a cage is a cage is a cage

Icarus | 28 | Trans man |He/him | from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free | تتنوع أحلام الشب العربي من إم ستطعش إلى مفتاح البورش إلى يطلع بس يرجعش

[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[agnes-nielsens]

[agnes-nielsens]

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[tomboyhousewife-deactivated2024]

queer people who have done zero self reflection when they see someone who doesn't look fem in their space

[predatory-lesbians]

ACTUALLY FUCKING THO

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#the bioessentialism is gross and inescapable#‘oh i’m just not comfortable around this person bc i don’t know them!’#is that it? or is it that they’re masculine presenting and you only think of non-binary people as girl lite

[coelpts]

[daily-big-cat]

Daily Big Cat(s)

[laeffy]

Hey tumblr???? Hey fucking tumblr?????

[thyrell]

her what

[thyrell]

does anyone know whag the rest of it says

[mutebychoice]

you can find out what it says when you go to the website

[laeffy]

Hey tumblr???? Hey fucking tumblr?????

[thyrell]

her what

[thyrell]

does anyone know whag the rest of it says

[greenheart-anon]

[angrychicagoan24]

i’m gonna say something that will probably piss some people off

i do not think “kill all men” is a good or productive thing to say in any situation

[angrychicagoan24]

obviously this probably fucking sucks to hear as a trans guy but it’s pretty shitty to cis men as well who do not deserve to hear it and honestly it’s not even helpful for men who kinda do deserve to hear it! all you’re doing is adding to hatred on both sides and that literally helps no one

[angrychicagoan24]

i’m very glad people in the tags have been talking about race and stuff which is something i probably should’ve mentioned in the main post

[transandrophobia-is-real]

Big on the "not productive" part. Making jokes/threats about killing people is not going to help make your situation better, all you are doing is harming people in a way so similar to how people harm you.

And, in a similar vein, saying to kill all men because they are just "biologically made to be rapists" is once again, not productive, and it absolves the people who do these horrible acts because it's "just who they are, as men". No, it's not because they are men, it's because they are horrible people who CHOSE to do that.

Also, why is the death of a large group of people over something inherent to them and something they can't control a good thing? How will that make society better?

Honestly, I think some people don't want to remove the boot that is stepping on people's necks, they just want to become the boot

(Also definitely check out the reblogs and comments, people are bringing up some amazing points)

[audible-smiles]

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

[alpaca-clouds]

One of the core things capitalism is interested in is making any labor performed invisible.

Capitalism does not want you to think about the people who designed your furniture. It does not want you to think about the people who sewed your clothes. It does not want you to think about the people who plant and harvest the food you are eating, or the people who work to keep your infrastructure running. Capitalism has a vested interest in you never thinking about the people taking away your trash, or the people who work in the warehouses from where you order. It has a vested interest even in you ignoring the work of the many invisible hands who might work on your entertainment - the caterers, set builders, gaffers, and so on.

Because as long as you are ignorant of the labor put into the things you consume, you will be fine with those laborers being treated like shit.

That is why you need to keep thinking of that labor. Look at the things in your room and keep the people who worked for it in mind. Look at your clothes, your furniture, your gadgets. Think of the sewers, the warehouse workers, the miners, the technicians. Think of the people capitalism wants you to forget.

[itisiives]

[ilovedirt]

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Your fave is problematic: Pyaari Edition

[sandersstudies]

A lot of you on here sure don’t like the idea of making any kind of sacrifice for the benefit of others huh

[sandersstudies]

Some of you act like doing minor inconvenient acts of kindness is equivalent to donating a kidney as if it’s not those acts that form our communities and make the world go around.

[sandersstudies]

Return your grocery cart. If you’re able-bodied offer your seat to someone who is not. Help your friend move. Drive your sister to the airport. Make sure drunk people have a safe ride or walk home. Pet-sit for your coworker. Participate in a meal train. Volunteer in your area. That’s what friendship and community is about.

[punziella]

sometimes I think about the ladies of atla and cry

[qubesos-official]

[transfemme-shelterdog]

French people when you call it bukake and not "nut a la visage" and shibari instead of "corde attacher l'submissive"

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Pisse? In le pantalons???

Mon tabarnak j'vais te décâlisser la yeule, câlice!

[inthefallofasparrow]

[chloebangbang]

the edit is funny, but I cannot emphasize enough that the original article also killed me

jeu video de competition

[esthermika]

[drill-teeth]

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

[countesspetofi]

And it's ALWAYS worth the reader honestly taking a minute to examine whether or not there's a perfectly fine female character existing there in the shadow of the reader's own previously unexamined gender biases.