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Good news. we can finally Be Bees. this isn't your world, but we can Be Bees. this is Good news. you can Be a Bee. you'll live like a Bee. A Pet. A pet? A Pet. Mark, this is Good news. You'll live. for 30 years. THIS IS INSANE
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‘やるんか？やるんかっ!?’ (You gonna fight? You gonna fight!?) Needle felt art by Chachakinana, 2025
NEEDLE FELTING?????
The most useless dashboard warning light in your car has got to be the 'we slidin'' light. Like, thank you, but I am so very much aware that I do not have full control of my vehicle right now.
Is anybody else noticing how extremely visible eating disorders are everywhere among the celebrity class right now and its kinda just being ignored? like basically all the progress in body politics that were made in the last. like. 15 years are just fucking gone and we're even worse off than we were before. Body dysmorphia among The Elite must be fucking horrendous right now. The decade of GLP-1s is going great.
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i do wanna say that like, she's a black trans woman but she is also autistic in a needing someone to help her way. I feel like that representation for disabled/neurodivergent characters that are also poc is essentially non-existent. I need help too it's nice to make a oc that's similar
btw: she does the big cat chuffing thing when she meets people, it's a small form of communication that's friendly.
once again i'm begging you to understand that the answer to trans people in sports is not just allowing trans women to play in women's leagues, it is the radical gender desegregation of sports as a whole.
Men should not be allowed and encouraged to have their own leagues separate and apart from half the population. Siloing women and trans people into a completely separate space is not equality, it's fully giving away the plot.
And before anyone says "well we can't let women play in men's leagues, the men are fucking terrible and misogynistic." STOP ALLOWING THE MEN TO BE MISOGYNISTIC.
Women's leagues were already the bullshit liberal stopgap compromise. If they are to stick around permanently, it should be in an affirmative stance to make up the historical inequities in athletic development, not as the end-all-be-all final stop on a woman's athletic career.
The radical degendering of sports would solve the "issue" of where trans people get to play. If we don't segregate based on gender at all, there's no basis for excluding trans women.
Looking at sports like skateboarding, bmx, slopestyle mtb, sports which up until very recently have not had any higher level competitions for women. It becomes very obvious how much the disparity in performance between women and men is influenced and enforced by social conditions. Because these are sports that dont particularly favour strenght, or body mass or height, and the variation in body types is fairly broad. And even though there is no inherent limitation for the women to do the same tricks as the men, they perform on a much much lower level. Because if you only have access to a fraction of the resources and sponsorships, and have been told repeatedly (likely for the most of the time youve been practicing the sport) that you cant do as well as men and you cant compete in it and you definitely could not compete against men, then the bar is gonna be a lot lower.
That's not derailing the point at all, that's actually highlighting the fact that the only limiting factors in women's sports achievement are social attitudes and money. The solutions remain the same. Investing in women's and girl's athletic programs until they achieve parity with what men and boys have access to, and continuing to address the misogyny inherent in the attitude that women/girls can't compete on the same level.
To take a small tangent, I wanna talk about a sport-like activity I used to be heavily involved in: Drum Corps International (DCI for short). DCI is a highly competitive marching band league (that's an oversimplification, but enough info for the purpose of this comparison). DCI has two main divisions, World Class and Open Class. Think of these as a major league and a minor league. The main differences between WC and OC are the average age of the members of the corps, the cost of enrolling in the corps, and the amount of time dedicated to training and rehearsal during the season. World Class costs more, has an older average age, and rehearses far longer and more rigorously. Open Class has it's own competitive circuit, and is judged at a slightly lower standard than World Class. OC has its own seeding shows and its own semifinals/finals competition. There is an Open Class Champion named every summer at the end of the season.
