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if i was a white woman who lived in a big single family house that i owned id love to get really paranoid and drop wine glasses at the slightest noise, and pick up a kitchen knife all shaky while my home security i pay $125 a month for goes off because my shit ass kid forget to enter the passcode for the THIRD time this month TANNER!!!! youre making mommys nerves shot to hell! And then i drink my third glass of white wine

lactating

id also love to make tanner sweep up the broken glass and then when he misses huge chunks under the toekick id step on them and have a huge screaming meltdown and then my husband shows up and touches my foot but not with the tenderness that made me fall in love with him i feel his callouses and its not charming its horrible god its horrible and i silently sob for the rest of the night

estro-boi

ngl kinda hate that "this has been discussed extensively you're just 21" tweet cos it was directed at a trans woman who was getting dogpiled for saying that the "dangerous man in a dress" horror trope is shitty

estro-boi

she was born in 2005, the right wing culture war against trans people has been going on for half her life, if she independently arrives at a correct take then how is that something worth mocking?? you got flowers sprouting through concrete, water them dumbass

estro-boi

my dipshit six year old: if the earth is round how come we don't fall off??

me: lol we learned that in science class 20 years ago 🤣 prick

infinite strangers online: okay this is an all time dunk

colorisbyshe

This is kind of a weird take because the girl in question literally agreed with the dunk and said it was the only good response to her tweet (and ignored tweets responding to her usage of Woke 1.0 being racist as it ignores woke as an AAVE term that existed long before the time period she was referring to)

She admitted she hadn't actually looked up much queer film theory and thanked people for recommendations for books and videos educating her on the topic where the discussion HAS been happening.

Also, very, very strange of you OP to imply right wing culture has only been active for the past 10 years or so...

You've kind of fallen into the same thing she has: assuming your knowledge as just being a young trans person supersedes like... actual historical context because, uh, no, I promise you the culture war against trans people began before 2015

And perhaps that might even be WHY the man in a dress trope has had been discussed so much for the past *googles silence of the lambs release date* 35 years

If you actually look at the replies of her post, most of it is trans people relaying to her the decades and decades and decades long struggles they've had in having their conversations ignored and met with why haven't we spoken about it before when they have been screaming for almost 4 decades on the subject (likely longer, as the trope comes before even those two films)

Yes, treat her with kindness, but also... read the room a bit.

And also... OP of the original tweets literally liked and retweeted that response and agreed with it.

It's okay to acknowledge that sometimes young people think they are the zenith of an issue and need to be reminded that actually they aren't alone in this, this has been a long struggle and the discussion isn't just theirs to helm, they are in union with many, many previous voices

Liiiiike maybe this was okay and even cosigned

busket

they've been arguing about malgendering on twitter so here's the truth from me, the arbiter of truth (jk but ive been talking about malgendering long before it became a popular buzzword and heres my understanding of it)

malgendering is a form of transphobia wherein a transphobic person uses their victim's correct gender to harass or demean them. it is meant to be the inverse of misgendering, where a transphobe uses the victim's incorrect gender to harass or demean them.

misgendering towards trans women can be as simple as "youre a man." but malgendering is more insidious, like someone saying "you really are a girl" when she makes a mistake in order to insult her intelligence. the phrase "you really are a girl" is positive when removed from the context of the trans woman making a mistake and the transphobe's sarcastic tone that implies shes stupid in an misogynistic way.

if a trans man does something like standing up for himself against an unfair situation or asks for better accommodations/treatment, and a transphobe wants to use that to imply he is selfish and entitled, they might say "trans men really are men" which again, is a true statement on its own. but in the context of the situation, its clear the transphobe is using the stereotypical worst qualities of men to insult and undermine someone's very identity.

malgendering can be any severity of harm, just like misgendering. my mom slipping up in the first months of my transition and accidentally calling me "she", and a bigot shouting "YOURE A WOMAN YOULL NEVER BE A MAN" at me are both examples of misgendering, but one is much worse than the other and its the same with malgendering. being told "trans men are the men of the trans community" as an insult is annoying and rude but not a big deal. however, right now ICE is torturing trans men in concentration camps by forcing them to do pointless and grueling labor. and when they become exhausted, theyre told "I thought you were a man. if youre really a man this should be easy for you" these are both examples of malgendering. one is a microaggression, the other is literal torture.

malgendering happens equally to both trans men and trans women, its not something that is unique to anyone because it is a form of transphobia. the strategy is that if a transphobe tries to make a trans persons life as their true gender so miserable and unsafe, detransitioning seems like the safer and happier option. its psychological torment, moreso than the plain and obvious insult of intentional misgendering. so dont let it happen, call it out when you see it and dont be fooled by transphobes trying to erase the context and be like "what!! what i said was true!"

calamitys-child

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

calamitys-child

Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century

shorthistorian

Don't forget the ALLIGATORS. He loves them too.

