Johanna 💜

she/her it/its// trans lesbian // 30s // polyam // communist // antizionist Jew

[calamity-corner]

"biologically female transexual" wait ....you're an afab trans woman?

nope, cause those don't exist! think about what words mean and try again

[calamity-corner]

this shit is so fucking funny help

[tamamoland-of-destinys-demise]

the post was about how people will exclude trans women even from discussion about the widespread systemic exclusion of trans women while pretending to do otherwise by including trans men in that discussion and see no issues with this even when the trans men they are including transparently and openly do not care about or are hostile towards trans women and despite the fact that trans men are mentioned the post is NOT ACTUALLY FUCKING ABOUT TRANS MEN

[probablyasocialecologist]

“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

it's more than a little irritating when tumblrites get all precious about 4chan. the only reason you think this place is better is because of the people you follow. please keep in mind that tumblr has a thriving TERF community, staff only banned the #reichblr tag this year after a trans woman made a fuss about it (they ban her at minimum once a month), kiwifarms uses the place as a hunting ground, etc etc.

tumblr is a suburb and it shows

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

it's very obvious to me that it comes from a desire to go, "oh, I'm nothing like a 4channer, all the horrible bad stuff happens somewhere else and has nothing to do with me". and then you scroll past posts talking about anti-Black racism because they made you feel uncomfortable.

[digitaldiscipline]

tumblr wasn't created as a right-wing psyop slash grooming habitat for the worst people in the world.

hope that helps.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

hello I was on the internet when 4chan was created, it was made by a bunch of upper-middle-class teenagers as an anime fan forum. I will put this into words you can understand: 4chan is and was just as much a part of "fandom" as tumblr, livejournal, wattpadd, any of it.

it's very obvious to me that it comes from a desire to go, "oh, I'm nothing like a 4channer, all the horrible bad stuff happens somewhere else and has nothing to do with me".

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

the guy who owns this website wrote an apologist article about Scott Adams when he died.

Distributor, newspapers drop 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's racist rant

The comic's creator, Scott Adams, said a recent opinion poll changed his mind about "helping Black Americans."

there are reasons I'm here and not twitter but like. come the fuck on

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

#does it matter why 4chan was created though #like what it became is/was horrible and spawned shit like kiwifarms #and was instrumental in the rise of gamergate and the internet alt-right movement #tumblr is shit but it's had comparatively little cultural impact

prev I have been called a groomer, a pedophile, a rapist, and many more things on this very website in the last six months alone. I've seen so many wonderful, kind, sweethearted trans women get subjected to an endless two-minutes-hate. kiwifarms uses this place as a hunting ground, do you imagine that's because nobody there has a tumblr account?

I reported this in early June, I have heard nothing back. you can go see for yourself that this person is still posting without issue.

you are the strawman here.

[freepaleatine955]

They lied to you when they said the genocide had stopped.

With the push of a button, the occupation wipes out entire residential squares, displacing thousands of families into the unknown on harsh displacement journeys that lack the most basic necessities of life. They want to destroy the present and the future, and make Gaza unlivable in full view of the silent world. Do not close your eyes to the horror of what we are experiencing, and do not tire of writing about us.

[freepaleatine955]

The bottom line is that everyone who has the ability to act or influence and then chooses silence bears a share of the responsibility as long as the genocide continues. Every spectator of hunger is a partner in its bitterness until bread reaches the mouths of the hungry, a partner in thirst until the throats of children are quenched, a partner in displacement until people return to their homes, a partner in pain until wounds are healed, and a partner in nights of terror until the dawn of safety comes... In times of massacres, neutrality does not grant innocence. Silence does not provide salvation; Because remaining silent about the crime prolongs its life and gives it space to continue.

[freepaleatine955]

My family still needs you, and every donation makes a difference in securing their lives. Donate here for us.

[ot3]

i decided to let my spamtenna hate post out of disabled reblogs jail because of that one ask the other day, and it took less than 24 hours for someone to try the "well of course they're more popular its because these characters are ADULTS and people want to make PORN!" argument again. which is a terrible counter argument for fandom misogyny for about a million reasons. but the thing that really gets me about it is like

people are of the opinion, will argue on behalf of the opinion, that it's just a completely reasonable and straightforward fact of life that people will want to produce and see pornography about these two characters in such high quantities that it outpaces 7 years worth of of shipping fanworks for the main cast.

like it's an argument coming from a world where These Two are just so innately erotic and alluring that it just isn't possible to suggest in good faith alternate explanations for why these characters got So Disproportionately Popular. mhm. uhuh. yep yep.

