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I think it’s time to retire “TERF” and replace it with the more accurate “queer transphobe”, you know since it’s spreading to men and women who aren’t radical feminists
Queer transphobe?
Way to admit you only target lesbians/bi women lmao. Also maybe don't call people slurs?
No offense but being trans doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with conforming to gender or gendered standards; it just means being other than the mantle which was forced on you at birth. I get that a lot of you are very angry and very hateful, and trans people feel like a good target to lay your pain and woes on, but I promise you we are not, your pain is not our fault, and harassing gay, bi, and gnc trans people will never, ever fix your problems or in any way make the world a better place. Leave my brothers, sisters, and siblings alone and work out your own issues and hatred with a friend or therapist thank u and goodnight.
"It just means being other than the mantle which was forced on you at birth."
I'm sorry but like. That would mean every woman who isn't comfortable with the oppressive expectations placed on women because of their sex is trans?
Furthermore, it would mean every "cis" woman is completely okay with those expectations and with being oppressed for her biological reality?
Photographer Mattias Klum from National Geographic gets close and personal with a lion.
“and all of a sudden you feel very small” damn right
IT JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED AND SAVED
please, if you are able, do what you can for the asiatic lion. donate, get involved, spread information. there are only about 300 left in the world, and they all live in Gir Forest National Park in India.
the african lion is also estimated to be extinct by 2050 due to habitat loss, sport hunting, and loss of their prey base to the bushmeat trade. these beautiful creatures could be extinct in our lifetime. the next generation may not ever have the chance to see these creatures, there will be no more cute lion vines, there will be no more documentaries, there will be no more zoos or sanctuaries containing lions. there will be no more lions.
if you have any love for nature, any love for animals, any love for life, and if you care at all about the permanent loss of a species, especially one so beautiful and iconic, if you care and if you are able, please donate to help save lions.
The Lion Conservation Fund
The African Wildlife Foundation
The World Wildlife Foundation
Not relevant to my blog, but my inner nature lover is calling
Saw someone once posted a review on a book that said lions dont live in India; sad that some people dont even know they exist.
the "socialized as male" thing always gets me in the first half 'cause as a trans woman one huge struggle was essentially having to learn being a woman from the ground up with no support network or teachers or anything but terfs always use it to mean "they act like men which means they are men and they're dangerous"
Finally, a good fucking ask
Get this: real women dont have to “learn” being a woman. They just are women. What women are Taught is to be submissive and quiet and small and chaste and pretty, and that teaching is against our will.
O.K. If you have to “learn being a woman from the ground up” with SO much hard work and without a teacher even!, tell me:
How is it that you are able to “identify” yourself as a woman? What makes you a woman if you have neither a female body nor female socialization?
What you’re describing is An Actor Prepares Stanislavski-method LARP-ing, with or without medical treatments to approximate a feminine appearance. What about that supports in any way the contention that you’re an actual woman?
They’re literally out here talking about how they have to learn how to woman and don’t realize they’re describing performing femininity and using that as the criteria that makes them women…
and people have the nerve to ask me why am i critical of the trans ideology especially of this kind…
Correction: learn how to perform a misogynistic and stereotypical portrayal of womanhood based on gender roles*
Transwomen are far more misogynistic than the average male I swear to god
that’s a straight white male who sexually harasses lesbians, why the fuck does anyone expect anything different from them
How would you define male and female?
To me? They are meaningless. I cannot for the life of me fathom what they are and what they mean.
“Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see black women. White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings.” — Michelle Haimoff.
The meaninglessness of biology in a world where female biology is overwhelmingly the target of anti-choice legislation, slavery, the withholding of education, forced/mandatory pregnancy, rape, murder, incest, paedophilia and mutilation, is a privilege that very few female human beings on this planet have access to. If you are able to say to biology, “you are meaningless” then you have no idea what it is like to be oppressed on the axis of biology, and ignoring it is a violent slap in the face of the women and girls all over the world who are oppressed on the basis of being born female. This cavalier attitude towards human biology and the behaviours that exist in response to it is dishonest, it is in denial, it is oppressive, and it is above all, misogynistic. It is also anti-intersectional, as it completely ignores how women of colour are further violated on the grounds of their biology. Saying that sexual biology is meaningless is on the same level of delusion as, “skin colour is meaningless” or “disability is meaningless” or “race is meaningless, I cannot for the life of me fathom it or what it means”. It is not meaningless. It is a biological reality, it is a group that people are born into and on this basis are subjected to horrific treatment that is specific to that particular group.
I get what anon was saying but it is transphobic to not date trans people because they’re trans. Not all trans people have “masculine” features or a dick. It’s fine to say that you don’t wanna date someone based on their genitalia but to say “I don’t want to date trans people” is transphobic.
