Building a Brighter future.

I'm a 27 year TMA white Woman Homestuck with like one shame. Fite me.

[theilluminantsystem]

Hey so my roommates are looking to get rid of me, just after i lost my job and have a shit ton of debts and expenses. I was hoping if anyone could help me be able to staunch the economic hemmorage before they decide they're sick of me and make me homeless.

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[theilluminantsystem]

Hey, if anyone does have any spare cash, I am legimtimately in dire need of any. I'm out of ADHD meds, My car is constantly on the edge of being repossessed and If I loose that I loose potential for most jobs that I would have access to. I can't afford my HRT this month if things keep going with 0 donations, and I'm *Desperately* looking for work but people who have good fucking jobs are packing up and moving, and I can't do that.

please, give me a fucking hand. All donations stopped...

[theilluminantsystem]

If that GFM isn't Allowing new donations please use this one. https://gofund.me/dcb8f0501

[theilluminantsystem]

Homelessness threats. In letter form. Don't even have the guts to say it to my face. From trans women. Fucking hell. What unprincipled callous nasty miserable people... I've no money to cover *anything* I need. They know I've been struggling to find work for months. Any help. *any* help at all. Please.

[mousidy]

a lot of my disillusionment with the trans "community" comes down to the fact that too many of you take "gender is different from sex" and go "ah ok, so instead of saying women are fragile and men are strong, I should say afabs are fragile and amabs are strong. to be Inclusive"

then you just treat gender like a surface level aesthetic draped over what someone "actually" is. really is indistinguishable from terf rhetoric

[mousidy]

why are you always bitching about cis women having boundaries and not cis men who are the ones who are statistically far more likely to murder you? god forbid women don't spend all their emotional labor on centering you 24/7. go after the transphobic politicians or something, those are the actual fascists who want you dead.

those "boundaries" get us murdered lol. trans women who can't access women's shelters or other forms of housing because of cis women's "boundaries" are left on the streets to be assaulted and murdered

if you want trans women out of women's spaces, and the rationale for those spaces existing is to protect from violence, then you are saying that trans women don't deserve protection from the same violence despite being at an even higher risk of it than you

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

I'm not mourning my teenage years because i falsely believe all girls have a magical adolescence I'm fucking mourning it because i didn't get to be a real person. I'm really fucking glad you can talk about how being a teenager wasn't perfect, i didn't exist.

[mxjackparker]

If you're at work in a retail or hospitality environment and you see a sex worker with a client... no you didn't.

If your boss asks you if you think that person's a sex worker, you tell them you do not believe that. You don't report their presence to anyone. You don't joke about it with a coworker. You don't eavesdrop or bother them.

We're working the same as you are. Leave us alone!

[mxjackparker]

Some examples of situations where you might need to keep your mouth shut about a potential sex worker:

You see someone you don't recognize walk past reception at your hotel to head directly for the stairs or elevator or towards the rooms without acknowledging you at the reception desk. Yes, this includes when the person is wearing revealing clothing or a nice dress and heels. This is not your business.

You notice multiple men going to the same hotel room during the same evening, each only staying for an hour or so at a time. This is not your business.

You seat two customers for dinner and work as their waiter/waitress for the night. You see one give an envelope of cash to the other. Yes, this includes when there's a huge age gap between the two and they're being affectionate. This is not your business.

You overhear one customer ask another how much they charge for a night, whilst making drinks for them. You heard nothing. This is not your business.

I do not care what kind of retail or hospitality setting you work in. If you see a sex worker, no you didn't!

[astra-the-dragon]

if the cops get involved, you know who gets punished? not any of the clients, only the sex worker. not a pimp, not the hotel manager, only the worker; and the cops are liable to sexually assault them as well.

if you have any qualms about sex work, you can start by improving workers' rights as a whole. demilitarizing police. increasing comprehensive sex ed for all ages. battling misogyny in the workplace. under the boot of capitalism, we all suffer - the most vulnerable, such as sex workers, suffer worst. leave them be.