[milf--adjacent]

"TMA/TME is bioessentalism!" Shouts the man who willingly misgenders himself to gain access to womens' spaces for his own benefit

[milf--adjacent]

People will tell me I'm making shit up like this kind of thing isn't happening in plain view all the time.

Trans Goalkeeper Isaac Ranson Makes History by Joining Minnesota Women’s Soccer Team

Isaac Ranson, a standout goalkeeper at Cal State Fullerton, becomes the club’s first out trans player.

[lovelyl0tte]

this article is so comically fucked lmao

what are we celebrating here

[calamity-corner]

"laws are largely targeting transgender women and girls. anyway, here's a trans man actively proving the point that he's not the target!"

[nams2]

A while ago I had a bit of a first, where I introduced myself to a discord server as plural instead of transfem. I didnt know at the time that doing this basically makes people think you “dont count” as transfem, and that youre just using that label out of habit or something. The worst part is, that was the nicest Ive been treated in years.

No, seriously. I was no longer the 4channer klanfem male socialized little *bitch* that needed to be lectured. I was now an epic genderfuck icon to be listened to. Ive have never been listened to, not without constantly pushing for it. But now, I was practically a mentor to some of them. I was the elder queer who knew best. I barely even had to fucking *ask* for respect, I just got it.

I literally got to say, straight up, that I hated the egg prime directive shit. And you know, people listened to me? The one person that disagreed with me at least tried to explain himself. Normally id just get told to shut up or even made an example out of. No, this time I was worth talking to.

Its honestly been really demoralizing. I always knew queer community was a lie. I always knew that shit about “our transfem sisters” was lovebombing. But I never truly understood how many doors were closed, even by other trans people, to trans women.

This is why Im so bitter toward other trans people. Not because Im taking out my trauma or because of 4chan rhetoric or whatever the fuck. But because I know for a fact, every single time I engage in these stupid brick wall talks trying to convince my “community” of anything, every time I get the fucking lectures from my “siblings”, its all just the fucking she/her pronouns. If i was the epic genderfuck they wanted me to be and not the woman i really am, then most of my social ills would be completely gone.

[closet-keys]

I don't know how to address this properly because I feel like every time I write about it I get the same misunderstandings from every direction.

the thing happening right now (at the very least in the US and UK) is that trans youth are actively and systemically losing access to healthcare. this has been gradually escalating since the start of the pandemic, and more young people lose healthcare every single year.

when I talk about this I tend to get two responses

"why do trans adults want to expand these experimental treatments to children who can't consent"

"providers offering care to trans adults is a step in the right direction, even if they aren't offering it to trans youth. the perfect is the enemy of the good. we can't fight our allies."

do you see how both the overtly transphobic version and the nominally "pro-trans" version replicate the same misinformation?

this is not a question of "should we expand access to trans youth?" trans youth have had access to medical transition care for a long time. what is happening is the care they already had access to is being made inaccessible and then criminalized systematically.

am I making sense? places refusing to offer care to trans youth are not "a step in the right direction" because that implies that the trend is expanding access that "begins" with trans adults and innately will gradually encompass young people. that is not the case. this is not a hypothetical thing that we can all have different theoretical opinions on. what is happening is the systematic revoking of healthcare.

the further this progresses, the more healthcare is restricted for more demographics. that's how this works. healthcare is being restricted across the board as part of the broader eugenics project. abortion is being restricted. vaccines are becoming more expensive. insurance companies are denying more treatments to disabled people. anti-fatness is surging. ableism is surging. there are active campaigns to get people to mistrust the very idea of healthcare in favor of "wellness" grifts. no one wears N-95 masks. this is the trend. it's been the trend.

I don't know how to communicate that we are not at an early step in a progressive trajectory, we are mid-stage in a eugenic order. please understand what I'm saying.

[dollhair]

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

[prokopetz]

The actual most implausible thing about video game writing is that they'll show us a people-pleasing sad sack of a protagonist where everyone around them treats them as a disgusting pervert for no obvious reason, takes everything they say in the worst possible light, and ascribes vile motives to their most innocuous actions, then turn around and insist that this character is a cisgender, heterosexual man.

[enba-and-luka]

[elbiotipo]

But for real you have no idea how many anglos I met that really claim that the Malvinas was "terra nullius" and nobody lived there and nobody claimed them, the kelpers just manifested there with their sheep out of nowhere. They don't mention Luis Vernet, Gaucho Rivero and his resistance to occupation right in the first years of it, all the correspondence that acknowledges the Malvinas as part of Argentina that was occupied by the British (even correspondence where the British had to ask to operate in the South Atlantic before they usurped those territories), nothing, they don't even question it at all. It's just uh well if the British say they just appeared there who are we to question them? And also Argentines are just sooooooo blinded by nationalistic claims and who cares what third world countries do anyways, so I'll take the proper side here (the side of the British fucking Empire)

This is written in English apropósito.

[fadell-aldany]

I write to you with tears welling in my eyes, my body wracked with pain every second. I write to you because the ignore me and neglect I've endured hurts me more than my injuries. So remember, even if I die, I will never forgive anyone who ignored me and my suffering. I implore everyone to look at me and help me by d0nating and sharing whatever they can.

[fadell-aldany]

This week, I've been battling severe pain and frequent fainting spells due to severe anemia, and I'm completely unable to afford essential medications because of their high cost. All I wish for is for these fainting spells to stop, and for me to find compassionate hearts to stand by me so I can bu.y my medication and recover quickly.

[fadell-aldany]

Shrapnel still lodges in my body, and the pain keeps me awake at night. What makes my suffering even worse is that I was injured when our house was bombed while we were inside. I need urgent surgery but the cost of the operation is exorbitant, and I can't afford it. Now, I can't even afford painkillers to the constant pain tearing at my body.

[fadell-aldany]

Please I don't want to diie, I just want to live without pain. I need your sincere sup.port to save my life and end this suffering as soon as possible. Please, I would be extremely grateful to anyone who can d0nate to me. and if you can't, I hope you will shar.e this p0st.

[fadell-aldany]

My health is very poor, and I can barely write this reblog to tell you that I desperately need your h@lp right now. Please h@lp me so I can buyy my medication as soon as possible and raiise the fuunds for my travel and surgery. please don't skip me.

[fadell-aldany]

Please don't stop, please don't stop. Your d0nati0ns h@lp me a lot. The medication is very expensive, and my condition is very serious. Please d0nate now, please.

[phorusrhacidae-lesbian]

right to self determination simply includes britain overthrowing an island's governor because he was preventing them from hunting seals there and establishing a permanent military base in south america. its that simple apparently

[sapphling]

it's so fucking funny that the refrain is always "[x marginalization] men don't have male privilege, have you even heard of intersectionality theory??" and then when you go "have you read the essay" the reply is literally literally Always "theory doesn't matter!!"

[communistkenobi]

something that's always stuck with me is Adorno's critique of liberal research on fascism - that liberal scientists believe you can approach fascism in good faith by simply asking Nazis what they think about the world and then writing it down. He argued that fascism is itself a bad faith ideology, and that Nazis will not usually answer the question "do you want to exterminate all minorities?" truthfully, especially not when asked by academics (who are all Marxists/Jews/etc plotting to destroy civilization). So in order to accurately capture fascist sentiment, you have to conceal your intentions and basically lie to them. And there are real moral imperatives for social scientists to do this, in the same way that journalists go undercover in white supremacist groups to report on their activities and beliefs. There's even that famous East German documentary where the directors lied to a Nazi military leader about being West German filmmakers, got him drunk, and then just filmed him saying Nazi shit lol. So like the conventions of science itself, the idea that good research is necessarily always transparent, is a political assumption that shapes how you conduct research and acquire knowledge

[totallynotcaptainplutonium]

Does anyone have that east german documentary? Would loove to watch it!

[perpetual-oratorio]

I don't have it on hand but to make it easier to find, in English it's called The Laughing Man. The original German title is Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_lachende_Mann