WHORE

dumb bitch disease. Adult, he/him, white.

[redhairandpronouns]

was thinking about infighting and like. they all see us the same. from the wildest queerest fagdyke to a cis gay guy. we are the same to them. the weird queers are not like. ruining your precious community. we're a part of it

[redhairandpronouns]

@ exclusionists:

[karmiccollector-deactivated2024]

We are all Faggots in the eyes of the Fash. Stand United or Die Separately.

[cloquirkdoll]

truly few things are more sneer-worthy to me than a gay deeply invested in respectability and assimilation

[dunmertitty]

not everyone knows this but the word “punk” used to be a slur for gay men and male sex workers (obviously, those two categories had overlap) the punk subculture was made from the fashion and culture of the people reclaiming the slur. that’s why gay fashion/kink often overlap with punk a lot, leather, chains, certain hair styles, etc. a lot of the original punks either lived or worked on the streets which is also why punk fashion has a messy/grunge look and why patches and mending are also common in the subculture. off topic but related: grunge fashion is inspired by lesbian fashion. i think it’s really neat!

[sirfrogsworth]

First, the pervasiveness of this litter box thing is ridiculous. I think it has been debunked like a thousand times.

And the *actual* reason schools have cat litter has nothing to do with students identifying as cats.

"Columbine High School has been stocking classrooms with small amounts of cat litter since 2017, but as part of ‘go buckets’ that contain emergency supplies in case students are locked in a classroom during a shooting."

But I actually want to talk about the Tootsie Roll Pop gender thing.

They are trying to criticize a child psychologist, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, who works at a gender clinic.

I'm sure a lot of their audience who see "gender minotaur" or "gender Tootsie Roll Pops" will completely write off this woman and claim she is a nutcase.

But conservatives and Fox News love to omit context and nuance.

Here is the document all of this stemmed from...

The implied Fox narrative is that Dr. Ehrensaft is creating silly genders and then labeling kids as minotaurs or smoothies.

In reality, she is describing all of the creative ways young kids and teens use to explain how they feel about their gender.

These kids probably don't have a lot of information or the vocabulary to express themselves in more traditional terms, so they've come up with analogies to help adults understand what they are feeling.

That doesn't seem ridiculous at all.

And I actually think these kids are quite clever.

So these conservatives are basically making fun of kids who are confused and seeking help to understand themselves.

Real classy.

And if these kids learn adults are making fun of them, they may feel embarrassed to use these communicative tools—making it that much harder for their therapists and doctors to help them.

[stormclouds-chainmail]

[Image description

1. A tweet by Lis Power @LisPower1 on 24 August 2023 containing text and an image.

Text: Fox "straight news" anchor Shannon Bream spreads litter boxes in school hoax

Bream: "I have a lot of Northern Virginia moms who have kids in school who have told me that there are schools who are now having to put litter boxes in for kids who identify as cats"

Image: a Fox News screenshot with a picture of a Tootsie Roll Pop and a woman. Fox News. Professor: Kids can identify as Tootsie Roll Pops.

Image 2: a Health headline. Medical Group Publishes Guidance For Kids Who Are 'Gender Tootsie Roll Pops' with what might be a photo from a Pride march.

Image 3: another Health headline. Psychologist At Children's Hospital Gender Center Claims Kids Can Identify As Mythological 'Minotaurs'

Image 4: a tweet by Christopher F. Rufo X✰ @realchrisrufo

The American Psychological Association published this guidebook for diagnosing children as "gender smoothies," "gender hybrids," "gender prius[es]," and "gender minotaur[s]." These psychologists are psychopaths.

apa.org/pubs/books/The...

Image 5:

■ Gender fluid children. Children who defy the norms of binary gender and either slide along a gender spectrum or weave their own intricate individual patterns along the gender web. The word fluid here refers to the potential for movement through further development of one's understanding of their gender.

