A Cosmic Safety Net

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[emby-m]

I finally saw Iron Lung (yay published on youtube) and unfortunately I think the Convict and Mr. Norton Campbell are too similar for their own goods...

(Apparently some people have Mr. Mark I Plier as their Nort headcanons...)

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

The actor, 86, will be most remembered on this website for the "Chuck Norris Facts" memes of hyper-exaggerated competence.

Outside of movies and memes, Norris was a longtime conservative activist, pushing back against LGBT inclusion, fearmongering about peaceful Muslims spreading "sharia law", arguing against states teaching evolution in schools, feeding the "birther" conspiracy that Obama was not a US Citizen, and supporting Donald Trump.

[knitmeapony]

[ralfmaximus]

Roast in hell evil piece of shit MAGA Trump supporter Chuck Norris.

[userfish]

hey so I’m talking with my wife and I just realized she’s never felt an earthquake so uh

have you ever felt an earthquake

yes

no

Voting ended onFeb 24

and pls reblog i need to know!!!!!!!

[the-weeperrrrrrr]

Mutual hangout idea we all take an autism test and tell each other the % in the tags

[charl0ttan]

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Voting ended onFeb 26

[tawghasa]

Living in the wrong timsezone to notice when the hellsite is down - just like old times 🥹

[fallout-lou-begas]

it's finally that time of the year again for the clinically depressed newscaster describing february with disco elysium music

[fallout-lou-begas]

what is the single best line in this video

it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is

something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way february is

like the desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore

the expedition is getting desperate. people are throwing things aside

this looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent

nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a rogers and hammerstein song

theyre just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili

most of the birds who can afford it have flown to florida

it's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees

something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. what is it?

to hide the bleakness of feb., man invented valentine's day. also mardi gras.

what other month can host a holiday designed to remind us we're all gonna die?

Voting ended onFeb 11

character limit forced me to paraphrase

[craymor1]

yeah,

[were--ralph]

Favorite Girl Scout Cookie (2026)

Adventurefuls

Caramel Chocolate Chip

Samoas / Caramel deLites

PB Sandwich / Do-Si-Dos

Exploremores

Lemonades

Lemon-Ups

PB Patties / Tagalongs

Thin Mints

Toffee-Tastic

Trefoils

Something that was discontinued/not available

Voting ended onFeb 9

just a fun poll for fun times

[were--ralph]

i forgot to say mine are All Abouts but they stopped making them so i guess thin mints

[hezekiahwakely]

Hey if this makes you crave some of your favorite cookies, consider buying a box or two from a trans girl scout.

[mcbitchtits]

this is fucking incredible

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[fakecapricorn]

to all my demotivated girls

[cocoamoonmalfoy]

​no lie I had to get up to shake my ass this is potent

[soedblackchaos]

Need this to be every Monday…

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[nonevahed]

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

[zarohk]

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

[bethanydelleman]

I don't know exactly how to articulate this but... if you repeatedly show historical fiction women rejecting traditionally female skills/duties and doing swords instead, because swords is obviously the Most Important Thing, you are kind of implying that all the work that has been traditionally done by female hands for millennia was useless all along and not, you know, keeping civilization going. Because it's usually rejected not as a personal preference but as This Is The Important Stuff (male work) and That is The Dumb Useless Stuff (women's work) and that kind of bothers me. The message was supposed to be Vital But Underpaid and Underappreciated, not women's work is insignificant so let's all go do swords.

[birthdaypigeon]

Happy birthday Queen

[birthdaypigeon]

Wow we all queued this post for Nov 12th huh

[krockat]

oh my gosh queen… 10 years….. i love you, The Final Pam.

[alchemistdoctor]

I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit.

Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks!

Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you.

No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset.

It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast.

Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

[dandyshorts]

[what-would-sappho-do-deactivate]

reblog if your gender is "It's not that simple"

[anthonyvolpe-deactivated2023081]

that medieval peasant you’re trying to kill with hyper-pop is gonna make you clean and butcher a chicken and you’re gonna throw up.

[genderkoolaid]

it really should be transfeminism 101 that the concept of victimhood under patriarchy being tied to some inherent state of being, rather than one's actual lived experiences with oppression and violence, is unhelpful and inaccurate, leads to the alienation of trans and intersex people, and is itself grounded in patriarchal ideas about gender as an inherent natural trait.

so why isn't it?

[tildesee]

I suspect that in part is because the most common and quickly learned trans women's self defense is, to combat relentless undermining of trans women's "qualifications" as women, to insist to the point of thoughtless mantra "every trans woman is and has always been a woman from the moment she was born", "at no point in life ever has a trans woman experienced male socialization or male privilege", and similar statements, to the point that it actually makes it difficult as a trans woman to talk about the fact that, for example, I went from being able to hand out 3 resumes in my industry and get 4-5 job offers out of it, to handing out 30+ resumes before I could even get a call back for an interview.

The core of that self defense is rooted in creating the narrative of an inherent, timeless, and extrasocial gendered experience. It's a self defense strategy that has had an incredible amount of utility, as much as I dislike it and try not to utilize it myself. It also has the knock on effect that if trans women's experience is inherent, timeless, and extrasocial, the only way that works in the protective way it's meant to is if everyone's gendered experience is inherent, timeless, and extrasocial. This is also why you'll get a surprising amount of trans women arguing against the idea that binary gender (and gender as a whole, sex too) is a social construct.

If trans women's experience of womanhood is inherent and eternal, so too must trans men's experience of manhood; for trans women to have never experienced manhood or make privilege or male socialization, the same must be true of all women, and the opposite true for all men, trans inclusive. Because internalized oppositional sexism.

This is a significant part of why I go pretty hard on the "it doesn't matter if we were born this way or we choose our gender or orientation, we deserve the same respect either way". But that's kinda getting down a garden path.

Anyway. Transfeminism has such difficulty grappling with transandrophobia and trans men's experiences of womanhood as concepts because that mantric self defense precept is so powerful and so high utility, and relies on gender and this experience of oppression as being inherent.

Genus delendum est ut genus liberetur

[silyaspider]

I agree, I think it's a "we backed ourselves into a rhetorical corner" thing. Interpreting social dynamics in reference to a unitary self with an eternal fixed gender is useful against some transphobic arguments, it's just... wildly incorrect and unhelpful outside of that narrow use case.

Personally, I guess as I gradually become comfortable with the idea that the unitary self is a myth, I'm at least plural-ish, and my past gender identity is best described not as "woman" but as "confused"... the idea of retconning myself into "always woman" as part of some myth of immutability is nonsense.

My understanding of my gender can and does change, can be and is self-contradictory, and all the transphobic bullshit is still bullshit. Conversion therapy, for instance, is bad because it's cruel, not because my gender is incapable of change over time.