i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary
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i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary
btw we're never escaping the torment nexus until we stop labeling anyone who doesn't align with a perisex binary transition path as a detransitioner
You know the common occurrence of a (usually younger) trans guy dating a cis guy and they start feminizing themselves while in that relationship? I don’t like that it’s treated as a character flaw of said trans dude and not what it actually is, abuse.
A big issue with online queer discourse is you never know what queer level your opponent is. You could be arguing about he/him lesbians with someone who thinks men can’t be bisexual
[Image ID: A screencap of a news article by “The Daily Tism.” The headline reads “Missing! ‘Autistic Sense of Justice Nowhere to be Found When It’s Time to Talk About Race.” A blonde white woman, dressed in a long-sleeved pink shirt with darker pink-rimmed round glasses stares shocked at a computer screen. End ID.]
this is a perfect example of why the autistic trait commonly described as a ‘strong sense of justice’ should be instead described as strong or even inflexible moral convictions. because autistic people can be wrong. we are people, and sometimes people are wrong about stuff, including morality and justice. autistic people hold strong to our personal beliefs, but does that mean we all have strong moral compasses and a sense of justice?? i don’t really think so. in actual reality, it just means it’s often hard to change our minds about morality, and nearly impossible to convince us to act against whatever we personally think is morally correct, not that we are actually correct about morality (which is subjective, or at best situational, anyway)
white autistic people can be great in fighting racism, but only if they believe it’s a big deal, and that is nowhere near a universal truth
and we all hold internal biases related to the society weve been raised in
i think similarly ppl with moral ocd are not correct about morality in fact important to helping fight the compulsions related to moral ocd is recognizing that there is not A correct set of morals for every situation and that no one person has it all figured out no one is a worse person because of that either
Many ppl have made the observation that looksmaxxing feels gay and this is true to the extent that there is a good amount of overlap with the practices of some communities of gay men (I saw one poster mention how the overlap with circuit party muscle gays is particularly pronounced). However I would argue looksmaxxing is not a form of thinly veiled homosexuality but is in fact an intensified, concentrated form of heterosexuality as filtered through the lense of patriarchy and systemic misogyny
Straight men desire women but are taught both overtly and subconsciously via patriarchal structures that women are lesser than men and their thoughts and opinions are not to be valued. How do straight men square this contradiction of desiring that which they are taught to look down upon? Through objectification. Women are valuable as objects of desire, not as people. As with any object, value follows a demand curve. A woman's worth is not measured by how attractive she is to you, but how attractive she is to other men. Being seen with a woman who many men desire, but only you have, establishes your dominance over other men and thus wins their approval, which is what actually matters. Sexual gratification is a secondary concern.
Incels are born from this thinking. They are men who for one reason or another cannot attract women who will impress other men and thus feel emasculated. They search for answers but find only snake oil. Understanding why they can't attract the type of women they want or why this upsets them so much would require a degree of either feminist education or self reflection, and both of these would make them uncomfortable. Thus they blame external factors. Women are hypergamous. Feminism created a generation of man-haters. Dating apps made it impossible for some men to get dates. The jews are somehow to blame because why not. But one of their favorite scapegoats is looks, since while you do have *some* control over how you look, it's a lot less than your control over how you think. And after all, men mostly just care about looks when it comes to women so it only makes sense that women would mostly just care about looks when it comes to men.
But even though you have *less* control over your looks that doesn't mean you have *no* control. Enter the looksmaxxers. Men who "optimize" their appearance through bodybuilding, dieting, surgery, drug use and a wide range of pseudoscientific nonsense. How does one "optimize" beauty when beauty is, as the saying famously goes, in the eye of the beholder? You create a standard. Objective measures of height, jaw shape, facial structure, muscle definition. This way beauty doesn't have to be an abstract concept that you nebulously struggle towards: it is a test. It is graded and thus possible to pass.
Looksmaxxers will tell you these standards are based on actual scientific research that proves these are the traits women find the most desireable but almost all their sources are shoddy or badly misinterpreted from their original context. Any woman attracted to men could tell you this upon a quick glance. Conforming to this standard does not, in reality, make you more attractive to women, it makes you more attractive to other looksmaxxers. Scoring high on the PSL scale allows you to signal that you have the ability to attract hot women, and thus win the approval of other men, without ever having to actually talk to a woman. You reap the rewards of heterosexual partnership without having to deal with the negative externality of listening to a woman's thoughts. It is heterosexual patriarchy stripped down to its barest essentials. It is heterosexual patriarchy without women.
may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.
