God Fearing Fag

But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition

[trattenbach]

Happy Battle Against Richard Nixon's Immortal Soul Saturday

[babushkaat]

[luxiomahariel]

[olderthannetfic]

https://olderthannetfic.tumblr.com/post/817917839790030848/the-pap-smear-discourse-on-twitter-about-how-pap#notes

This is actually a shit take.

"Think about all the other women in the world when you complain about your privileged ass having access to pap smears."

Great... and now? Are those women gonna get them because women/people with vaginas who have access to them stop complaining?????

Does it make it less painful to some? Is it less medically negligent when a Gyno who clearly has no actual human care says shit like "This doesn't hurt stop complaining." You'd be surprised at the amount of "trying to force it" procedures that happen at gyno appointments because "you can handle it stop complaining it doesn't hurt, you're just trying to get attention" rhetoric being spewed. What about insertions of spirals, or cervix testing, where women/people with vaginas and cervix are expected to have an entire chunk of their cervix be punched out, without anesthesia and then just "deal with it," because that's what the medical world tells us makes sense. You think a similar procedure would be done on a dick, and the patient in question would just be told to "deal with it, the hole is gonna heal on its own, stop whining." There's so much medical negligence in fields around the female body. And all the other shit women/trans masc/women passing people deal with in the medical world, and your take is... "Shut up women, other women have it bad." Maybe look at the system instead of shaming the individual women/trans men/etc who have to deal with this shit and therefore complain.

I swear to God, you can literally complain about poor medical care in other places in the world, without using it to directly or indirectly shame people with access to it. Newsflash, female healthcare, even outside of gyno, is riddled with medical bias, and misogyny. Medicine on average is made for the average cis male, same with many diagnostic tools, same with healthcare plans. Women are more likely to have health concerns be waved away with "hormones," "emotionality" "you're being hysterical" and basically any other "you're not actually sick, you're a woman"-argument. Some women's healthcare is literally reliant on a man's word: Women who want hysterctomies for medical problems like PCOS (new: PMOS) and endo, will be told "what would your (male) partner say about it?" (Even when the women in question have no partner/no desire for it/are queer) Some will even refuse it based on marital status until the man has signed off on it. --- https://www.themarysue.com/man-blocks-wifes-hysterectomy/ The time of "the husband stitch" isn't centuries away, even now it exists, so it's not like it's a bygone era of medical malpractice favoring man's pleasure over women's health.

Maybe instead of trying to callout of the "privileged women" (forgetting trans, inter, and others exist...) you could just complain about shit access and medical biases against female centered healthcare.

Please fuck off, this isn't a "Us vs them" fight, this is a "Female bodies in healthcare are treated as disposable, lesser value, ignorable and belonging to men." I just collected these quickly, but there's honestly an endless amount of sources and resources by just typing a few key words... at this point I feel like the state of misogyny in healthcare is better researched than any medical field with #female bodies as the focus.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/08/nhs-letting-women-down-medical-misogyny-report https://www.zikoko.com/her/have-you-ever-been-ignored-by-a-doctor-women-on-medical-misogyny/ https://360info.org/made-by-men-for-men-why-medicines-gender-bias-matters/ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/gender-bias-in-healthcare journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17455057251399009 https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/collection/womens-health-why-women-feel-unheard/

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[magnetothemagnificent]

franz kafka’s writings are often analyzed in a trans lens the person who wrote that was almost definitely a trans person who related. people who call kafka a trans woman are almost entirely trans women. there is also a huge subset of literature shitposter girls who use kafka and the metamorphosis specifically to talk about their experiences with womanhood. so while i agree that the trope you are talking about is antisemitic i don’t think that applies here. he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.

It. Literally. Doesn't. Matter.

Spoiler alert: trans people can be antisemitic!

Franz Kafka was a real person who died not too long ago, and just because a trans person relates to his writings doesn't mean they can claim he's trans. It's not the same as relating to a fictional character. You can't 'headcanon' an actual person. I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman. He was an actual person, not a fictional character you can project on. An treating Franz Kafka like a fictional character you can project any label onto and separate him from his actual life is dehumanization and *also* antisemitic.