■ Gender smoothies. Gender smoothies are a variation on the theme of gender fluid. As one teenager vividly described it, "You see, you take everything about gender, throw it in the blender, press the button, and you've got me—a gender smoothie."

■ Gender hybrids. Children who combine or alternate between genders, often in a binary way. Among gender hybrids are the following:

■ Gender Prius. Half girl/half boy: This gender label was invented by a school-age child who, from the front, looked like any boy in basketball shorts, tank top, and basketball sneakers, and, from the back, had a long blond braid tied at the end with a bright pink bow: "You see-I'm a Prius, a boy in the front, a girl in the back. A hybrid."

■ Gender minotaur. A descriptor for the children who explain that they are one gender on the top and another on the bottom, this usually to account for genitals at odds with the gender they know themselves to be.

■ Gender-by-season children. Children who freely express their authentic gender (identity, expressions, or both) during summer and school vacations but never at school, or alternatively use school as the safe place to be their true gender self but keep it under wraps during home-based summers or vacations.

■ Gender-by-location children. A close cousin to gender-by-season, a child who knows the locations or is told the locations where free gender expression will be accepted and other locations where it is not, and chooses or is told to keep

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[sirfrogsworth]

I just wanted to say I really appreciate all of the folks who do image transcriptions. Sometimes I barely have the energy to assemble these posts and add my commentary.

Actually, I don't always have the energy. I have about 800 things in my drafts folder because I was unable to finish them.

To those who put forth this effort, I just wanted to thank you. I know it really improves accessibility.

[ot3]

i can't believe "acab includes fandom police" is sentiment i've had to see more than once. are you people so literally incapable of caring about anything that doesn't reflect fandom politics. you do realize this whole thing is about racialized police violence, right. right. like people are being killed.

[ot3]

you can start saying this shit when "antis" or "exclusionists" start performing extrajudicial killings in public with zero repercussions.

[coughloop]

I for one think cybersmith should kill himself alone and violently because he is a misogynistic Nazi who wants to brutalize women until they are reduced to mindless pets he can literally own and it doesn't matter what he looks like for me to want to wish eternal suffering on him but he does also dress like a Victorian timecop (to emulate his colonial heroes) which is stupid and hilarious and again I do think he should kill himself and I can't believe that anyone is saying otherwise

[merisms]

Last thing about this situation with @multiple-myselves and @circulars-reasoning.

TL;DR: They waited 8 months and two separate users bringing it up and me making a post about it to do anything. And what they did was focus entirely on how this affects their server reputation, how my post "triggered" them (but apparently the entire topic of CP and also being told that multiple people coming forward is "not enough evidence" of abuse occurring is fine), then proceed to focus on how the latest person who came forward cannot be trusted because of *spins wheel* Minecraft discourse and then POSTED THEIR LEGAL NAME, and then actively let the guy back in. Definitely not exactly how victims are often discredited for their stories at all and certainly not obvious that you only care about your public reputation.

They are actively letting the pedophile back into the server (after openly saying they banned him just because I made a post about it), which means not only are they harboring him knowingly but Went Out Of Their Way to let him back into a space full of trauma survivors. :)

If multiple unrelated people with corroborating stories and who do not know each other, and screenshots of others' accounts with him, and screenshots of the person Actively Admitting himself to having posted CP is not enough evidence, what evidence is enough for you? Especially if you are now rescinding the previous statement that you required screenshots of CP to "prove" it. What evidence exists other than the Actual CP could you possibly obtain at this point?

This is not hearsay and rumor, these multiple people were also people who had direct dealings with the person in question. I was actively mutuals with him and blocked him for posting CP and defending his actions. I am still in contact with more than one person who remembers him posting CP because we were all mutuals.

Calling it he-said she-said when it comes to, again, Multiple People with similar stories, but then taking the accounts of people defending him at face value and deciding that "proves" that they are, and this is a direct quote, "false allegations."

