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"i want trans people all the way alive." - radically pro-transgender // alex dawson

at some point yall just gotta join a religious group and preach bc im tired of yall acting like sex/porn/poly/etc is bad every fucking month. we are one discourse cycle away from ‘sex before marriage is bad’ like go be a mormon and gtfo

stillnaomi

unless you want to teach small kids about a laundry list of sex acts, they're not going to even recognise many acts of CSA as sexual in nature. instead, we need to have children who are raised with an expectation of bodily autonomy and who feel comfortable complaining when they're made or asked to do things they don't feel comfortable with. we need children to have the expectation that those complaints will be taken seriously and that they'll receive backup to make sure situations like that don't continue. if their desires for bodily autonomy are consistently ignored, how can we expect them to speak out when something confusing and uncomfortable happens with their parent, cousin, or babysitter? we've already taught them that what they feel comfortable with doesn't matter

nariarts

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

shadow-manor

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.

batmanisagatewaydrug

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

shadow-manor

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

batmanisagatewaydrug

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

shadow-manor

If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.

You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.

batmanisagatewaydrug

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

shadow-manor

...the trademark part.

batmanisagatewaydrug

right, okay, I forgot that she's singlehandedly putting Patagonia out of business by using a silly joke name

netherator

if Patagonia loses their trademark, which they would if they didn't sue and win (again for one dollar), there would be no assurance against people putting a Patagonia label on amy dogshit

batmanisagatewaydrug

well I hope Amy Dogshit enjoys wearing the label I think she'll look very nice

hauntedfalcon

I love you Pacific Rim, I love you Ramin Djawadi's soundtrack, I love you Mako Mori, I love you found footage prologue, I love you entire concept of Drift compatibility, I love you only actual golden retriever man Raleigh Becket, I love you Kwoon scene, I love you "it's not obedience. it's respect," I love you Mana Ashida's powerhouse performance, I love you Stacker Pentecost's sun motif, I love you Chuck's jacket, I love you hallway fistfight, I love you Crimson Typhoon, I love you Otachi, I love you del Toro's "guy in a suit" approach to creature design, I love you Hansens with flare guns, I love you "for my family," I love you numerous artful nods to Jurassic Park, I love you "we can clear a path. for the lady," I love you forehead touch, I lo

teathattast

akaanmo

i think i just witnessed a miracle

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fractiousrvt

There is always hope

redstonedust

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

just-let-me-drink

childmagazine

someone from 1997 wished me good luck. it’s like someone from so many years back knows your struggles and i just, i think i’m gonna cry

that-space-boy

reblogging for luck from friend in 1997

speggehtix3

one of the "these can and should coexist" things to me is "there are numerous fat people who eat healthy and exercise and could beat the average skinny person in a hike" and "fat people who are fat and arent athletic and dont eat super healthy and do get winded walking up hills also are apart of fat liberation and deserve love too"

both of these are true and both deserve love and to be able to be accepted and get proper healthcare

lamignonette

tboy-cock

the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad

peoplegettingreallymadatghosts

fell for the oldest trick in the book

ophilosoraptoro

severeprincesheep

It's on the wikipedia page that literal sea people attacked out of nowhere?

peoplegettingreallymadatghosts

Never doubt my shitposts again

batmanisagatewaydrug

finally listening to Braiding Sweetgrass and Robin Wall Kimmerer has me emo about these damn pecans

batmanisagatewaydrug

I'm so nervous about being able to listen to this whole book before it's due back in 13 days but I think that listening is the only way I want to do it. I like hearing it directly from RWK and I like the oral tradition of it all

batmanisagatewaydrug

she's remarkably restrained all things considered but good for her lighting up her ex husband in between the beautiful meditations on the mutual relationship between humans and nature lmao

batmanisagatewaydrug

I've been putting off getting back to my garden for the season even though it's badly needed cleaning up—clearing weeds, making sure the flowers have room to grow, pulling rocks out, etc. it's just felt too overwhelming, like if I can't do everything at once I'm failing.

I've been out in the dirt for about an hour this morning checking in on the plants, seeing who's growing, tidying up a little. feels really good to be back out, and I think Braiding Sweetgrass really helped me get in the headspace of like... well it doesn't need to be totally perfect, but it does need to be done. that's not just my yard, the flowers are part of my household. they're friends, family. you've gotta check in on your friends and family.

I have that same pattern with a lot of humans in my life, where I get too anxious and in my head about reaching out when I haven't spoken to someone in a while, getting too scared to nurture the relationship. but it always feels better when I do, and knowing that makes it easier to work through the tangle of my own fear. changing how I thought of the garden, including in the list of beings I have a relationship with, really helped :)