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[108-stars-of-whatever]

#IStandWithJKR is #MeToo2.0

#IStandwithJKR is the new #MeToo. It is the continuation of women speaking up about our distinctly biological female experiences.

I could NOT have said it better. This was so eloquently written.

[kyman4evr]

"When speaking of sex bodies in a practical scientific way, the terms woman/man are biological descriptors. They are NEUTRAL terms that describe the developmental pathway that one’s body has taken ... These terms DESCRIBE. They should not PRESCRIBE."

[xylatra]

🌷‘Ghost Lovers of Lotus Swamp’🌷 Prints | Special Edition Glitter Print

[xylatra]

Special Edition glitter print is now available here! The kitty wings are sparkly!

[sunlilys]

toni morrison lounging in her new york city apartment. above her is a portrait painted when she was 23.

photo by dave bookstaver, 1998

[wholesome90stv]

[cisthoughtcrime]

how tf is the mention of vagina transphobic but the celebration of dick is feminist

[niiwa-angel]

[projectionistanais]

I hate when I can remember an artist's art but not their handles/names/aliases

[protecteugeneporter]

“You were destined for this.” 

[novarion]

"I've got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out."

[rhapsodicdaisies]

[thelatestkate]

Shop , Patreon , Books and Cards , Mailing List

[harrypotterfuryroad]

i know people talk a lot about peaking moments but for me nothing's gonna top multiple instances of men throwing entitlement tantrums because rape crisis centers wouldn't hire them to be around vulnerable women

[jesterfields]

Shuhua for ELLE Taiwan

[mousettte-deactivated20241119]

[she-is-ovarit]

HRT and porn. It does parallel addiction. Though I can't speak to the specific reference to crack and the black population in the 80s, I do agree that the influence and behaviors surrounding HRT and gender ideology is similar to drug behavior. My disclaimer is that I currently have a sister who fell into prescription addiction (like, heavily, and with over 11 different ones), and I've also done work in prisons. "Euphoria" (such as gender euphoria) has origins in people describing how drugs effected them. People are currently chasing gender euphoria like what similarly happens with drugs. They're chasing the obtaining of external validation through fashion and beauty norms ("gender expression") and pronouns. To me, this type of behavior basically enables the addiction. It's similar to other drug behaviors, in which people who struggle with addiction will unconsciously attempt to seek validation and enablement for their usage or sometimes outright demand it from others.

"Gender euphoria" in male people who identify as trans mimics many sex addictions in that first it begins as a small thing like getting a sexual thrill from wearing women's skirts in private. Eventually this loses it's effect and there's an escalation of behavior, such as now they obtain "gender euphoria" from wearing women's skirts in public or posting images of oneself in them. This loses its effect over time, and then it becomes using bathrooms. Then going on estrogen. And so on.

In other cases though people describe "gender dysphoria" and HRT addiction comes from simply attempting to cope with feelings of distress through altering one's body and obtaining certain "affirming" remarks from people. Similar to people leaning too hard on the benzos to deal with anxiety or a person cutting to alleviate feelings of distress. It should be noted that many people in trans communities grew up as "emo kids" and experienced a wave of self-harm and eating disorder behaviors in middle school.

Finally, both drugs and gender ideology/HRT provide people with a sense of community. Establishing a sense of community in my opinion has become so hard for millenials and younger, partially due to spending more time online (which also impacts social skills and increases anxiety and body image issues) and partially because we were very targeted by media that placed emphasis on individualism and individual expression and much less on family and community. Especially by the fashion industry—most of the commercials intertwine "be you" with clothing and having style. Gender ideology and HRT is an interest shared by the status quo left, and a culture and feeling of community has been created around it.

[part-time-dumbass]

[longstoryshort-143]

the horrors persist but so do books, art, hot chocolate, winter nights, the moon, the sea, the stars, sunsets, literature, libraries, cats, flowers, stories, love and the wistful feeling you get when you finally return home

[djuvlipen]

hey does anyone have pictures from that whimsigothic photoshoot jk rowling did in the 90s??? Please

[joannerowling]

I've got you

(that last one i'm pretty sure is from a different shoot but it still answers your need i think)

[beirarowling]

I am hoping there are more pictures from this shoot

[boudicasdaughter]

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.