It's no different than queer people co-opting Anne Frank's memory and erasing her story to just herald her as a "bi icon" when she never had the chance to live long enough to label herself. Queer gentiles need to stop dehumanizing Jewish people and turning them into blank slates they can project onto.

Kafka's Metamorphosis and writings about his depression are from the viewpoint of a disabled Jewish man who was watching as antisemitism was slowly escalating around him and Jews were becoming insects in the minds of society. And "he's not being called a woman in a disparaging way" is the dumbest excuse ever- antisemitism is antisemitism. I've seen trans people infantilize Jewish men, calling them "different breed of man" or "scrunkly" and then insist they meant it positively. Intent doesn't matter. Calling a Jewish man, who never ever indicated having any gender identity otherwise, a woman, or implying he's somehow not a full man, is antisemitic.

[obi-waankenobi]

I hope I'm not derailing here (please tell me if I am and I'll delete this), but I'd like to especially call attention to this line (which I love, btw):

I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman.

At some point relatively recently, people seem to have come to the conclusion that you can't empathize with a character (or real fucking person, in this case, and I cannot stress how gross that is) unless you're just like them. "Oh, I, a nonbinary person can identify with this cishet man? He must actually be nonbinary!" "Oh, I, an autistic person, can identify with this Ambiguously Quirky™ person? She must actually be autistic!"

Being able to relate to a person--real or fictional--who isn't just like you is a good thing. It's good that you see yourself in the writings of a cisgender man! Maybe it will teach you that cis people aren't the enemy. It's good that an autistic character resonates with NT people! Maybe they'll gain new insight into their autistic friends and family!

It's called empathy, and it's so important to understand that you are going to see your experiences reflected in people who are unlike you. Those connections are important. Deciding that Kafka must be a trans woman because you're a trans woman is missing the entire fucking point. It means that you do, in fact, have some things in common with a cisgender man, and conversely, it means that cisgender men have things in common with you. To flatten them out so they're just like you is missing out on so much of what they have to say.

People are beautiful and rich and layered and the fact that we can connect with other people and share experiences despite how different we are? That's the whole fucking point. That's what makes life worth living.

OP, I'm sorry I only spoke on being transgender and autistic. Those are the only two points that I could speak on from experience. Talking about real people like they're fictional pisses me off, and I sort of... got off on a thing.

[terulakimban]

I'm not OP, but one thing that's frightening about this from a Jewish perspective (especially in the context of discussing someone who was alive in the interwar period) is the recurring idea that Jews only matter as lenses for other people's stories. That we can be empathized with, but only if our narratives can be twisted to someone else's.

Because we've seen that before. We see it very often because it's a fundamental premise of some incredibly antisemitic forms of Christianity, and when it turns out that we're real people with real opinions and real beliefs and real feelings who don't just exist to validate someone else's perception of who and how we could be, people don't just abandon their pretense at allyship, they get violent.

It's also a common failing in how the Holocaust is taught. People like to present this lens of "it was random violence that came out of nowhere and could've happened to anyone. It could've happened to you! Imagine if you'd been one of the victims! That would've been a tragedy wouldn't it?" And the thing is, that's bullshit. If you were just a random German citizen at the time? You would've been one of the perpetrators. And it was a tragedy in and of itself; it doesn't become a tragedy by imaging a scenario in which people who were perfectly safe would've actually been potentially in danger (never killed, of course, because Holocaust education is also commonly sanitized, which is a different rant).

Edited to take out a rant that was in drafts and got added to this by mistake, but. Well, the Tl;dr, since that's been reblogged

Well. I'm a cis woman. GNC, perhaps, but cis. And I get misgendered (and degendered) a lot because of how people read Jewish features. And... when friends insist that any discomfort I have with feminine stuff is because I'm an egg... I get that they're trying to be helpful for a journey of self-discovery. But I've done that introspection. I check in with myself periodically just in case. And "oh, you're really nonbinary/a trans man because you're [insert list of stereotypically Jewish features//personality traits commonly ascribed to Jews [whether or not I have them]" -it hurts. Because not only are they minimizing my actual identity and my self-knowledge, and deciding that they're the experts on my life, rather than me, they're doing it in a way that's constantly used to hurt me.

