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Excellent thread.
Reblogged especially for the de-radicalization info. I don’t know who might need it, but I’m sure someone does.
https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1133057510292824065
Kinda fucked up how cis women are allowed to abandon feminity in the name of feminism but trans women are forced to adopt it just to be recognized as women
even worse is when cis feminists accuse trans women who overperform femininity for safety of being tools of the patriarchy, and trans women who underperform femininity for ANY reason (including abandoning it in the name of feminism) fakers.
the idea of gaydar is honestly so funny to me. straight people truly think that gay people have absolutely no control over the way they present themselves, and no self awareness about how that presentation comes off.... trust me if a gay man is wearing nail polish and tight button downs and speaking in a higher pitch he knows that he’s doing that. he knows that you know he’s gay and he’s doing that on purpose. if a lesbian has a crew cut and wears basketball shorts and wifebeaters she knows that you know that she’s a lesbian and she’s doing that on purpose. you don’t have a special talent for decifering gay people you’re just able to pick up on messages that are actively being sent to you congrats i guess
all i’m saying is I’ve literally n e v e r heard the use of the term bisexual to mean attraction to all genders. like ever. that’s the way those terms have been defined my whole life. im confused
you clearly haven’t been talking to bi people then because every single bisexual ive met irl and most of them online define it that way. im a nonbinary bisexual. i have dated nonbinary people. to say bisexuality only includes men and women is completely ahistorical, and transphobic to many nonbinary people. Anyone can be attracted to nonbinary people because they are not a seperate third gender.
Which is also why defining bisexual as attraction to “any 2 genders” doesn’t work either. Lesbians can and do date women and nonbinary people. Gay men can and do date men and nonbinary people. Whether or not those nonbinary people choose to align themselves with binary definitions is their own choice, but that doesn’t change the fact that gay men and lesbians can still date them. Same thing for straight people, they can date people of the opposite binary gender as well as nonbinary people. Bisexuality includes attraction to all genders.
Even the wiki for the bisexual flag lists the colors as “pink for same gender attraction, blue for different gender attraction, purple for attraction to nonbinary people/same and different genders.” The bisexual manifesto acknowledged that there’s more than two genders when defining bisexual attraction, and many documents from bi activists during that time define bisexuality as “attraction outside of gender/attraction beyond the binary”.
The “bi means two” argument doesn’t work and trying to argue the specific root of a prefix as the definition of bisexuality instead of listening to bisexual people and bi history is always going to be biphobic.
^^sure. the latin root “bi” is for two, but “bisexual” wasn’t even used to define a sexuality when it was first defined. and then it was also listed as a mental illness similar to sadism and masochism. Bi activists reclaimed the term “bisexual” and worked to redefine it towards bisexual experiences.
I’m not trying to be rude or aggressive here but it’s pretty disingenuous to make the claim you’ve “never heard it defined as attraction to all genders” when I, a bisexual, along with many other bisexuals on that post in the first place are telling you that’s the actual definition.
Being gay at ur parents house is like I’m not gay but I am but like it’s subtext
Post of the decade was that one time someone tried to invent a slur for asexuals so that they could reclaim it
can someone make this text into a star wars opening crawl
aces/aros who arent lgbt are actively harmed by being included in the community because they're targeted by misdirected homophobia/transphobia and that shit can kill them. re: that one anon that someone got that was like "my dad found out im ace and called me the f slur even though im heteroromantic" like congrats, ur dad is a homophobe and u have now put urself in danger bc u insisted u were oppressed and lumped urself in with a group u have nothing in common with.
cishet aces/aros and cis aroaces gain nothing by calling themselves LGBT except from misdirected homophobia/transphobia
@thattransoracle the lgbt community was formed to combat homophobia and its subsets like biphobia and transphobia. asexual and aromantic people do not inherently face these things. a cis gay man is oppressed under homophobia, a straight trans person is oppressed under transphobia and these two things are often highly interwoven, hence why the community exists. asexuals and aromantics do not face this same sort of oppression, and i say this as someone who is asexual.
also a cisgender asexual who is strictly attracted to the opposite gender is still. straight. they are therefore. cis. and straight. and therefore. cishet.
i never once said aces/aros choose their identity but like thanks for putting words in my mouth, i guess.
has anyone considered that in order for “allosexual privilege” to be a thing, you have to believe that “aphobia” is a harsher and more structurally enforced system of oppression than homophobia. you have to believe that current authoritative power structures view gay attraction, sex and relationships as preferable to no attraction (or whatever levels of attraction supposedly differentiate ace/aro people from non-ace/aro people). you have to believe that the government/police force/society at large celebrate and validate gay attraction, and see gay attraction as a preferable alternative to being ace or aro. aaaand given that laws criminalizing gay sex remained on the books in the US up through the early 2000s and gay marriage was illegal in the US until just a few short years ago, and conversion therapy with the goal of ensuring gay people live “sinless” celibate lifestyles is still pretty common practice, I’m not buying that.
