#scottish posts

[onlyfangz]

QUICK! everyone get down to gretna green, we're looney tunes-ing ourselves off from england while they're looking the other way.

[edensmidian]

😂....

[onlyfangz]

maybe im a headcase, but i dont see the problem with calling kilts a skirt except for the fact that we have a problem with men in skirts. its like saying a kippah isnt a hat, because its a kippah. functionally, there's no difference between a skirt and kilt, so why do we HAVE to separate them other than to say a skirt is an umbrella term that kilts fall under? this has no effect on different cultural perceptions of masculinity, so really at this point its just insecurity, whether we want to admit that or not.

[onlyfangz]

So you’re telling me other countries don’t have kebab takeaways that stuff as much food as possible into a pizza box and then sell it for a tenner? Wild.

[onlyfangz]

always torn between defending the kilt as a non-skirt (because its not) and pointing out that projecting another culture’s idea of gender on another has historically been not-great (smth scotland has actively participated in, tbf), and getting really weirded out as cishet scots get a bit too into defending the kilt as a non-skirt in a way that implies that if scottish men were wearing skirts, thatd be a problem.

[onlyfangz]

n. ireland, wales, and scotland: aha we should all just kick england out and become the united celtic nations

england: ??

n. ireland, wales, and scotland: kidding! .................... unless? 👀

[onlyfangz]

i feel like privileged scottish people live in this fucking fantasy-land where scotland is “the least bigoted country in europe”. wake up and smell the fucking oppression, bc the institutions that supress minorities in countries you deem beneath you are the same ones put in place here. 

transphobia is rampant in the only party that could feasibly deliver independence meaning a lot of trans scottish voters need to decide how they’d rather be oppressed -- in a bound country oversaw by coloniser parasites, or a free country oversaw by people who’s first acts will be stripping us of our hard-won rights. 

i can’t speak for ethnic minorities, but casual, social, and institutional racism is massive in scotland. don’t believe me? what do you call the chinese restaurant? okay, maybe you wouldn’t call it that, but tell me, why do you know exactly what i’m fucking talking about?

find me a scottish queer over the age of 25 who doesn’t know so-and-so who got assaulted on the street, and know that if you do, they’re an outlier.

why is it when anybody brings any of these things up, you’ve got a bunch of “centrists” crawling out of their holes chanting “indy first, indy first, indy first”? i should not have to wait and hope for an independence to be equal to my fellow scot. i know we’d love to think that indy is just down the road, and whilst i can’t say what will actually happen, hypothetically, what happens when we’re 15 years down the line and minorities are still being told that their lives don’t matter yet because you don’t have a scottish passport? i’m not going to hold my breath waiting for an independence that may never come before asking people to admit that maybe transphobia isn’t okay.

i am proud to be scottish, and i am proudly trans. i should not have to choose between those two fucking identities, and yet!

[onlyfangz]

Scots is an often incorrectly mimicked, dying language. I saw a post urging people to upvote the Coptic language, and thought I should give it a go with mine. If enough people show interest in actually learning Scots, there’s a chance Duolingo will release a course. Please. It would mean a lot if both Scots and non-Scots upvoted this thread. If you’ve ever laughed at a Scottish tweet, please consider it, it’d take two seconds if you’ve got a Duolingo account.

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