What do you feel is your proximity to the LGB community as an asexual woman? Do you feel like you're closer to us because you're not heterosexual?
I want to first and foremost say, I don't think I'm that close to the LGB community in the first place.
I share posts, mostly about lesbian erasure, bc I'm a woman sick of men's shit, but I'm not some die-hard cultists claiming a seat at the table bc I'm 'not straight.' I'm well aware that, as an ace woman, my asexuality has never been fundamentally challenged in the way it was systemically threatened for gays and lesbians both throughout history and in this current climate where, especially for lesbians, their homosexuality is being erased, shamed, and threatened by dudes in dresses. To conflate sexual attention I don't want (which happens to literally everyone, especially young and younger women in our society) and familial pressure to 'just find the right person and you'll want to give me grandbabies!' with 'we should sterilize those f*gs since they won't breed with our women either way' or forcing gays and lesbians into sub-human 'performer' roles like what 'two spirit' or 'historically acurrate trans people' would look like (bc it isn't a historical phenomenon as much as it was a literal punishment for being gay, sterile, unwilling to marry, etc).
So there's that to start.
But, all in all, I would say, in a perfect world, the LGB would separate fully from the TQ+ that it threw in the bin and I, an A, would be an implied letter after in the remaining 3. I don't want or need it to be LGBA. At all. But I think the 4 not-straight sexualities being the sole things celebrated at Pride (since those are actually states of being and not a cult of confusion, narcissism, victimization, fetishization, etc like the TQ+ has become) makes far more sense.
Bc the only sexualities that should be respected are:
lesbian (actual women loving actual women and only actual women)
gay (actual men loving actual men and only actual men)
bisexual (and nothing else like 'pansexual' or 'omnisexual' since there are literally 2 sexes and nothing else)
asexuals (who, again, are not facing any sort of oppression like the above but are still quite literally the opposite of bisexuals)
(straight)
The Trans Cult, on top of being literally dangerous, is just that, a cult. It promotes, especially lately, this wild idea of choosing your identity, choosing to pass, choosing your labels, etc that goes inherently against Pride being able what you were born as. It promotes autogynophilic men "embracing" their transness in their late 40s+, adopting entirely fetishized and stereotyped female identities, and (despite gender and sex being different according to this same cult) an entitlement to sex-separated spaces based purely on gender identity...bc that totally makes sense.
And the general vibes of this so-called 'Queer' subsect is, 'are you straight but don't like that?' 'Why don't you just pretend you're a new made up gender, become the most insufferable person when it comes to either your impossible or batshit idiotic pronouns and give yourself a funky new haircut, now you're 'Queer!' So, no, don't respect that one, either.
So, yeah, LGB without the TQ+.
But thank you so much, genuinely, for the ask and I'm glad we can have these sorts of open conversations so, hopefully, we can find middle ground eventually. <3
Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.
HEY, SO. GOOGLE CHROME JUST INSTALLED ITSELF ONTO MY LAPTOP??????
i haven't used chrome as my browser in years. i've mostly used firefox and opera. but today, after i closed the game i was playing i realized that i suddenly had a shortcut for google chrome on my desktop.
my laptop did not have chrome prior to this. i have factory reset it a couple times and it never came with chrome pre-installed or anything; it only has microsoft edge.
i asked my sister about it and when we checked, she ALSO had chrome suddenly installed on her laptop, even though she deleted it a long time ago.
i've heard that Google is trying to subtly install an AI model into people's computers and i think this has something to do with that, but i'm not entirely sure. just in case, i deleted it as soon as i could and i urge you to do it as well if it happens to you.
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-A
Install this blocklist using the instructions on the GitHub page. For Firefox, you will need to install uBlockOrigin for this. Google Chrome no longer allows the uBlockOrigin extension, so I'm assuming you're at least primarily a Firefox user - or about to be (see browser alternatives below).
For Google Chrome or mobile browsers, this will work with uBlacklist. See the GitHub page for full details on compatibility.
Remove AI Widgets:
If you go to your uBlockOrigin Filter lists page, you can select to filter out AI Widgets - this should completely remove the 'AI Mode' widget/button from your Google search page, in addition to the work done by the Huge AI Blocklist.
Using the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist filter has made my Google searches look like they used to, and gives me genuine search results.
Look at this. It's beautiful. It's informative. It's not a heap of burning trash bloated with fake information made up by a hallucinating chat bot.
