Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.
Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:
Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.
Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.
Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).
A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
#every time I read this phrase the same thing happens#I read it as shittable and go wait that can't be right#oh right they were talking about public benches that makes more sense#but public bathrooms available without fees should also be a thing tho#cities should definitely be shittable#it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME
it’s interesting to me that before the hunt in the adult timeline, tai and van cancel the crisis call on lottie because “she’s this way because of us”, yet are still so eager to hunt shauna
just like lottie — shauna is a product of her environment. she was a man made monster.
and this isn’t to say shauna’s never done anything wrong — but in s2, while shauna is consumed with sadness and grief, she’s left completely alone.
the others grieve the baby, they talk about him outside and say they wish he’d lived. but nobody ever says it to shauna. nobody asks her if she would like to still give him a name, nobody asks if she’s okay. tai tries to get her to go for a walk when the snow stops, but she never asks what shauna wants
meanwhile, shauna’s body is going through postpartum. she’s trying to survive a healing process requiring a baby without the child she is supposed to have. she’s bleeding for days into clothes they can’t properly wash and her milk is coming in without the means to pump or a baby to breastfeed. shauna is miserable and in pain every single second of every day and her body is giving her reminder on top of reminder (as if she could ever forget) of what she’s lost
the only comfort shauna knows how to seek out is jackie in the meat shed. she sits there and sobs all alone, wishing the ghost of her best friend would return — and does anyone go looking for her? does anyone realize that she’s gone?
shauna is completely isolated in her grief. she is surrounded by people (people she doesn’t know how to trust anymore after her extremely vivid hallucinations) yet she is all alone.
at her breaking point, she beats up lottie.
and to me — this isn’t shauna hurting lottie because she wants to hurt her. it’s a result of all of this pain that has boiled within her, bursting at the seams, begging for release, and when shauna reaches that final trigger — she can’t keep it in any longer.
lottie, in her own way, understands this. she lets shauna take it all out of her. and shauna does.
does she go too far? yes, definitely. but while shauna is in this trance, acting beyond her own control — everyone stands around watching.
shauna is then blamed for the violence she committed. but what about the violence in being permissive? in standing around, watching blood splatter, and allowing lottie to get as injured as she did? there were at least five girls watching — if they banned together they could’ve easily pulled shauna back. but instead, they chose to let lottie suffer.
then afterwards — nobody asks shauna what she meant when she said “you ate my fucking baby, i saw you, you were covered in blood” ! nobody asks where that came from or why she thought they did. the focus obviously has to be on lottie in the immediate following, but if anyone had reassured shauna that that hadn’t happened or helped bring her back to reality — wouldn’t that have done something?
in the aftermath, we see that again, shauna’s anger is gone. she’s terrified and sad, like a confused child. she tries to bring lottie a blanket only to be villainized by gen (“oh, so now you care about lottie?”) but the question was never about wether or not shauna cared. shauna has always cared so much — perhaps to a fault — and nobody around her sees this.
the yellowjackets see her violence, but not how badly she is hurting. they see her anger, but none of the pain beneath it.
when misty says that lottie wants them to use her body if she dies, shauna is one of the first to admit (visibly terrified) that she can’t imagine being in the wilderness without her.
lottie, the person who overstepped boundary after boundary with shauna’s pregnancy. lottie, who tried to force shauna’s baby to be some sort of cult symbol even when shauna kept resisting. lottie, who is pioneering this dangerous religion that shauna wants absolutely nothing to do with.
shauna can’t imagine being there without her.
because shauna still remembers lottie in the before. she still remembers lottie as her friend, her teammate. shauna still has the humanity to see lottie for who she is — not the scapegoat prophet she’s been turned into.
then, everyone decides that lottie’s too valuable to die, so they have the hunt. and when they bring javi back, shauna looks horrified. shell shocked.
because yeah, they all just killed a kid. but days ago, shauna lost her baby boy, and now, the closest thing she had to a little brother is dead too.
so shauna retreats within herself afterwards. we see her sitting in the arm chair silently, just trying to process what she’s done. until her name is called, because even after everything she’s endured — she is still expected to be the butcher.
now, everyone knows that shauna is postpartum. everyone knows she just lost her little boy. yet, nobody ever factors this in. all that they consider is that they don’t want to butcher him. cutting up and preparing a child’s body to eat is a sickening, repulsive task and if shauna knows how to butcher animals — well then, she can do this too. she can hand a 13-year-old boys raw heart to his older brother, days after giving birth to her own baby, and she can deal with it the way she’s dealt with everything else.
it all reaches it’s peak when lottie says the wilderness has chosen a new leader.
in shauna’s mind, obviously it should be her.
after all, she is the only reason any of them are even alive to have a new leader! she starved rather than taking extra rations, leading to her still birth. she butchered javi because nobody else could — getting them through the rest of the winter. she gave everything for them.
