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love how all of hozierâs lyrics imply that either a. he will one day be murdered and buried by the hands of his lover, a beautiful and mysterious woman who renders him utterly powerless or b. itâs already happened
I saw him live, it definitely already happened but itâs okay he decomposed very attractively and is fine now
Charities/organisations to avoid:
PETA: Theyâd rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)
FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. Theyâre also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)
Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and donât have a single autistic person on their board (x)
Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( x x x )
The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( x x x )
Wounded Warrior:Â They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( x x x )
^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups
Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.
A good way to know if a nonprofit youâre donating to is allocating their money in the right way is to check out their Charity Navigator rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org
Signal boosting, the bell ringers are out in force, and this info is too important.
Charity season is coming up in not even two months, so I feel like this is important to share now before itâs too late.Â
Prisoners should be allowed to vote, even while in prison. Cutting them off from society and denying them the rights that others have serves no purpose. They are people and the more civic minded they are the better.
Address recidivism by keeping them in touch with the community we tell them they should one day rejoin.
Proving a point to my boyfriend.
PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry
Iâve never hit reblog faster or harder.
reblog if youâre pro-shipping because all ideas can be safely explored in fiction so long as the audience is properly warned. anything can be shipped and itâs never a problem
âEXCEPT -â no. listen. anything. literally any fucking thing
Reblog if you're a Slytherin.
gryffindor | ravenclaw | hufflepuff
rb if youâre a bi bitch who loves carbs
Iâm not ace myself, so Iâm coming at the whole acephobia thing from an outsiderâs perspective, and as such, itâs not my place to speak to the experience of those on the receiving end of it.
However, as a bisexual dude, I can observe that many of the arguments that are employed to establish that ace folks have no place in the queer community are strikingly similar - indeed, at times practically word-for-word identical - to the arguments that were for many years (and in some circles still are) employed to establish that bisexual folks have no place in the queer community.
Itâs enough to make a guy suspicious on general principle, you know?
Iâve gotten a few messages asking for (well, in some cases more âdemandingâ) elaboration, so: here are a few of the primary areas in which Iâve observed that arguments against bi inclusion and arguments against ace inclusion tend to exhibit significant overlap. There may well be others - these are simply the ones Iâve run into most frequently.
The Passing Argument
It has been argued that bisexual folks donât have any grounds to complain about discrimination and violence suffered in relation to their orientation, because a bisexual person is able to pass as straight simply by choosing partners of the appropriate gender. Therefore, any discrimination and violence that a bisexual person does experience must be construed as voluntarily undertaken, since they could have passed, and freely chose not to.
This argument is similarly applied to ace folks via the assertion that being ace poses no particular barrier to seeking a partner of a socially acceptable gender, so any failure to do so must likewise be construed as voluntary.
The Performativity Argument
It has been argued that bisexual folks ought to be excluded from queer communities because sexual orientation is purely performative; i.e., being gay is defined in terms of currently having a sexual partner of the same gender. A bisexual person who has a partner of a different gender is functionally indistinguishable from a straight person, and must therefore be regarded as straight. Conversely, a bisexual person whose current partner is of the same gender must nonetheless be regarded with suspicion, because they could âturn straightâ at any time simply by leaving that partner.
This argument is similarly applied to ace folks via the assertion that their orientation has no discernible performative component; an ace person is functionally indistinguishable from a straight person who simply isnât involved in a sexual relationship at that particular moment, so ace folks must therefore be regarded as straight by default.
(An astute reader may notice that the passing argument dovetails neatly into the performativity argument: those who choose not to seek partners of a socially acceptable gender may be dismissed because any violence and discrimination they experience is a consequence of their voluntary failure to pass, while those who do seek such partners are performatively straight and therefore to be shunned. Itâs a neat little system.)
