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So here

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Make sure if you do get anything for me on there you have the money tho

And spend .stuff on yourself first!

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

spontaneousmusicalnumber

The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

spontaneousmusicalnumber

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species

vampiricram1

This^^^^^^

Just because a species is cute doesn't make it more valuable then another

And yes

Feral cats are humans fault

Not the cats

But also because it's our fault

It's our responsibility to resolve it

Even if it means we need to kill a lot of cats

Happy birthday for tomorrow? I think. Ignore if wrong

Who is thssssssd is my birthday today

animentality

petzah394

Saw this in the tags and I swear to god are people not allowed to talk about misogynistic violence on this website for 10 fucking seconds without someone going "but what about men" or some variety of that. Is it possible that a woman could kill someone for declining her? Sure, but does that actually happen even a tenth as much as men kill women for declining them? Absolutely fucking not. Please learn to shut the fuck up for 10 fucking seconds

queerasaurus-rexx

Once again the man haters somehow manage to centre men in arguments they swear they aren't doing that in.

LOOK AT THE STATS FOR DV IN LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS. DO IT RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

44 to 61% of lesbians say they have experienced mental, physical and sexual violence from their female partners.

Nowhere in the screenshotted tag did the person even MENTION men.

Women are just as capable of murder as men are.

tiredlazyfrog

at this point I’m tired of putting “prefer not to answer” on my job applications when they ask me my gender. Remove the question. I will never answer. My identity is a surprise you find out at the interview when I show up appearing as gender ambiguous as humanly possible in order to disguise the fact I am thousands of bees in a skin suit. No I am not buzzing. There was no option for Hive Insects on the form. This was your decision. I am consequences.

findme-at1am

What's your thoughts on gender+ sex abolition and the idea that permanent gender liberation needs that as new oppressive systems would porbbaly come out of the word work even if we remove some of it but not the foundation it was built on?

Keys:

Transphobia - my personal definition is having misogyny/misandry levelled at a person that holds gender stereotypes/expectations above their head as leverage that upholds the cishetperisex patriarchy.

Sex - assigned sex at birth

Gender - personal identity

Presentation - how one presents that may not align with "perfect gender stereotypes", that are associated with the cis identity.

Gender stereotypes - the expectations placed on your gender.

Perceived gender - how someone on the outside sees yourself usually through a binary lense.

Toxic masculinity - to prioritize being "successful" over interpersonal relationships, unemotional, doesn't talk about feelings, can be based on masculine appearance.

Toxic feminity - Victimizing the woman no matter her actions, all men are inherently violent/aggressive ideology, can be based on feminine appearance.

So I personally feel, right now, that I'm a genderless being and I'm presenting nonbinary right now as I type, while my perceived gender around cis people is a cis woman. Around my gay friends I'm perceived much much differently lol.

Someone's perceived gender can change depending on the context of the individual's culture, the individuals area whether they're in the U.S. or not, and more specifically if it's let's say a red or blue state in the U.S.

To simplify it for people who rely on context: I'm a closeted genderfluid person who's sex was assigned "F", my presentation changes day to day, I don't mind saying I was a woman because some times I am a woman still. And some times I'm a man, but most times I'm nothing in particular.

My pronouns are hee/hiim/hiis/hiimself and haw is used like haw/haw/haw's/hawself

I can only speak on my genderfluid experience and how it's affected me being closeted in the southern U.S. I've had problems with my hormones before having quadruple the amount of testosterone in my system than needed during puberty. After getting treatment to suppress them for one month, they "fixed itself" the cis doctor said. I'm not sure what the "standard" is medically to be intersex, but my state wouldn't adopt that standard anyway.

I believe in sex abolition, as well as sex primarily-focused studies because of the difference in awareness for certain illnesses/cancers that may lead those of one gender not being tested for. So for example, I believed if we stopped focusing breast cancer on *just* women I believe we'd find more men with breast cancer.

