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[ladykailolu]

[ladykailolu]

I wish I could report people for sheer stupidity.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.

is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?

"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.

quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.

[angrylittlesliceofpizza]

i agree, and will add:

do NOT say 'people with a vulva/vagina" when you talk about PERIODS AND BIRTH CONTROL. the term you want is FUNCTIONNING UTERUS.

lots of trans women and transfem people (including intersex ppl, *including cis women*) can and do get bottom surgery. the procedure in itself does not make actual-blood-loss periods happen, though, because long-lasting uterus transplant is Not A Thing (yet?) and *the blood comes FROM THE UTERUS*. if it's about *side effects* related to *hormones* (so, not punctual iron deficiency, bc that's linked to the blood loss…) then… it's about HORMONES. again, not external(ish) physical characteristics like a vulva or vagina!

agab language can be useful and appropriate in some contexte, but when talking about medical stuff, PRECISION is indeed what we need. and "assigned gender" is anything but that.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

DING DING DING we have a good addition to the post!!!!!!

precision is key.

"estrogen dominant" and "testosterone dominant" endocrine systems are also useful terms, especially when interfacing with doctors.

[ladykailolu]

Or you can...not say ANY of this and NOT erase the word "woman" because these phrases are so dehumanizing, reductive, and, quite frankly, disgusting.

Go back to saying "man" and "woman". It makes all these problems go away instantly.

And anybody sending any harassment/threats my way will get instantly blocked, reported, and ignored. Save it.

[thememedaddy]

[medusadyke]

it's fine if you're lazy as fuck with no work ethic but you're not gonna flip that on working class people who actually earned their degrees sorry!

[dumblr]

Drinking a large amount of water every day helps you avoid other people's drama because you're too busy peeing.

Stay hydrated.

[freeasawildfire]

This is good advice

[wyztereo]

001, 002, and 003

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[thememedaddy]

[pokemonarchive]

Charizard (2024) - Illustrator Contest Quarter-Finalist Illustrator: Rachel Liu

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[deadpresidents]

How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

"In the fourth vote, the ballots overwhelmingly shifted" to Cardinal Prevost, Cardinal You of South Korea said.

Cardinal Müller sat behind the American front-runner in the Sistine Chapel and noticed that he seemed calm. Cardinal Tagle, who sat next to Cardinal Prevost, noticed him taking deep breaths as votes amassed in his favor.

"I asked him, 'Do you want a candy?' and he said, 'Yes'," Cardinal Tagle said.

During one of the votes, Cardinal Tobin, as he held his ballot high and put it in the urn, turned and saw Cardinal Prevost, whom he had known for about 30 years.

"I took a look at Bob," Cardinal Tobin said, "and he had his head in his hands."

-- A fascinating inside-the-Sistine-Chapel look at the Conclave that elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, via the New York Times.

I love the image of one Cardinal offering candy to another Cardinal who is trying not to hyperventilate because he realizes he's about to be elected Pope.

[speakeasier]

DAMN, THIS NEW POPE LEO CAME OUT OF NOWHERE LIKE AN RKO.

[therandomray-artz]

Meadow

[liddel]

Drew my favorite grass type, Floragato!! :3

[thememedaddy]

[joestarvictim]

this is everything to me