Man if you did that bullshit as a kid where you fake asked someone out to embarrass them or said your friend liked them I hope that shit haunts you somewhere inside now. I hope you know that never leaves the person you did that too. I've been out of school for 8 blessed fucking years and I still do not believe people when they say they like me or are attracted to me. Doing that shit straight up makes you a bad person. You completely destroy someone's ability to perceive themselves as loveable.
People talk abt the erasure of high support needs autistic people among autism communities on here and that's extremely important but also it honestly feels like people have straight up forgotten that autistic people have Needs. Like needs of literally any kind. I have literally watched people pooh-pooh the idea that autism is a disability (calling it a "metaphorical disability" as opposed to physical disabilities which are "real"), have seen countless memes where the punchline is "autistic person has a common symptom or trait of autism", and you just see a bunch of people talk about how they're super autistic but conveniently are never seen as weird or unlikable and never have meltdowns or lash out and have zero trouble understanding sarcasm or jokes or social cues and hit all their life milestones at appropriate times and aren't lame loser virgins like the rest of you shut-ins. Like it is just extremely common to mock and harass autistic people for displaying very typical autistic traits. There's a point where "dismantling stereotypes" becomes "not actually recognizing the things that make autism autism" and we've really reached it it feels like. As always just a stunning lack of compassion for people who are disabled in ways that disable them and not disabled in ways that are cool to you
The High Court of Andhra Pradesh in India has ruled in a landmark decision that trans women are legally recognised as women.
HUGE GOOD NEWS
the world may seem bleak but PLEASE take time to feel the trans joy and to be happy for our sisters in India
just gonna start doing this to people who say this shit
The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.
I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.
In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:
My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."
A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.
Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.
I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.
In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.
All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.
I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.
Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.
There is probably some 50-year-old chinese trans woman out there who gets gender euphoria from visiting family and realising that she is such a goddamn stereotypical 50-year-old chinese aunty. Showing up at the family function and she has the exact same shoes, purse and sunglasses as the other ones and none of them planned to have an uniform.
Woah, you draw that character so skinny! They're so shaped haha. Yeah they're so huggable haha. It's not how I see that character but you've got your thing going. Yeah I'm just really not into skinny characters I mean to me it's disgusting and fetishistic but you do you. I mean it's just that it's just kind of glorifying being unhealthy you know? Like I don't hate skinny people but I just worry about them you know. I feel kinda bad for them. But it's ok for you to draw them skinny! You've obviously got your own issues and I know what it's like to project on characters :P I hope you get better soon. Have you thought of trying this medicine that no one's done thorough research on to eradicate people of your weight even when it doesn't cause them or anyone any issues? What? No no I love the shapes you've drawn haha I mean it's great. Personally I can't draw skinny people I did try like look this character they're slightly skinnier than my usual. Why are you criticising me? No I'm not skinny-phobic i just really don't like drawing them,,,, it's just hard you know? It's just not my headcanon anyway, sorry. More power to you though!! It's great we have such a diverse community so that freaks - sorry I mean people like you can express themselves. Wow!
thank you for reminding people to not be judgy dicks about whether people read "good" books. i met up with a friend and when books came up, she very sheepishly admitted that lately she's only been reading romantasy, and i told her that was great and asked her a bunch of questions about the series she likes. it felt good to be excited about what she was excited about instead of internally rolling my eyes.
genuinely I would a rather have a lengthy conversation with someone excited to talk about their favorite romantasy a thousand times over than someone who's jacking off to their own superiority complex over what they DON'T read
everybody is drooling for the blond guy from dungeon meshi. that guy is 100% real and I know like six of him, what you are looking for is a marine biologist
1. spends a long amount of time doing something weird far away from society
2. will not stop talking about their animal
3. has definitely eaten their animal and has strong opinions on how to cook it best
If you are into the sexy dwarf what you want is a mycologist btw
how about no