Which it is acknowledged in these 2024-2025 statistics on the one figure for men. As well as some screenings for certain age demographics for women. (Most likely women who believed it was "too late" so I'm focusing more so on the men's statistics.)

(so more specifically focus on the graph in the bottom left corner, B. Male versus Female Stage at Diagnosis of Breast Cancer from 2017-2021)

"Compared to women, men are more likely to be diagnosed with ADVANCED (regional- or distant-stage) disease (48% versus 31%) reflecting the absence of screening, as well as delays in diagnosis due to lack of awareness."

So we are certainly holding ourselves back with advancing our understanding of illnesses, hormones and cancer because it runs deep enough to affect cis people because we are ALL under the same system.

When it comes to the "practicality" of being assigned a sex at birth, I personally believe like most intersex persons do that it's a *nearly useless binary. Having an idea of how much of each hormone your body needs is the true need in my eyes, with each person being individually different that, from what statistics I've seen, women and men have the *slightest* differences in how *physical* illnesses develop. So if doctors put heavy importance on sex, you would think that doctors would heavily rely on hormone levels that affect immunity in a person.... Which doctors sadly don't check every time you get sick as they assume your hormone levels fluctuate only during your teen years when it can all throughout your life. And also if you get checked ONLY while sick they will assume your hormone levels are something to be fixed rather than just your personal normal individual levels.

For a physical ailment example, for organs we share like brains, migraines can show differently in different people but there's very very little difference in the sexes. And of course genitalia separates us, but I still don't believe a healthcare field should be stated as "Women's Healthcare" because even men deserve sti testing and no I dont belive we should separate men from women in these facilities. Men are not inherently dangerous and don't deserve to be isolated from support systems that misgender them. So instead of creating more division like, "just give men their own buildings", how about rewording women's healthcare to include cis and trans men. Rewording and doing more research into studies that only focus on one gender is the least doctors and specifcally those in power can do.

BUT the mental health field that relies more so on HOW someone's raised due to how each gender is treated differently and similarly in society. I see a field that is still very new, very inexperienced with outside perspectives from trans/GNC folks, and even from cis gay men. (Coming from someone in a red state btw.) which honestly I'm so happy/excited for these second generation gays that ya know have gay parents that deny doctors assigning sex=gender and just lets their child decide for themselves. They will definitely be influenced by the gender binary from media and such so I always wondered how I would raise my own child... And what media I'd show them..

Anyway back to being pessimistic about genders being treated differently: People on here in "discourse" would not be able to conceptualize me being a cis girl and having toxic masculinity, not toxic feminity, because my therapist couldn't lol. I believed girls were all drama and thought my nervousness around them was because of that instead of me being attracted to them lolol. I was taught not to prioritize my emotions or talk it out because both of my parents were emotionally constipated. Luckily I grew out of that but my cis sister, who's been bullied relentlessly by mostly girls and one boy, has not. She believes women are all drama to this day, victim-blaming the woman in rape cases, while still believing women couldn't harm a man physically in abuse cases. Both misogyny/misandry at play because they're both intrinsically intertwined. I use the metaphor, "one feeds the other to keep the whole full." The whole being the patriarchy.

People keep trying to paint unjustified over-generalizations that, for example, every masculine gay man is vilified when they don't take into account race or other factors like presentation, the context of their culture and area, etc. A white masculine cis gay man will be both infantilized and vilified like a black masculine cis gay man can in different contexts, and if both of them presented feminine it maybe would make living "easier" IF the people around them don't perceive them as a threat.

So will the black feminine gay man act MORE feminine around white people to appear less threatening? And do the opposite for black people that see femininity in black men as a threat/predator? A lot of nuance and context is lost when we don't listen to our POC in our communities. Which reminds me of this tiktok of this black creator speaking on being treated as an "antithesis" to how the white person perceives their stereotype of black people. With being called, "wholesome" and such, for one example.

