just vibing

I support gay rights and gay wrongs

[ifwerefree]

About Me

call me Bet (they/them)

26 years old

tme nonbinary lesbian

White

I consider myself a leftist but still have a lot to learn

Sometimes I post fandom stuff

I block terfs

I believe Amber Heard and I unfollow people who support Depp, so if I follow you and you support Depp, then you might as well tell me or softblock me

(Post updated May 7 2023)

[autisticexpression2]

We need the obnoxious atheists back. I know they engineered their own destruction by being annoying and pretentious, but it has become apparent how essential to the ecosystem they were. The religious fanatics have become too bold without their natural predators. Jesus wojaks would have been torn to shreds in 2011.

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[star-angel-selkie]

this one kinda hurts when i see it every pride month. im glad to see an art piece of mine still circulating, and with nearly 100,000 notes too! it just hurts that im separated from it. everyone in the notes thinks im gone. im still here, but my potential community and connection is lost because im forgotten in place of the art. yeah, my deactivated profile does add to the profoundness of what i was saying, but i am still removed.

[marxistlesbianist]

Only a general women's movement has the power to liberate trans women, but only a union of trans women organized within such a movement has the power to ensure that it does liberate trans women. Likewise, only a proletarian socialist movement has the power to liberate women in general, but only a general union of women organized within the proletarian movement has the power to ensure that it does liberate women.

As an oppressed people, we cannot rely on the privileged classes to discover our own interests, but as a minority we also cannot rely on our independent forces to overthrow such powerful systems. A strategic alliance of all oppressed people's is needed to build socialism, whilst autonomous unions of oppressed people are needed to protect ourselves and advocate for our interests within the coalition.

Do not mistake the failures of particular movements in the US for an indication of the general impossibility of such a strategic alliance. The reactionary hegemony is a temporary phenomenon, whilst class struggle is the permanent condition of class society. No movement will appear if we don't build it, but history is on our side.

[ifwerefree]

I learned about they/them, the very bad horror movie set in a conversion therapy camp and I'm like this reminds me of pluribus and Carol, beloved asshole alcoholic conversion therapy survivor <3

[stealingpotatoes]

i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3

[invinciblerodent]

[invinciblerodent]

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[girl-debord]

"why don't trans women do any domestic labor" is right up there with "why do trans women never date each other" in terms of questions that show that you know nothing about trans women. except in this case the idea that trans women don't do domestic labor is instrumental in maintaining the social hierarchy that keeps trans women doing domestic labor. the idea that trans women are male-socialized and therefore predisposed to exploit the domestic labor of people who are female-socialized keeps trans women in the insecure position of having to prove themselves by taking on historically feminine domestic roles. the reification of economic feminist analysis into biological/socially-essential categories presents the perfect opportunity for tme partners & roommates to benefit from exactly the type of economic exploitation being criticized.

[markovchaingang]

"what do you mean 'what is the actual material harm that comes from this that causes it to be bad', you should just know it's bad automatically. it's called having a moral compass" -person whose moral framework consists solely of their knee-jerk emotional impulses

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[pixierainbows]

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

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(anon submission)

[kayla-denker]

The problem is not that you draw "clocky" trans women, the problem is that the only trans women you draw are clocky and the only clocky women you draw are trans women.

Trans women are women, we run the whole gamut if what women look like, which does include women who look "clocky." Yes, there are plenty of cis women who look like that too, but the only ones you draw are trans. There are also plenty of trans women who don't look "clocky", but you don't draw them.

There is nothing wrong with a woman looking "clocky." What makes it harmful is the expectation that we all look like that. It's the false-homogeneity of it. That's how you contribute to a harmful stereotype rather than subvert it.

[tangled-vine-girl]

There's also a huge difference between portraying the huge variety of transfeminine bodies, presentations, modes of expression, etc. and simply depicting transfemininity broadly as a failed performance of [tme] femininity.

Does your depiction of a trans woman look that way by her choice, or are you simply uncomfortable with the idea of trans women *being* women?

[thefiresontheheight]

A woman not shaving or wearing a dress or wearing makeup or wearing femme clothes or having styled or long hair or caring how she looks or using a masc name or whatever else is actually a neutral thing and not a sign of her being depressed or giving up or being sad or whatever

[susellesie]

has anyone done this yet

[softwaring]

lesbian flag, made using my own photography.