Actively attempting to undermine peoples' testimony by mentioning that they got into drama years ago as if that somehow matters or is related. But curiously only against people who are saying that he's a pedophile! Notably it is Minecraft drama as if somehow whatever that is is on the same level as posting nudes of children you babysat.

There was never a time crunch on this, or "pressure", as the first time this was brought up (to my knowledge) was January 2023, making this issue nearly a year old. The "harassment" was also me making 1 post about it.

Completely ignoring how terribly they treated the person who came forward including telling them they couldn't sleep until it was dealt with, trying to get them to act as a middleman when I do not know them, etc.

They are claiming I'm engaging in a "smear campaign" when I have literally no incentive or motivation for this. I do not have a DID server, I am not IN DID servers, I actively and openly have stated I do not like to comment on people unless they're harmful and have declined to comment on peoples' blogs when asked. I very quietly blocked multiple-myselves months ago with no fanfare. My motivation is very simple actually: I don't like it when people who run spaces for trauma survivors are also protecting abusers who are their buddies. I think that presents a danger. And several people have approached me asking if I know the mod because he's mentioned me before in ways that implies friendship, which makes it squarely my problem if people think we're friendly and he's sidling up next to pedophiles that have been known to be a pedophile since 2016.

[confessions-of-a-doormat]

I hate when people call everything a fucking cult. It shows how little so many people know about fucking cults and how fucking hard it is to get out. Sure, they’re good at drawing you in, but they also require you to stick to the fucking script. Questioning authority is discouraged, you go through a whole process of indoctrination. They prey on people who doesn’t have a good support system or is going through a rough time, they isolate you from the fucking world, your life, your family, your friends. They try to control everything about you. People aren’t allowed to disagree or explore other viewpoints. Cults have: a charismatic leader, indoctrination process, and strict guidelines for your life (like where you live, what you wear, who you see, what you get to do) you have to follow.  You wanna criticize a group for being shitty? Go right ahead. But don’t you dare compare very much non-cult things to cults, when you have no fucking idea what it’s like for those who’ve had to go through that actual shit.

Disclaimer: I am not saying to look into cults if you have RAMCOA trauma or it would be triggering for you. I just want people to actually use their brain. Please take care of yourself if this is a triggering subject.

[inactivestar-deactivated2025022]

Autism and/or BPD doesn't cause systems.

BPD splitting and DID/OSDD splitting are not the same.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[merisms]

Usually people who are traumatized are not fans of pedophilia apologism @multiple-myselves. Especially not from people claiming to run survivor spaces focused on recovery.

You have a pedophile in your server and not only are you knowingly harboring him but you have decided that the many screenshots, multiple victims coming forward about it, and two separate people warning you about this months apart and who do not know each other is "not enough evidence" and even requested that people send you the CP that he posted on his porn account in order for you to take them seriously. Need I remind you that for this to happen it would have required:

People to not only POSSESS but DISTRIBUTE CP in order to "prove" it to you.

Them to have kept it on their devices for YEARS.

To make it now a third person to bring it up, I personally, with my own two eyes and not word of mouth, saw him post multiple photos of shirtless children and children in their underwear on his porn account, including children he was babysitting that looked to be prepubescent. His excuses changed from "nude children aren't inherently sexual, maybe you're the icky one for thinking it" to "it was an accident" despite there being many photos and to now apparently denying it was a porn account at all.

"Believe abuse survivors" is not "believe abuse survivors unless you're besties with the accused." Neither is it reasonable to request that abuse survivors not only collect and keep evidence of their abuse but to present to you such extremely graphic and vulnerable evidence over a goddamn Discord server. That's not even something most survivors have. Can you personally cough up evidence of your own abuse, not just screenshots and multiple corroborating accounts from various unrelated people since that isn't enough but also photo and video evidence of the actual abuse occurring? Quickly now. According to your own words, if you don't have that then there's not enough evidence it ever occurred.

