Apples in December

because even when you're trapped in a cold, lonely world, life and love can still find you.

[feeshies]

Guys I’m going to make a hot take

[feeshies]

The whole “I wish I could be with a woman, but instead I’m stuck with my stupid, gross husband/boyfriend” sentiment I see repeated in bi circles is just the “progressive” queer version of the boomer “I hate my wife” jokes

[cumaeansibyl]

if he’s stupid and gross you should leave him and if he isn’t you’re just being cruel for internet points and he should leave you

[theegosystem-deactivated2024012]

the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

[siryouarebeingmocked]

[winterphile]

The four flags image look badly photoshopped.

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

That’s because it IS badly photoshopped.

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

They spent ten fucking years burning American flags all over the country, they don’t get to claim it now.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

It’s kind of hilarious how the team that was and is strongly against displays of patriotism are now trying to claim they’re the REAL patriots.

Like feminists 10 years ago, when they started trying to claim men’s issues. Rarely because they actually wanted to help men. They just realized MRAs weren’t going away.

[wiitzend-deactivated20250116]

not to keep talking about this but if greta decides to take the religious aspects out of her narnia reboot or whatever then there's really no point in even making it. christianity runs so deep in everything related to narnia that taking it out would cause the whole story to fall apart, it would just be another hollow remake and if that's the route she's gonna go (which she most likely will) then i'll just stick to the disney movie and reading the books.

[spicymemesociety]

[huffylemon]

[strange-boss-deactivated2023071]

This shit is so funny to me (tweet specifically, not talking about the article linked in the image) Uh… god forbid someone go through mental health screening before taking harmful medication or undergoing harmful surgery? Jesus fucking christ lmfao

[theweatherisvaguelythreatening]

Reality acknowledged in law? Really is march 32nd huh?

[unsolids-your-snake]

Is this gonna cause harm to someone, somewhere? Probably, laws are like that.

However, it isn't without reason or cause.

There are fucking legions of detransitioned people who permanently altered their bodies and damaged their health, only to go "wait, actually, I'm just mentally ill/disordered in a completely unrelated way and was preyed upon by a movement telling me I couldn't be a real man/woman"

Same story from many, many people. I was almost one of them, and if I would have pursued transition, a therapist presenting the idea that I may just be an autistic tomboy would have probably saved my life, and certainly my health, physical and mental.

As it was, someone else did that for me and it didn't go that far. Not so for many others who live miserable lives in permanently altered bodies because they were told over and over and over that they weren't a real man/woman.

Trans people should absolutely have respect and access to care, and there is no reason that must be at the expense of so many random people being pushed into interventions that have permanently harmed them.

This law is a response to that harm. Don't like it, move to another state.

[thrown-away-opinions]

The venn diagram of trans people and people with mental illness, autism, ADHD, unresolved trauma or abuse, and so on is a perfect circle.

The effectiveness of gender transitioning for getting rid of all of those is 0%

If someone championing trans positivity does not accept that giving priority to other forms of treatment and therapy may be more effective and yield better, permanent results, then all they have is a cult-like reverence for transitioning and no actual desire to help. All you can assume is that they value getting as many people to transition as possible more than they care about the well-being of the people being urged into transitioning.... and that's REALLY FUCKED UP AND EVIL.

If someone goes through therapy and sorts out all their shit and still wants to transition, then go right ahead. However, if someone is suddenly seized by a suicidal hyperfixation with their gender, that person most likely needs therapy, a long hard look at their life, and treatment that doesn't involve ignoring every single obvious mental illness that might explain their problems.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[mistah-oso]

No, Desantis’ law is awful. it has lead to book bans. you know the things you and the right where against when it was done in the false pretext of sensitivity. 

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

I posted a picture here of some of the pages in the books you're referring to that are being shown to young children in school and Tumblr removed the post on the grounds of it being pornographic.

I'm perfectly okay with banning actual pornography - illustrations of teenagers performing sexual acts upon older men, etc. - from classrooms, and, 10, 15 years ago, almost all left-wing people would have been okay with that too. If you're saying that's something that has changed in the meantime, that's their problem and that's on them.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Reminder that "What Is A Woman", the best and most important documentary of the past year, is still available to watch for free on Twitter here, with over 180 million views in the past 10 days.

