The Lion That Roars Like A Lamb

Cassie. Transfem. Grad Student. Historian and Religion-Studier. Tired of this gay earth.

[firem4ge]

Trying to attend anything in public just has me butting against the fact that being tma sucks. Yeah, that hema thing looks cool, how do they feel about trans women? Yeah, the trivia at the lesbian bar looks cool, so like their thoughts on trans women? Oh, that lesbian rave looks awesome, so about the trans women? Just, fundamentally unsure if I will even be allowed to exist in this space, and if I am will I be interacted with? Will I be the pariah desperate for attention but relegated to standing awkwardly in the corner or alone at the bar?

[princessporcelaingirl]

Dollgirl in washing machine

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[bobcatmoran]

I absolutely blame Facebook for this shift. Words cannot describe how freaking WEIRD it was in the mid-00s when there was suddenly this popular website where you were required to use your real, brickspace name and encouraged to post photos of yourself. Every single bit of Standard Internet Safety prior to then said that you should never ever ever do either of those.

[willgrahamscock]

Oh here we go. What new fucking gender is that flag in your bio

THE HUNGARIAN FLAG???

[prognostichannya]

Call her captain AHAB bc she's Assigned Hungarian At Birth

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

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Remaining time: 2 days 11 hours

[perception-filter]

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

[analog-delight]

seeing some things in the pwhl tags saying things like "I don't think players should be ostracized for their politics" and like. lmao. i do. Especially if that player is loudly transphobic. I don't think bigots should be allowed to play sports at any level. I don't think bigots should be allowed to do anything. Bigotry should be considered a breach of the social contract that entitles you to polite treatment, and as long as bigotry is tolerated at any level the organizations that harbor it should be treated with suspicion.

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

hi! trans hockey fan here! if i can be fired for being trans, britta can be fired for being a bigot too

[prognostichannya]

Honestly, given that she's just a straight-up queerphobic Latin-Mass-attending MAGA tradcath (rather than an "I have concerns" UK-style TWERF), I'm genuinely kind of shocked that they don't see her as a massive brand liability, given the over-representation of certain demographics among women's hockey fans (and players!)

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[estro-boi]

that's awesome that you made your entire personality media consumption man 👍 that honestly rocks. do you think god even remembers we're here ??

[chateau-bluerose]

there are wild maids nesting around my manor's chimney, waking me up at night with their calls and making tidy. I know they're endangered species but how do I make them leave? I already sent some hands to the rooftops but none yet returned...

Classic maid infestation.

What you need to do at this point depends on how deeply imprinted onto you they are. If it's not too late, you need to stop saying "hmph" and drinking Dr Pepper, and you absolutely cannot wear a crown or tiara of any sort. You have to act generally passive and display no desires of any kind nor any moment of weakness or need. Within a week or two they will see there is no princess to serve and leave of their own accord

It is possible that, if they are young and small, if you dress up in a maid uniform with a BIG as FUCK bow on the back they will recognize there is already a maid claiming this territory and fuck off. This carries tremendous risk because alternatively they might initiate a courtship ritual with you and you'll have to prove you are a competent head maid or they will tear you to pieces and eat you. If you succeed you could get married to a cute coven of maids which doesn't solve your problem but is pretty awesome, you'll have to be a maid for the rest of your life though

If you found that your tax returns have been handled for you already though, or you dare eat a meal you don't remember cooking, ordering, or buying in your home, it's too late. You're a colony host now and you are the princess

[mousidy]

maybe "hegemonic women" is overselling it but it would be nice to have a term for the class of women the patriarchy sort of values/protects in comparison to those of us who it just uncomplicatedly wants dead. cis white women are living very different lives from the rest of us and I wanna call them "heg women" or something lol

[mousidy]

cause terfism is extraordinarily heg woman behavior. just absolutely reveling in the power of their tears to influence the forces of patriarchy against marginalized women

[mousidy]

"if we get rid of assigned sex then how will the state know who to protect?" 🫵 heg woman

[mousidy]

like I wanna call them cis women but frankly they seem to be overwhelmingly white too. I can only guess not a lot of racialized women are under any kind of illusion about the patriarchy wanting to protect them. likewise I don't see a lot of disabled women thinking this way either. no, I think heg women by and large are the ones engaging in this kind of weaponization of their perceived fragility. the patriarchy has built them a gilded cage and they guard it fiercely

[kayla-denker]

We honestly don't talk enough about how goddamn white TWERF circles are. Like, it is extremely rare to see black people, or any non-white people, espousing that ideology.

The fact that TWERFs just keep outing themselves as white supremacists is not a coincidence. It is very much a white movment.

[mousidy]

[sheherlockholmes]

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[mousidy]

and yet they keep making movies with the hopes that one day humanity will discover a way to watch them. it's so inspiring

[janederscore]

objectively cutest girls behavior is when you lay down with another girl and you look at her and she looks at you and you are both Looking and saying hi to each other over and over again

[tamecoffin]

neutrally horrified

[prognostichannya]

how I feel reading the news every day

[tamecoffin]

a farm that grows empty boxes

[tamecoffin]

you can actually grow anything; believe it or not.

if you wish to grow an empty box farm, you simply need to plant a box under the ground. then, if you come back and dig it up in a week, you'll find a Box.

a beginner mistake is planting the empty box while it is open. once harvested, you'll be disappointed to find that your empty box crop grew into a box filled with soil. don't give up! just try again. just make sure the empty box you are planting is closed, and you'll get a plentiful harvest!

[zisurru]

something i think would make a lot of historical romance more accurate & interesting is the realization that people are less likely to totally disparage the ethical & social values of their time than they are to use those values to defend whatever it is they want to do

a woman is less likely to go "it's stupid that women are expected to be modest" than she is to go "there is nothing immodest about a woman going out without a chaperone" or even "i can go out without a chaperone because i am so modest"

people also seem less likely to see someone's shitty behavior as reflecting a shitty society than they are to view that behavior as being out of accordance with that society - e.g. a father who's excessively controlling of his daughters' marriage prospects isn't, in her mind, acting that way because he lives in a repressive patriarchal culture, but is actually outdated in his values - his cruelty is unmodern, ungentlemanly, stuck in the past, barbaric. we might think he's upholding the values of his culture perfectly, but the people around him who took issue with his behavior probably wouldn't see it that way