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

another thing! Jewish men are (pretty often) seen as feminine/unmasculine and like they could never be 'true men'. In a lot of media they're the awkward nerds, the virgins, the weirdos. Point is this is not just misgendering anybody (which would be awful enough), this is misgendering a group that's known to be seen as less masculine than a white man for example

*this is a bit of derailing but it reminds me of how black men face the opposite issue of being seen as hyper masculine & in turn hyper violent. None of us can win in this racist ass society my g-d

[littledoggy-girlcollar]

“he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.”

No, but everything in his writing that gets commented on is something that speaks to feeling out of place in society, or something that conveys emotional or social vulnerability.

So for someone to say “because of these things I think she was a trans woman teehee!” they are implicitly 1) denying that any other aspect of identity might cause these feelings, and 2) asserting that if someone feels these things, they must be a woman.

Ignoring his Judaism AND implying that men can’t feel alienated or vulnerable and if they do they must actually have been a woman. Doesn’t seem very respectful or deconstructing of gendered norms to me.

People need to either start recognizing that you can empathize and identify with jews on our own terms or you can stop fucking talking about us.

[tree-lined-street]

photoshop of a ww2 poster

[nonbinaryjudean]

The quote used on this poster is by Emma Lazarus, from a series of letters she wrote called “Epistle to the Hebrews” in the American Hebrew, a Jewish journal. This quote is from 1883. Lazarus, a Sephardic-American Jew, was an advocate for women’s and Jewish rights and liberation. She is considered a leading “proto-Zionist” and a prolific poet and thinker in Jewish history.

She wrote this quote referring to the plight of Ashkenazi Jews in Europe during the pogroms. The increase of Jewish refugees and immigrants to America during this time would cause anti-immigration legislation targeting Jews. This was her calling on other American Jews to feel solidarity, to have awareness, and to help the Jews in Europe escape from violent persecution.

Here is the full letter it was included in:

“In defiance of the hostile construction that may be put upon my words, I do not hesitate to say that our national defect is that we are not "tribal" enough; we have not sufficient solidarity to perceive that when the life and property of a Jew in the uttermost provinces of the Caucuses are attacked, the dignity of a Jew in free America is humiliated. We who are prosperous and independent have not sufficient homogeneity to champion on the ground of a common creed, common stock, a common history, a common heritage of misfortune, the rights of the lowest and poorest Jew-peddler who flees, for life and liberty of thought, from Slavonic mobs. Until we are all free, we are none of us free. But lest we should justify the taunts of our opponents, lest we should become "tribal" and narrow and Judaic rather than humane and cosmopolitan like the anti-Semites of Germany and Jew-baiters of Russia, we ignore and repudiate our unhappy brethren as having no part or share in their misfortunes- until the cup of anguish is held also to our own lips.”

There is no mention of Jewish people on this poster despite the fact you mention it’s an edit of one from ww2. I do not think I should have to explain why Jews are relevant to ww2.

If you’re going to exclude us, dont use a quote written by, for, and about us.

[jewish-sideblog]

So the Union Against Oppression is:

- 21 different flags for Queer identities, plus one straight ally flag. And then also Palestine, where being gay is at best seen as deeply taboo and at worst is legally punishable by public mob lynchings

- Anarcho-communists, but also just anarchists. You know, to replace the United Nations from the original poster

- Ukraine, sure, that’s great. But it’s weird that the Ukrainian flag doesn’t replace the original’s USSR flag, it replaces the British Raj. Also there’s still a communist flag in the lineup and I’m not sure the Ukrainians feel amazing about that

- Antifacists, Black Lives Matter, sure, all good, and finally,

- Luigi Mangione. Just… that one guy.

So this new solidarity movement is 75% Queer alliance, 10% anarcho-communists, 3% black people, 3% each of two countries whose geopolitical interests are not aligned, 3% anti-fascists and 3% one man who is in jail.

I just. I dunno I figure I’d want some worker’s rights flags in there. Some interfaith solidarity maybe. Or more than one single flag for all the world’s non-white people. If it’s just Queers and Anarchists I don’t think we’re ever gonna be free because those those fuckers literally won’t stop infighting to save their lives

[wizardarchetypes]

it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware

[carolinalaurel]

One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!

