[lev-iathan]

I would do anything to go back in time at least a couple years...

[assignedmale]

[pjharvey]

fujoshis who are not that into men or not into men at all are very funny to me. I loveeeee reading explicit fanfiction about two guys having sex. i see a shirtless guy in real life and i’m like okay so who asked for that

[talontarget]

jkr is literally posting upskirt photos to her social media. when will it finally get through to harry potter fans that their support makes her feel confident and correct enough to do things like this

[helenkordart]

The most romantic mfs around

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[lazer-exe]

a lot of people are reblogging this saying that most "lazy" people are actually just disabled or that the concept of laziness itself is a product of our society's obsession with productivity. this is all true, but it is not my point.

even if someone WAS just lazy and simply didn't want to do anything but lie on the couch and watch tv, they should still have these things. it's irrelevant whether some people aren't actually lazy because everyone, including hypothetical lazy people, should have their basic needs met.

if we have the resources to do it, there is no defense of letting people die because they don't want to work, and much less because they can't.

I don't want lazy people to have basic necessities because they "actually" deserve them because they ARE working or CAN'T work. I want lazy people to have basic necessities because they are people, and we shouldn't leave them to die when we have the resources not to.

[lev-iathan]

forever sad that there's no way for me to be correctly gendered in my native language

[maja-paja]

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[helenkordart]

If you see these two mfs. Run.

[lev-iathan]

Picking up the second book a year after I read the first one... At this pace I'll finish the series in 2033.

[hashtagmyblog7]

THE X FILES 1.05 the jersey devil WIDOW'S BAY 1.05 what to expect on your trip

[lev-iathan]

Patricia Widow's Bay, you mean the world to me

[hapalopus]

I reeeeaaalllyy don't like how widespread gender realism is in supposedly feminist circles on this website. You are one step away from becoming a radfem.

[hapalopus]

"Woman" is a socially constructed category and "women" have nothing intrinsic in common, other than viewing themselves as whatever "woman" is defined as in their society, or being judged by the standards of whatever "woman" is defined as in their society. Gender is as "real" of a category as race or neurotype, which is to say, it's not objectively real at all. It's an artificial category created on the basis of perceived shared traits among certain people. The people came first, they were grouped into their artificial category later. There are no intrinsic differences between men or women or nonbinary or multigender people.

[hapalopus]

Do you actually believe gender is a social construct or are you just mindlessly repeating the phrase because it sounds cool

[dykepuffs]

Watching the queer way of interacting with gender go from "Gender is a social construct that can be fun to play with but at heart is a dangerous toy because it has been used for generations to oppress and divide people." To "Everyone has a perfect crystal of true gender which you must deeply introspect to discover, and you can be wrong about its nature." Has been a disaster.

[feel-weeb-inc]

As a trans person this view I feel is deeply harmful and wrong. I do believe gender is a real and not socially constructed concept. I feel no one “gave” me my gender and people telling me my gender is a construct is insulting to who I am and how hard I worked to discover myself. Not everyone has the same experience as I do but to say as an objective that gender is made up is extremely presumptuous and rude. In my personal spiritual beliefs I feel every person’s soul comes with its own relationship to gender that isn’t given by society. Do not try to tell me my religion and my relationship with myself are made up. That’s not your place. Believe your beliefs and let others believe theirs. It harms no one.

[shamebats]

Gender is undeniably a social construct. Your spiritual beliefs are also a social construct. Both was created and shaped by society and people's understanding of it changes constantly. A medieval Catholic's religious beliefs and experience of church were completely different from a modern Catholic's.

Children aren't born having a full understanding of gender or religion — they have to be indoctrinated into it. It might be inherent to people to seek out some kind of gender expression or spiritual belief, but the way we do it is not innate. We aren't born knowing that skirts are for girls and big trucks are for boys.

Money is also a social construct. That doesn't mean it isn't real or that it doesn't matter. It's just that people made it up and assigned meaning to it. We have no choice but to participate in it, so money is still important and meaningful to pretty much everyone in society because it defines our experiences of existing as humans right now. Still a social construct though, and has very recently changed from being exclusively bills & metal coins in your wallet/under your mattress to numbers in an app. Children have to learn how to interact with money and most people are pretty bad at it and it cases a lot of problems. The same could be said for gender.

[kestrelking-blog]

The example that got my (really quite Catholic) mother to understand social constructs as both important and made up was days of the week.

There is no law of nature that proves it is Wednesday. Days are real - the Earth rotates, the sun rises and sets, that’s physics. Deciding to build our entire westernised lives around 1/4 of the moon’s orbit is made up. There is no law of physics that links this moment in the lunar procession to ‘Wednesday’.

And yet it really is Wednesday. Mum, you need to go to work and later your choir who practice on Wednesdays will be pissed if you skip practice because ‘Wednesday is a social construct’.

It’s also completely valid to have a favourite day of the week - Sunday for my mum since she goes to church, doesn’t work and avoids domestic chores on Sunday. And all those feelings about Sundays are completely valid in the absence of any law of nature which proves ‘it’s Sunday’.

And all those feelings about your gender…

[intersexfairy]

For anyone still confused, my favorite example of what a social construct is is this: Everything is a social construct. Chairs are a social construct. There is no rule in nature saying only certain things can be sat on or used for seating. Nature has no idea what seating is. We made that shit up, even though the act of sitting is a real physical thing beings do - we made up what it was called, why it exists, and ultimately, the concept of chairs.

So gender being a social construct doesn't mean it isn't referencing a real experience. Something being a social construct just means humans create and perpetuate the concept of its existence. Without us, it wouldn't be a thing.

[lgbtqiatext]

[perverted-asexual]

I bring a very "why the fuck would I care how someone else identifies" kinda vibe to the queer discourse that everyone fucking hates for some reason.

[jimothantheclown]

People will act like they are fantastic allies to nonbinary people and then turn around and lose their shit when someone's gender isn't entirely binary.

There are nonbinary people who are men but that does not make them "just" men, there are nonbinary women who are more than "just" women, there are nonbinary people who are both men and women, there are nonbinary people who are masculine and feminine without being a man or a woman, there are nonbinary people who are outside of the binary, there are nonbinary people lacking gender, there are multigender nonbinary people and gender fluid nonbinary people and gender non-comforming nonbinary people. There are people who are combinations of these genders! There will be people who you cannot tell if they are gay or if they are trans or if they are both or if they are neither and that is because we are all just people. There are even nonbinary people whose gender aligns with nonhumanity and that's delightful.

When you exclude nonbinary people and anyone with complicated relationships with gender, you are just ignoring how expansive and nuanced reality is.

Notice how I did not bring up sex when referring to nonbinary people. Know that sex is not binary but bimodal, understand that the presence or lack of presence of various sex characteristics can* affect gender but does not decide it.

*can, as in not always