I'm not one for deep introspective stuff into sex, I'm more so into gender if that makes sense. imma be real I'm more of a "let's nonbinary us all!" Type person where I believe once sex assignment at birth is abolished (or at least lessened emphasis on gender=sex and more of a focus on the individual's hormone levels and growth as they age with gender being a choice), I believe that everyone will have genders that, while already reflects their personal lived experience, will be even more personal once *gender stereotypes* are abolished from presentation. So I believe already that everyone's personal experience gives them a personal gender experience that may not reflect the majority of that gender's experience. Think tomboys for an example, they're identifying as women and still have experiences where they want to be more masc presenting which differs from the wants from the cis woman but has the expectations of their perceived gender still pushed onto them. Technically they are GNC, whether they identify that way or not, they're perceived GNC and can have transphobia (which I believe all misogyny/misandry is a type of transphobia, not the other way around because the opposite gender's stereotype is held against you even when talking misogyny/misandry) levelled at them. I believe transphobia can be a catch all term for anyone to use, even for cis people, as cis people whether gay or not, has transphobia levelled at them to keep them in cishetperisex patriarchy's standards of their perceived gender.

Which is why I hate phrases like, "transmisogyny is for transfems, transandrophobia for transmascs, etc." You cannot just base terms on the person's identity alone because it doesn't allow for experiences outside of your own and doesn't take into account how the harrasser perceived you.

Say a transmasc who had misogyny levelled at them because they were perceived a cis girl with phrases like, "why dress that way? That's manly.." derogatorily aimed at them how would we classify that?

Or say a transmasc who had misandry levelled at them because they were perceived a cis boy with phrases like, "nail polish? That's girly.." how would we classify that?

Or a transmasc that is perceived GNC/trans in any way, because the harrasser doesn't care for the difference between transwoman or transman?

See how the transmasc can be both misandry/misogyny affected because of the stereotypes playing into the other?

Just because they're trans is it transmisandry/misogyny? I feel like we're unnecessarily separating our experiences from cis people when we could be finding similarities between how we're mutually treated. Having terms to find similar trans people who went through the same is helpful, but gatekeeping said terms when someone feels their experience hasn't been included in the discussion is awful to do to someone. Which is how transmisogyny formed and transandrophobia.

New oppressive/suppressive systems, such as tme/tma terminology, will always develop as long as we continue the binary thinking of woman = this expectation and EVERYONE (cis or trans) wants to meet it. Or man = this expectation and EVERYONE wants to meet it (also cis or trans). Or GNC = this expectation and EVERYONE wants to meet it (also cis or trans). As long as we keep making our own standards/expectations to live by or keep gatekeeping terms, we will keep oppressing/suppressing ourselves and unnecessarily draw lines where we could be building bridges.

So full sex abolition? 👍 It's possible if people work against their own binary thinking. Full gender abolition? Not possible in the near future unless you have the most off the grid, media filtered, full nonbinary and GNC presenting family that's also got a very progressive doctor and communtity because you still have to go get groceries and supplies. Although I would support gender abolition for government buildings/infrastructure separation, I also fully support personal gender choice. And because binary trans and cis people feel euphoria being the one gender they are and are happy that way.

I need to reread on the intersex statistics I've reblogged much more when I have the time to, you just reminded me because I really wanted to include their experiences and could not think of anything off the top of my head other than having genitalia that wouldn't slot into our binary and I wouldn't want to speak on it and mischaracterize it. If anyone would like to comment or criticize that would be great.

vampiricram1

In the sex while there are differences between people with different sex characteristics I more believe it's jsut that most of in the medical field of "differences between men and women" is actually more accurately described as "people with this range of ratios of hormones" "versus the two other groups"

Or "person with this type of anatomy versus another"

And on and on and on

Most of these "binaries" are actually more actually *bimodal* spectrums and sometimes evens trimodal and sometimes there a complete fecking mess that were only jsut now starting to do any research into

On gender stuff I think a view of like my opinions in wealth based class or race

"these terms have a use to describe our current society and it's structure and class systems but I would love for a future were none of it existed at all and we obliterated the very systems and terminology that devolved from them instead leading future human to create either there own terms or not needing terms to describe what they want to do with their lives at all and jsut being themselves

It's less about practically and more about goals we should be working toward

Is a borderless society many communist or socialist theory's dream of and suggest and the eradication of the nation state practical right now?.