The Mistaken Identity Argument
It has been argued that, while bisexual folks may suffer discrimination and physical and sexual violence, theyâre not targeted by such acts because theyâre bisexual. Any discrimination and violence a bisexual person suffers in relation to their orientation is suffered because they were mistaken for a gay person. Any effort on their part to discuss such experiences is therefore to be regarded as appropriative, in spite of the fact that they personally experienced it. In short, a bisexual personâs own experience of violence and discrimination doesnât truly âbelongâ to them: it âbelongsâ to the purely hypothetical gay person their persecutors allegedly mistook them for.
This argument is applied to ace folks practically verbatim - no particular adaptation is necessary.
Iâll add The Contribution Argument, which involves one of these gatekeeping behaviors:
1) rewriting history to erase bisexual and asexual contributions to political LGBTQ rights movements, and then claiming that bisexuals and asexuals have never done anything for the community at large
2) arguing that modernday bisexuals and asexuals should be excluded from current political movements because our goals are distinct from, or even contradictory to the goals of the LGBTQ rights movement at large
3) interpreting any attempt on the part of bi/asexuals to make safe spaces for ourselves within the community as an attack on LG safe spaces, generally by reframing bi/ace pride as homo/lesbophobia, or by dismissing accusations of bi/acephobia as inherently homo/lesbophobic
In other words, arguing that bisexuals and asexuals, rather than being contributing members of the community, are parasites on the community, leeching from, and undermining the community and its goals.
The Contribution Argument is an interesting one because it goes way beyond popular biphobia.
Itâs often been asserted that bisexual folks ought to be excluded from the LG community because that community is specifically for folks who experience homophobia, and bisexual folks donât experience homophobia, save by misidentification. (See the Mistaken Identity Argument, above.)
However, anybody whoâs over the age of 30 can tell you that the positioning of the experience of homophobia as the communityâs great unifier is, itself, a relatively novel development.
Up until quite recently (and by ârecentlyâ I mean as recently as the mid 1980s), even lesbians were routinely characterised by the leaders of mainstream gay rights activism as unwelcome parasites, riding on the movementâs coattails and contributing nothing in return.
Not only is identifying the experience of homophobia - defined narrowly as discrimination against those who are actively involved in sexual relationships with persons of the same gender - as the sole qualifier for inclusion a totally arbitrary place to draw the line, itâs baldly ahistorical.
Historically, a great many folks who do experience this type of homophobia have routinely been left out in the cold by mainstream activism for gender and sexual minorities - and the Contribution Argument, as youâve outlined it here, is one of the primary tools thatâs been used to justify that exclusion.
this post is literally just âwhy wonât those big meanie gays let asexuals in their club??? :(â written in the form of a jargon-filled essay for a philosophy class
I love your wording; because thatâs precisely it. Its the âgay club.â As in, its the same fuckers who wanted us bi people to be excluded. Itâs the same people who argued that we should drop the âTâ to focus on the âgay movement.â
Newsflash: no one wants an invitation to that party. No one is âinvading.â No one wants to be included in your âgay club.â
What we want is shits like you to quit perpetuating intra community bigotry and hatred in the LGBT+; because the only ones treating it like a âclubâ are those of you that check the âqueer credentialsâ of everyone looking for a safe space and stamp their hands with âgay enough I guessâ to let us pass through the gates. (Not that we get the same treatment as the ~VIP cis gays~ anyway.)
Anyway, nice to know that you people are still ignoring when bi ppl speak and repurpose that biphobia as ace hatred in the same breath :)))))) kinda :))))))) reinforces the points above :))))))))))
Also the idea that you have to have the consistent ability to perform your sexual orientation on a daily basis in order to be oppressed enough to be welcomed into the exclusive âgay clubâ is pretty shitty. The point of having inclusive spaces is to allow people a specific space where they feel they can comfortably perform and express their orientation/identity/etc, but if you gatekeep, what youâre telling people (bi and ace people in the case of this discussion) is that they must subject themselves to a constant barrage of discrimination in order to be worthy enough to access a space where they do not feel discriminated against, which just defeats the purpose of said âinclusiveâ space, doesnât it?
