safe now—their situation is very unstable and they've been food insecure for weeks now.
once again i'm asking if anyone has a solution to their housing instability please reach out to them, the housing always takes up a lot of their money and time on top of medical bills from repeated hospitalizations for adrenal insufficiency and medications for lupus management. they're at a point where the lupus's attacks on their nervous system are going to start pushing them into mortal danger and stress does NOT help.
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Turns out if you have felt and thread you can just make a guy
Hhhmmmmm.
I have two thoughts
- Covid?
- I’ve been seeing a lot of wierd YouTube ads about fungi lately
i liked the nimona movie BUT i wish the adaptation had kept ambrosius’s long hair and also the evil science
Lately I've seen a lot of terfs go "Man, a ton of people in our community are just straight up being misogynistic or other flavors of bigot and focus way more on hating trans people than actually supporting women"
And it's so wild seeing someone come this 🤏 close to having a realization and still miss it
IT'S SO FUNNY IT'S LIKE GIRL OPEN UR EYES!!!!
I think you really got to Hobbie Brown that shit.
For context: Hobbie —> Miles not Hobbie —> Miguel.