[merisms]

Uploading an update as screens cause I forgot that bullet points don't get copy-pasted on mobile easily.

[slurptheworms]

Also the pedo they ignored being there. Has been a known pedo and bad person since 2016 at least when I was first around tumblr discourse and DID groups like. If the information has been around that long with multiple posts about it over the years.... jfc. I might understand if these mods are newer to tumblr and the names around but I think most everyone in these circles knows the person and the things they have done.

[rainbow-tulpas-deactivated20190]

hello! i don't understand the hate of endogenic systems. i don't know how to prove i'm real. i just am! endos and undiagnosed are just as much systems as diagnosed ones! even most psychologists agree!

[slurptheworms]

False. Most psychiatrist understand the facts that a system can only form from extreame and repeated childhood trauma leading to dissociation, the stunted growth of the hippocampus, lack of hormone and chemicals in the brain being regulated and the inability to intergrate identity causing seperate neurological pathways for “alters” and amnesia for some. Them the facts beby. It’s did/osdd or nothing.

[dappercyborg]

“But I didn’t consent to see kink” yes you did by coming to pride,

a place you know and have repeatedly said you know kink is at, a place built by kinky people, the mother of pride Brenda Howard was a queer kinky polyamorous sex positive anti war bisexual Jew and to try and remove its history or sanitise it is is spitting on her grave, you are consenting by choosing to go there

[iby-dysphoria-queen]

I agree this, but think this ignores the queer youth who would probably like to be involved in events like this, or show their parents that being queer is widely accepted

[spacelazarwolf]

i used to be in that same boat but honestly i feel like people severely underestimate how few shits kids give about stuff like this. most of them will either be like “huh that’s weird why is that guy wearing a dog mask— WOAH LOOK BALLOONS” or if they actually ask you can just be like “sometimes people like to wear fun costumes” and just leave it at that. most adults who think “oh no! kids are being exposed to sexual stuff!” are coming at it from the perspective of an adult who already knows that these things are associated with kink and sexuality. kids for the most part have no clue, so if you just give them a filler answer like “they just like the way it looks” or “they’re wearing a fun costume” they’ll just accept it and move on. cause honestly kids see more nudity and sexuality in commercials and movies than they do at pride. it’s just that at pride it’s stuff that’s specific to queer sexuality.

[cerebralnerves-deactivated20240]

Okay, but what if my bi sis wanted to take our Good Christian Parents to a pride parade? My mother couldn’t handle a maid dress and male-titties edit I was doing of the subway CEO (“I prefer modesty” so the nips had to go) so I doubt she could handle any kink.

Yeah, yeah, pride, self-expression, own your sexuality and kink shouldn’t be demonized, I get that, but you want to encourage minors (could be a 17-year-old) or teens of whatever to come, you’ll have to make some sacrifices. Cause I know children don’t care. But teenagers would if they’re trying to bring their parents.

Maybe we could have like “Pride After Dark” that’s like not the parade, but something that showcases the more adult side of queerness. There are many non-adult things about being gay/queer and maybe we can highlight those for certain events over others.

[pansexual-pied-piper]

"but you want to encourage minors (could be a 17-year-old) or teens of whatever to come" yeah no buddy, we ain't doing that, actually. You just made that up.

They're allowed to come, of course - if they stay respectful, same as everyone else.

Like yeah, it sucks for them if this means they can't come bc they feel like they can't bring their parents, but that teen's parents don't have more right to be there than kinksters do. Your mom does not have more right to be there than kinksters do. Simple as that. Sucks for your sis, but she'll just have to leave your parents at home if she wants to go.

[chaos-midnight-madness]

I love that this argument also completely ignores the MANY pride events specifically geared towards younger people that don't involve kink. Your local high school's GSA party will not have kink. Your local teen and young adult meet-ups will not be hosted by a domme in full gear. You can always organize YOUR OWN events that don't allow kink. You have literally every right to pick and choose what events you do and do not show up at.