[galliusanon]

Not everyone. Many of us know what a woman is. A woman is an adult female with XX chromosomes, or an aneuploidy of X0, XXY, or XXX.

Addendum:

The nutters are trying to re-define what a woman is and seperate Female from Woman. That is their ideology they worship now, which is called gender dysphoria and a mental disease defined in the DSM V. Those of us who are not mentally ill known how it works. I have a BS and Masters in Biology with a Medical Doctorate. This new dysphoria is on par with flat earthers trying to reset the narrative or what is proven already.

[89dc899a2833a36f6601f69f2b1fd-d]

The difference between sex and gender has been recognized by psychologists and by extension the field of psychology itself for over 130 years.

Sex and gender are different things.

A female and a woman are different things.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The lobotomy-loving psychology of 130 years ago - whatever that is you're referring to - can not be regarded as hard science, and within the field today there are endless opinions and beliefs that do not correllate to anything that can be proven in real life, in ways that cannot be said about, say, chemistry, botany or ophthalmology. The "father of modern psychology", Sigmund Freud, performed no experiments to try disprove his own fancies - the scientific method -, which is why "Freudianism" is just that: an "ism"; a belief in one particular man's opinions, and so should be taken no more seriously than I take yours.

Sex and gender are the same things.

A woman is an adult human female.

[pasteboard]

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

[pigcatapult]

Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?

[gaphic]

'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

So I didn't want to involve the people on this post in my shenanigans. Mostly because I don't want to see a dogpile, or because I don't want to deal with the ignorance that will come from the responses.

So this showed up on my dash

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And honestly I don't think they understand what's really going on. There are a lot of people living in a bubble and it kind of annoys me a bit.

People are not pissed that LGBT people exist. Contrary to popular belief. Nor are they mad that LGBT products exist. What they are mad about is that June has become, "Worship the LGBT or else" month. And while many don't think that's true, it very much is.

I've seen pride parade over the last 6+ years with HEAVY kink involvement IN PUBLIC in full view of kids. Also in full view of people who really don't want to see it. People who can't close their businesses. People who have appointments to keep at offices. Dick shaped lollipops. Near full nudity. What used to be SUPPOSEDLY a celebration of love is now a degenerate (and that's coming from me) fetish fest. More over, if you don't brandish your cult symbol, people get mad at you. And now a days threaten to destroy your livelihood.

(And before you continue reading. THIS MAY well ruffle some feathers. And while you may not agree with my sentiment, this post is not hateful. It's observations and ideas based on people I've talked to both in and out of the LGBT, things I've experienced in my own life, and stuff I've read up on over the years. And while I'm not as articulate as a used to be, it's written not in anger, but with the intention of explaining all of my thoughts. And while they may not get across the way I want, I mean no hate by them.)

Pride hasn't been about love in years. It's been about how degenerate and fetishy can we get in public until they start putting us in jail. Except we can't even do that anymore because protected classes get an absolute pass to break the laws now. And you might not see that but everyone else does.

What's more, what LGBT means now isn't what it used to mean. It's some weird amalgamation taking every sex based thing and non sex based thing and shoving it all under the same umbrella. Hell, most modern trans activists want to get rid of gay people. And no that's not some joke or conspiracy.

Consider this. A lot of modern "LGBT" people claim that gender is a social construct right? Ok and now they are trying to say there is no difference between men and women. In the biological sense. Now you have, "Lady dicks and man pussys" and what not. Except it's not a joke. And I'm not joking. I've been seeing a hard push from trans activists in the modern day, to claim that biological sex does not matter (to the point they want to be able to change their birth certificates), and that if you are a Female dating a male, so long as they SAY they are a woman you are still somehow a lesbian.

THEN you have the now famous Tim Pool clip where the guy from The Serfs claims that if a woman sleeps with an effeminate man, she's actually a lesbian. Or vice versa, if a man dates a non feminine woman, he's actually gay. I don't think most of you realize right now but modern activists are hell bent on erasing gay people. Gay in it's ACTUAL meaning. Which is sexual attraction to the same SEX. Not the same gender. Which both were interchangeable for years. Now it's a clusterfuck of what ever either side wants it to mean. And that's devastating for society. It's devastating for communication between people. And it's devastating for relationships.

