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vivien / villainlesbian for art / header by jadenvargen / transphobes get blocked

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there is only one good yandere in the history of anime ever

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

and it’s panini from chowder

[transfemzeraora]

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literary analysis being posited as this boring grueling penance that only miserable people insist on is very dumb as an idea but its even more dumb to me, the guy who gets so excited about it that he has to clap and pound his fists against the ground and walk in circles at a dizzying speed unbeknownst to man

[bitchiethoughts]

[capnsoapy]

It really feels like a lot of the confusion and discourse around transmisogyny hinges on the fact that transmisogyny-exempt people tend to think passing works like:

Trans feminine, doesn't pass ==> treated as a man.

Trans feminine, does pass ==> treated as a woman.

When in reality it actually works more like :

Trans feminine, doesn't pass ==> treated like a degenerate sexual predator who preys on girls.

Trans feminine, does pass ==> treated like a degenerate sexual predator who preys on men.

Which is crucially is not a dichotomy which exists in the same way for other trans people.

[segamascott]

[sexybritishllama]

idk man sometimes i like it when video game writers are allowed to plan a series of events that happen in a specific order and affect each other in turn to become an overarching narrative, and i don’t mind trusting those writers to take me through those events in the order that is emotionally effective. i don’t really care if a game forces me to go through the forest area first before i can attempt the icy area because maybe there’s things that happen in the forest area that inform later scenes in the icy area. maybe we don't need more superficial player choice open world concepts if it comes at the cost of the ability to write a story with actual significant plot events and character development in each section

[fluoresensitives]

can we please be feminists again.

[2colde]

how it genuinely feels

[normalest-lux-ever]

Fun fact for anyone who does this, being a misogynistic man isn't funny just because you're trans or you think the idea of treating trans women like women is inherently funny, how funny do you think she finds your "ironic" misogyny when you punch down on the women that don't have cis privilege over you

[americwa-deactivated20260714]

evil proship sigmund freud, you can't say that!

[briannyssey]

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

[voyaging-too]

It's so important to acknowledge the very real and sometimes truly horrible failings of the healthcare profession and the pharmaceutical industry while never ever ever letting them drive us into the arms of pseudoscientific bullshit. This is something I feel really strongly about.

[hyenaswine]

based based based based based based based based based based based based

[diabloii]

one thing about "lesbians can date men" and "lesbians can be men (especially if they have vaginas) (it connects them to Womynhood) (if you disagree youre a terf even though this is really straightforward terf rhetoric)" is that its all about the (now pretty common) theatre of seeming like some sort of boundary-pushing LGBT activist without ever actually having to fight against anything at all. you can talk to the run of the mill Puritan Conservatives everyone on here strawmans and theyll be pretty happy to hear that you also think lesbians can date men; you can check terf blogs on here and see that They Too think trans men have a "special connection" to womanhood and being a lesbian (called 'Being Female') and that actually the transmasc(? whatever they call themselves) terf circle is actually growing in recent times. but fighting against societal misogyny and the leering rapey lesbophobia that is fucking everywhere is too uncomfortable, its a lot easier to just say "fuck labels do what you want forever!" and cite some nameless gay person from the 90s saying "im gay faggot and lesbian and man and woman" or some shit as an appeal to tradition & expect everybody to throw their hands up and say fuck it. they dont want to fight the oppressive common ideas upheld by society, theyd rather make the "battle" their own mental gymnastics to tell the victims of these lines of thinking about how its actually super woke and smart, and if youre victim to it maybe its actually because youre just not woke enough, because otherwise youd just let it happen to you like a Good Woman i mean person

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[sentada]

lowkey i just killed all innocents

[plumbo-gummite]

notice how no one died