Fuck no but that modality of thinking the lens of operating when it comes to how we progress can be extremely useful and yeah Tru gender abolition is definitely si-fi right now but I do genuially believe attempts to lessen or eradicate gender rolls in society and the things that hold them up is a worthwhile and morally good endeavor even if I will never see the fruits of that labor

Just like I will never ever ever see a classless borderless society but it's a nice goal and model to look at in terms of how I view the small steps to progress I fight for right now and I do believe in some small ways there are real thing we can do to push for gender abolition that's already happening

I myself have seen a degendering of hygiene products in at least how there presented in local shops were I live

This is very well out together on considering the reply you gave it feels very inadequate but it's like 8 at night and my brain is sputtering twt

i-suggest-therapy

An in depth breakdown of the suggestrogen saga.

Tw for pedophilia, transphobia, csa discussions.

suggestrogen/isuggestforcefem was a popular tumblr account that recently deactivated after facing major pushback from posts she made regarding pedophilia.

There are now multiple popular blogs claiming this was a harrassment campaing, pedojacketing, stalking, etc. Interestingly enough, the people defending her very rarely show what she actually said. So here i aim to compile everything that happened and provide context. If you have heard that this was rooted in transphobia, i encourage you to read this in its entirety and judge for yourself.

Many people are saying her words were misconstrued. According to these people: what she said was this:

"Pedophiles are not ontologically evil, and there is a difference between pedophilia and child abuse."

If this was all of it, while im sure it would have caused discourse because it is a controversial thing to say, I don't think it would have caused this much pushback. But if you actually read what she said, you'll know this wasn't all that happened and it is leaving out huge amounts of context in an effort to make her look better.

1. Previously problematic behavior.

Before this current debacle, isff had already been called out for displaying transphobia towards trans men. Here are some examples of this sort of behavior.

I don't particularly participate in transandrophobia discourse but I find it incredibly disingenous to pretend trans men dont face specific issues. Are trans women affected by forced birth as a means of detransition? Are they affected by claims of being "broken women who cant think for themselves and are being manipulated"? No! This isn't to say there are no issues with the transmasc community or that trans men never benefit from transmisogyny. But one thing is to say that, and another is to consistently villanize trans men, to treat them like they are just as privileged as cis men and face NO struggles of their own. Like the only struggle that matters is that of white trans women.

This is the first example of isff displaying black and white thinking. There can be no nuance regarding trans men and their role in transmisogyny. It's either "trans men are oppressed by trans women" or "trans men are oppressing trans women." There is no room in her head for a potentially nuanced opinion. We will continue to see this as we go forward with her takes on pedophilia.

2. The pedophilia saga.

A few days ago, ISFF posted this:

These are not her own words, she is posting on behalf of a friend. But she does agree with the points made and defends them:

Many people seem to think what she is saying is perfectly reasonable, and while I think many of them are just blatantly malicious, I also think many are just gullible, so I will attempt to break down all her points in good faith.

1. Pedophilia is attraction not action, therefore, calling pedophiles child abusers is unfair unless they actually have abused anyone: This is the only true thing this whole thing says, and even then, it is very disingenous. If a pedophile has not acted on their urges, then they are by definition, not an abuser. HOWEVER, they are more likely to become an abuser due to the persistent nature of the desires. In the same way a person with homicidal urges is more likely to murder someone with time, a pedophile is also more likely to act on their desires if they don't learn to deal with said urges adequately. So technically true, but leaving out the context that yes, these urges do evolve and then lead to actions, to me reads as manipulative. A pedophile is not going to be harmless if they don't do the work to manage their disorder. It's active work, which is why promoting this passive view on pedophilia is extremely dangerous, because it makes people think their urges will be fine on their own instead of actively working on them.