And then every Open Class corps also competes in World Class finals week. Every corps in DCI, regardless of division, competes in World Class Prelims, and then the top 24 corps regardless of division advance to World Class Semifinals, and then the top 12 regardless of division advance to Finals. The Open Class champions also get to perform at WC Finals as "the thirteenth corps". When DCI started formatting it's finals competitions like this, Open Class corps got better on average. Having the opportunity to compete at the highest level raised the overall quality of the activity for everyone. Some OC corps regularly make semifinals, some WC corps get knocked out of contention in the process. It's not perfect, but the fact that every corps is allowed to compete in the same competitions is something to be lauded. This isn't a perfect one-to-one with a lot of competitive sports, but I think it's a decent analogue when discussing the effects of economic disparity.
I think, until all of the economic disparities have been addressed (which is as much of a class issue as a gendered issue), women and girls need a space where they can be developed and celebrated. But I don't think that necessitates the existence of Men's Leagues at all. The NHL should not be allowed to bar women and trans people from playing hockey full stop. The NBA should not be allowed to bar women and trans people from playing basketball full stop. There are already women and trans people who play well enough to be in these leagues. The continued existence of Men's Leagues speaks to the misogyny inherent in the culture, and I think the rise of women's sports (the PWHL, the WNBA, the NWSL) is both something to be celebrated but also needs to be understood as a compromise position, not the end-all-be-all of gender equality in sports.
Because it's not equality. It's segregation. It is separate but equal in all but name.
And to reiterate what I think is the main point:
If we degender sports, there will be no way to keep trans women out of sports. Men and women, cis or trans, can all compete on the same level when given the same time, energy, and space. That should be the end goal of any talk of sports advancement.
Sports achievement and access is as much a class issue as a gendered issue. We should campaign to forcibly overhaul men's sports just as we should campaign to elevate women's sports.
I hope one day we look at women's leagues like the Negro Leagues
@lucky-deergirl I want to put this here, because you're completely right. I'm in know way trying to say that DCI is perfect. I marched in the BD organization for 9 years and taught there for 4 (BDC/BDB for marching and BDB for teaching specifically) so while I can't speak to everything that went on at the world class level, I can say that DCI has huge problems with how it handles sexual assault and gendered issues. The last two years I taught there after I came out as trans were a nightmare. Even on staff, I was sexually harassed and eventually let go because I was a trans woman. But I think the competition structure of finals week is worth highlighting as an example of what more equitable competition might look like while the social and economic inequalities get addressed with player/member protections and robust systems that punish abuses of power.
No activity is free of misogyny or abuse of power, but the solution shouldn't be allowing the people in those positions of power to continue to act freely in their own spaces, the spaces where they act should be taken away and the actions should be punished.
these posts should be read and understood together
and this one
Misogyny should get you kicked out of sports.
you all don’t even try to hide your transmisogyny
This is an ancient tactic to handwave feminism in all forms since the beginning of time. "I wont take this feminism stuff seriously until a man tells me how it is." What makes this exceptionally transmysoginistic is that trans women are expected to engage with this criticism like its actually about inclusivity, and not just boring ass regular laughed-out-of-the-room misogyny.
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farcille isn't "toxic yuri." nothing remotely toxic about them, they both treat each other with a great deal of care and affection and respect. just because marcille is willing to do forbidden necromancy and arguably cannibalism for her wife doesn't make her toxic that's just what you do for a woman with broad shoulders
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Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs
Summer body is almost here ☀️
(some guy on the internet voice) it's so unrealistic and forced when women win fights against men in stories. of course, when a young boy defeats a huge man I'm cheering and screaming because it is so badass, and when a frail old man defeats a cocky young warrior I feel nothing but satisfaction. I love these power fantasies about easily dispatching people who underestimate you, a thing I desire despite the fact that I will likely never have the skill to achieve it in real life, but I'm pretty sure women don't have that same desire, and even if they do, they shouldn't get to see it in media. because it's so unrealistic, you see. I mean I'm smart enough to know I can't take down a big man in a fight but the women, you know, they'll get ideas. I could probably do it if I trained hard enough, but the women??? for some reason I can't see it happening, and who can say why that is.
Ummm she's literally sensitive :/