I was trying to say that, but I’m kinda a ding dong and words don’t commute well to my brain to come up with proper sentences! But, yes I agree with you on that one!- mod eim ✨
Anyway, relationships are not a human right, and not dating someone is not discrimination or oppression or a phobia of any kind, and this kind of rhetoric isn't woke or new, it's the same kind of rapey bullshit homophobes and incels have been spewing forever.
anyway if y’all don’t mind i’m gonna Pop Off for a quick sec bc i need to say
FUCK THE PHRASE
“My preffered pronouns are…”
Wanting a pineapple and mango smoothie instead of a strawberry and banana smoothie is a preference. My pronouns are not my pronouns out of a preference for one instead of another. Having a preference implies that both/all options are good/okay, but one is slightly better. No.
My pronouns are my pronouns because that is FACT.
“Prefer” is not the right word to describe how I feel about my pronouns because it is not strong enough. Because preference also implies that I can have a preference and so can you. And you can’t.
It’s not about preference it’s about the correct and incorrect ways to refer to me. And only I know that. Not you.
—end rant—
it just makes me upset that cis people get to have pronouns and if you call them anything else you’re wrong but when it comes to trans people? no. we get to prefer a pronoun and anyone else can just prefer another one for us and since it’s just a preference it isn’t wrong. like stfu you’re just transphobic.
terfs stay the fuck off my post
Cool. Now replace "preferred pronouns" with "genital preference" and you'll understand why telling gay people that they have to date trans people is homophobic and rapey.
Remembering The UpStairs Lounge: The U.S.A.’s Largest LGBT Massacre
The UpStairs Lounge arson attack took place on June 24, 1973, at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Thirty-two people died as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. The official cause is listed as “undetermined origin. The most likely suspect, a gay man who had been thrown out of the bar earlier in the day, was never charged.
Homophobia being what it was, several families declined to claim the bodies and one church after another refused to bury or memorialize the dead. Three victims were never identified or claimed.
It was the deadliest fire in New Orleans history and the largest massacre of gay people ever in the U.S. Yet it didn’t make much of an impact news-wise. The few respectable news organizations that deigned to cover the tragedy made little of the fact that the majority of the victims had been gay, while talk-radio hosts tended to take a jocular or sneering tone: What do we bury them in? Fruit jars.
No one was ever charged with the crime, although an itinerant troublemaker with known mental problems, Rogder Dale Nunez, is said to have claimed responsibility multiple times. Nunez, a sometime visitor to the UpStairs Lounge, committed suicide in 1974.
Unpopular opinion: terfs are WORSE than bigoted cishet white dudes because they actually KNOW what it’s like to be oppressed (for gender, race, or sexuality) and they turn around and do it to someone else.
So let me get this straight... radical feminists “oppress” transwomen, by... doing what, exactly? Refusing to date them? Relationships are not a human right. Men, on the other hand, they’re the ones who commit the murders of transwomen your lot likes to blame radfems for. They’re the ones actually beating them up and killing them in the streets, they’re the ones committing hate crimes.
So - in your mind, not dating a transwoman is worse than murdering her. If that’s not incel logic, I don’t know what is.
NEW PORT RICHEY – Patrick Hagan shuffled off to serve his 21/2-year state prison sentence wearing a black-and-pink print dress and a matching pink blouse.
But before he held out his wrists to accept a bailiff’s handcuffs, the 6-foot-3, 280-pound Hagan asked for a moment to remove his jewelry.
Off came the earrings and the rings. Hagan struggled with his gold necklace, and a bailiff daintily helped him undo the clasp.
Patrick Hagan was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison.
And then the bailiff tightened the cuffs around Hagan’s wrists and escorted him toward the beginning of what is likely to be a particularly harsh prison term.
Appraising Hagan’s appearance before imposing the sentence Friday morning, Circuit Judge Stanley Mills acknowledged that.
“It’s not a pretty picture in the state prison system,” Mills told Hagan, a cross-dresser who is awaiting sex-change surgery.
Hagan was convicted in July of punching a fellow bar patron in the mouth. The victim, 40-year-old Cheryl Partsch, lost five teeth and could end up paying as much as $60,000 in medical bills.
A jury found Hagan guilty of misdemeanor battery, punishable by up to a year in jail. But Hagan was on probation from a felony illegal dumping conviction at the time, and the recent conviction also meant he had violated his probation, which can be punished with state prison time.
Cheryl Partsch, who was punched by Hagan, could end up paying as much as $60,000 in medical bills.
The battery occurred in November 1997 at BT’s, a Port Richey bar frequented by cross-dressers. Hagan was accused of battering Partsch because she questioned his presence in the women’s restroom.
Mills heard testimony in Hagan’s sentencing one day late last month and on Friday.
Defense lawyer Robert Attridge argued a prison sentence would be especially difficult for Hagan, given the level of violence in Department of Corrections facilities and the hostility to which cross-dressers often are subjected.
Hagan took the stand to say he punched Partsch in self-defense after she kicked open the door to the bathroom stall he was in.
“I am very sorry this woman got her faced punched,” Hagan said. “What happened was a hate crime. I was only defending myself. I am not a violent person.”
However, prosecutor Scott Andringa argued Hagan deserved a stiff prison sentence because of his lengthy criminal record, including convictions for burglary, armed robbery, grand theft and dealing in stolen property.