but no, natalie is crowned antler queen and shauna is once again, ignored. her sacrifices, her pain, her trauma — all completely overlooked.
so of course, we get to s3 and shauna is bitter and angry and out for blood. because the only time her pain has ever been recognized is when it manifested in violence.
jackie taylor wasn't a terrible friend to shauna but she wasn't a good one either, and i feel like a lot of people just ignore that in their analyses. sometimes i feel like half this fandom didn't even watch the pilot, they just watched the one clip of shauna having sex with jeff and went "oooo evil witch!!11!!1"
while shauna's actions aren't justifiable, if we actually look at the events leading up to the choices she makes, they make a LOT more sense than people give her credit for
it's made pretty obvious in the pilot that shauna is relatively weak willed- she tries to stand up for what she wants or thinks is right but tends to do so very meekly in hopes it'll get across until eventually she blows up when it doesn't, this happens with both tai and jackie. in the scene before the party, shauna seems to gravitate towards more masculine clothes which jackie dislikes and wants her to wear a feminine dress that shows her cleavage. baby gay shauna doesn't know how to explain her feelings on this so she gets angry but gives in and wears the dress anyway, but keeps her jacket pulled over her chest and covers up her cleavage the whole time because she's uncomfortable but trying to conform (probably both for jackie and for heteronormative reasons)
jackie also tries to hook shauna up with HER boyfriend's best friend, whose only established character traits are being stupid and gross. this is a pretty classic trope, the main character having an attractive jock boyfriend while her sidekick best friend dates the jock's unattractive meathead sidekick. shauna is obviously upset by this and, in comforting her, jackie confirms that she knows he's stupid.
then shauna just wants to hear jackie say something nice about her because she now feels like jackie doesn't like who she actually is and doesn't see value in her. jackie tries but her instinct is to make joking insults that, while not really mean, aren't what shauna wants to hear in the moment, and jackie's actual attempt at a compliment only circles back to who shauna is to jackie and not who shauna is as a person.
when jeff takes jackie and shauna home, jeff wants to take shauna home first because it's on the way to jackie's house but jackie tells him to take a shortcut to her own house because of her curfew, even though shauna also has a curfew. shauna and jeff are both confused and possibly annoyed that jackie is going out of her way to prioritize herself.
shauna wants to go home, shauna and jeff both don't want to be in the car alone, but they end up alone anyway.
shauna says "i love you" to jackie, who doesn't respond.
so to summarize- shauna drank too much too fast and is very drunk, she was already upset, she thinks her best friend who we learn later that she's likely in love with doesn't love her even platonically, and now she's alone with said best friend's boyfriend.
so she touches him the way she can't touch jackie and begs him to say "i love you" the way jackie didn't. it's about being close to jackie, conforming to femininity/heteronormativity, proving to herself that she can be the kind of person jackie is and/or wants shauna to be, and possibly getting some sort of sick sense of revenge.
DO NOT PIRATE ANYTHING. NOT SHOWS/MOVIES. NOT GAMES OR SAFER GAMES. AND CERTAINLY NOT BOOKS. AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS. AND NEVER EVER EVER WATCH MUSICALS WITHOUT GOING TO THEM AND DONT USE ADBLOCKERS/OTHER ADBLOCKER TO AVOID ADS AND VIRUSES PIRATING IS VERY HARMFUL TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO WORKS VERY HARD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY. ANYONE WHO PIRATES IS BAD. BAD PIRATING. EVIL. OH AND THIS
At the end of the day, my thoughts on job hunting are that it's incredibly stupid how every fiber of our current socioeconomic structure is screaming that you MUST have a job and nothing else matters because you MUST be working and that's the only thing of true importance so never forget that you MUST have a job, and I'm like damn okay so I'd like a job, can I have one? And the answer is No
i dunno if people have talked about this before, but i do think jackie’s habit of not being able to compliment someone she’s close to (shauna), without insulting them first does come from her mom. with what little we saw of mrs. taylor we know she was veryyy comfortable giving backhanded compliments, even to those she should have supportive relationships with (shauna & jeff). and the logical step forward that mrs. taylor would employ similar tactics to get jackie to do/appear like she wanted wouldn't surprise me. anyway, i think jackie learned that freely uplifting someone you intimately know is too vulnerable (if it wasn’t, why can’t her mom do it?), so she’s stuck in this limbo of wanting to have pure loving relationships (with shauna especially) but not having the tools to facilitate them.
call me crazy but i think public transportation should explicitly also be for actively drunk/high people. so they don’t, you know, drive under the influence.
i literally don’t care how afraid you are of drunk people. if they’re behaving well enough then there’s no reason to kick them off the bus.
if you can’t recognize it’s better for society for drunk people to have a way home that doesn’t involve them driving and potentially getting people killed then you just kind of suck actually.