2. Pedophilia is similar to having a noncon kink. If having a noncon kink is okay and not going to lead to rape, then how is pedophilia any different?: False equivalency, kinks and pedophilia are different psychological experiences. Dark kinks are usually not literal. Very often it is the brain creating subconscious symbolism in the realm of fantasy that doesn't reflect their views on reality. So a person with a noncon kink is different than someone with rape urges, which is what a pedophile is.

3. If people who experience attraction to adults are not going to force that attraction on every person they're attracted to, why do we expect the same for pedophiles?: Second false equivalency, ordinary sexual attraction is also a different psychological experience to pedophilia. A gay person is not going to rape every men he meets, but they will still act out their desires in consensual spaces. Plus, unless the person has an unhealthy view on sex, the idea of rape would be distressing enough that it would discourage the person from forcing their attraction. At their core, these desires are rooted in the attraction towards consensual activities, so even in a situation where you find yourself attracted to someone who may not reciprocate, because rape is not in line with your desires, the attraction won't lead to abuse easily (unless as stated, the person does have unhealthy views on sex).

But pedophiles inherently have a disordered view on sex. It is a disorder where you are consistently attracted to people who cannot consent to you, so there isn't this disconnect between their desires and the act of rape. The desire is rape. Additionally, while a gay person can eventually find a consensual partner, pedophiles can't! No, i don't expect gay men to force themselves on every men they meet, but I do realize they'll be inclined to explore their sexuality consensually. A pedophile will probably also feel inclined to explore their sexuality, but there is no consensual alternative.

4. Pedophiles are a marginalized group comparable to queer people: Are they? The people who benefit from the social structures that promote CSA because it aligns with their wants are marginalized? Sure, the topic of pedophilia is taboo, but it is also structurally reinforced, so it evidently isn't the same thing. Now, some people will argue that it is child abusers who benefit, not pedophiles. But a pedophile is just one kind of person who wishes to abuse children. Sure, they aren't the only ones. But they are a demographich that benefits because their desires align with the structures in place. Wanting to rape children for power vs wanting to rape children for sexual attraction isn't that different, both are desires that if acted on cause harm, and the healthy thing to do is to encourage these people to seek help and coping mechanisms instead of telling them "well, it's just like being gay!"

3. Consequences vs call out culture.

Before anyone says this is harrassment. If a popular blog came out defending nazism or terf ideology, wouldn't you all be outraged? You would! And you would understand the push back as not harrassment, but retaliation. So why is it that when it comes to pedophilia you all suddenly turn a blind eye? Suddenly we should just block and move on. Why is this the one topic you want people to stay quiet about?

People say it's because she's trans and... really? The point of trans feminism is to treat trans women as human beings, and I don't think infantilizing trans women as people who do no wrong ever is treating them like humans. Some trans women are bad people, not because of their gender, but because human beings are capable of harm.

It is important however to not pretend this is representative of transfeminism. Terfs will take advantage of this and push the narrative this is an example of trans women being predatory. It is an exaple of a trans woman being predatory. A niche tumblr blog is not representative of an incredibly diverse demographic.

The people accusing those criticizing her of transphobia are ironically pushing this rethoric. By saying criticizing one trans woman is somehow criticizingball trans women, you portray trans women as some kind of monolith. Even though suggestrogen's beliefs are not at all accepted by the trans community at large (and no, your terminally online tumblr mutuals arent the representatives of what most trans women think).

4. What this says about site wide culture:

This really has shown some of the major pitfalls of tumblr culture. Many people will fall for bigoted ideals if presented to them under supposedly progressive language. Many people here treat trans womanhood as a sort of sainthood status where trans women are no longer people, but entities incapable of harm. Many people are attempting to normalize predatory behavior under the guise of kink. Many blogs have been pushing for this for a long time now, and this is just the first person who finally came out and said it without filters. This was the result of a myriad of bad ideologies the site has been fostering finally coming together all at once.

suggestrogen was not harrassed, she was rightfully pushed back against for promoting an ideology that endangers others.

aughauhguaghu

I want to add on that this was said by her,

Most charitably, we can assume she means to say: "LGB drop the T" and "not defending pedos" have the same root reason, being that "this group makes us look bad, so for our own survival, we must cut them off."

