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its ovid at fifteen by cristopher bursk hours. not optional

I bring a “there’s no meaningful difference between men and women that doesn’t exclude someone” to the function that gender essentialists hate

goddesspharo

MEG STALTER: I also feel very jealous of whoever he works with next. And I said it's specific to us being a duo. So if I saw Paul with some funny fat girl, I would start to be sick to my stomach and I feel like I would start maybe not texting him back. Maybe I feel like I would be mad at him and I would feel like I would be upset with him and I would maybe start unliking some of the likes that I've given him online. PAUL W. DOWNS: If she's in another comedy duo, I am committing vehicular manslaughter. I am absolutely not even just saying…I am doing damage to the world. I'm upset. [x]

#first o fall they are the moment #second of all me and whooooooooooooooo #smth so intimate abt being a married man and a mostly lesbian in a committed relationship who are a professional duo

notkatniss

hi everyone im a blonde bisexual looking to terrorize the local club population which should I go with

#wait me #except i would make it sluttier and also im working toward being a lesbian

fapper

Really

#oh i remember when he said this i was there

kayla-denker

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

kayla-denker

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

kayla-denker

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

#pls can we all talk abt our periods openly now!!!!

badley

scared. dw about it

#not to take what is surely a v specific moment and feeling in ur life and abstract it from its original context but #me too

gerardwaysbob

that iwtv variety article………right

gerardwaysbob

like explain quickly why some ppl would think season 1 and 2 wasn’t for them but season 3 will be

#rightttttttttttttttt #as tho s1 and 2 arent peak and louis and claudia and armand arent literally the most intersting characters #i just think if ur gonna do s1 the way they did that u cant efface that in s3 if u know what i mean

silver-salt-knife

Just realized that my annoyance at the homophobic!John headcanon/fanon comes from the fact people tone down his abuse to this instead of talking about Dean's parentification (<- this is a trauma! Dean hates it!) and the way John isolated his children.

#oh hed make passive homophobic comments every now and then probably like if it came up but #he would not gaf to notice dean was a little “off” or a little gay or anything like that #cmon now #or if he noticed it would be bc dean's sexuality was useful to the mission (yk..wide eyed hitchhiker routine)#but that it.#spn