I Could Be A Leading Man

They/He and any neos (21) Omega Rights Activist

[thememedaddy]

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Whenever someone mentions a Swapsca AU of Berserk (Casca as the Black Swordsman and Guts incapacitated), I can’t help but think of how instead of Guts fighting the Demons of Bisexuality, it’s would be Farnese

She would have a whole Claude Frollo moment

[phosphorusab]

Farnese is the type of Catholic girl to be raised in an Opus Dei family, homeschooled in the middle of nowhere and taught no skills or anything of value, and be told (and believed) that the Suffragette movement was Satanic and that Dungeons and Dragons can summon demons

[tantbox]

turned this dialogue into a gif cause it's really funny to me

[oingoed]

serizawa art plus some close ups!!!

[trans-masked]

I mean in this instance when I’m talking about a disease that affects the uterus then yes people with a uterus are going to suffer from it and people without a uterus aren’t? Yall are going to call me a TERF for believing in cervical cancer next

[homobloquy]

people born with vaginas objectively do suffer in ways that nobody else could suffer. that is a core concept of feminism. uterine/cervical/vaginal disease. pregnancy and birth as a result of rape. pregnancy and birth in themselves. misogyny & sexism starting from the moment the sex is known. fgm. menstruation & associated disorders. another pretty key concept of feminism is that those unique kinds of suffering are downplayed or ignored by others.

you know the thing straight white conservative guys do when someone mentions their privilege where they respond “I’m not privileged! My life has been hard too! I’ve suffered! Straight men have problems too! White people have hard lives too!”? That is the exact thing that you are doing if you claim that someone born female can’t possibly have some unique kind of suffering you can’t and won’t experience. Someone else suffering in a way you don’t suffer doesn’t take away from your own suffering, both can be true at once, even small children can grasp this. I’m sorry missing out on the full scope of sexism makes you dysphoric but that is entirely a problem for you to sort out by yourself, just like it’s Racist Guy’s problem to sort out that he feels like he’s missing out on social cred for his suffering because the POC are taking it all.

these people have found a way to get away with selling “pussy privilege” talking points to young lefty people. just switch pussy to afab and bingo. you cant call people discussing run of the mill sexism crazy feminazis anymore but you can paint them as a terf to dismiss their argument just as easily. how is it “trans exclusionary” to point out sexism where it happens. why is your transness predicated on how much more oppressed you are than anyone else rather than your own identity. there are plenty of normal trans people whose transness somehow doesn’t turn them into misogynistic redpill incels with she/her in bio. i promise there are, i’ve met them. you can literally just be normal and not turn into a raging antifeminist dodging all criticism with “well i’m trans so everything i have ever gone through is inherently worse which means i am inherently more knowledgeable on sexism than you dumb bitches i mean afabs.”

[millimasc]

I took college level anatomy courses in high school, as well as actual college anatomy courses.

Lemme just point out another thing that I didn't see in the above reasons listed for why pussy privilege isn't a thing:

People who have a penis are better researched medically, this mainly applies if you're white, but in general that's just how it is.

Now, let me get a bit more specific... my courses went over diseases that could affect specifically penis bearing or vagina bearing people.

For men, it went into several good sources and names of illnesses specific to them, how bad each one was and what the fixes were...

For vaginas and uteruses... pregnancy mostly, and preventions for pregnancy, period care... maybe one mention of yeast infections but no fix or cause.

This in college... in 2023. I'm not spitting satire, this was literally it and I have been pissed off for three fucking years because of the inequality of it. Why were our cancers not mentioned? The fact we're more likely to get a UTI just from not peeing afterwards? Why was nothing actually talked about except pregnancy—the very thing that is talked about to from heaven to hell and around again?

It felt like half the population just, didn't matter. Their health, my health as a PMOS having transmasc... just didn't fucking matter.

[rbremington]

And if I said these types of memes are butchphobic? Are transandrophobic? What then?

Why is it that we always say transmascs, gnc women, butches, and studs are somehow uglier and grosser for being masculine and that's just something we should accept/embrace? Why do we always believe cis women and gender conforming women/femmes are automatically goddesses who just let butches and transmascs into their lives as if it’s pity? Like were some political sex accessory?

