Hyrule warrior

Psychology student, aspiring writer, 21 years old, he/him 🏳️‍⚧️, LoZ enthusiast, INFJ, not very active but don't hate me 😁😁

[lambspinal]

anywho

[jackalpants]

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

Show your pride with our 25mm transgender pride flag pin badge. Perfect for wearing on your favourite denim jacket, back pack, or lanyard to

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3

[another-exclus]

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

[a-tired-humanist]

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

[another-exclus]

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

[a-tired-humanist]

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

[jabberwockypie]

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

[levynite]

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

[darthsuki]

[matronofthevoid]

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

[moki-dokie]

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[tapacamino]

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[rabidchild67]

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[seedsofwinter]

As others have mentioned in other spaces: they can’t chop off letters from QUEER like they can with LGBTQ+.

Also a friend said recently that no one was ever talking about “respectability queers”. Like that’s just not a thing. When someone identifies as queer, with me, I know they’re not a respectability gay.

[stonergrrl34]

hello 🙋‍♂️ here are my two cents

“queer” WAS a slur. its historical use has placement in demonisation, degradation, and malice. it’s not “trans exclusionary” to recognise history. i promise you that the vast majority of radical feminists are not out to censor the word “queer” to exclude trans people, but rather simply because it is not a nice word to everyone.

an LGBT+ person uncomfortable with the word “queer” is no different from an LGBT+ person uncomfortable with the word “faggot” or “dyke”, or a woman uncomfortable with the word “cunt” or “bitch”.

“queer”, in the traditional sense, means “weird” or “strange” with a negative connotation. on top of this, people’s vocabularies are subjective. if a person interprets the word “queer” as a negative term or offense, it is NOT your place to tell them they’re not allowed to be uncomfortable. if a person does not want to be called a word they perceive as offensive, you do not call them that word.

slurs do not have to be reclaimed, and, at the very least, it’s not nice to use reclaimed slurs to refer to entire communities with nuanced individuals. we, the LGBT community, call gay men “gay men”, not “faggots”. calling all LGBT+ people “queer” is just about equivalent.

it’s not TERF propaganda, it’s wider consideration. not every LGBT person is a comfortable with reclaiming the vocabulary used to demonise and harm them, especially older LGBT+ people.

point in case: don’t call people things they don’t want to be called.

[another-exclus]

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

[a-tired-humanist]

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

[another-exclus]

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

[a-tired-humanist]

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

[jabberwockypie]

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

[levynite]

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

[darthsuki]

[matronofthevoid]

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

[moki-dokie]

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[tapacamino]

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[rabidchild67]

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[weaselle]

i have lived in San Francisco, I have lived with lesbians, i have lived with gay men, i know trans people and non-binary people and bisexual and demi and aro and all kinds of people, i hang out in “gay neighborhoods” and spend time in clubs and bars and bookstores and art studios dedicated to these demographics

i have never ONCE in my entire life met a person irl who had a problem with the word queer.

of course every one of the people i’ve mentioned would have a problem being called queer by someone who meant it as an insult, because they’d be insulted

but again, i have never ONCE in my entire life met a person irl who had a problem with the word queer itself.

makes me think this online discourse over the word is being fueled by people who are not any of these things and would very much like the queer community to fracture and fight each other.

We’ve seen this happen a lot actually. White dudes making accounts posing as black women to start shit, right wingers making accounts posing as leftists to start shit, this kind of thing happens all over the internet.

The more we argue and fight, the more we exclude and separate, the better it is for them. Let’s not help them succeed.

[tomiyamachoji]

for the love of everything

i have had queer used as a slur against me

it is a slur

it has been a slur

it is not me buying into terf propaganda to point out a very real thing that has happened, to me

stop acting like it was made up out of wholecloth when people tell you this

stop acting like people who don’t want to use it, especially when they are telling you that it has been used as a slur against you that they’re biting terf propaganda.

fucking god

[tomiyamachoji]

sorry im pissed off now. i know people who STILL use it as a slur. i dont even care whether you use it for yourself, whether you’ve never heard it used as a slur, whether it’s respected as an academic term, whatever. i just want people to stop insisting that terfs made this up. shut the fuck up. dont you dare tell me you know more about what i’ve experienced than i do. if you’re going to insist that the homophobia ive experienced is a terf psyop then you don’t have my back. my community understands that everybody has different experiences and respects that they know what affected them

[tomiyamachoji]

dont infantilize me either with your “baby gays” bullshit either. im 37. i just want to hear a “sorry i was wrong” from a single person who thinks queer has never been used as a slur

[imthesonofrageandlove13]

"Transandrophobia is a bad term because it implies androphobia is real-" Oh, I'm sorry, and here I was thinking our biggest concern was the actual violence directed towards millions of innocent people worldwide based on our minority status, turns out I was wrong and our main concern needs to be the semantic ambiguity of the word we use to label that specific violence. My bad.

"Use transemasculation-" Get hit by a jumbo jet, there are people dying and you're ignoring it in favor of nitpicking the words we use to describe this axis of violence.

[appleberry--blast]

the thing is even if you don't "believe" in transandrophobia, a lot of people on here are just straight up transphobic to trans men. it is transphobic to say all trans men are evil. it is transphobic to say people should not transition to being a man. "bomb that kills all tboys" is transphobic. it is transphobic to tell trans men to sit down, shut up, and stop bitching when we try to talk about our experiences. if you do not support and love trans men then you are a transphobe.

