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i think the fact that The Amazing Digital Circus got more vitriol than Good Omens or Dropout or Heated Rivalry or one william other fandoms inundated with bigotry/shitty crewmembers kind of speaks for itself

plaidos

it's the same reason that a lot of people seem performatively disgusted by the orientalism baked into Breath of the Wild's crossdressing sequence but don't really seem to give a fuck about how the Gorons are blatantly anti-Black caricatures. and don't get me wrong, both of these things need to be criticised more (not less) than they already are, but it does make you wonder why Tumblr is so willing to let literally any type of bigotry slide unless it's trans girls who are enjoying something. It's all "watching doesn't mean supporting!!!" until there's an adult animated cartoon about being transgender

plaidos

cloverthefloret

So turns out if you don’t hide the fact that you like being pet people will pet you and will see it as socially acceptable.

I’m having a very pleasant evening~

dullwitandravens

Working on figuring out how to accomplish this, will report back with results.

pastapersona

step one: go to trans event with collar on

step two: enjoy

bonus step: give one your leash so thats a thing too

plaidos

it’s kind of wild how many TME people don’t know that for a lot of trans women, therapy is the place where we go to face the most bigotry & violence. The Amazing Digital Circus, and Jax specifically, in fact, are based upon Gooseworx’s experiences being sent to conversion therapy <- you know, a type of “therapy” universally known for violencing trans people, especially trans women?

Nobody in this fandom would be blaming a teenager for pushing his abusive transphobic mother had he been transmasc. So many of you just openly & obviously hate trans women.

just genuinely how evil and transmisogynistic can you be to see a show about being abused in conversion therapy and tell the people who relate to it to fix themselves at therapy? What is wrong with you?

plaidos

Some people are so privileged that they literally cannot even conceive of therapy as a place of violence for many people.

ntrider

discord "NTR Update" where it shows a typing indicator for when someone is typing in a server you're not in or a mutual friend's DM

jesus christ

rabbitkinglune777

that one meme

(he/him)

rabbitkinglune777

also important: I've gotten hate for expressing myself like this as a transmasc person but honestly I won't stop being myself and also won't stop being very sexually confident in myself and traits. I feel like other trans ppl especially transmascs know they can do what makes them happy

janmisali

I've been thinking so much about this problem. some number of months or years from now when I make the hmsmgat3 survey, it will be a problem that a certain percentage of people will not read the instructions. and I need to do what I can to minimize that percentage.

and like what I believe is a major source of the problem is that many people stop reading instructions as soon as they think they know what's expected of them. and I'm not actually sure a video would help very much!

would someone in the 45% "oh we're making a bell curve okay I can skip the short paragraph directly above the poll then that surely won't contain any relevant information" demographic watch an entire video just so they know what format I expect for a survey question, or would they watch enough of the video to get to the point where they think they know what's expected of them and then fill out the survey incorrectly?

how do I convey how extremely important it is to actually read and follow the instructions without coming across as condescending or scaring people away with how many paragraphs they have to read?

I guess I have some time to figure this stuff out. but this is such a hard problem

janmisali

like, okay. here's the specific tangible problem I have.

I want to eventually make a survey where people tell me directly in an open answer question what games they think the mainline super mario series consists of. to get useful data out of that, I need the answers to be well formatted.

specifically, I need it to be obvious and unignorable that:

I expect the items of the list to be separated by line breaks, not commas (some video game titles have commas in them so I can't automate the process of turning their list into data if they use commas)

the participant should not write anything in their response that is not part of their list

neither of these are things that are impossible to fix if someone doesn't follow the instructions, but they can't be fixed automatically. I'd need to manually clean up the responses or pay someone else to do it or (worst option!) cross my fingers and hope google gemini isn't hallucinating if I give it my data to clean up.

and if it's a survey that gets thousands of responses, 5% of people missing the instructions is still potentially hundreds of responses I need to either clean up or discard. and yes I would rather clean them up than discard them

biceratops7

Hot take apparently (TADC episode 9 spoilers)

Jax being a bad person doesn’t suddenly mean it’s ok to make fun of her for being mentally ill and homeless, y’all just love finding outlets for your prejudices that are “fair game” instead of actually confronting them.

cybercerealkiller

trans guy say this and then don't understand how they benefit from misogyny

um-jammer-tranny

ittuesday

#woag

princessporcelaingirl

Dollgirl in washing machine

Awawawa

Awawa Awawa

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ashes2caches

please make sure your transfem friends don’t get excluded. please listen to their needs.

transsexual-feminism

You should do more than just listen, actually. You need to ask her. You need to go up to her and ask her about things you can do to include her. We are taught to take up as little space as possible, you need to go out of your way to account for that.

prettycottonmouthlamia

Like. If you can't even talk about how fundamentally one of the big contradictions in the patriarchy is that it is anti-incest but it cannot be anti-incest in the ways that actually matter because it cannot take a materialist view on the nuclear family, you cannot really take part in this conversation at all.

This is why the arguments are ultimately vaguely moralistic ("it's yucky") or eugenics ("it's wrong to have sex that will result in kids being born with genetic conditions"). Patriarchal incest kink does not want to cede the ground that the kink is popular because under the nuclear family model, both wife and children are seen ultimately as property that the patriarch is allowed to abuse.

The solution to that is to destroy the nuclear family in its entirety but like people really don't like when you say that. It also doesn't really apply to incest kink outside of the current/future patriarch dynamic or that lampoons it. So you know.

prettycottonmouthlamia

There is a similar phenomenon with pedophilia too but if you talk about how the specter of the predator is invoked people become very mad at you for believing that power structures are the determining factor in abuse and not "moral substance".

Also one day I'll elaborate on the future patriarch thing because it's really fascinating.