For the love of fuck, stop putting it on other people to cater to your specific tastes, and go out there and do your own dance! If the current party is run by people you don't like, stop trying to go to it and just throw your own!

[justabramble]

Also if your parents aren't supportive of you, that's a problem they need to work out.

It isn't our job to "teach" your Good Christian Parents to stop being homophobic. It's your parents' job to do their duty and love their children unconditionally.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"but what if it's not palatable enough to a Good Christian Mum that a child can bring her along" do these people know what Pride is and why it exists. Do they think they're going to the town-sponsored christmas pageant. What.

[abiglizord]

yall are so scared of giving up a leather face mask so bad its crazy

[eroticcannibal]

Bold of you to say that with that boot so far down your throat

[colorisbyshe]

TBH at this point most ace/aro rhetoric doesn’t even benefit most people who call themselves ace or aro, let alone LGBT people or anyone… literally anyone hurt by society’s love/hate relationship with sexual agency and desire.

[colorisbyshe]

Like beyond the fact that no ace or aro experiences are unique to aces and aros (lots of people do not have sex or do not date or do not get married, whether it be “ever” or for long swaths of time, for years or even decades, without ever claiming to be marginalized for it), it just…

You can’t build activism on the idea that society lets sex go unpunished. Even society approved sex. Even cishet sex.

Claiming society embraces romance and sexuality no matter what and loves anyone who partakes while scorning those who don’t ignores how violently society tries to take away sexual agency or the chance to marry for marginalized people. How chemical castration of gay men was and is still a thing.

About how society would LOVE for lots of people to stop having sex and stop marrying and stop “breeding.”

“Lets spend time advocating for people who get awkward questions at christmas dinner about when they’re gonna get a BF instead of fighting for people’s right to have sex without fear of violent retaliation” just is not it.

There are some avenues where I think there ARE rights at stake for ace/aro people. Like… let’s talk about how much harder it is for single, unmarried people to adopt kids or get certain loans or whatever. We can do that. But… that’s not REALLY an ace/aro issue, just one that MIGHT affect SOME ace/aros more.

You see my point?

[caramellcreme]

“no ace/aro experiences are unique to aces and aros” how about feeling pressured to pursue a sexual/romantic relationship even if you’re not attracted to anyone; how about someone not feeling sexual and/or romantic attraction but not understanding why they’re different and feeling broken; how about feeling like their life is worthless or worth less because everyone says love and sex are the things that make life enjoyable, special, worth living and they just don’t have that

it’s not about awkward questions at christmas dinner, it’s about people thinking you’re evil, because you obviously “can’t love”, it’s about people making jokes that you must be a robot because you can’t be human, it’s about how many times ace/aro people are told they can’t be ace/aro, because they’re pretty, sexy or handsome, it’s about corrective rape.

so no. I do not see your point

[colorisbyshe]

Literally all of those things happen to non-ace and non-aro people

Non-ace/aro people are pressured into relationships they don’t want.

Lots of people feel broken about their relationships to sex and romance. Again, when society punishes sex and romance as much as it demands it, MOST people have a period where they feel awful and wrong and weird until they learn self confidence. Y’all don’t have a monopoly on feeling broken. Non-aces can feel broken for not feeling sexual attraction as early as their peers (late bloomers), for not feeling attraction to the right gender (gay people), for not being sexually attractive to others, for not feeling sexual attraction in the right way or too the wrong number of partners. Too much sexual desire, not enough. For feeling sexual attraction and not wanting to act on it. Y’all aren’t special and feeling broken isn’t an institutional problem

Fuck, the average single person who maybe wants to date but has no one they like likes them back feels the way you described.

You just don’t talk to other people, you just watch tv and read fanfic and think that’s indicative of how people feel.

