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[socialistexan]

I think the biggest grammatical mistake that's been made by trans people or allies was the term "transgenderism." Mostly because the way our society has associated words that end in the suffix "-ism" as an ideology or belief.

I feel like that this is a term that was kind of thrust on us by (hopefully well meaning) people, because I very rarely hear a trans person use the term "transgenderism."

While the term "transsexuality" has extreme drawbacks and in reality is a confusing misnomer and fell out of favor for a number of reasons (that I agree with and support), it does at least not have that issue. You can't frame it as easily as ideology.

If someone goes on tv or a political conference stage and says "we should eradicate homosexuality from public life," there is no debating exactly what they meant and that it involves eradicating homosexual people. He can still do it (and many fascists and reactionaries can, have, and will continue to do so), but his meaning isn't obscured. Joe Schmoo who legitimately just wants to "protect kids" isn't going to be convinced by that.

But the same guy goes on stage and says, " we should eradicate transgenderism from public life" and we have a 3 month debate on if he meant trans people or "trans ideology." He gets that plausible deniability.

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[only-cat-memes]

Your daily dose of cat memes

[rednblacksalamander]

I’m not anti-technology, I just think there’s something deeply sick about a society where robots make art and children work in factories.

[ororium-z]

[vague-humanoid]

[radiofreederry]

[fruitpilled-peachcel]

gonna call in a shitter like it's a medevac helicopter and I'm a wounded GI in the jungles of Vietnam

[powerburial]

imagine getting in one of these and sitting down and a few seconds later you feel it lift off the ground

[tsunderrated]

too busy imagining one of these malfunctioning and raining shit from the sky onto the populace

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

dave matthews band drone warfare

[cryptotheism]

This is how Elvis got to heaven

[patroklos52-deactivated20250724]

In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll noted that every animal exists in its own unique perceptual world — a smorgasbord of sights, smells, sounds and textures that it can sense but that other species might not. These stimuli defined what von Uexküll called the Umwelt — an animal’s bespoke sliver of reality. A tick’s Umwelt is limited to the touch of hair, the odor that emanates from skin and the heat of warm blood. A human’s Umwelt is far wider but doesn’t include the electric fields that sharks and platypuses are privy to, the infrared radiation that rattlesnakes and vampire bats track or the ultraviolet light that most sighted animals can see.

The Umwelt concept is one of the most profound and beautiful in biology. It tells us that the all-encompassing nature of our subjective experience is an illusion, and that we sense just a small fraction of what there is to sense. It hints at flickers of the magnificent in the mundane, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. And it is almost antidramatic: It reveals that frogs, snakes, ticks and other animals can be doing extraordinary things even when they seem to be doing nothing at all.

~ Ed Yong, NY Times Opinion, 6-21-22

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[quasi-normalcy]

Actually, I want to do a study of regret rates for Harry Potter-themed tattoos versus regret rates for gender confirmation surgeries, because my naive suspicion is that the former are considerably higher at this point.

[rudjedet]

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

[wine-dark-sea]

i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

[teaboot]

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

[ophilosoraptoro]

No, y'all don't even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

[rudjedet]

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

[interstellar-lamb-deactivated20]

Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

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[inthefallofasparrow]

[ratfuck]

this feels so fucking silly to say out loud but I genuinely think we're kind of negatively skewing body expectations for people w/ penises to the kind of ludicrous degree that its inevitably gonna cause mental health issues and complexes and dysphoria, particularly for trans/nb people. Big dicks are dope as hell but calling normal cocks small for being under like 6" and making fun of someone for that is fucking stupid considering the global average is between 4.5"-5.1". Youre gonna make some nice lovely young fag who hasnt had an in-person penis experience yet spiral and become obsessed and buy alt-med dick pills or dick extension surgery or some shit. I dont know how many of the people I've had a hook up with/dated that apologized repeatedly during sex because they were worried they weren't "normal" down there or bottomed out of shame. We're turning so many potential tops into bottoms with this madness

[ratfuck]

This is articulated and better said than what I can write

[virgo-cocks]

also want to throw in how much overlap between natal penises & post-phallo penises there are

like, talking to pre/non-op trans guys++ about the normal human variety in dick size shape function compared to my own post op experiences has led me to a tongue in cheek rule of “you must have sucked This Much dick before talking to me” bc (as u mentioned) fags with no IRL cock experience get themselves riled up based off of porn & think their bodies are doomed for failure & inadequacy

when in actually, pretty much everything that happens to people with post op cocks can happen to natal cocks. it’s all just dick and cock and pole.

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