However, it is incredibly tone-deaf to use the community that is most often associated with being pedophiles for this. The idea that, "if you are trans, you want to prey on children," is not only logically unsound (how would every single trans person be a child predator without fail?) but would then imply "pedophile = child predator," which we know ISFF does not agree with:

Here's the thing: ISFF appears to wish to achieve worldwide understanding of two points:

Pedophile is not synonymous with child abuser or predator. That being afflicted with pedophilia does not equal action. Or, as her friend put it in that original post, quote, "thought-crimes are not real in the case of people attracted to children".

You should be, quote, "proud to be friends with a pedophile", that pedophiles are, quote, "vulnerable community members".

Point 1, in all honesty, by itself, isn't unsound. It is true, pedophilia is a medical disorder, one a person can not choose to have, just like one does not choose to have suicidal or homicidal thoughts. One should not have to feel guilty for a burden they did not choose, and it should be more understood that pedophilia is a disorder that needs attention and coping skills to manage, not shame and ridicule.

It is why the "Radqueer" community exists in many aspects: people who are abused for having this disorder they did not choose feel lost and hopeless. Therefore, the only people who will even listen to them are other disordered individuals (pedophiles, in this case). This leads to an echo chamber, which can lead to normalization of the disorder, and a higher increased chance of illegal activity and harmful behavior; the more your peers normalize and glorify something harmful ("MAP pride"), the more you internalize this notion and normalize it to yourself, the more the boundaries of what are acceptable begin to wane.

This is why point 2 is the biggest issue.

Pedophilia is nothing to be proud of. Nothing to be "ashamed" of, either, but certainly not proud. Much like how you should not be proud to be suicidal, depressed, homicidal, etc. It is not your fault you may have these things, they are just unfortunate inflictions out of your control. What you can be proud of is the hard work you put into coping.

Steering clear of things like true crime podcasts/blocking violent content to curb homicidal thoughts, picking up meditation and anger management to curb homicidal urges, letting the desires wash over you, accepting them, and move on peacefully until you get through your first argument with someone where you didn't spiral into rage or have horrific thoughts because you employed your coping skills. That is something to be very proud of!

I would not be proud of my friend for being suicidal, homicidal, etc. I would be proud of my friend for learning to manage and overcome such hardships.

Whereas here, ISFF wants to normalize and soften the impact of just how dangerous these disorders can become if they are normalized, glorified, or downplayed, the best course of action in reality is to not shame the person for what they can not change, but encourage them for how they can make things better for themselves and everyone else.

But, back to that screenshot of ISFF proclaiming, quote, "If you think that pedophiles would fuck children you're wrong and you're the problem!!"

As said, while it is true having a disorder does not mean those actions are guaranteed to land you in that spot, it does mean that the likelihood is exacerbated immensely.

People with suicidal thoughts are not guaranteed to kill themselves, but they are much more likely than a person who doesn't suffer from constant suicidal thoughts to kill themselves.

Same with homicidal thoughts. That person is not automatically going to kill people. But, the person who has urges to and fantasizes of killing people is much more likely to do it than a person who doesn't think of those things.

Even things like ASPD (colloquially and sometimes pejoratively known as "sociopathy"). These people are not guaranteed to lie, steal, cause fights, or be jerks. Some are great at coping, or at masking, or otherwise have methods to curb, diminish, or stop urges. But, the reason things like "being mean", "committing crime" and "lying" are "symptoms" of the disorder is not because everyone who has ASPD does them, but because the disorder makes you much more likely to do these things on impulse by nature of how it affects your brain. Much like all the above examples, it does not mean these people are destined to be monsters or act awful. Many live normal lives, and are normal people.