[i-am-a-fish]

you're cute and it's tuesday

[glassvase]

I'm cute and it's tuesday

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[lesbian-n0ise-enthusiast]

Totally normal comments on a reddit post about a comic about trans women being excluded from women’s shelters and “afab only” housing and how people will then hyperfixate on the trans woman potentially saying a mean word to the people excluding her rather than the mass exclusion that trans women face. Literally every single one of these comments are pearl clutching over the fact that the trans woman in the comic said a mean word to the precious “afab” (just ignore the wildly transmisogynistic things that were hurled at the trans woman just moments before)

This is the comic for context

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

going further, trans women literally just existing in public gets called a sex crime by transmisogynists. these people want literally any excuse to remove us from public life

[mousidy]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[theilluminantsystem]

When someone drops something i automatically reply "we'll just put that down there."

[the-peoples-puppy]

My friend just told me about the most transfem Dr. Who plotline ever and it genuinely pisses me off that we are so universally excluded and have to have our experiences reinvented from first principles in the hands of people who aren't us.

"Toxically codependent situationship where they keep splitting and making up - then they change and grow enough to be healthy friends" is like, what I went through with the friend who was telling me this plot like last month.

[niceprincessdisposition]

Tiny correction she had already died by the point where the doctor changed so he actually made up with an entirely different woman with all her memories but that’s just a fairly accurate description of every tgirl who’s ever gone through an ego death.

[the-peoples-puppy]

My friend just told me about the most transfem Dr. Who plotline ever and it genuinely pisses me off that we are so universally excluded and have to have our experiences reinvented from first principles in the hands of people who aren't us.

"Toxically codependent situationship where they keep splitting and making up - then they change and grow enough to be healthy friends" is like, what I went through with the friend who was telling me this plot like last month.

[sea--burn]

their misogynistic, culturally pedophilic disgusting unrealistic anime woman being unrealistically obsessed and dogged in their pursuit of the male main character vs our noble manic pixie dream girl narrative, which is none of those things for reasons you can discover in my 3-week course for 12.99/m

[sea--burn]

Hi, I just wanted to cut in here to say that These Essays are. How. I. Pay. My. Grocery. Bills. If you are physically or legally unable to send me $10 on patreon, you can leech off my valuable labor and continue to read for free, but you will bear the moral burden of my death.

CHAPTER ONE: fuckkkkkkk the useless eater am I rightttt HEYO

[cwalkerml]

My first foray into both socialist and feminist theory. This essay focusing on criticism and self criticism in the transfeminist movement. Things I have found the be lacking.

https://cwalkerml.substack.com/p/thought-leading-us-off-a-cliff-criticism

Thought Leading Us Off a Cliff: Criticism, Self-criticism, and Transfeminism's Lack of Both.

Beginning a dialog on the sorry state of our movement.

[theilluminantsystem]

If one were to seriously read this, they would come away with one of a few conclusions.

1: They were responding to critique of themselves and others, as if it were all bad faith and thus, deserving of being bitten back about, and that isn't an appropriate response to people pushing against their ideas and not their character

2: they were attacking character instead of providing actual critique of the works, and thus any actual point they may have made was getting drowned out in the jabs and the bites, and to properly improve things they need to not do this

3: there is a serious problem about the lack of introspection and intellectual honesty in the transfeminist movement, and this needs to be corrected before any real change can be made

Or 4: They were treating people as ontalogically good or evil, and thus immediately dismissing or embracing their ideas regardless of the value behind it, because a good person wrote it it must be good, or a bad person wrote it it must be bad, without actually reflecting on the contents of the work, barring explicit and loud bigotry that can be used to turn a good person into a bad one.

[krasnoarmeyets]

can we please start killing people

[occidentalist]

[crabussy]

when you eat a Normal Sandwich (bread meat greens cheese relish) and your body goes ooohhh fuck! oh fuck! what have you done! heartbeat GO! sweating GO! temperature GO! like sorry man I'm just trying to keep you WORKING!!!!!!!! ASS HOLE!

[crabussy]

it’s normal for sandwich to make you feel like you’re dying. this is a normal sandwich experience

[hexabeast]

[gondorrevealparty]

They need to eat less because they're so small and weak. Why are they so small and weak? Because they eat less. Let's base our entire society on this distinction.

[poutingpuppyprincess]

We should give out free testosterone so women get stronger!

[gondorrevealparty]

this is a post about how girls are taught to eat less and shrink themselves, even as children. it's a post about the deep mistreatment that starts early and remains foundational to the way we divide work, social class, and chances at opportunity. it's a post about how people think men are stronger because of a natural advantage, when that advantage is manufactured and reinforced by suppressing women. it's not a post about transmasculinity.