Things are breaking down at the seams. People who have been gay their entire lives now have to contend with being called bigots by self righteous, narcissistic, young, dumb people trying to tell them THEY are the bigots. When arguably they had it much harder in society. Hell the middle east STILL gives you 2 options if you are gay. Transition so you are not a monster, or die. Because at least if you appear like the opposite sex you can't participate in your debauchery. That's how they view it. And activists in the west are doing the exact same in their own way. It's pretty fucking scary.

But to the original point. It's not just about Trans this, Gay that, Lesbian this, or anything. People are just tired of the celebrations. Because it's moved way past that into glorification. To a point that among the people that support it, they are deifying it. That's not exaggeration. You are now considered boring if you are straight. You are considered an evil racist monster if you are "cis". And don't get me started on the rant that is talking about that term. Kids are now being indoctrinated into being something other than straight and their own sex/gender. Because according to this hell site and others like it, "Straight people are so boring and stupid and violent and and and and and~" Fuck you.

You don't get to shit on straight people with impunity and then get upset when they say enough. You don't get to tell people that "every day is straight pride day" meanwhile smearing your privates in their faces for a full month. No criticism. No conversation. Just mindless worship. And don't tell me that's not what it is. That is fully what it is.

And before anyone decides to come at me telling me I'm transphobic or homophobic, Plenty of LGBT people agree with me. Some even have more extreme views on all of this than I do. Mine seems to be the very mild view on all of this considering.

But we don't need a pride month anymore in the US. The initial movement was about not just getting the right to marry, but being able to be seen as human just like everyone else.

Well guess what? It has not been like that since 2012. Now it's about, "Call me my pronouns or I'll cut your head off" and "If you don't celebrate pride then your a bigot, a monster, and a nazi", or, "I can't believe this old woman called me young lady, WTF, I'm clearly a man" or my personal favorite, "Kink needs to be in front of kids so they can grow up and understand good sex". Yeah. I've actually heard every one of these IN PERSON and wanted to call the cops on the last one. And fringe or not, these ARE the views being pushed to the forefront.

And more than that even. A school quite literally said, "Memorial day weekend? What's that? Pride month though. Let's dress all these kids in pride stuff and parade them around to prove how virtuous we are."

Yes this DID actually happen. A school opted to not recognize or celebrate our fallen, and instead opted into worship. Modern pride is a cult. I'm not sorry for saying it. Most of you pushed to see how far until it was too far. And now you WILL see people walk back acceptance of the LGBT as a whole. You waved their crotches in their faces for long enough and they've had it.

And that makes me pretty upset honestly. Because my LGBT friends may likely have to suffer through widespread discrimination again because you didn't understand how far is too far. And then when you were told how far too far was, you opted to take it further than that.

Now let me cool the pot as it were. I'm not putting this on the LGBT people who've been nothing but good people, who just have been trying to live and enjoy their lives. And I don't want to see an overreaction to all of this. But the issue is not enough people smacked these activist types down. Their fringe views were allowed to flourish and be the dominate idea. And now we have people boycotting LGBT stuff aimed at kids, and parents are pissed. Kids are already confused enough growing up. Hormones, School, Friends, Parents, figuring out life, etc. It's a confusing time in their lives and they frankly don't need more stuff to be confused about. More over, they don't need to be focused on sexuality (which again is a concept based on SEX based attraction) at 10 y/o. Will they figure that stuff out? Yes. Do they need a LGBT teacher teaching them how to be gay? No.

Do they need books teaching them how to get on gay dating apps at 14 for anonymous hookups with gay men? ALSO no. Do they need to learn how to use butt-plugs at 13-14? FUCK no. Do they need to be taught in gay books how to give head to other boys? NO! THEY DON'T! Do they need drag queens, wearing thongs and a miniskirt twerking in their faces at 6? *cocks shotty*. And before I get the onslaught of, "That's not happening", yes it is. There's proof of it all over the US. Happening in more and more frequency. Including librarians suggesting books featuring explicit content to very young teens.

The final straw was kids. And when you told parents they were not allowed to defend their kids, parents said, "Excuse the fuck out of me". And now here we are. In a country were if you are LGBT and you rape someone, it's perfectly fine. And calling it out is actually bad. If you call out biological men, claiming to be trans so they they can rape women in prison an issue, THAT'S somehow calling all trans people rapist? If you point out that a gay man or a trans woman is grooming kids and or has sexually assaulted them, that SOMEHOW all gay men and trans women are predators?