[the-black-day]

While yes, it's true that any proposed laws suggesting that anyone who takes estrogen should be out on a list/registry is there to target transfems, it's not a *unique* threat to transfems. Testosterone is already a controlled substance, and anyone who is taking T is already on lists and registrys, which is a huge problem. This is a problem transmasc people have had to deal with for a long ass time, that unless they want to risk being charged for possession of a controlled substance they need to be on a registered list of anyone who takes testosterone. This is obviously a bad thing, and it shouldn't be this way. I understand completely thst transfems are worried about this, and they have every right to be, the thing i don't think is right is when that worry turns into "transmascs arent targeted by this law so stop trying to say these things target all trans people" because it's just a huge misrepresentation of the laws surrounding transition and gender affirming care. Yes, transmascs are much more likely to not be affected specifically for the estrogen registry law, but the law isn't unique, as it has already been a reality for transmascs who take testosterone. There are already laws in place against transmascs requiring them to be added to lists to be allowed to take HRT. Transmascs have and already are targeted by laws like this. Now theres just more talk about targetting the transfems as well, not just the transmascs, and it *is* something everyone needs to fight against. I just wish that when we are talking about this, that people didn't try to make it into a "see trans men have it so much better than trans women" when that isn't even true in this case, since one is already targeted by these same kinds of laws that are not being proposed for the other half of trans people seeking HRT.

[lonelydesolate]

all people's voices are worth the more they know what they're talking about, but also all transmascs are nepo-baby shoe-ins who have no idea what misogyny looks like and have never experienced it and don't lose any privilege when coming out as trans, okay?

[luckyladylily]

Considering how it is incredibly well know that a default distrust and hatred of masculinity led to radical feminism and trans exclusionary radical feminsts, a group that is incredibly violent and hateful to trans women, I find it fascinating (read: Incredibly short sighted and foolish) how many trans women are openly embracing that kind of rhetoric. They seem to alternate between "fuck terfs!" and "I really vibe with the idea that masculinity is inherently evil and corrupts everything it touches"

You get the feeling that to some trans women the problem is not that terfs are bigots, but that they target trans women specifically.

[resisteverything]

Fascinating how so many of them have rejected bioessentialism to instead sort of gendered soul essentialism where a trans dude is the same as a cis man due to an evil male soul, but in a way that is still bioessentialist because somehow trans dude having biologically female parts is a moral failing because you have an evil male soul and therefore aren’t supposed to be affected by systemic misogyny, that’s something that’s supposed to happen to trans women because they have good female souls and therefore are incapable of misogyny because no woman has ever been sexist before.

[alienlike]

“transfeminist” white trans women on tumblr wanna be the black people of the trans community but they do not realize that black people generally either try to connect with other people of color and maintain solidarity or just mind our own fucking business

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[a-polite-melody]

There’s a lot of, “trans men are trying to claim they’re more woman than trans women are,” going around right now.

And I’ve not seen trans men making that claim at all. No, what I’ve been seeing is trans men saying that they’re still targeted by misogyny. And the same people claiming trans men are saying they’re women are famous for claiming that misogyny can only affect women.

So, of course that’s how they interpret trans men saying they also are direct targets of misogyny. And, of course, the only reason to make this claim is to be trying to de-woman trans women, in their minds.

It’s the oppositional sexism, of course. Just to put a name to the phenomenon in case people weren’t sure.

And an inability to imagine that anyone besides yourself and your in-group could possibly want to talk about the oppression they’re facing, there’s always some ulterior motive because I guess only trans women really actually ever talk about oppression they face.

[thesituation]

i don’t feel like debating that topic much farther bc truthfully if it comes down to “women will lose to men in every sport bc they don’t have as much testosterone!!!!!” my elite feminist response is honest to god “ok we will lose with honor as equals instead of having our own special Easy Mode Female category so we can win amongst ourselves” like i’m sorry i just can’t be persuaded. i’m a brick wall. i want co-ed sports

[phosphorusab]

So on TikTok, a trans women made a rape/forced pregnancy joke about trans men and pretended that she didn’t by alluding to cis Omegaverse tropes and there are femboy fetishists doxxing trans men femboy’s entire lives, posting pretransition photos of them with their families or grade school photos for ‘deceiving’ people on the Internet into thinking that they were born with dicks

And people want to tell me that trans men aren’t derided by literally every demographic of person

[phosphorusab]

I wouldn’t lean into this line of thinking, then we self isolate from people who are actually our allies and then will fall into bigoted thinking because of our anecdotal experiences - there is no demographic of person who won’t treat you poorly and you’ll be surprised who treats you with respect sometimes

Every person should be treated on a case by case basis and not over generalized because of our anxieties. We want solidarity, not separatism. The only way we can achieve solidarity is if it’s reciprocal, so we will demand the respect we deserve and then separate the wheat from the chaff

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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Also prev tags:

That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[elierlick]

An all-transmasc Ironman trio just won 3rd place in a major men's triathlon, beating over 200 other men's teams. 🏊‍♂️🏃‍🚴‍♂️ Trans men win men's competitions all the time, but nobody pays attention because it doesn't fit the mainstream narrative. I think we should celebrate their victories, too! 🏆

[xfhsfh]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!