Like 😭😭😭

Also, shame on you, corrective rape refers to people trying to rape same gender attraction and attraction out of someone. If you want to talk about sexual assault for not desiring your rapist (which is not an ace/aro exclusive experience), the word “rape” is what you’re looking for. Corrective rape has a specific defintion and isn’t for all rape. Do not turn this word into another gaslight/gatekeep/whatever other word has been ruined by uneducated losers who want to misuse terms to make failing points.

[renthony]

It's really fucking weird seeing people reclaim "limp-wristed" and "fruity" while also screaming about how horrible and offensive the word "queer" is.

It's almost like "queer is a slur" was never about protecting people, and has always been about gatekeeping who "really belongs" by making our most all-inclusive term into a controversy.

[slurptheworms]

It's almost as if people are ok with different slurs and offensive terms with their friends and outsiders.

I'm a fruit. I'm a faggot. But I'm not q*eer and don't want that used for my by other people. The slurs have different meanings too and I hate what Q means as a word and why it's a slur. Why would I want to be called weird and unnatural.

You need to interact with LGBT people outside of the internet op

[doberbutts]

Anyway with anti-sodomy laws back on the discussion table I'm going to repeat that you can personally be squicked out by the consensual sex someone else has, but saying that their consensual sex between willing, active, adult participants should be illegal and is indicative of some sort of moral failing is L I T E R A L L Y a major facet in extreme homophobia and absolutely has gotten people killed.

You don't have to like their business but as long as everyone involved in the encounter is saying yes, it's also really not your business.

This is the precident you are helping further by digging your heels in and saying 'but I think it's gross and makes them bad people'. This is what happened last time that was the reasoning for law, and what is being threatened to happen again.

[doberbutts]

"but Jaz, how would they enforce it"

Easily.

People would report you to the police for any hint of it. Whether real or imagined. You held hands with someone of the same sex. Someone started a rumor that they saw you kissing. You bought a sex toy and the vendor automatically reported you. You clicked a web page or picked up a magazine that had a different suspected deviant on it and the shop owner or internet service provider automatically reported you. You had certain mannerisms. You hung out to much with a specific friend. You seemed too close to a family member. Literally anything.

In some cases people would literally peep through windows, listen at the door, even wait across the street for your guest to come over and then call the police to kick the door down and catch the two of you in the act.

Never forget that the Stonewall riot was started by one such raid where police stormed a gay bar looking to arrest as many "sodomy" and "public indecency" suspects as possible.

That's how. By encouraging people to barge into other people's private, consensual sex lives and make reports to the authorities. By encouraging people to lay traps so unsuspecting gay people could stumble into them. By encouraging people to stalk and harass anyone who showed any sign of 'being a pervert' in the name of 'protecting neighborhoods from predators'. By weaponizing the real concern for predatory behavior against people who were engaging in consensual intimacy in a way they happened to not like.

By doing exactly what I've been continuously saying is bad behavior that has gotten countless LGBT people jailed and killed.

We're not turning this against our own community. Homophobes and transphobes have already made it plenty clear they don't care how good or respectable we are, they just want us all dead.

[graceofgosh]

"how would they enforce it"

well in 2012 a guy named snowden let us know they're basically wiretapping us at all times and have gigantic collections of all our metadata and we have been living in a nice little surveillance state since 2001's patriot act

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

My uncle used to hang out in those public parks after dark where gay men would solicit sex - from each other, from sex workers, and (when they were particularly unlucky) from undercover cops.

Having sex with a partner in your home was dangerous because it was too identifiable. Your neighbors, your landlord, your family, your friends, any one of them could happen to notice if you brought a boyfriend or a one night stand home, and this was before we had any right to privacy in our homes.

So anonymous sex in the park was SAFER for gay men. As long as you didn't draw the short stick and snag a cop. A cop who would, just as they often do today with sex workers, happily have sex with you before cuffing you, walking you into the station through every reporter in town, and splashing your name and face across the morning paper with a sodomy charge. Then your life was effectively over. And they would leverage that to make you tell them names, give up others to have their lives ruined in the hopes of salvaging what was left of your own.

