Prudence & Barbara

the truth is, we don't know anything. fanatical Twitter Nonsense propagators DNI ;)

[amerlcanapparel-deactivated2020]

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

[straighthater]

when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

[timelordpillbug]

when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

[hikingnerd]

When Russia sends you nudes

[dr-thackery]

[dismantlerepaired]

[ilovepretzelrods]

[thegingerbalrog]

[onwardwall]

[miss-jaxon-flaxon-waxon]

#what the fuck happened here

[her-eyes-dared-me-with-danger]

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

[kyloschuyler]

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

reblog it, because Russia can´t

[maradaisykat]

Thanks Obama 

[my-sisters-eyeball]

Wtf

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

When Russia makes this post illegal

[earthnicity]

I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS

[dovahdez]

I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash

[ergolost]

omg

[rat-of-the-sky-on-fire-deactiva]

World heratige post

[between-2-and-20-characters]

ah yes, the original version

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

“when Russia sends you nudes” kills me every time

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[arigadatred]

fuckin’ relatable amirite

What the fuck am I even talking about. Oh well, hooray new album!

[arigadatred]

They Threw Beans On Him

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[kermitlesbian]

society starting going downhill when they removed the cd drives from laptops

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[godlessondheimite]

please read my dissertation

[arigadatred]

Well shit

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[arigadatred]

Me @ God

[another-exclus]

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

[a-tired-humanist]

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

[another-exclus]

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

[a-tired-humanist]

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

[jabberwockypie]

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

[levynite]

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

[darthsuki]

[matronofthevoid]

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

[moki-dokie]

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[tapacamino]

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[rabidchild67]

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[arigadatred]

I’m not going to pretend I know that much about Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy (another queer guy btw), but I do know he talked about “language games”. Basically a word’s meaning is determined by its usage. So “queer” was once an insult, until everyone started using it neutrally and positively. Its meaning has changed, I think for the better. It’s unproductive for us to erase that progress. 

Why is this discussion even happening? It is completely unnecessary.

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[queeranne]

reblog if you like girls and pasta

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[arigadatred]

I’m following an angel. On tumblr that is. Does this mean I have to throw my blog off a building?

[arigadatred]

My least favorite word

The word “valid” has really started to get stuck under the metaphorical fingernails of my mind. I wish everyone would stop using it in The Discourse(tm), for 2 reasons:

1.) We don’t debate about or attempt to affirm the validity of cis people. Hm. Wonder why we escape the scrutiny of everyone and their grandparents and trans and nonbinary people don’t. I’m sure it’s nothing.

2.) The very affirmation that a person’s self is “valid” suggests that it is actually possible for a human being to be invalid. That implication is so uncomfortable to me that the word “valid” has really started to make me feel, well, invalidated.

If you’re a trans or nonbinary person reading this, let me make something clear: you are beautiful. The world is better for your existence in it, simply by virtue of the nature of that existence. You hold such incredible power, and it always makes me really happy to be reminded that you are here. The affirmation of all that, I think, is much more important than the affirmation that you’re real. 

You know you’re real. I know you’re real. They know you’re real, otherwise they wouldn’t be so scared of you. I know the world has been trying to convince you otherwise your entire life, but the way you deal with that isn’t by playing our game and accepting our axioms. The idea of validity itself, I think, is one of those axioms, and it’s one that I think is pretty impossible to use against us. 

Unless, that is, we stop acknowledging its existence entirely, therefore making no one valid, and consequentially making everyone valid. Everyone gets what they want that way. So... yeah. Validity is dead. Long live validity.

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[arigadatred]

They look extremely comfortable and natural on stage. They are clearly in their element. They should have been TV hosts full time. And gone to lots of loud, exciting, crowded parties and socialized with people all night.

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[arigadatred]

They May Be Gnats...

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[tmbgareok]

Completely unrelated, but spiritually aligned.

h/t to Double Threat.

[arigadatred]

I imagined it was John Flansburgh singing this while I listened. 11/10