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[sheauz-deactivated20240614]

[fandomsandfeminism]

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.

[aetherograph]

They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.

So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.

[analog-delight]

i think you should have to come out as cis or straight. stop assuming it's the default and everything else is a deviation.

[analog-delight]

you can reblog this btw. make cis people feel uncomfortable about assuming they are "normal" and we are "other". make straight people feel uncomfortable assuming they are "regular" and we are "deviant".

[depsidase]

[battle-for-dyke-island]

this is what healthcare is like as a disabled person

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[sapphireh3art]

live-in mutuals

[analog-delight]

and they were mutuals.....

[targetedknowledge]

[homunculus-argument]

Having been to plenty of both, I'll say that on average, neither men's nor women's public bathrooms are more or less dirty than the other, both can and will have funny wall writings in there, wet toilet paper on the floor, occasional post-nuke smell of someone who took one of those shits that killed Elvis, and so on, but I'll have to say I've never seen a woman in a public bathroom

Piss in a bathroom stall with the stall door wide open

Continue having an animated phone conversation on handsfree through the entire process of pissing.

Like it ain't illegal and it's not like they're doing anyone harm, but why the fuck have I seen that often enough to observe a comparable pattern.

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[roseoilz]

translucent fabric sculptures by korean artist do ho suh

[skysthelimit57]

Non-binary people can't use they/them because they're only one person. Non-binary people can't use it/its because it's dehumanizing. Non-binary people can't use neopronouns because they're too confusing. Non-binary people can't use he/him and/or she/her because that's not gender neutral. Non-binary people can't use no pronouns because that's too hard to use.

No matter what pronouns a non-binary person uses somebody will get mad at them.

[felixcloud6288]

I've survived my first day on Tumblr

Achievements:

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AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings

Friends?: Gained a mutual

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Great Idea: Reblog a post

They love me: Have a post reblogged

[chrono-meter-r]

Oh boy oh boy you're gonna get a Rare achievement for this one

Containment Breach

[quasi-normalcy]

Would I still be transgender if society or gender roles were different? I don't know; maybe not. I tend to believe that nothing about an individual's personality exists independently of their social context. But the question is also completely irrelevant to me, because society and gender roles are *not* different; I'm not living someone else's life, I'm living my own. And that, in fact, is the entire point of being transgender.

[wheelie-sick]

a lot of state communists lean more anarchist than they realize.

they want to abolish hierarchies and either they don't really want to do that (they want some hierarchies) or they actually want to abolish hierarchies and lean anarchocommunist.

wanting organized plumbing/electricity/other utilities/healthcare/infrastructure can be a part of anarchism.

if you think we need a state to do that then yeah you're not an anarchist but if you want those things but without the state and without the centralized government... you're an anarchist.

anarchism isn't inherently anti-organization. it's anti-state.

I do think we need organized roads and sewage. I just don't think we need a government to do that. I think collectives of experts in these specific topics can handle organizing infrastructure for them. as things exist right now, governments, which are not composed of experts in these things, mismanage them.

I trust plumbers with building the plumbing system more than I trust John Politician with it. John Politician is always going to seek power over the worker and will not necessarily act in the best interest of the plumbers and the people who rely on their plumbing.

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Do we not need regulation in plumbing and roads and whatnot though)

[akinanajuma]

Also I do want some kind of system that holds the plumbers accountable? Like I don't like the idea of just being completely dependent on the whims of one group of plumbers? I'd at least like a reporting system and someone reading the reports and giving feedback on them?

Healthcare is another great example I'd love to know more about. I guess we all agree why we want hospitals (lots of infrastructure in one place, means person who is very ill does not need to be moved much, which is good). But how does it work in the details...

I don't want the government we have at the moment, but a system of organising stuff and accountability sounds good?! What different ideas is there for that?

I've spent a lot of time being annoyed at the system we have, but I'd actually like to see a system that can work, without trusting people will just be good, without any kind of safety mechanisms in place.

[secondlina]

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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