Why should anyone demand that certain members of the LGBTQ community must run a trial by fire first in order to have enough oppression points to pay for a spot in The Gay Club? And then on top of that, tell them that even AFTER they subject themselves to said discrimination, theyâre only accessing the same discrimination ârealâ gay people face and are therefore somehow insincere in their experiences because they arenât âgay enoughâ every day of their life to constitute a real place in the community.
This is more of a personal note, but nothing hurts more than your family/peers calling you broken and sick, then going to an LGBT+ âsafe placeâ and being told that your family/peers were right.
Nothing hurts more than your family/peers calling you broken and sick, then going to an LGBT+ âsafe placeâ and being told that your family/peers were right.
Just to add to this, straight people donât care. They donât care what specifically our sexualities are, our identities are; if itâs not straight and cis, weâre other, weâre broken or wrong. Trying to divide ourselves within the LGBTQA+ community runs counter to what we need/want to accomplish, and reeks of insecurity on the part of gatekeepers.
Iâd like to add: exclusionists of every kind are the only people Iâve ever heard talk about the community like itâs some cool, trendy club everyone wants to get into - and I think that says a lot about what they think it is and what itâs purpose for them is.
Everyone else knows that nobody who isnât LGBT+ wants to be. Most of them want nothing to do with us - and thatâs exactly why we need to stick together.
I also think a common denominator with all types of exclusionists is that they think the community is a dating service and therefore should only consist of people they personally want to have sex with.
discuss.
REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS
9 million people fucking love dogs
Here we come 10.
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When your hair is wavy/curly sometimes there is a fine line between âmessy romantic wavesâ and âevil witch who lives in the woods.â
When your hair is fine and straight thereâs a fine line between âsleek and elegantâ and âweasel dipped in greaseâ
get you a man who can do both
me: time for sleepy :)
my garbage body: hot hot hot no cold no HOT bad bad, throw up??? no, hungry, NO remember that mistake you made at work. Internalize it. Never forget. Back hurt yes headache YES hot yes roll over r-RA RA RASPUTIN, RUSSIAâs GREATEST LOVE MACHI-
Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
no white gay boy will ever reblog this, watch:
no white gay will reblog this
no white lgb person will reblog this
Without Stonewall, without the efforts of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the LGBTQ Community wouldnât be where it is today. Donât forget the roots, donât forget the catalyst.
and then TERFs wanna be like, âhmm well the LGBT community existed before Stonewall!â
but likeâŠBecky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. Weâve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?
The same fuckers who wonât ever reblog or acknowledge this
My apologies to the original poster as I photo captured this post to add to the thread-I reposted this last year for pride and expect to repost it every year I have left-itâs our history people.
me: iâm just gonna devote today to writing. really just knuckle down and get a lot of writing done just write up a funky little storm of writing
me:
So last week I tried moaning every time I ate something delicious.
It was vaguely uncomfortable and unnatural
I actually love the idea of doing this trying out fanfic/literary clicheâs out in real life, kinda wanna make up a list and undertake it as a challenge.
donât forget to make your butthole flutter today
Guess someoneâs eye color from 20 feet away.
Be careful with these. I started reading fanfiction three years ago and now I have to toe my shoes off to get my feet out.
But do you pad across rooms?Â
Yes but I often give away my position when I huff.
FYI, Iâm smirking at all yâall.
Iâm resisting the urge to card my fingers through everybodyâs hair.
This is as good a time as any to admit that right now I smell like coffee, sandalwood soap, and something uniquely myself.
I hate this post so much I clenched my fists and looked away, muscles bunching in my jaw.Â
I actually have had more than one (male) partner try to battle my tongue for dominance. Itâs extremely unsexy and annoying.
Today on Social Anxiety Theatre: mentally rehearsing elaborate justifications for completely innocuous actions just in case some hypothetical interlocutor demands an explanation.
Oh my god OTHER PEOPLE DO THIS TOO???
There are people that donât do this?