Hagan, a former septic-truck driver and martial arts expert, said he has mellowed since taking hormones in preparation for surgery.
“My emotions and behavior have completely changed since I’ve gone through my sex change,” he said. “Give me the benefit of the doubt.”
Friends of Hagan told Mills that the incident at BT’s was an aberration.
“She’s the kind of person you can call at midnight and say, “My water heater sprung a leak,’ and she’d be over to fix it,” said Kerry Algiere, who works as a carrier for the St. Petersburg Times.
Hagan’s probation officer, Josephine Roberts, testified that she didn’t think he should go to prison.
“I had no problem with him,” Roberts said. “He was one of my better probationers.”
Attridge tried to arrange a sentence that would have allowed Hagan to remain free, working to pay restitution for Partsch’s medical bills.
But Andringa said Partsch wasn’t interested.
“She would rather see him incarcerated,” Andringa said.
Mills rejected Hagan’s self-defense argument. Despite the testimony of Hagan’s friends, Mills said he had to follow state guidelines that called for a prison sentence.
However, Mills said he would recommend that corrections officials take Hagan’s sex-change situation into account when deciding what type of prison to put him in.
“It’s going to be a difficult situation, Mr. Hagan,” Mills said before ending the hearing.
Y'all have ur “kill all terfs” urls and posts but when brave transwomen actually try to do it ur silent. I see u, hypocrites
“I was just defending myself, i’m not a violent person” –> “martial arts expert, armed robbery” :/
HRT makes the skin softer, makes it harder to maintain an erection, and makes it harder to ejaculate. Many trans lesbians don't even want to use their penis during sex but there's nothing wrong with the ones that do. Having sex with a transwoman is nothing like having sex with a cis man and brushing off my first ask shows that you have ignorant and reductive ideas about trans lesbian's bodies.
I DID NOT FUCKING ASK. FUCK OFF.
Anon what you described sounds uncanny and even worse then a regular dick.
THERE IS NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAN AND A TRANSWOMAN
NONE
THEY ARE EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME IN BODY AND IN MIND
This insistence that HRT is some kind of magical sex changing drug is fucking CREEPY
According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:
“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legs—vertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder
So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
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Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?
I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.
Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.
However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.
Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someone’s life.
Just incase!
In a water park once, I was suddenly grabbed by a child and he dragged me under the water without warning. I was going to get angry with him when I resurfaced because I thought he was being an ass, until I looked at him go back in and out hyperventilating the entire time. I grabbed him under his arms and began trying to drag him out while screaming for the lifeguard.
When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didn’t hear him call for help.
People seriously need to learn the signs.
TERF receipts
at michfest in germany in 1812, a terf LITERALLY lured two trans children named hansel and gretel into a house made of gingerbread with the intention of cooking and eating them. and like terfs will say there’s “no documented proof” of them committing transphobic violence lmaaaooo y'all literally cannibalize kids
this man murdered children and Hollywood is editing the trailer like some funny, sexy action movie
That’s the point tho. Bundy was extremely charming and handsome and that’s how he tricked victims into his car. Watch the Bundy tapes literally that’s literally what happened.
Doesn’t change the fact that maybe the families of those victims don’t want to see a movie about this man glamorized. There’s nothing sexy about raping and murdering women and idk why Hollywood does shit like this
This movie was created by an all male team - the director, all five producers, the writer, the editor, both people who made the score, and the cinematographer. It’s literally a movie catering to the male fantasy that men like Bundy should be respected.
someone: “Bundy was extremely handsome”
bundy:
terfs use your whole brain challenge
See, we do, and that's why we don't buy into trans rights activism
not wanting to date a non-vegan is stupid though. so if you're attracted to someone and you find out that they're a non-vegan, you're just going to forget about them and move on? that's kind of discriminatory LOL
I don’t want to date a non-vegan for a multitude of reasons. My morals have changed and I want a woman who is on the same page as me. I shouldn’t have to justify it, it’s my perogative. Die mad about it.
Also, I have tons of non-vegan friends who I would LITERALLY give an arm for. So just because someone is a non-vegan it doesn’t mean I’m going to leave them high n dry. I’m just talking about who I’ll be coming home to and one day marry. My personal love life, not my general, social life.
but its not like you can’t share the same interests or share your food with her though. why does it have to be a moral issue??
BEEECAUSE I don’t wanna date and potentially marry a woman who thinks that you can love animals while paying for their abuse and slaughter. It would also be awkward for me to be out here doing demonstrations and filming these places while she’s back at home paying for it. It would feel hypocritical of me and probably her as well.
Now if she were a non-vegan who is genuinely interested in going vegan, I would probably give her a chance too so that way we can both say that there was no coercing going on. But that’s as far as I’ll go. It’s not discriminatory, it’s about morals ans wanting to be at eye level. Sorry not sorry.
Thought I met a total butch babe on campus the other day until I saw the “Ze/Zir/Zirs” button on her jacket.
I feel you, anon, I’ve been there... it’s why I avoid my university’s “queer club”.
That and because it’s called “queer club”.