We can go even further: return to the old school search results.
Now, the above results are great and should be free of generative AI junk, but some people would rather not see any of the summary widgets or 'people also ask' box at all. Fear not! You can remove all that by using the 'Web' mode in the Google search bar. Click the 'More' drop down menu and select 'Web'.
Huzzah! Incredible. It's like a functional search engine again.
You can make this the default Google search mode in Google Chrome using Method 1 from this page (https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/). Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to do this in Firefox too. This is why for the most part I still use DuckDuckGo (see below) as my default search engine, and only use Google to supplement my searches on the rare occasion I'm just missing something.
Remember, if you clear your cookies, your search engine preferences will reset, including any settings you enabled/disabled to avoid AI. This applies to DuckDuckGo as well; check your settings every time you clear your browser!
Extra filters (optional):
I've also added four filters (their order doesn't matter) to the My Filters page. Full disclosure: I'm not sure they still work, or may only work on Chrome, but I'm keeping them anyway, just in case.
From https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1i7kg83/comment/m8lllwr/: see which solution in the list works for you, it seems to be different for everybody.
From https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/:
www.google.com##.Beswgc
www.google.com##.olrp5b
www.google.com##.hdzaWe
Make sure you hit the apply changes button when you add filters.
Browser alternatives: escaping Google Chrome.
If you haven't jumped ship from Chrome yet, I'd recommend doing so. Sometimes Chrome outperforms Firefox for niche purposes or because a website doesn't bother to fully support non-Chrome browsers, but the days of Chrome being the superior browser are long gone — by about 10 years. If you're trying to escape Chromium browsers, beware that a lot of the popular Chrome alternatives are just Chrome in a different hat.
Firefox has been the most popular non-Chromium browser for years, and for good reason. However, the company running Mozilla Firefox has annoyed their users, me included, by refusing to take an anti- generative-ai stance, and even included AI features in the Mozilla Firefox browser. Most Firefox users specifically use it because they hate Google's enshittification and want a privacy-focused, clean browser that doesn't hog their RAM and CPU for no reason. So, you can imagine that Mozilla's attitude has pissed us all off recently. You can turn off the AI features in Firefox with the built-in settings, but the company has recently steered straight into the burning garbage heap by saying they want to make the browser based on AI.
Waterfox and LibreWolf:
There are really good alternatives based on Firefox (open-source) which are not affiliated with Mozilla (the company), if you don't like how it operates. Waterfox and LibreWolf are even more trimmed down and privacy-focused than Mozilla's Firefox, and don't use AI. Anti-ai statements: Waterfox and LibreWolf.
From this page: https://programming.dev/post/42546774
In short: LibreWolf is for those who want a “locked-down” fortress out of the box, while Waterfox is for those who want a privacy-conscious browser that still feels like a normal, convenient daily driver.
Choose LibreWolf if: You want the highest level of privacy without having to manually edit config files, and you don’t mind occasionally “fixing” a broken website or re-logging into accounts.
Choose Waterfox if: You want a privacy-respecting browser that supports Firefox Sync, has an Android counterpart, and handles streaming sites/logins without any extra friction (it supports WideWine out of the box, which lets you stream DRM protected content (netflix, hulu, disney, etc).
— [email protected]
I've heard good things about both of these browsers and will investigate them further to decide whether to personally switch from Mozilla Firefox.
DuckDuckGo:
I would also recommend installing the DuckDuckGo extension to your browsers and setting it to be your default search engine.
I've had DuckDuckGo installed on my browsers, Chrome or Firefox, for like 10 years now. It is a good search engine, it's unobtrusive, and blocks trackers, cookies, and does not save any data about you. I've also used it as my default mobile browser for years, along with Firefox mobile, which you can add the AI Blocklist to (see again the GitHub page). I haven't tried the DuckDuckGo desktop browser yet, but I imagine it works just fine like the mobile version. I think DuckDuckGo's browser is also Chromium-based, at least indirectly. I use Firefox with the DuckDuckGo extension so I can have a widely-supported, non-Chromium browser, but include all of DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking features.
Note: DuckDuckGo has included AI in its browser product, however you can opt-out of all AI features with the built-in settings and they will not push it on you like Google does. I hope they remove AI features entirely in the future, but for now I am comfortable with the barriers in place to keep AI out of my face. Firefox also has AI features like Chrome does, which you can turn off with the built-in settings.
