oh? you like aus of your otps where they get a house together, adopt a cat/dog, consider having children, and make breakfast together every morning with soft rays of sunlight flittering in through the curtains?
so you're telling me you're either gay, have divorced parents, or are genuinely surprised you've lived this long and are hoping for better days in the future with your partner where everything will feel alright and there's no more scariness in the world?
“Do you know the parable about the frog in the cream? Two frogs landed in a pail of cream. One, thinking rationally, understood straight away that there was no point in resistance and that you can’t deceive destiny. But then what if there’s an afterlife – why bother jumping around, entertaining false hopes in vain? He crossed his legs and sank to the bottom. The second, the fool, was probably an atheist. And she started to flop around. It would seem that she had no reason to flail about if everything was predestined. But she flopped around and flopped around anyway . . . Meanwhile, the cream turned to butter. And she crawled out. We honour the memory of this second frog’s friend, eternally damned for the sake of progress and rational thought.”
Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033
Even if things make no sense and are scary, and even if it makes no sense to keep fighting, keep fighting.
Russia is trying to ban legal transition for trans people
Elena Mizulina put forward a bill, that basically bans legal transition. It includes:
Adding the “sex” graph to the birth certificate. That graph cannot be changed in any way, and you also can’t get a new passport because of that.
banning (again) same-sex marriage, but now it is made based on the birth certificate so trans people cannot marry their loved ones.
banning the right to adopt children for the trans people
and WORSE, ALL THE CHANGES MADE IN THE PAST WILL BE DECLINED. People will get their old birth certificates back. the existing marriages will be no longer legal. And I don’t even want to think what will happen to the already adopted children of transgender parents
People are scared as fuck. I see lots of panic in russian social media and also on Twitter. They made a hashtag #ProtectRussianTransLives, so you can check it out for more info. And yeah, people started protesting.
The protest hasn’t even started properly. The police detained all of them, called them slurs, misgendered them, asked about genitals. Those pigs arrested two women - Mila Zemtsova and Polina Symonenko
Mila is a journalist who came there with a license. The police immediately arrested her for the organization (!) of the protest which is absolute nonsense. They kept her in the police department for more than 48 hours and took away her phone. She got a fine for nothing.
(translation: I want to not be afraid to show my passport)
Polina’s case is worse. She was arrested for repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public action (hope I wrote it right). Polina was also kept in the department for 48+ hours (it is illegal), misgendered and deadnamed. She was beaten in the court for taking a legal break. They gave her 14 days in a men’s prison.
This is hell. Please spread this post. People must know about this.
If you are from Russia, you can write a letter to the government. Here’s the link for the instruction:
Петицию против законопроектов, нарушающих права трансгендерных, гомосексуальных и интерсекс людей за сутки подписали почти 20 тыс. человек…
Sign the petition:
Отклоните законопроект о запрете трансгендерным людям на брак и усыновление детей!
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
It was a movie thing! Regular every day people didn’t talk like that but movie stars worked very hard to affect that accent. In fact they worked so hard on it that it became their regular speaking voice but outside of the movie business people talked with about the same regional dialects we hear today.
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