My uncle came a little too close one day, nearly got caught up in a raid at the park he was at with some friends. He illustrated children's books for a living. If he was caught he would never work again. So he fled. Borrowed some money from my mother and *fled the country*. He only came back once a year, long enough to fulfill visa requirements. He only came back with his boyfriend in 2005 when my mother assured him that things were safer.

If the enforcement of these laws could ruin lives like that back then, how badly do you think it could go for us in the era of unprecedented near total surveillance? Our memories need to be long enough to remember that these laws and the methods used to enforce them are not hypothetical. They have already happened and ARE already happening. There is precedent, there are known mechanisms, and there are known ways to gum up the works too.

[xiaoguiwang]

People nowadays are so caught up in the idea that the LGBT community is about inclusivity and that all labels are valid that they forget this isn’t what the community is about. Sometimes it’s good to draw lines in the sand. Bi lesbians don’t exist. Like, you’re either bi or a lesbian but both of those things exclude each other (but that doesn’t mean that there can’t be or aren’t overlapping experiences). Pansexual is just another word for bisexual except now you’re being biphobic (and transphobic and homophobic) about it. Gen Z kids having a dozen microlabels does nothing except make this about individualism instead of a community, it negates the fact that everyone has differing experiences but that we can still unite under one banner.

The validity of something isn’t a measurement worth considering when it comes to being LGBT because at this point anyone can be ~valid~ and that’s where the conversation shuts down. If a label is “valid” then any criticism leveraged towards it will be met with a wall of “but x is valid so this doesn’t matter,” no matter how rightful, no matter how well-meant. It isn’t about whether or not x identity is valid or whether y should/should not be included, because that’s not what the community is about. Questions like those only benefit corporations during pride month to start selling more to us using increasingly specific flags, it’s only to divide the community and hyperfocuses on individuality above anything else.

It is part of a bigger problem here, the commodification of identity and the self because of late-stage capitalism goes hand in hand with distancing yourself from others and any similarity & community you could share with them. The complexities of your own experiences with relation to gender and sexuality will always be unique to you. A lesbian who grew up closeted in a deeply homophobic household in London will have different experiences and views than an openly proud lesbian in Hong Kong. This doesn’t mean either of them are any less of a lesbian, nor does it mean that either of them need to label themselves with some hyperspecific microlabel that “better fits” their circumstances and the way they experience attraction etc.

The LGBT community is a community for a reason, it is about how we are connected through our struggles, through our shared marginalization, through our understanding of, solidarity for, each other. Making it out to be about “inclusivity” when that’s more a buzzword along the lines of “diversity” for suit-clad executives to circlejerk over, or about how “valid” any given identity is, is to lose sight of that. It is to derail the conversation about community and sameness to talk about individuality.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.

[effexwh0re]

and i really dont gaf!!!!!!!

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

I would like you to consider the political implications of mocking non-American film, dismissing the arts, and replacing thought provoking and stimulating media with media that’s just designed to entertain and sell. Just for a moment.

[tenoko1]

Guys, stop being crap to creators. You aren’t hurting Amazon. You’re stealing from writers.

[afriendlyblackhottie]

[orchidvioletindigo]

I would ask everyone in the notes making "Just get married" jokes to pay attention to the fact that the person who tweeted this has a wheelchair emoji in their name and remember the fact that people on social security disability payments lose all their benefits the instant they get married.

A rule like this will fully back disabled people on SSI into an ultimatum of stay single and get evicted or marry and become unable to pay the rent anyway.

[afriendlyblackhottie]

This is such a great point. We all need to be mindful of how a lot of these laws are used for ableism. There are so many things we do that we don’t know we’re doing that was put in place to actively harm the disabled community. Like the way a lot of jobs require you to be able to lift 50 pounds even though it has nothing to do with the job.