There's also noai.duckduckgo search, an alternative version of its normal search engine which removes AI-generated images and turns off AI results/assists by default. Even though DuckDuckGo's inclusion of any AI features annoys me, its policy to make these features 100% optional builds trust with this browser/extension/search engine.
You can always use Google search if you need to, but with uBlockOrigin and the AI Blocklist filter added on, at least you shouldn't have AI-altered search results or the AI overview anymore.
Other browsers exist, probably:
There are certainly more non-Chromium alternatives out there, but Firefox, Waterfox, and LibreWolf are the top three recommended to me. That link to alternatives, plus this ComputerCity page are the best lists I could find in a brief search. If you google "non-Chromium browsers" you'll get a lot of mixed results which require a bit of digging to realise they're not really recommending you what you looked for at all.
I've heard about Ecosia over the years, and while I like the idea of a search engine that plants a tree for each query, I don't think that's actually what happens — at least, that's what they used to be reputed to do, but I believe that's an unsustainable business model which has likely changed. In 2026, Ecosia says it uses 100% of its profits for the planet and runs its search engine off clean energy. That's cool! It's still Chromium-based. And it also uses generative AI for chat bots, so I don't trust its principles on environmentalism. I need to do more reading on this to form a stronger opinion about it.
I hope this post has helped at least some of you have a better experience browsing the web and googling your questions.
The Huge AI Blocklist really has been an amazing tool to keep my internet life free and clear of a lot of generative AI rubbish. I'm not a tech expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm savvy enough to understand what genAI is and does, and that the more I learn about it, it's even worse than I thought. I truly hate it, and I hate the enshittification of all our experiences, even those as simple and innocent as googling "snow leopard" or "how to cook pasta" or "what is a phascogale" (go ahead and test your freshly-cleaned search engines out with that one hehe).
When the concept of dysphoria was invented they should have created a definition that makes it clear that getting an erection when you steal your sister’s underwear is not dysphoria and that’s it’s something else.
Why do trans femmes post detailed descriptions of how their adolescent cross dressing habits in their sister’s underwear drawer lead to a feminine sexual awakening and granular accounts of their sissy porn phase and then act all coy when you bring it up.
They be like “Oh so you just assume that gives me erections” and you just wanna be like “You wrote a book about it,Peter. The chapter was 90 pages. You made a short film about it. It played in SXSW film festival”
I'm fascinated by the way patriarchy's gender binary of "men" and "girls" (boys are never children; women are never adults) leads transphobes to adultify little trans girls ("MEN on the elementary school girls' soccer team!") and infantilize trans men ("Brainwashed girls being preyed on at age 40").
Many trans women talk about childhood experiences of trying on girls' clothes in secret and realizing they were happier presenting femininely, often by secretly wearing the clothes of another girl, like a sister. You can peal-clutch about "stealing" if you want, but siblings do take each other's clothes.
You're taking this fundamentally child behavior and attributing it to some deviant adult sexuality-- framing a little trans girl as a gross horny man is not only misgendering, it's mis-aging.
Once again you conveniently left out how they get erect and cum. Also love the convenient pretense that they all transitioned at 12. Most transfemmes that exist today transitioned in early to mid adulthood. We’ve read the books. We’ve read the tweets. We listened to the podcasts. Quite a lot of cumming was happening. You can’t gaslight us they were just trying on chaste blouses and ankle length skirts. They were in there trying on Panties. Bras. Lingerie and imagining getting fucked.
Cis woman: When I was a little girl, I used to sneak into my sister's room and try on her bras. I imaged myself being like her and thought about the kind of woman I would grow up to be.
Everyone: This is a normal childhood experience.
Trans woman: When I was a little girl that everyone around me considered a "boy", I used to sneak into my sister's room and try on her bras. I imagined being like her and thought about the kind of woman I would grow up to be. But I was afraid, because I knew my parents and everyone around me wanted me become a man instead.
1. They explicitly, in no uncertain terms, frequently mention jerking off. I’m not filling in that detail or inferring from what was implied. They regularly say “it made me hard and I would masturbate”. Or that it was part of their sexual awakening.
2. I never tried on my sister’s bras and underwear because I had my own and they were just boring undergarments to me, not sexually exciting objects.
3. “Imagining the kind of women I would grow up to be” When I was younger imagining the type of woman I would become, I imagined being a psychotherapist. I’ve yet to see a trans femme speaking about or dreaming about being a female doctor or lawyer or vet. The coming into womanhood stories always revolve around sex, fucking, sexual relations & what their face and body looks like
Again, unfortunately for you they openly publish, write about and speak about these experiences. Gaslight failed.
Quick rundown off the top of my head of the occupations of some of the trans women I know:
Lawyer
Artist
IT person
Cashier
And, yes, sex worker. Trans women/ Trans people in general are disproportionately represented in sex work. Why do you think that is?
Hint: it's not always their first preference!
I do find it fascinating how many TERFs are also SWERFs who refuse to accept that a cis woman could consent to work as a sex worker, yet when it comes to Trans people, nevermind the systemic oppression and employment discrimination that frequently leaves sex work as their only option; THEIR overrepresentation in sex work is proof of their lustful nature, or something.
Of course there's also nothing wrong with being sexual or masturbating or being horny or having sex with lots of people by choice.
There's just no reason to assume that Trans women are any hornier than anyone else, and it's absurd to attribute horny intent to a childhood behavior like dressing up in a sibling's clothes.
I never said transwomen don’t have various professions . I said when they recount stories of their desire for womanhood they almost always exclusively talk about beauty, sex and being fucked.
They literally don’t imagine their womanhood as anything outside of being a sex object.
I am so sorry but being a weirdo and making everyone around you uncomfortable bc you're literally FOISTING YOUR GROSS FETISH ON THEM IN THE WORKPLACE and therefore finding it more difficult to become employed is not "systemic oppression."
You can take off the ill fitting dress, the badly applied make-up, and the size 13 heels *any time.*
What it IS equals the understandable consequence of being on the wrong end of the evolved human (and esp female) response to weird ass motherfuckers who give everyone the creeps aka a refined disgust reflex and the social isolation that comes with being the kind of person who gives the rest of the group or "tribe" the ick bc something abt you (aka shoving your stupid paraphilia in everyone's face) makes people feel unsafe.
Add to that the fact that plenty of TW don't engage in sex work out of necessity, but bc it "affirms their gender."
Guess how I know? Because they *literally* say it when they think nobody else is paying attention.
woman back in like the 1800s or something: I want to be able to explore the world and pursue higher education. but because i am a woman, the world will not allow me to do such things. this is why i made the difficult decision to cut my hair, bind my breasts, and pretend to be a man— all so that i can truly live.
people with stale gumballs in their head instead of a brain: omg trans icon! he's so gender! trans people have always been here and accomplished so many things 🥰 don't point out that he was a woman experecing sex based oppression or you're literally if hitler and jkr fused together
They also do this thing where they take a single line from a diary of a 19th century woman saying something like "my life would be easier if I had been born a man" and take it is proof that she was definitely transgender and trans people have always existed. Yet they will also look at a detrans person who got a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria and fully medicalised themselves and lived as a trans person for 20 years, and they will say that this person was never actually trans. Almost as if there isn't really a consistent definition for what "trans" even is.
68.1% of muslim women have severe vitamin D deficiency.
46.2% of muslim women with severe vitamin D deficiency had high bone turnover. Hyperparathyroidism is found in 38.6% of muslim women. This study was done in Australia, a very sunny and dry place, and these women were healthy in every other way, keep that in mind.
Source
Anyways, keep telling me about how the hijab empowers women.
the original tweet being translated from russian may provide some helpful context as to why OP is fantasizing about being able to be publicly affectionate with a partner. sex is an important part of lesbianism for many people (including myself!); i also think approaching harmless posts like this with sympathy for the context is more thoughtful and considerate than jumping to a snappy comeback. my heart aches for OP and i hope they are able to find happiness in an often unkind world.
remember when there was all this outrage when that one account got banned, and finally the CEO said “you know full well that you didn’t get banned for being trans, you got banned because you repeatedly broke TOS on like a dozen different blogs” and everyone flew into a rage over the violation of privacy…
and now whenever a transwoman’s account is removed, the same people get up in arms and demand an explanation and when they aren’t given one, they claim it’s a genocide.
like make up your minds. do you want an explanation, or do you want the banned account’s privacy respected? do you or do you not want to be informed when “catgirlfrotting” willfully breaks the rules for the final time and gets banned? either way you’ll claim it’s more evidence that you’re being unfairly attacked
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