“#but why are we playing oppression olympics? #aphobia can exist alongside homophobia #they don’t cancel each other out or something #and there’s definitely a component of privilege to sexual attraction bc it’s the enforced norm”
hooo boy here we go. it’s not oppression olympics; there’s no system of oppression designed to target people who don’t experience sexual or romantic attraction (whatever those terms mean) or experience in differing levels from “the norm” (whatever that is supposed to mean.) there’s privilege bestowed upon people for being straight; there is absolutely NO privilege that society and our power structures gives to people for experiencing gay attraction. in order to believe that anyone with sexual attraction is privileged over someone who doesn’t experience that, you have to believe that lgbp people receive privilege from the same attraction that gets them harassed, targeted by authorities and police, denied legal rights, and murdered.
The person who tweeted this account has since taken that account private, but there is a full text transcription available from threader. It’s advice from a Registered Nurse on what to do if you start experiencing COVID19 symptoms.
Key quotes:
You should not be leaving your house except to go to the doctor, and if you do, wear a mask (regular is fine, you don’t need an N95). You DO NOT NEED TO GO TO THE ER unless you are having trouble breathing or your fever is very high and unmanaged with meds.
90% of healthy adult cases thus far have been managed at home with basic rest/hydration/over-the-counter meds. We don’t want to clog the ERs unless you’re actually in distress. The hospital beds will be used for people who actively need oxygen/breathing treatments/IV fluids.
The Frequency of LGBT Cops in post 1980s TV shows
With the reveal of Disney’s new first LGBT character, I decided to take a look at the frequency of LGBT law enforcement. This is my first post where I will be focusing on TV Shows aired after 1980. Next I will do movies. I also added in a section about LGBT criminals and background characters. Post inspired by @closet-keys.
Here is my spreadsheet, it is color coded, I hope you like it.
My method:
A sample size of cop shows that specifically have an ensemble/recurring cast, mainly procedural shows, post 1980. This includes all genres. I tried to focus on shows specifically starring law enforcement but since I have seen literally none of these I can not be too sure.
I chose entirely random shows from there. I looked up multiple lists and compared the most popular ones. Most are American but some are British. I tried to avoid period pieces as I believed those would skew the data.
To gather data I mainly would look up the show followed by “LGBT” on Google. Sounds silly but it was surprisingly effective. Every stray background character holding hands with someone of the same sex would bring up a Buzzfeed article. If that brought nothing up, I then manually checked the Wikipedia. If there was nothing again I tried to type various buzzwords in. I read way too many poorly written articles from reactionaries for this sheet. :(.
I also checked these websites:
This list of LGBT characters on Wikipedia
This list of poorly treated lesbians in TV
Not perfect, I know, but I did the best I could for all 79 shows listed. If I missed any LGBT characters please let me know.
The Results:
Of the 79 shows I looked in to, 30 of them had LGBT cops. That is 38%. Most of these cops were bisexual cis women (who usually die on screen, brutally). Next runner up were gay cis men cops. A few cis lesbians. None of them were trans.
19 of the 79 shows included LGBT “criminals” (I use that term loosely). Most of them were jealous ex lovers. Most of the shows on the list had criminal LGBT characters more than once. Most of them died as well.
13 of the 79 shows had LGBT representation that was not criminal or law enforcement. This included family members of the main cast, various background characters, and murder victims. Again, usually dead.
56 of the 79 shows had SOME FORM of LGBT representation, whether that be criminal, law enforcement, or background character. Only 23 of the 79 shows had no form of representation whatsoever.
In conclusion:
There’s too many LGBT cops in TV shows. We don’t like cops and we don’t like being portrayed as cops, especially as friends of cops. I think it is extremely offensive that cis straight showrunners continue to make this type of character archetype.
This is amazing and valuable work. Thank you so much.
[centrists in november]: kind of trumpian for bernie to win the election :/ hillary would never do something like this.