Therefore, pedophiles are not guaranteed to molest or rape children, but they are at a higher risk of doing so by nature of the disorder. Which is why what I said earlier holds true: these people need to learn coping skills, avoid triggers, and be responsible.

i-suggest-therapy above put it best:

On that note, the earlier part of ISFF's friends post:

[pedophiles] and [child abuser] are entirely separate. If you conflate those two terms to mean the same thing, you might as well say 'trans woman' is synonymous with 'misogynistic rapist'

As just said, pedophiles have the urge/desire/thoughts to rape children. They may never act on it, but they would not be pedophiles if they did not have these urges/desires/thoughts.

Therefore, by using this example, ISFF's friend is implying all trans women have the urge/desire/thoughts to be misogynistic rapists.

...To give the benefit, I don't think they thought the implications of that one through. A really, really bad blunder, nevertheless.

On the topic of establishing coping skills, this is exactly NOT what would be pushed for if you want pedophiles to be recognized as struggling with a mental health condition.

I would not give a homicidal person a gun. I would not give a suicidal person a gun. Therefore, I would not let a pedophile be around children unsupervised. In fact, it's probably best they avoid children in general, because why on earth would you argue in favor of this? It certainly doesn't help kids, and it doesn't even help the pedophiles they are attempting to "defend", because it would most likely be the number-one trigger to their disorder! To a pedophile working on curbing their thoughts and coping, I imagine that being around children would cause incredible distress and anxiety. Framing it as "protecting your property from degenerates" is incredibly bad faith. Again, I would not let my homicidal friend walk around with a gun in a populated area. Not because I think they're a "degenerate", but because I do not want them to hurt others or distress themself.

This is also why age play is very different when a pedophile engages with it versus a non-pedophile. To someone with this disorder, that can help normalize it. It's not guaranteed, but it's a much higher risk, and therefore should be avoided. Even if it is an "outlet", you are still feeding into this harmful desire, which does have negative consequences on your brain. Dopamine is a very, very dangerous tool in this case.

In conclusion: ISFF is not catching heat for simply trying to say "pedophiles have a mental health disorder, and we should try to not villainize them on having this disorder alone"; a statement while, still controversial, I believe most people can warm up to.

No, the issue here is the glorification/normalization, the promotion of softening such a disorder, of un-medicalizing it. There is a way to go about these topics, and this is not it. Certainly not tying it to the trans community when it is a completely separate issue of mental health.

...Sorry if this is derailing in any way. Here's another post of her being transphobic towards trans men, just because I didn't see it shown and I find it really distasteful:

I hope she can grow as a person from this.

Having to evacuate (flooding).

quasi-normalcy

Apparently, r/democrats has blocked any mention of Zohran Mamdani from their subreddit, which, you know, seems like an interesting thing for a subreddit dedicated to the Democratic Party to do to a Democratic politician who just won a landslide victory in America's largest city. Apparently, they really don't like it when a socialist politician with socialist policies turns out to be really popular with their base and the wider electorate, for some reason.

vampiricram1

All political sites on reddit are corrupted id just stay away from reddit for political discussion

Every true left wing subreddit got taken over by tankies and mass banned anyone who tried to speak out against China and uygher genocide

Any moderately progressive site with chase you out if you try to bring up indigenous issues and are critical or people who ignore them or mention how men are also very much oppressed by the patierchy and try to be intersectional at all

Every liberal leaning site will ban you if you just a little too leftist of them and criticize actions of the democratic party and the conservative wing of that party and how they have caused there own losses

The trans subreddit with delete or posts and ban you for talking about trans men

The moderators on almost every major subreddit that has anything to do with policies or identifies that have been made political by our current climate

Have fuck mods who refuse to listen to people critical of there veiws

And being an actual *princibled* socialist who has princibled socialist takes and is consistent in there ideology is a the quickest way to get banned off of many of them

I just don't recommend you use reddit for these discussions

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

mentohol-blog

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

just7frogsinapeoplesuit

For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

direhydroid

also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

also worth noting that who you are to them doesn’t matter. they’ll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. they’re just Like That.

just7frogsinapeoplesuit

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