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[topperflop]

This blog is Pissing me off…

I’m the original Topperflopper

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

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scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

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This is both one of the issues that radicalized me into fully being a leftist and one of the reasons I've been so harsh on AI, around the time that first started coming to light is when I was heavily involved in studying AI and it has always irked me how we encode bigotry into tech

[auckie]

[flovverbun]

i think people just dont know what oppressor class means

[flovverbun]

its important to allow yourself to accept that you are (most likely) part of an oppressor class, and that its not by itself a value judgement, it means you passively enjoy the benefits of it and also that you have opportunities to take active advantage of it, being cis, being white, being able bodied, being a global northern, those are all oppressor classes, you cant say they arent because it would make some of them who arent all of them sad

[flovverbun]

which is to say, yea i think men are an oppressor class and that trans men are men

[mousidy]

so do you "love trans women" as in you like to fantasize about being fucked by a Scary Predatory Tranny, or do you love trans women?

[mousidy]

gonna push harder on this one cause I consider myself kink positive, but I don't consider kinks to be beyond critical thought. and I think if your kinks align very closely with the narratives spun to oppress trans women by the right wing propaganda machine, you should examine that, especially if you proclaim to love trans women

we live in a culture that relentlessly ascribes dangerous, heavily sexualized stereotypes to trans women. it's honestly pretty mundane and unshocking that people would find this tantalizing and that it would inform their sexuality, just as it's mundane and unshocking that these stereotypes inform any other area of how someone thinks and feels. and I do think it's everyone's responsibility to unpack how their perception of trans women has been impacted by this. yes, even in the realm of kink and sexuality

[mousidy]

transmisogynistic stereotypes are not heavily sexualized by coincidence. they're designed to be psychosexually powerful. the things that make them tantalizing are the things that make them so dangerous for trans women

[mousidy]

[brhj]

[homoidiotic]

Nino: Trans Joy! Feral Magazine, Cape Town, 2024 by Steve Marais

“A raw, documentary-style interview and photo essay detailing the life of a black trans man in South Africa. The interview with Nino covers his entire journey: being kicked out of his home, experiencing homelessness, working on the docks, navigating the healthcare system for his transition, and becoming an accidental social media activist. The photography is direct and honest, capturing his strength and joy without glossing over the hardships. The narrative deliberately focuses on his perspective on sex, identity, and survival” Ayanda Nino’s instagram

[greelin]

fruitful endeavors…

[greelin]

[orcbara]

i swear to god if people don't start understanding that responding to doylist critique of a piece of media with watsonian exonerations is not an actual rebuttal

[orcbara]

somebody saying "hey i don't like that the only gay man in this story is a weird pervert and it portrays gay sexual promiscuity as a moral failing and character flaw" cannot be rebuked by arguing about how the character's backstory or personality traits explain their behaviour. the choices made by a writer are all fundamentally mutable; somebody saying an author's choices should have been different is not going to be persuaded by an argument that takes those choices as immovable fact

[justanisabelakinnie]

[catgirl-kaiju]

usamerican adult animated tv shows love to constantly skewer the right wing while being ideologically indistinguishable from them

like it's all well and good to call trump a shithead but if you do so while having years of unapologetic racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, islamophobia, and/or antisemitism under your belt that you've never corrected for, your criticisms are hollow and meaningless

[catgirl-kaiju]

like the most obvious examples are obviously south park and basically every single seth mcfarlan show, but you can see a similar pattern in rick and morty, even if most of the right-wing messaging is unintentional and the result of poor writing. despite being very progressive in most ways, the simpson and futurama are not immune to this either as racist, transphobic, and homophobic ideas have creeped into them mostly via the influence of broader cultural attitudes. king of the hill is hard to get a read on, but overall i think it manages to avoid this problem for the most part by being about a conservative man learning to change with the times and accept more progressive ideas. i think the only other exception really is bob's burgers unless you want to start getting into adult oriented action shows and indie animation, but that's outside of the scope of this post

[catgirl-kaiju]

OH not to mention the pervasive fucking ablism in pretty much all of these shows excluding maybe bob's burgers (i might be forgetting something, but i can't remember anything noteworthy off the top of my head)

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i'm the first depressed person to be lazy for real

[mousidy]

on TME/TMA: being mistaken for a transfem and catching strays is not the same thing as actually being a transfem: the actual targets of transmisogyny

I know a lot of trans men want to be TMA reallllll bad because someone mistook them for a transfem once and called them a tranny, but the "Affected" in "TransMisogyny Affected" doesn't just mean you have been Affected by transmisogyny at some point--it means it affects you, inescapably, in uncountably many more ways than just random harassment, every minute of your damn life. and it worms into your brain and stays there, because you ARE the tranny they were talking about

you may be a tree near the target and catch the occasional stray, but you are not the target

[mousidy]

[mollyjames]

I think a lot of transmisogyny stems from this idea that people are really scared to see a dick. The reason bathrooms and locker rooms and hot springs keep being flash points is because these are all places where if a trans woman is using them, it's possible you might see her dick. A lot of transmisogynistic humor revolves around being traumatized because the subject saw a woman with a penis. And look, to a certain extent I sympathize. I'm not a fan of dick; I dont want this thing either. But if you want to be an ally to trans women, I think a big important step you can take personally is to examine your own reaction to the scenarios I described above, and recognize that a dick is just a body part a girl has sometimes. Seeing it as inherently sexual and/or traumatizing is a major wedge conservatives use to justify their rhetoric

[kropotkindersurprise]

how it feels remembering charlie kirk got shot through the neck and died

[photozoi]

Fish equivalent of sitting on a park bench with a buddy and shooting the breeze.

[sh4rkguts]

I just found this meme I made of my fish when I was a teenager.

[yourtryhard]