and wow it’s surprising how fucking quickly people forget how fucking often gay cis men and trans women were conflated for one another that a character like Him from PPG can be a huge damaging stereotype that affects both marginalised groups
So when someone points to media that predates the 2010s of a problematic character and calls the presentation transphobic, your instinct should NOT to go “Well actually sweaty,,,, the character is obviously just a cis man using gay stereotypes not transphobia so it’s homophobic not transphobic”.
Because while they’re not the same, homophobia and transphobia has ALWAYS fucking occupied the same space in mainstream media for deviating outside of expected gender norms ESPECIALLY when the shitty characters have been made by privileged people who never had to experience that kind of violence in their god damn lives.
You can never separate homophobia and transphobia enough to say one can’t implicate the other especially when it comes from straight cis people. THIS is why it is so fucking important to remember that sexual and gender identity needs solidarity in this shitty fucking world when the people beating us down don’t fucking care about the specifics.
gay culture is wearing the same flannel twice because closed flannel and open flannel with a t shirt underneath are two completely different outfits
when ur going on a trip and u put flannel, a tshirt, and jeans in your bag and you’re like das 3 entirely different outfits right there (tshirt + jeans, flannel + jeans, tshirt + flannel + jeans).
Wait don’t forget about the very important fourth outfit: t-shirt and jeans with flannel tied around waist
And like just so it gets said: *part* of the damage of reblogging innocuous posts that were written by TERFs (or REGs) are because often, they aren’t actually innocuous. You just missed the tip-off. The secret buzzword.
Just because you didn’t recognize the violent language doesn’t mean the target didn’t.
So what happens is, you reblog a post that looks like a chill positivity post – and a trans person, or a bi person, or an NB person, or an ace or aro person, now has violent targeted language on their dash that you mistook for being just pro-woman or pro-gay. Language THEY recognize and are wounded by. Language that reminds them that people who hate them are all around them.
So it’s not even purely an issue of “no platforming” shitheads – checking the OP and not reblogging TERFs is also a security measure against sharing violent language that you don’t recognize yourself.
this is a big part of why “stealing this post bc OP was a terf” is just comical levels of Missing The Fucking Point
Good posts to steal from TERFs: software tips, cute animal appreciation, screencaps and transcriptions of general-interest offsite content (although if it’s a Twitter thread or something go over it with a fine-toothed comb, and if it’s a news article check that it’s not from a dodgy source.)
Bad posts to steal from TERFs: anything to do with intracommunity discourse or gender and sexuality. Honestly, why risk it? Even if the thesis is a super obvious idea like “patriarchy exists” they’ll have found some way to plant some fucking creepy coded message in it.
you ever have 8,045 bad mental health days in a row
you ever have 8,046 bad mental health days in a row
thats 22 years of bad mental health are you okay
you ever have 8,050 bad mental health days in a row
They’re deactivated now and I really hope they are okay, but my nihilism is telling me something else. 😦
nah i just changed urls a few times. i came out and transitioned, graduated college, and got an amazing girlfriend who lights up my life. i had to delete the queued update to this post that said 8400 days for my 23rd birthday because i’m in a really good place right now.
to everyone struggling: it really does get better.
Before you actually start reading communist theory you assume it’s gonna all be about violent revolution and setting cops on fire but in reality most of it’s like… just descriptions of intuitive and efficient ways to organize society. It’s stuff that doesn’t feel like it should be radical, but stuff that politicians, urban planners, etc. should already be doing (and then you realize that they aren’t and it’s incredibly frustrating).
Like, consolidating industry so redundant work isn’t done by multiple privately owned companies working towards the same end (eg. Google and Amazon both trying to develop AI competitively rather than just letting computer scientists work together and share research) just makes sense. Equally distributing the amount of work available solves the twin problems of unemployment and overemployment (people forced to work multiple jobs or overtime). Letting people enjoy the fruits of automation by increasing leisure time was how people always envisioned the future, but instead people are terrified of technological progress because it threatens their job security.
A planned economy to minimize waste is just more efficient and in the best interest of basically everyone on earth. Capitalism is so backwards that genuinely innovative and efficient ideas are marginalized and discredited while the status quo promotes massive amounts of waste and unecesary labour. It’s almost painful to think about how much further we would be as a society by now if we didn’t have the ball and chain of our current profit-driven economic system dragging us down.
One of the most obvious and infuriating examples of how capitalism is an enemy of human progress is the state of green technology. Major oil companies have actively sabotaged the most important work being done in science and tech for the past 50 years, simply to protect their own interests, at the potential cost of all life on the planet.
Aside from the obvious moral argument that deliberatley delaying action on climate change is monstrous and will come at the expense of thousands and thousands of lives, it’s also ridiculous from a global economic perspective.
A worldwide transition to sustainable energy would create a massive amount of jobs and stimulate the economy in a huge way. Instead, we’re being told that our best hopes for new jobs are the pitiful amount of people it takes to man a pipeline (which is miserable work even if you get it) and the future of our economy is in the oil industry, which is crashing before our eyes. It’s almost comical how antithetical to the good of society our current trajectory is.
we lose when the pornbots add fandom references and awkward jokes to their urls
exclusionary politics of all forms ultimately boil down to performative activism and making everything u dislike or don’t understand problematic so u can keep ur woke points bc keeping up the facade that you are Not and Never Have Been problematic is more important that the actual impact you have on others and the world, not actually trying to change things or provide resources or support or educating yourself and being able to admit you’re wrong or Grow as a human being.
i’m bipolar and i had my self esteem beaten the fuck down from the time i was Born. i understand how difficult dealing with criticism can be and how shameful being wrong can be sometimes. HOWEVER if you can not place those feelings above the well being of others, it’s no longer a not being able to take criticism problem. it’s you being selfish and that is wrong.
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