the word "literal" has evolved, it's more liberal now

*more in menu

[mephostophilis]

i don’t know how anyones first response to seeing the rampant transphobia in the uk isn’t abject heartbreak for all the trans people that live here

[mephostophilis]

so many people’s views around transphobia in the uk start and end at “haha terf island”, and never stop for 5 minutes and think how god awful it is for trans people to be stuck here

[softwarmdirt]

Trans men in 'extreme distress' as NHS stops life-changing phalloplasty

Trans men affected by the NHS recently pausing phalloplasty provision in the UK describe feeling let down and left in limbo.

I haven't seen anything about this on tumblr yet, but since April 2021 the NHS also discontinued all trans male bottom surgery, including for patients BETWEEN surgeries, with no plans to resume

[airandangels]

In 2017 a transgender woman from the UK was granted residency in New Zealand on special humanitarian grounds as the tribunal recognised it wasn’t safe for her to return. Four years ago the situation was already hostile enough to create refugees and it’s intensified since then. It’s really very serious.

British transgender woman given residency in 'safer' New Zealand

Tribunal says it would be ‘unduly harsh’ to force her to return to the UK after living discrimination-free in her adopted country

[liberalsarecool]

Corporate media fabricates a 'surge' of 'crime', yet fails to mention surge in police violence.

[particularj]

“The U.S. cages Black people at 6 times the rate of South Africa at the height of Apartheid.”

Let that sink in, and then don’t even come trying to say there’s no systemic racism.

[depsidase]

[liberalsarecool]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[astrodidact]

[historicalbeauties]

Body positivity and mental health for men, by Lena Dirscherl (BoPoLena on IG). More under the cut!

Keep reading

[ankle-beez]

Normal people on Twitter are having an absolutely normal one over muppet babies letting gonzo wear a dress

[ankle-beez]

The thing about the episode is that it didn't even have an inherently trans meesage? Gonzo wanted to wear a dress to this ball they were having and he was scared he was gonna be made fun of so he disguises himself as Gonzorella so he can wear the dress and then the plot to Cinderella plays out like usual, and all the other muppet babies were like "we love you gonzo, we sorry we made you feel that way, we love you just the way you are"

The moral was literally the same "be yourself" stuff every kids media does, it's just that involves a boy wearing a dress this time

[thefriendlylover]

“Manly muppets”

FOR FU–

[stabbedthrutheeye]

bring back manly muppets? bring back manly muppets? BRING BACK MANLY MUPPETS?

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FUCKING PINNACLE OF MANLINESS TO YOU?

IS THIS MANLET OF A FROG YOUR IDEAL MAN?

AH YES, THIS IS THE EPITOME OF MACHO

LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THIS ISNT A WHOLE FUCKING TWINK

BRING BACK MANLY MUPPETS. CHRIST HELP ME

[stabbedthrutheeye]

THIS

ISN’T

EVEN

THE

FIRST

TIME

THE ORIGINAL MUPPET BABIES AIRED IN 1984

[clownboybeebop]

is she trying to argue that gonzo has a dick while he canonically has a fist in his ass

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Gonzo the Great, nonbinary icon

[pitbolshevik]

what is with this weird obsession liberals have with calling bernie out for doing completely normal ass things

[pitbolshevik]

i promise "man wants air conditioning in his hotel room" isnt the epic own you think it is

[pitbolshevik]

if bernie was a REAL socialist he would sleep on a beach towel in an arbys parking lot

[carnival-phantasm]

[1-420-666-6969]

free market capitalism everyone

[mysharona1987]

[scholarlyapproach]

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.

They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.

THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.

Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

[askmace]

They did the same to brisket.  You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply.  And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month.  And it was tasty.  I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.

It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.

But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket.  Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque.  And the price of brisket went up.  A lot.

I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now.  And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes.  It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.

Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’.  Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls?  Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.

Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently?  You guessed it.  Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.

[auroraluciferi]

Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon.  For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.

Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.

[blackwitchmagicwoman-deactivate]

LMAO. Wait.

[thegrimmlovely]

Anyone else’s eye twitchin?

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.

[shitonthesewallsray]

[notourz]

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[mysharona1987]

[booksandcows]

[ratfuck]

me at the fucking ballot counting office changing all the trump votes into biden votes so we can begin taking away all white kids from their parents and make them trans

[lastvalyrian]

in a few days a poor lawyer will be forced to remain serious while using this post as evidence in court

[stevenrogered]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]