#hiddenlayer.txt

[zenyattasperceptrons]

god i know it’s a low bar but im glad whenever there’s a clip of someone on john oliver who’s using like, “”non-standard”” speech like AAVE or kind of valley-girl talk and he just like, addresses their point directly instead of going into how they’re talking

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

it’s sort of a fucked up paradox that most trans people can’t buy from trans-run companies because the costs are high due to... yaknow... trying to pay people a living wage and not getting labor from sweat shops etc.... but trans ppl don’t historically have a lot of money to spend...

[zenyattasperceptrons]

here’s my cool meme for the day

[zenyattasperceptrons]

maybe this is sort of a paradoxical question but what kind of activities do y’all do when you’re just like, completely burnt out

like some days i just literally can’t work up the energy to play video games because it involves Activity TM and nothing seems fun at all.... maybe i just have to wait it out, but does any one have Advice

[zenyattasperceptrons]

yall one of the understudies for Patrick in the Spongebob tour is a lady!! Helen Regula!!

[zenyattasperceptrons]

TAZ is a good exception-that-proves-the-rule of like, if your story isn’t good if it’s been spoiled than you’ve made a bad story, because i was spoiled as shit over TAZ and every single reveal was still SO GODDAMNED GOOD because uhhhh GRIFFIN IS A GOOD STORYTELLER...

[zenyattasperceptrons]

something to remember when being conscious about not using the words ‘women’ and ‘men’ to refer to traditionally gendered thing is that you still have to pick your words carefully. generally, you’re going to want your language to form a tautology (ie, something that has to be true due to basic logic. ‘true is true.’ red flowers are red. wet clothes are wet. tautologies.)

take the phrase ‘women menstruate.’ do women menstruate? do ALL women menstruate? do ONLY women menstruate? no. so, how about ‘people with uteruses’? do people with uteruses menstruate? do ALL people with uteruses menstruate? do only people with uteruses menstruate? (that last one might be sort of tricky so i’ll provide an answer--people without uteruses who have estrogen-dominant systems actually can have a menstrual cycle and experience many of the same effects that estrogen-dominant people with a uterus experience!)

if you’re talking about something related to menstruation, you’re going to want to use the phrase ‘people who menstruate.’ because there are cis women who don’t menstruate, there are trans men who menstruate, there are people without uteruses who menstruate.... etc etc. but using the phrase ‘people who menstruate’ removes all ambiguity there. people who menstruate, menstruate. it’s a tautology. it’s true.

so if you’re talking about people with thick body hair, say ‘people with thick body hair.’ if you’re talking about people who can get pregnant, say ‘people who can get pregnant.’ etc etc etc. choose your words wisely or else you may not achieve the effect you were going for.

[zenyattasperceptrons]