#art

duckbunny

one of the many reasons to insist upon chronological timelines is that it's much, much harder to scroll forever if you can catch up with yourself. if you can run out of tumblr because you reach yesterday, that is a good and helpful prompt to do something else.

#if tumblr ever dies I am simply not going to be on social media #prev

shimamitsu

ppl are so mad in the replies to this tweet but op is literally right

edgar-allan-possum

tpwrtrmnky

Basically my primary frustration with a lot of mainstream left-ish framings of trans issues is the treatment of trans rights as a concession they're making to be nice, rather than a principled stance grounded in a real, material understanding of the world.

It leads to this attitude of being vaguely embarrassed to support trans people, which crumbles when Right Wing Dipshit Pundit #33145 starts going on about "harsh truths" that a competent advocate could call out for being incorrect.

tpwrtrmnky

"You are transphobic" as an argument by itself is a lot weaker than "You are demonstrably, unambiguously wrong about this issue. You have reached an incorrect conclusion despite having all the information needed to be correct, because you'd rather be transphobic than right."

but-a-humble-goon

I think the main obstacle to this approach is that nobody on the right even pretends to give a shit about facts, logic, the truth or material reality anymore. They all seem to have collectively agreed they lost on that front years ago. You can prove them wrong on the issue all you want, their response is to stick their fingers in their ears and go "lalalalala I can't here you men can't be women men can't be women men can't be women lalalalalala." And the thought leaders who push this stuff to them for personal gain are all fully aware that they're just lying, it's 100% grifters all the way down.

tpwrtrmnky

The right is a deeply unpopular minority that would be irrelevant if it wasn't constantly getting concessions from liberals who've been propagandized into believing that doing so is "pragmatic" and "realistic."

dramaticpokemonpictures

Rest in peace Akihiro Miwa (1935-2026)

I haven't seen anyone talking about this and just wanted to make a quick post on here.

Akihiro Miwa recently passed away peacefully june 20th, and was not only a drag queen and a queer icon, but also the japanese voice of Arceus in the movie Arceus and the jewel of life, as well as the witch from Howl's moving castle and Moro from Princess Mononoke.

Rest in peace and thank you for the wonderfull impact you made in this world.

samenamesmackdown

Same Name Smackdown!

Who would win in a fight?

Isabella "Ivy" Valentine (Soulcalibur)

Ivy (Deadlock)

Remaining time: 5 days 6 hours

blatantly-contradictory

Consider:

#Youtube

fuckyeahfluiddynamics

"Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)"

Though we rarely notice their movement in the moment, plants, and especially their flowers, are frequently on the move. Here, retired engineer Jay McClellan captures a thymeleaf speedwell flower as it opens, then pushes a stamen toward its pistil, thereby pollinating itself. (Video and image credit: J. McClellan; via Colossal)

#in before mature content label

romansroys

im mcfuckin losing it djcjcjsjfjdjsjsc

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cryptic-forge

i got inspired by antique furniture -> decided to try and make a wooden doll.

she is whittled entirely out of balsa wood with a craft knife, and colored with wood dye. the cabinet has miniature hinges made of tube beads and a metal rod, and closes with a magnet. she absolutely should hold a sentimental & important object, but i don't have any that are the correct size, so i just put in some cute trinkets.

#art

$fractangle blog's avatar$

fractangle

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #29: Wheat But Not Bread, Fruit But Not Wine

gelbgelbgelb

As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-- Daniel Mallory Ortberg

technologistrevolution

This has been driving me insane because this quote is so incredibly Jewish but every time I saw it was completely divorced from Judaism in the version applying it to 'transsexual'.

The original concept that humans complete the act of creation by making bread from wheat is from the Talmud! And the specific "wheat but not bread, grapes but not wine" phrasing is from Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel but it is missing "clay but not bricks".

And among trans Jews the sentiment was already popular before I ever started seeing this specific phrasing so I knew, knew, knew a Jew and likely a trans Jew was involved.

As it happens, Ortberg's friend Julian is Jewish and they have strongly negative feelings about the way the quote has been removed from the context of their life as someone trans and Jewish. They used to have a thread up on xwitter about it but have since made their account private and only have a very terse FAQ online from which you can glean the treatment they likely received when being more open about their Jewishness, relationship to transness, and the interaction of both.

kosherdragon

I've always thought there was something extremely Jewish about that quote! I had no idea that Julian is Jewish.

#trans history

squareic

it does say something about the state of the queer community that no one really talks about or cares that since 1991 T has been a class III controlled substance in the united states. for decades now trans men and mascs have had our names tracked and traced if we were legally prescribed T. since before some of you were even born, the american govt has had a list of us.

you need to care about the trans men and mascs who have been on these lists for almost 30 years now. you need to care about more than the threat or concept of trans women and femmes being put on a list, because your brothers are already there.