The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”

i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed

[lezbadeez]

gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean

[lastvalyrian]

I genuinely believe that part of why it has become so normalized to be openly callous and evil in politics is that customer service culture has trained affluent people that they can treat everyone they consider beneath them however they want and still be treated kindly.

[nonexistent-triangle]

the irredeemable pervert is generally well regarded among their friends for their insightful thoughts and all around pleasant demeanour

[prudencepaccard]

[prudencepaccard]

these tags are so incredible

[megalunalexi-aesthetic]

Blending gender....

Blending gender.....

Blending gender......

I'm just gonna leave this for a while

Gender blended

[predatory-lesbians]

genderblent pride flag

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[beaft]

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

[beaft]

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

[beaft]

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

[beaft]

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

[genderkoolaid]

consuming any media is like. wow. this fat guy character's entire role is to be the butt of the joke about how he's obsessed with junk food and is weirdly predatory towards women? how original. did you come up with that all on your own.

[roycohn]

"we need a joe rogan for the left" we literally have alex cooper and kylie kelce hosting massively popular podcasts where they bring on democratic politicians to boost their messages to their wide audience of normie women as well as talking frankly about politically-relevant issues that impact women such as birth control, sex and sexuality, and the division of labor in marriage and parenting -- oh wait you didn't mean that, you meant "a man with a podcast where it's okay to say slurs" not a "cringe lib wine drinking bitch with a microphone"

[mshfar2a]

I don't like to admit it, but sometimes I actually miss John Green.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Sometimes I can almost hear him.

[puppygirllaika]

It's actually so fucking weird that your identity is absolute these days. like, it's been normalized to the point we don't think of it much, but until a hundred years ago, hell even less, you could just kinda. go somewhere else, and be a new person. and that's not a thing anymore.

[secretearthworm]

Yk this is fully untrue right? You can fully still do this if you're willing to change and let go of everything at literally any moment you want

[puppygirllaika]

since a good few people now have said this i want to be clear: you can move to a new town still and change socially, but like. the government still knows who you are. so do tons of corporations. your identity follows you.

[puppygirllaika]

13 hours later and the parade of stupid comments like this has not stopped =_=

[ratbastard69420]

a guy named Rusty cage did a video on how it's impossible to leave your identity behind unless you become a eunuch

[ratbastard69420]

fuck hermit I meant hermit

[puppygirllaika]

Identity is stored in the balls.

[ltleflrt]

a concerning number of cis men certainly think so

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

When I tell you guys my jaw dropped reading this... holy actual fucking shit

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

A few more gems:

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

I just can't get over the part about how REAL Judaism "died" in the mid-20th century. Antizionists really do wish the Nazis had succeeded, don't they?

[arandomshotinthedark]

Oh, I see they took Mein Kampf and the Protocols and ran it through progressive lingo.

Let's see-there's Jews are wealthy (Powerful Jewish Capitalists), Jews control everything/responsible for everything-hey we even have a shout out to the Nazi Octopus, Good Jews vs Bad Jews ('Real' Judaism), Jews are White, Jews are Rootless Cosmopolitans/Colonizers, Jews are Liars, Opposing Judaism Is Righteous (Are we talking Middle Ages, Nazism, Sovietism? No what, doesn't matter, it's the same shit repackaged!), The Jews Are the Bad Guys In An Ahistorial Cartoonish Way that They're Responsible For Their Own Ethnic Cleansing And Genocide in the Middle East Outside Israel....

Oh and we have ableism for some good measure "twitter short bus".

[knight-of-skyloft]

"Anti-Judaism is a progressive force" incredible. Breathtaking.

[leunusualsuspect]

People are looking for the substack and so you don’t have to go far:

Judaism is Zionism

No, really.

I am… aghast really. It’s truly terrible. I don’t have the energy to add more of this drivel to the screenshot logs above but… holy fuck

[gayalfredprufrock]

I searched the author of this substack and immediately found a video of him ripping down hostage posters

[berensreverie]

A homo neanderthalensis and a homo sapiens. Happy pride!

[magnetothemagnificent]

[id: art of a Homo sapiens man and Homo neanderthalensis man crouching by a cave wall with their hands on the wall together, among many other handprints. A fire is casting their shadows on the wall. The Homo sapiens man is laughing and reaching towards the Homo neanderthalensis man, who is looking at him and blushing. ]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

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

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE