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Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

I live in a not walkable city without a car, and using this incredible technology called a cart, I can transport a big box of litter and a bag of potting soil all the way across the city. Wheels are helpful for transporting things, even without an engine attached

nonaferatu

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

lakevida

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

annarcana

lightfe11ow

The glass gutter is just as important as the glass ceiling, I think…. Women have the right to be scumbags, too. Matilda, we salute you.

- Brandie Posey and Robert Evans, Behind the Bastards: Part One: The Naturopathic Doctor Who Bombed a Plane

mousidy

sorry, but you were socialized christian. I just can't trust you in a trans space

stonefemmesiren

a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn't cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don't change course

riftclaw

thydungeongal

A common refrain when the "necessity" of keeping trans women out of women's spaces is brought up is that some women might have issues with sharing their spaces with men or people they perceive as men due to safety concerns and discomfort. This is not only transmisogynistic in the most obvious "treating trans women as if they are a part of the class of men" type of way but also in the "giving precedence to cis women's voices over trans women's voices." Many trans women also often have issues with being forced into the same spaces as men, often founded in equally justified safety concerns and discomfort.

And the truth is that a lot of people do see trans women's womanhood as a lesser form of womanhood and therefore think that cis women's voices should take precedence and like. Most trans women are aware of this. But when it's our supposed allies who parrot these same ideas it's just. Oh, wait, you've actually had the time to think about this and you still same out on the side of transmisogyny?

quasi-normalcy

Sooner or later, you need to acknowledge that the 2017 women in the pink pussy hats were 100% right about everything.

quasi-normalcy

Also "orange man bad" is, was, and ever shall remain a trivially true statement.

liquidpaperfoundation1

I can't help but think about how much political discourse is about how people look while expressing their opinions more than what those opinions are. If you get too upset while defending women's rights you're a screaming blue hair sjw, and suddenly all you are is a caricature of an annoying person. Meanwhile people say shit about how Charlie Kirk "did political debates the right way" because he performed civility and rationality, even though the viewpoints he was trying to push were deeply racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic, christian nationalist, and just all-around bad and violent ideas, but because he was semi-polite about it that makes it okay.

quasi-normalcy

I can't stress enough the extent to which men think that virtually anything women say is frivolous and cringey no matter how they say it.

quasi-normalcy

#the way some dudes still get mad at any hint that spending years cracking jokes about “pussyhats” could be sexist

mollyjames

I think a lot of transmisogyny stems from this idea that people are really scared to see a dick. The reason bathrooms and locker rooms and hot springs keep being flash points is because these are all places where if a trans woman is using them, it's possible you might see her dick. A lot of transmisogynistic humor revolves around being traumatized because the subject saw a woman with a penis. And look, to a certain extent I sympathize. I'm not a fan of dick; I dont want this thing either. But if you want to be an ally to trans women, I think a big important step you can take personally is to examine your own reaction to the scenarios I described above, and recognize that a dick is just a body part a girl has sometimes. Seeing it as inherently sexual and/or traumatizing is a major wedge conservatives use to justify their rhetoric

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

do any other mammals have faces as flat as ours or is that an us thing

femininefreyanyctophile

think we are pretty unique with that and our build in general. like most mammals are somewhat rotund and usually longer than tall or wide. we are built like a blade of grass

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

honestly we might be unique for vertebrates in general.

someone brought up owls, but…

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

now THERE’S and interesting contender

still not as flat as a human face, but the amount that the jaws sink in is wild

palminthestreetlamp

Yeah I can kind of get how you would see this skull and think it was a really big person with one eye

cursedtrekedits

“And now we'll get what we want: a burger from the Five Guys restaurant. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved my entire weekend. And all it cost was one shuttle trip, $13.99, and the diet of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.”

cursedtrekedits