No one said that. YOU said that. And your fighting tooth and nail to defend people who do those things, is a problem. And it's why people are fed up.

This is not and has never been about anti-LGBT sentiment. But it will become that if people who've done this stuff continue to be shielded. It will become that if normies get even more fed up with the cult like worship once a year of Pride. I don't want to see it become that. It will however, if things don't come down from a boil. Leave kids alone, call out groomers and predators, and stop featuring kink and fetish at pride parades. Put on a rainbow shirt hold hands with your S/O Hold up a sign saying "Love" and that's it. It's super simple. And for the love of all that is holy, stop shaming straight people. Because if you don't they WILL come to resent you. More than some already do.

And just to wrap things up. I don't want to see things get worse for LGBT people. What I do want to see is certain LGBT people stop acting like being LGBT is their entire personality. Because it's not just grating to me. It's grating to other LGBT people. And worst of all it's grating to normies. And they are the people you need to be worried about.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I think the only thing I'd add to this is that the normal gay people who are tired of this shit need to stop being silent. The moment the activists and loonies started coming after kids, we all lost the luxury of ignoring what's going on. If speaking out against grooming will lose you friends, then they're not friends you should want to keep. If it will get you kicked out of the "community", then it's not a community you should feel safe or comfortable in. The only way this shit stops without setting relations between gays and everyone else back by 60 years is if we take our spaces back from the predatory activists that have made themselves our public face. Even if that means siding with straight people against gay people. We're individuals, not a hive mind. Show the world that what fundies and homophobes have been saying for decades about gays all being sexual deviants and pedophiles isn't true. Stand up and help the people who are trying to protect children from the actual deviants and pedophiles.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

It's all bad

So there is a post going around right now about how in Plano Texas, there was a sting operation that caught a sex trafficking ring. Some of the people there were first responders and teachers. However if you look at twitter, and of course on this hell site, there are people who are SO EAGER to suck a drag queens no no bits, they had to go out of their way to post some pretty "lovely" things. Now the reason I'm posting this image, rather than just the article is to prove a point.

We have absolutely zero confirmation about what the user William LeGate said here. None. At best he tried to look up some names, and background checks on those listed. However, on the original post by the DFWPD (Dallas Ft. Worth PD) This article is not even cited. And I looked at the article. You know what WAS listed in the "jobs" let's look:

You know what WASN'T listed? Republican Politician or "Church Leader".

Now let me show you the list of disgusting individuals, which wouldn't you know it, includes a woman.

Now let's do some math shall we. Racial, and political activists will look at this image, and do exactly what they do with is judge every single thing on surface level looks. As shown by these next tweets. (Some of them having prior records)

As you can clearly see, this started a trend of #NotADragQueen and a very old and tired trope of "The church is scarier protect them from that instead of drag queens"

My question to all of you Neo Progressives is this. Why exactly are you so hell bent on bringing up an event that happened over a decade ago?

Better question. Why exactly do you care if no drag queens were VISIBLE? Is it because parents don't think it's appropriate for their kids to be in from of a adult male in exaggerated women clothing. Several of whom have been found to have criminal records of sexual assault and some even against kids? Don't believe me? Let's look shall we.

WOW, if you look at this man's mug shot, YOU'D NEVER KNOW he was a drag queen. TURNS OUT not only was he one, but also is a child sex offender.

But rather than actually care about child sex offenders, which, let's be really fair here, you don't. You'd rather have a gatcha against those, "Evil republicans".

Let me be clear. If you look at all those mugshots? You'll notice something. Varying races and ages. You know what we AREN'T shown? Political leanings of every single person there and who they have and have no voted for. My current annoyance with all of you now, is one very LARGE thing. Rather than being happy that these people have been caught, you are FAR MORE EXCITED at the prospect that this group could contain your political enemies.

HOW F*CKED in the head are you? Really? Predators find positions of power. No matter where the position is. Sometimes they actually get complacent with their power and they begin to lose inhibitions. This should have nothing to do with the church, with drag with dems, or with reps. This SHOULD have everything to do with the fact that it's AMAZING that these assholes have been caught.

