virginia is for haters

call me silverwind. tme. palestine, iran, donbas, venezuela!

[noraguthrie-deactivated20211117]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

I don't think helping blind people is what prevents the dismantling of nuclear weapons

[tchaikovskaya]

[aegimeda]

and yet none of these images have image descriptions.

[ID 1: a tweet from thegallowboob showing an image of a railing covered in braille apparently describing the view for blind people. (It’s a nice view) accompanied by the text of “this railing on gazebo in Naples has braille describing the view for blind people. More of this please.

There is a reply from transastro that reads “Uhhh, maybe we should dismantle nuclear weapons first? Just a thought. End ID.]

[ID 2: a news article with a title that reads “Selfish: This man found time to build a birdhouse while JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder is still unsolved” accompanied by an image of a man building a birdhouse, and a smaller image of (presumably) JonBenét Ramsey. End ID.]

People missed the point of this entire post.

[a-url-that-exists]

As a blind person this is so fucking funny to me

[inthesensethat]

[cordic]

its important to me that all y'all know that mannertee has an arch nemesis

his name is Ikanzame and he's a shark with bad driving etiquette!!

[butch-of-the-blades]

ikanzame!!! your people of virginia desire you carnally!!!!

[mistflarden-deactivated20200816]

“In Europe they–”

WHERE in Europe??!? WHERE??? You mean Iceland?? Azerbaijan? The Netherlands? Liechtenstein???? THERE ARE 50 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. ALL WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES. SO PRAY TELL ME, WHERE IN FUCKING EUROPE.

[eldriitchmurmurs]

in europe they got antisemitism

[number-one-malloc-appreciator]

[blasesaint]

[transmascvoiceproject]

I’m the satire version of you and even I wouldn’t post something this cartoonishly transmisogynistic

[silverswinds]

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[xylophonetangerine]

I didn't even know they had a category for that

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Hollywood really could have that category

[catboybiologist]

Cis ppl will be like "transitioning is far less effective than my solution of dismantling gender norms" and then not dismantle gender norms

[mousidy]

speaking from experience, if you're a lesbian and you're attracted to a trans man then two options present themselves to you:

realize that you don't really see him as a man, or :

accept that you can be attracted to a man

a fork in the road like this would be a great place to examine your bioessentialist transphobia, but instead of doing that you can just ascend to a new enlightened plane and reach queer level 100 by deciding "welllll trans men can be lesbians"

[cholerascum]

incredibly telling that i saw nothing but praise for the amazing digital circus until the audience got tricked into caring about a trans woman.

[monster-bugs]

[mousidy]

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

Btw people elsewhere reverse searched the image and confirmed it’s a stock image of a trans woman. This was a conscious decision to degender her and give her a masculine name

[daughter-of-sapph0]

everyone saying "what if Toby is just nonbinary" needs to think very deeply about this. Toby isn't real. its a stock image of a transgender woman, given a masculine name and referred to as "they/them". think long and hard about why the person who created this training program would do that.

this is why your lit teachers made you write about the books you read. you're supposed to think about the author's intentions.

[sexboobomb]

Also, they very explicitly described Emerson as a “transgender man”. As a paired adjective and noun. “Toby” is just “transgender” as an adjective with absolutely no further clarification. If “Toby” was meant to be nonbinary, do you think that the company wouldn’t have just said “Toby is nonbinary”? Plus the very obvious “male/female” juxtaposition that these sorts of trainings love to take. And while yes, that binary framed juxtaposition is exorsexist on its own merit, understanding the presence of that implicit exorsexism is part of what makes it the transmisogyny obvious.

And undoubtedly the bonus aspect of transmisogynoir in this particular case, but I am not black and am still working through my learning on the subject, so I’ll leave that part of the discussion to someone better qualified

[daughter-of-sapph0]

something i haven't seen anyone else point out:

since i switch jobs a lot, ive seen a lot of these discrimination training modules. this question is specifically one where the test taker is supposed to identify which scenario actually counts as discrimination, and which is "normal workplace behavior" that legally isn't harassment.

the green around Emerson is to indicate that that is the correct answer, according to the test, that it is actually discrimination based on gender, and that "Toby" isn't being discriminated against, according to the person who created the test.

its training the person who takes this test for an hr position to gloss over microaggressions. show of hands, girls, how many of you have been fired or reprimanded for a made up bullshit reason when you know for a fact the actual reason is because you're trans?

here's how it usually goes. Lisa, who is out to HR but isn't out to the company yet, files a report. she says that Leighton yelled at her for low sales, despite Mark having even lower sales. HR asks Leighton what happened. Leighton says "i had a critical discussion with Tony about their sales quota." HR remembers this moment from their training module, and since nothing obviously transphobic happened, HR decides to ignore it, or even yell at Lisa for a false report.

wanna know how i know this shit happens? because it happened to me! (fuck target btw)

shit like this makes it effectively legal to discriminate against trans women if you're subtle enough. this is why we get paid less. this is why less of us have stable income. this is why so many of us are homeless. transmisogyny is a systemic issue that festers its way into every facet of society, so much so that most people don't even realize its there. they can't even recognize it when its staring them in the face

that's why you have so many people confused about why the training module is transmisogynistic. to them... its not transmisogyny. its normal.

[dogpuppy]

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

[lesbianmarrow]

free use is kind of a funny kink bc it relies on the idea that everybody wants to touch you and have sex with you but what if they don't. what if you tell everybody at the party you're free use but they all ignore you and mind their own business

[tunnaa-unnaa]

taking notes

[hagiomoto]

Sounds like a Tumblr Zionist to me lol

[silverswinds]

[ryebreadgf]

[pocket-deer-belly]

"you can't be punk, it's just not possible" has sincerely become my stance on punk. it's just not possible

[waral]

The only thing that's punk is arguing about what is and isn't punk

[pocket-deer-belly]

there's nothing punk about semantics or classification actually. it's just not possible

[juney-blues]

this post made me angry so i went to listen to my FAVOURITE PUNK ALBUMS that i have on CASSETTE (the punkest medium) but i couldn't find them. they were gone. i tried looking them up but the names turned to meaningless fluff in my mind as i typed. it didn't feel like it meant anything anymore. I tried to remember what they sounded like but could recall nothing. I'm saying the word "punk" out loud to myself but it just sounds like noise. I'm not sure i'm even saying it right. was it ever real?

[pocket-deer-belly]

it's just not possible

[princesspineberry]

Ughh, my head… what happened…? I need to go find my Punk Albums…

[snigepippi]

You cannot choose to be punk, that is impossible

You can only choose to be deeply and honestly yourself and follow your convictions

And when you do that, other people might deem you punk

Punk is a title that others can bestow on you, but you can never grant it to yourself

[princesspineberry]

What a strange note… Maybe this will help me find my Punk Albums?