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Imagine someone calling an exterminator to control an ant problem in their house and the exterminator spends all day picking up individual ants taking them outside and shooting them with a gun, one ant at a time one bullet one ant. And at the end of the day he's like yeah that's all I can do for now and there's still an entire colony of ants in the house hasn't even put a dent in it
wattpad universe: guy who calls himself a CEO = gazillionaire
real life: guy who calls himself a CEO = runs a failing startup
its healthy for your paragraphs to vary in size, good for the ecodiversity of your doc
re: that recent post an interesting thing about being an any pronouns user is that most cishet people will hear that and immediately go "oh thank god I can just call you the normal girl pronouns" and many queer people will go "okay got it I'll use they/them and apologize if I ever fuck up and use a different one" and it's like. okay. you're actually both kind of whiffing it in different ways.
I really want to thank you for putting the specter of the pedophile and the actual mechanisms behind CSA into perspective for me and others. I was never fully assaulted as a child, but I have been a victim of sustained abuse of sexual nature throughout my childhood and teenage years. for years and years, both during and afterward, I agonized over whether my abuser actually wanted to or planned on eventually assaulting me, or if she didn't even realize that what she was doing was wrong. the insights of you and others talking about this stuff made me realize that all in all, it doesn't matter - regardless of any attraction, the abuse still would have happened, because children are seen as parents' property and not people. I finally feel at peace with something that has been haunting me for years. I can finally accept that I don't NEED to know the specifics behind what caused my sexual abuse to be able to call it as such. to understand the ways in which the system is fundamentally broken to allow such things, rather than to shove down my complicated feelings toward my abusers in order to fit the narrative of "evil pedophile who I hate". perhaps if I as a child had the ability to articulate the ways she was repeatedly made uncomfortable and violated my autonomy without fearing that others would label her as a pedophile and react disproportionally and leave me abandoned without the person I really thought loved me the most, things would be a lot different. I truly hope the world changes so that children with complicated narratives such as my own have the ability to advocate for themselves without fear of the worst. thank you so, so much. I'm not a trans girl, and I understand that I'm not who you've intended to help through your words and wisdom, but I still want you to know how you've helped
my pleasure, gorgeous. thank you for matching my energy, I couldn't do it without you. I have a story that might be helpful here. (having written it out, I have two)
let's actually talk about what "attraction" can do, shall we?
bluntly, I was also hot when I presented as masculine. I'm not uncomfortable with that, but it is uncomfortable to talk about publicly. I understand that the validation I got from being an attractive man is one of the things that kept me in the closet, everyone else... it's an easy thing to get twisted.
I didn't become aware that people found me attractive when I was 18. before I found my role of hot older woman, I was cast as a hot young man. before that, I was a hot boy.
when I was 16 years old, I was walking in the Florida heat beside a busy road. this was a pretty small city, few thousand people, but in Florida everything is 1 story tall (hurricanes) so I had miles to walk. it was 95 degrees, I said fuck it, let's hitchhike. I stuck my thumb out, but nobody was biting, and it occurred to me that I could be advertising better.
so I took my shirt off. I was tan, ripped, sweaty. it was a good view, took me less than 5 minutes to get picked up. enter our villain: Norm. anonymous enough that I'm not worried about anyone trying to find him, but that is the actual name he gave me
Norm was an older white guy, late 40s early 50s maybe. bigger guy but not intimidatingly so, think like santa claus but without the rizz. he picked me up in a pristine gold-colored minivan. I was so fucking glad to get out of the heat.
Norm is a pedophile. or, at least, an ephebophile. I know this because, as he took me where I needed to go, he (extremely nervous, stammering) tried to tell me that if I ever wanted to like go to a concert or just hang out he'd pay for me.
I'm not kidding or exaggerating this, he literally said (again, stammering, trailing off at the end because he's losing his nerve), "we could go to an amusement park or something". I think we can safely say Norm is a pedophile, right?
I felt completely safe with him. I was not the slightest bit nervous or anxious. A lot of this had to do with the fact that he was an old guy and I was young, fit, and had a knife, but not really. I just knew he wasn't gonna try to hurt me.
Why would he? He wanted to be nice to me. If anything, it was fun for me to have an adult be so respectful for once. Interesting that the pedophile was giving me what no other adult in my life would, eh? I wonder if that's significant at all...
So, Norm's a pedophile and, apparently, a pretty good guy. I hope he didn't do that again, but mostly out of worry for him. That would've been an enormous problem if he'd made that offer to any of the male friends I had at the time, very solid chance they'd have beat his ass.
Before he dropped me off, I sternly told him this. I told him that I knew what he was asking, and that's okay, but he was going to get himself hurt if he did it again. The thing is, I think he knew that. It wasn't what he was actually scared of. He was most afraid of being shamed. I'd honestly be shocked if he tried it again.