[phosphorusab]

I made a post awhile ago talking about the Jessica and Roger Rabbitification of ST4T couples

[phosphorusab]

So Lestat’s androgyny is treated like a spectacle for the audience and he’s given like one or two silly throwaway lines about his genderqueerness/gender dysphoria. But is otherwise, his gender identity is being treated like a show pony with a personality disorder for the amusement of the audience

And Gabrielle’s very much integral gender dysphoria and genderqueerness is completely erased, in favor of being made to look like a mommy CEO dominatrix and being another source of unambiguous female evil in the majority male cast

How is this not a major disservice to both of their characters? Like their mutual gender envy was integral to their toxic relationship

I hate that transfemininity is being treated as an effeminate male spectacle to be consumed and transmasculinity is being treated as something to be erased and bowlderized (or derided, as seen with the transmasc nonbinary vampire side character) by TVL

[2-gay-2-furious]

[comikbook]

lets make bad art together

[comikbook]

[comikbook]

i just realized that i forgot to put the word “make” in the image and i think thats fitting lets bad art together

[angstqueenart]

"i hope you die" is boring and bland. "I hope your favorite show that used to have actual respect for its Black/Brown characters, gets more and more racist, misogynistic and bigoted on a new season after taking away all their Black writers, panders to white supremacists, makes a Black man beg for forgiveness from his own abusers and be reduced to "a pimp", that a Brown man is made into the unanimous twirling mustache villain who is used to take the weight of the show's anti-Black violence off white characters (cause surely our white blorbos could never be racist, it's all the Indian man's fault!), and I hope Black women are used to further the story of (white) men and excuse a white man in the worst season of TV ever seen" is unique, terrifying, and possible. Surely this has never happened. Surely...

And yes this is about TVL. IWTV writers, you're going to hell for this btw.

I'm fresh out the hospital just to be clear so I'm not going to make a deeper analysis at the time, I've talked about it more on Instagram so those who follow me there know what I thought of this season, but I'll be back to discuss it. And before someone comes for me saying "ooh you didn't understand the show/you didn't watch it properly", the writing literally makes no sense. Take away all the racism and bigotry and the plot still makes no fucking sense. I can't believe the books somehow make more sense than what we got. Baffling.

Well, there goes my hyperfixation with this show. They massacred my faves I'm done with this. As a brown woman whose fav characters were Claudia, Armand and Louis, I found this season sickening. No other words.

[lasgalendil]

diversity win!

Young blond white man: I have done nothing wrong in ny life ever and here is a mentally ill magical negro not seen since episode 1 to prove it

Old white man with curly hair and a hooked nose: sure I'm racist and ableist but what can you expect I'm a boomer

Two Southeast Asians: are we evil because we're brown, queer, Muslim, or the ethically dubious science experiments we perform on Black bodies? It's probably all four!

Black man: hey ya'll it's your boy Louis guess who just survived his second lynching by his EVIL BROWN EX can't wait to get back with Lestat who once dropped me from 5,000 feet and paralyzed me for weeks but bears no responsibility for it because he had the primal blood of an evil Black woman in him!

[phosphorusab]

Am I gonna regret telling my Black DBT therapist to watch IWTV, because I was making connections to things while in sessions and she wasn’t getting my references, because that was before TVL came out

[partlyironic]

lmao

[phosphorusab]

So we can get a canonically androgynous and somewhat gender dysphoric/genderqueer Lestat, but a canon gender dysphoric transmasc/GNC Gabrielle is just off the table? Is this just seeing trans men as women and therefore unimportant, and trans women as men and therefore worthy of importance?

Cause both are pretty fucking transphobic

[iwontknowyouanymore]

imma be so real, but talk therapy was never gonna save guts and casca's lives. they're living amongst gods and demons. their "therapy" was always gonna involve some kind of connection/reconciliation with astral powers so that they could find a way to healthily compartmentalize their trauma. casca got help from flower storm queen and her witches, while the kushanese mystics and a death tomb helped guts.

but more than that, their 'therapy' also involved their formally turning away from each other. post-magic therapy, but before griffith kidnapped casca, casca and guts could not meet eyes. she couldn't forget the violence he did to her when he was in the throes of his mania, even though she can finally speak for herself. the fact of the matter is, the last canon writing we got proved that guts and casca cannot go back to the way they were, because where they were before also wasn't a good place for them. whatever "happy ending" is in store for guts and casca isn't together. they're not having sex again, and she's not getting pregnant with his kid. he can't tie his salvation to her name anymore.

[nando161mando]

[jacketslutjayse]

Source

How The Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports

The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.

[milf--adjacent]

Oh wow so me saying "no government documentation should ever include a gender marker for any reason" has been right all along. For exactly the reason I stated when people were giving me shit for not supporting x markers on documents.

[alientitty]

unpaywalled version:

https://archive.ph/Hpavi