Going Rampant

Feminism from a trans and intersex perspective (she/her). I make video essays: https://www.youtube.com/@GoingRampant

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[uio590]

Adult Azula! And old art under the cut for comparison 🙂‍↕️

These are from 2020

[goingrampant]

Try to have a nuanced conversation about the writing of Stormfront on the The Boys subreddit, get accused of being a Nazi...

[pugclub]

[sandandglass]

The Muppets s01e01

[le-sad-demiurge]

Fozzy getting hit on by lots of twinks

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Happy Pride Month

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.

[why-i-love-comics]

Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong 2 #7 (2026)

written by Brian Buccellato art by Christian Duce & Luis Guerrero

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[crazy-pages]

In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.

This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

[cumaeansibyl]

Not an exaggeration. Gamergate led directly to the redpill/incel movement, which white supremacists exploited and colonized. Not to say that most of the white men in those movements weren't already racist to some extent, but that wasn't an active part of their politics until white supremacist recruiters came along and convinced them that the women ruining their videogames were part of the conspiracy to destroy the white race.

That's a very brief summary but you can go back step by step over the past decade and see how they did it.

[goingrampant]

Robert Evans, the host of anarchist podcast Behind the Bastards, suggests in his book chronicling the history of American neo-Nazism that Gamergate was, from the ground up, a neo-Nazi recruitment tool. Considering the antisemitic memes suggesting Anita Sarkeesian is Jewish (she's of Armenian-Iraqi descent), I'd believe it.

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[thepastisaroadmap]

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

[headspace-hotel]

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

[rackiera]

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

[a-book-of-creatures]

[allsonargent]

favorite characters ≡ Gretchen Cutler

“I shit myself earlier, and that is only the second most embarrassing thing that has happened to me today.”

[bb125265]

"Fight For Your Pride"

Commission for SpartanKay515 on Twitter! Happy Pride Month y'all!

[queerliblib]

It’s time for our annual PRIDE FUNDRAISER again BBs so, grab your hottest, smartest, most chronically-online friends and start a fundraising team for QLL on @givebutter! ✨ For every $300 your team raises you get to choose a book to add to the collection. This is your chance to add yet another queer theory text, or sapphic monster romance novel or just about anything in between.

[queerliblib]

HERE’S THAT LINK!! https://givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-campaign-2026-rg3yn3

[queerliblib]

Y’ALL. this is day 1. we are on day 1 of pride. 😭😭😭

everyone who has donated so far, if it was $2 or $200 THANK YOU. you are helping us get so many more queer books into hands that need them. you are keeping this queer library alive for another year!

let’s keep SMASHING IT!!!

[asteroidtroglodyte]

You can’t Abstain your way to a Better World.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

You need Government.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS

[goingrampant]

I've been watching a lot of old public domain movies for research, and I found a forgotten... not gem. A forgotten rock of very little value. It makes sense to forget it. However, it's somewhat interesting as an example of how movies have improved since then, so let's talk about Where Is Coletti? (1913).

The premise is this: Detective Coletti, annoyed that the Berlin papers underestimate his skills at catching criminals, sets a challenge. For 48 hours, he will go undercover in Berlin, and if anyone manages to catch him, he'll give them 100,000 marks (approximately $800,223 in 2026 USD). Using various disguises and quick exits, he dodges the hordes of people trying to capture him.

A German film from the age when comic shorts only 5-15 minutes dominated, Where Is Coletti? is an ambitious long-form 55 minute version of a running movie: a short in which someone commits a crime and everyone runs after the criminal in an exciting chase sequence, usually not lasting more than 5 minutes. However, Where Is Coletti? has a longer set up and then multiple sequences in which Coletti puts on a different disguise and hides in plain sight until being found and the chase resuming, until he finally outsmarts everyone by disguising himself as a woman.

Functionally, it's The Running Man (either version) without any political commentary or violence, just one guy running while everyone gives chase. That is somewhat interesting to our animal instincts that like chases, but it soon wears out its welcome. The Running Man is more interesting because it has something to say: that modern American life is unsettlingly comparable to ancient Rome, with an obsession with violent spectacle to distract from the problems with our society. If you try to strip away politics to simply appeal to animal instincts, you'll end up with something like Where Is Coletti?: a forgettable film only somewhat similar to a good film.

What's sad is that if Where Is Coletti? came out today, people would call it woke trash because Coletti dresses as a woman to hide.

[capnsoapy]

One time I spent money registering a domain like "dotat.horse" because I wanted an email address which was as difficult as possible to give out

[capnsoapy]

I think it was something like [email protected]. I never used it for anything for obvious reasons

[billymayslesbian]

imagining a universe where porn is a marketable genre so you have to deal with raycon ads while trying to jerk your shit

[torchichate]

You’re an easy slut, aren’t you kitten? Almost as easy as dinner with Hellofresh

[ulyssessimpsongrant]

I do think that so much harm has been done to the world at large because people are so desperate to be seen as cool or countercultural at the expense of being right and ethically sound.

[goingrampant]

No post will be as controversial as my suggestion that I should Thanos-snap mayonnaise out of existence.