Norm knew of exactly 1 way he could tell someone about the things he feels and not feel shame. By making sure it was good. That's why he was so nice. I am one hundred percent convinced that if pedophiles were able to at least talk to their friends without worrying they'd be rendered unpeople and possibly killed, the world would be a better place for children and the people they grow up to be.
Anyway, that same year one of the ladies at church noticed me walking around and commented that she hadn't seen me around and I was super cute. To her misfortune, she made this comment to my mother. this is very funny, but when my mom relayed it to me later, I was super fucking uncomfortable.
isn't it interesting that the guy who was kind to me is a monster, but the lady objectifying me at church is kooky? same feeling, same attraction, etc etc.
the reason this has nothing to do with mens' rights is that it's about the oversimplified way we think about power dynamics. Norm was very respectful, if only out of fear, and so I had access to power while sitting next to him in a van for 20 minutes.
I just kinda fucking found out that adult women, who I had been assured do not fit the profile of a predator, have been making objectifying comments about me to each other behind my back. every single message I had gotten about that kind of thing was about men doing it to women. I believed that the opposite happened, but I didn't really feel it until that moment.
isn't it interesting that, when they come after trans women, it's always about sexual abuse, which is unsubtly implying that we are male rapists? I wonder if that's part of what kept me in the closet.
people are so quick to compare kris' situation in deltarune to demonic possession, but in my opinion it's a lot closer to sainthood. having your will imposed on by a greater authority (the player metanarratively, but also carol and potentially others diagetically) with immense pressure on you to succeed, martyring yourself for a cause you can't fully explain to anyone because (you believe) they wouldn't understand, sacrificing your personhood for a "higher purpose", the themes of psychosis and disordered identity and being in a state of stress-induced crisis which were exceedingly common - and an implicit condemnation of the consequences of ignoring or recontextualising them as divine influence instead of making any attempt to meaningfully help the person experiencing them - in so-called saints, the imagery of being a cage for a soul formed of "human parts"... and at the end of it all, you were just an ordinary person whose suffering was retroactively made meaningful (and more palatable) by narrativisation and mythologisation. that's not possession, that's sainthood.
not to mention the seemingly loosely catholic-inspired properties of hometown's dominant religion and the occult practices associated with some of its counterculture. the nature of darkners as objects personified by their emotional, bordering on spiritual, significance rendering them forces by which pure darkness can be illuminated and made sense of, which necessarily implicates those who hold them in that regard in their creation, not unlike relics. the roaring knight being very possibly the horrifying culmination of the consequences of that, and both a dubious ally and source of terror to kris. the fun gang's assumption of roles of servitude to a preordained narrative (the prophecy).
A lot of cooking going on in this thread.
Today is a good day. A trans girl is trying on a skirt for the first time. She is growing out her hair and toying with a new name and asking her friends to try out she/her pronouns for her. It’s always a good day when the world gains a new trans girl. Remember this.
tbqh still not over how jarring this shit is like it's really telling what kind of shithole this place is that tme ppl get to have community like this while being tma gets you ghost towns full of porn bots posting tranny porn because the only ways transfems get to exist on this site are as a temporarily useful tool for tme people's benefit or as a porn video for bots to post, and everyone else has been harassed, stalked, and terminated over and over until they got fed up and left
it's cool how you can remake 35 times and every time within an hour have the same people in your ask box telling you to kill yourself and then have your account quietly terminated by the following day. sometimes in as little as three hours. and how this only ever happens if you're tma or are supportive of people who are
tumblr is sure doing its best to make sure that's the case, huh
to be perfectly honest with you all i’ve never once wanted any of my favorite characters to go to therapy
everytime I’m reminded that men will straight up complain about how pussy smells and there’s a whole industry around women buying products trying to cure it like some kind of disease it Goes in the evidence pile towards heterosexuality being some kind of obligation based death cult wherein each side despises one another truly and deeply . What I wanted to post is I would huff pussy smell out of a paper bag in a back alley like it’s paint fumes but the thought went elsewhere
Honestly I think BDSM should be normalized and talked about in polite society and discussed in sexual education classes and no part of life needs this more than dentistry offices
like, we already have a non-verbal safe word here, all I'm saying is that you don't need to be so polite about telling me to turn my head and open my mouth.
Look, I have strange women hold me down and stick fingers in my mouth for fun, this dentistry shit is nothing to me.
this gen z pizzagate bullshit is in part a direct result of tenderqueer fandomite shit twitter and the playbook for unpersoning people is shockingly similar to how they eat each other alive. not surprised by any of this but am also sorely disappointed. I think I have only survived up to this point because I block furiously
Kai (he/they) would like to lecture you on the dangers of pedophiles using this handy copy of Mein Kampf as a teaching aid
u have a responsibility to understand ur own privilege btw, there really isn't a way around it. if ur white u gotta learn about structural racism, if ur a man then u gotta learn about patriarchy, if u live in the first world then u gotta learn about imperialism. u have to be a class traitor, no excuses
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ahhhhh shitt shit fuck. post cancelled y'all. i forgot to fill out my paperwork
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Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards
