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Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats
At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.
We gotta fix that.
ive always been willing to die on the hill of cis women being able to beat cis men in sports so nobody will ever ever make me concerned about trans women in womens sports even if i was delusional enough to believe that was a comparable situation. do i think a cis woman could beat a trans woman in fucking pickleball or whatever? Buddy I think a cis woman could beat a cis male bodybuilder in sports. You will not get me
many people in these notes are revealing how they truly don't believe afab people are capable of beating amab people at Any sports due to their fragile bird bones delicate skin and and trying to make it seem like i'm feeding afab people to lions in the coliseum. you people are not only wrong but more importantly you are Stupidt
No, actually, i want cables and not bluetooth, i don't want touchscreens, i want buttons and knobs, i want to be able to take the battery out of my phone, i want to charge my phone and plug in head phones at the same time, i want a cd drive in my laptop and not have to buy an external drive, i want a car without a display, i want to turn on the lights with a switch not with my voice, i want to have a paper cinema ticket not a QR code, i want to listen to illegally burned music on a 00s cd player, i want to watch movies that i actually own, i want to read news once a day on paper, i want to aimlessly flick through magazines and not doomscroll on social media, i want to write emails and not talk to chatbots, i want to own stuff without hundreds of digital subscriptions, i want
i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life
“ao3 always receives more funds and donations than what they ask for” yeah that’s because people love a place that actually protects all fanfics, art and artists against censorship, purity culture and capitalism. shocking, I know
Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....
One time she said she used to be into BL and another employee down the hall asked what BL was and I yelled back "ITS YAOI" which reduced the teen to yelling "ITS SOFTCORE! SOFT CORE!!" So I yelled back "ITS SOFTCORE YAOI" anyway I get why dads are like that now
octopus’s garden perfectly captures the energy of a nine year old boy drawing a picture of him and a bunch of underwater friends while holding back tears because mummy and daddy won’t stop screaming and throwing shoes at each other the next room over
i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.
as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”
small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.
i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.
I've probably said this already but I do think the reason I'm so obsessed with mclennon vs. other insane gay music duos is johns death like I know that makes me evil or whatever but paul spending half his life mourning and struggling to cope with losing john is just so compelling to me. Compared to like other music breakups where I'm like ok ur both alive so bootycall each other or stfu already 🙄🙄🙄 meanwhile mccartney is in his house surrounded by pictures of john and johns art and art hes made about john and calendars of john and johns piano bench, constantly talking/thinking/writing songs about john. It just doesn't compare. To me.
Mclennon is the most tragic love story of all time. These two soulmates found each other against all odds, built their lives and dreams together, made each other better and understood each other on every possible level and then it's just...over? All this love, agony, jealousy, understanding...Paul has lived more years mourning him than being with him. It ruins me. Like, what do you mean they won't see each other again in this lifetime?? I don't believe in an afterlife but I might have to because I genuinely can't believe this is the end for them. It can't be.
part of why i’m so into the beatles is because genuinely they are the most entertaining celebrities to have ever existed. paul mccartney is addicted to lying. he is the unreliable narrator of his own story and often for absolutely no reason at all. john lennon would regularly crash out publicly and tell the press about it and then a year later be like “yeah i was actually full of shit that time i was just in a bad mood”. he tried to start gay rumours about himself in the early 70s and then was like “why are none of the gay men in underground gay clubs in 1973 telling the world about seeing me at underground gay clubs”. george harrison was so full of polite english rage it’s actually comical. he also participated in a 3 hour guitar battle with his best friend for his own wife’s honour. ringo has threatened the entire world with peace and love. they all acted exactly like i would if i was supermegafamous and it’s so fucking funny
I understand the appeal of wanting every adult hero to instinctively adopt teenage Peter Parker, but can it really beat the hilarity of acknowledging that at 15 Peter was 5'10", unusually buff, went by a moniker with Man in it, wore a creepy full face mask, and had a tightly guarded secret identity and probably a Queens accent thick enough to have come out of a jello mold, and adult heroes reasonably responded to him by going, “Wow, this grown man is an immature asshole for no reason.”
Way funnier to me than adult heroes finding out Peter is a teenager and becoming Concerned is the idea of adult heroes Retroactively finding out Peter Was a teenager because he admits to being like. 22 and they’re like “Hang on you’ve been doing this for like. Seven years.” and he’s like “Haha crazy right? Anyway it’s too late for you to yell at me about that because the statue of limitations on that lecture ran out when I turned 18”
YEAH this trope is instantly more tolerable if it’s fully adult Peter being like, *listen up whippersnappers because I’ve been around the block voice* “I’m thirty, and—” and Tony Stark, who vaguely assumed Spider-Man is maybe two years older than him because he just has that energy and hasn’t reassessed this for four presidential terms, is like, *drunkenly doing math* “You’re how many”
Okay but…them trying to talk about Old People Stuff with him, not realizing that he wasn’t alive to remember xyz thing happening, never used xyz technology bc he didn’t exist yet, not expecting him to agree with the fact that some ppl were saying songs they grew up to were oldies, etc
The thing about Peter Parker is that he was raised by senior citizens the way other heroes are raised by wolves. He has the body of an Olympic gymnast and the soul of a malcontented geriatric. This likely contributed to the perpetuation of the accidental ruse.
It’s when he channels Aunt May so hard he makes it sound like he was personally and immediately affected by McCarthyism that the time traveler fringe theory starts really picking up bets.
Pal, I JUST SAID he was raised by AUNT MAY.
Also not to get real on a ha ha comic post but the elderly are not your enemy. There are old progressives.
Peter has a lot of feelings about the woman that discovered DNA and he strikes me as the kind of person that thinks that distancing yourself from notable figures of history by using their last names is stupid, so he’s going to say something like, “Rosalind worked so fucking hard to have that work snatched from her,” immediately followed by, “I woulda thumped him good,” and inspiring Tony and Banner to frantically look through the 1930s and 40s yearbooks at King’s College and theorize which one was Spider-Man. Captain America tries reminiscing about the good ole days with him. Peter, for his part, has been absently agreeing and making vague “I’m listening” noises about the Rolling Stones and Elton John for the majority of his life, so adding baseball, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald to the list wasn’t that much of a stretch.
There are only like three genuinely funny additions on this, but this is one of them.
captain america pushing a get out the vote campaign: ‘spiderman did you vote’
spider’man’ at 16: uhhhh so about that
“I…can’t.” “I see. That’s why it’s so important to restore voting rights to felons.”
On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:
Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.
My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."
She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.
And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.
And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.
If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.
She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.
Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.
someone got really mad at me for being pro-pornography so i'd like to be annoying for a little longer:
-there are enormous problems with exploitation in the porn industry that harm and endanger the people within it, and that harm is carried out mostly against women and minorities
-this is Bad
-however the last century of passing laws against pornography hasn't actually helped any of those problems, and what sex workers tend to advocate for is the legitimization of their labor, so that they can then access the same protections and regulations that people in other industries can access
-for instance football players, miners, roofers, and warehouse workers are also exploited and endangered by their professions, have to work long hours, and can end up traumatized and disabled by unregulated and unsafe working conditions. these people are used up and thrown away by powerful bosses they can't individually challenge.
-however because these industries are not de facto illegal to participate in, when these people form unions and demand better working conditions, they can at least fight for their rights.
-sex workers, who engage in heavily stigmatized work that's also often illegal, have little recourse to demand better treatment.
-even if you don't like porn, and especially if you don't like porn, if you care about the women who are exploited in pornography, you need to advocate for the legality of pornography.
-the more illegal the porn industry is, the less safe and fair it is, and people will still be working in it, no matter how illegal it is.
-again: the porn industry should be regulated like any other industry and subject to laws guaranteeing fair compensation for labor, safe working conditions, and legal resources for workers suffering exploitation and abuse.
-once it is legal to do sex work, then women can bring charges against the men who have broken their contracts and abused them.
-and that is why i push back against posts saying that pornography is evil. it is an entertainment product, made by people, to meet an ongoing demand. criminalizing the consumption and production of it may slightly lessen the demand at the incredible cost of endangering everyone involved. and i think that is what's evil.
There is no scenario where all sex work is completely stopped. There just isn’t. Sex work is commonly referred to as “The Oldest Profession” because it IS. Sex work has been around for as long as people have exchanged goods and services in some way. As soon as we figured out how to draw pictures, almost immediately we began drawing erotic pictures meant to be erotic or funny or both. There are literally scraps of stone (known as ostrakon) from ancient Egypt with pictures of people doing sex acts, drawn not by master draughtsmen but by regular every day workers for the hell of it. Sometimes those pictures depict the rulers of the time in embarrassing situations. (I regret to inform you that RPF has ALSO been around since about 2 minutes after we invented famous people). We have always had porn and sex work. As long as we remain human, we will always have porn and sex work, whether it’s legal or not.
Sex is a very human need (not for everyone, not all the time, but the general population of humanity likes and wants sex. Those of us repulsed or indifferent to it are in fact a very small minority). And as long as there is a need, there will always be someone willing or desperate enough to fulfill that need in exchange for other goods or services. This is basic human nature. We cannot stop it. What we CAN do is make working conditions safer for those people who are providing the service, and reduce the need for people to do it out of desperation, leaving only people who actually enjoy it to provide the service. This means legal protections against people who abuse or break contracts with sex workers and pornographers. This means things like UBI to reduce homelessness and the need for survival sex work. This means admitting that just because YOU don’t want something doesn’t make it morally reprehensible nor does it make that thing go away.
Kill the 17th century Puritan in your head and start working toward labor rights for all kinds of work, including sex workers and pornographers.
Starting to feel like the most unbearably insufferable thing about John Constantine is he's a good detective. He's a wizard who smokes in other people's houses, he's the most annoying man you've ever been attracted to, and he's unfortunately genuinely competent
he's got a lot of columbo trickster energy
but columbo has enough befuddled grandpa energy to temper it and gaslight you into thinking he's maybe being annoying by accident
constantine is being annoying on purpose and everyone knows it
they will both show up outside the window of your palatial beachside estate where you're trying to dispose of evidence, but only one of them will successfully look as confused as anyone else by his presence
columbo says, "i'm here by coincidence," and you're sure he can't be but you can't actually rule it out and maybe you are just paranoid
constantine says, "i'm here by coincidence," and you both know he doesn't care that you know he's lying. also he's probably claiming the coincidence is that he was meeting up with your dad who he matched with on grindr, which adds a layer
Let’s take down a sniper with mama
making a collection
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sorry but im always gonna be the supporting sluts kinda feminist. u cant convince me that harassing sex workers or accusing horny women of "setting all women back" is the way to a better future