Thing is? Most conservatives just don't want drag in front of their kids. That should be their choice. AS THE PARENTS. And we don't actually know the ratio of predators to non predators in the drag community. And until they get arrested and charged, much like any other person, we CAN'T know.

Catholics were SEETHING when they found out what their leadership was doing. However, it was NOT all priests. It was not even most. It was however enough that it caused notice. And that makes sense. You can expect at least 10% of any large group to be not good people. However here is the issue. You are equating an entire group, that at the time was a VERY LARGE population size of the US. Per Capita is a fun thing to talk about. And given the LIMITED number of drag queens in the US you'd expect very very few to be guilty of sex offense. However, we see time and time again that's not the case.

Am I making the argument that drag queens are predators? No. Hell, most conservatives or moderates would not even be prone to making that argument if many of you were not so dead set on having kids see it or be around it. And the level of insistence around it kind of raises red flags if I'm being honest. Also a fun thing missed by that asshole William LeGate from the opening pictures is the mention of "Teachers" in that list of people involved. Another something people have brought up concerns over.

Stop making this about trying to own the cons. It's very possible several of the people on there are LGBT or Dem. And you'd ignore that, JUST to point out anyone not on your side. WHY THE FUCK do you care. Why can't all of it be bad. Conservatives are beat over the head with a 20 year old allegation equating their religious faith AS A WHOLE, to being pedo friendly. Imagine my shock when many got fed up with it and started putting that target on others. Mostly because it was a SMALL SUBSET of said group.

And now, just like them before, you are trying to salvage "your side" and deflect it from criticism. Also one last thing. MOST actual conservatives have not, and are not accusing most or all drag queens of being pervers or pedophiles. However in your fervor to not just demand they be in front of kids, but to also defend them from any and all allegations. I can certainly from the outside looking in see how that would be concerning. What's more, we DON'T know if any of the people shown there were drag queens. Some could have been ministers in the church. Both provide apt access to the people they wish to offend against.

Do you know what the only difference is between the two? You'll defend tooth and nail the drag queen even from the accusation. You know why that's bad? Because if that happened with a minister or pastor etc, that entire church community would be in lock down and every single person in power would be gone over with a fine tooth comb. So basically in one instance, Your side defends the potential predator, and their side demands action. In the other instance, you pat yourself on the back that bad people exist on the opposing side, and that side goes out of their way to figure out wtf is going on and seek out accountability.

Long story short. In both cases they want justice. In only once case you want justice. In the other case you are jerking off about how "good" your side is. Despite a NUMBER of people PUBLICLY that vote dem are on Epstein's flight lists including to his island on a number of occasions. Point it out and demand justice in every instance. Sex crimes especially against kids isn't a joke. And yeah OF COURSE by the laws of numbers it's going to be seen more in MUCH LARGER communities. DUH! Because there are more chances for it to even exist. A child understands that level of thought.

So again I ask you. Why do you care more about having a gatcha, than actual justice. You all saw, "the other side of the isle" and went, "See we aren't the bad guys". Meanwhile if I were to do research into every one of the people listed, I could likely find a few people who I could weaponize against your side. You know why I don't? Because I care more about the fact they got caught.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

They keep bringing up priests to score points against who they imagine the enemy to be.

Even though, y'know, those caused an international scandal for decades, mostly among Catholics.

And also many conservatives who are concerned about this aren't even Christian.

Also, what sort of ghoulish person looks at this situation and immediately starts looking for ways to sneer at the enemy instead of going something like "thank goodness these monsters got caught!" They can't even pretend they really care.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

Pretty much exactly that. They care more for a gotcha than about the fact that the kids affected by this are much safer now.

[fullcravings]

Chewy Cap’n Crunch Cookies

[beginnerblueglass]

“There is no heterosexual explanation for this”

Actually there are several, you don’t even need that much imagination.

[your-source-of-selfdestruction]

[nattididwrong]

@songsintheattic

[gsirvitor]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

[ancaporado]

[applesindecember]

So utterly and overwhelmingly depressed. And I know it’s because my hormones are gearing up for ovulation but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. Especially with a 3.5 year old begging me to play with her when all I want is to lay down and melt into nothingness. I hate this so much.