The first star of Wet-Dry World

40+ aging millenial nb, they/them art account @shellyochunks

[meatdiaz]

what’s your “odd” comfort movie? a movie that isn’t stereotypically comforting but does comfort YOU? mine’s conclave (2024)

[laserwalnut]

Blue-nosed mole-girlfriends

[markv5]

The life of a cat is dangerous and difficult

The life of a cat is dangerous and difficult

[proteusolm]

a lick of yoghurt for the smallest and youngest animal on earth

[the-haiku-bot]

a lick of yoghurt

for the smallest and youngest

animal on earth

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[forest-the-fool]

Office chit chat 💻🐦

[icarianarts]

Beavis and Butthead’s adventures in becoming local convention scourges

[dogpuppy]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[foone]

Friendly reminder that Popeye is bigender, because their gender is "amphibious".

And when the official Popeye Twitter account was asked what Popeye's pronouns were, Popeye answered:

I ain't use pronouns on account o' all me nouns are amateurs!

Popeye is a non-binary icon, and that's a fact.

[poobletoods]

if a tigergirl got off topic during a conversation she would wave her paw and say "but i tigress"

[asundergrowth]

[nyxiemeow]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[hoaxghost]

this was getting traction on the rage bait site but basically it is 2026 and I long for a cartoon/comic/game/whatever out there that does an actual gender dimorphism reversal cause I have yet to see it

[orbitingrook]

[gryficowa]

+ Alex Hirsch

[tastylemonbread]

when humans first discovered jacking off theu probably had to put things on hold for a while, like maybe there was a week where nothing got done. people probably died

[thickness-protection-program]

I'm probably someone's "not this guy again" on Tumblr

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

i was playing overclown earlier and there were like 2 jesters guarding the jokepoint and we had three fucking booboos on our team that wouldnt switch to something useful like a bozo or a bongo and right as we were capturing the first point this goddamn kookoo used his clown car ultimate and won them the match. terrible game

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup