Thursday

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[alco-luvr]

Can you fucking TMEs stop with this fucking shit oh my fucking hell

[villainessbian]

"I've hit the stage of transition where I notice that everyone is transmisogynistic but I get not to care because it doesn't affect me :3"

[litterofbiscuit]

its interesting being a weird autistic tranny as a kid and letting yourself get accustomed to the idea that youre just some magically antisocial loser who is "introverted" and is happy being alone and then you grow up and realize that actually you love being social you love hugs you love going out and hate being alone you just hated all of the social opportunities available to you growing up so much you let yourself romanticize solitude as a slightly less miserable state than interacting with people

[melancholia-ennui]

Telling trans women they're "dividing the community" and engaging in "CIA shit" when they talk about transmisogyny and transfeminism is like telling Black people they're "dividing the labour movement" and engaging in "CIA shit" when they talk about anti-Black racism.

A labour movement that refuses to engage with racial justice will inevitably replicate the social systems of racial violence that dominate and permeate our society, and will therefore be unable to meaningfully challenge the capitalist system of which that racial violence is an essential tool.

In the same way, a queer lib movement that refuses to engage with transfeminism will inevitably replicate the social systems of transmisogynistic violence and will therefore be unable to meaningfully challenge the patriarchal system of which that gendered violence is an essential tool.

If at any point you find yourself telling a group of marginalised people, especially marginalised women, that they need to shut up about their concerns for the sake of "unity", you are in the wrong and you are dooming your activism to impotency and irrelevancy in the process.

[transsexual-feminism]

Notably when the government did actually try to rip labour movements to shreds they did so by spreading racism in those movements, not anti-racism.

[thickness-protection-program]

"just go to a food pantry"

"get a second job"

"start your own garden"

"stop buying name brand"

"don't get your nails done"

"learn to budget"

"live within your means"

Temporary individualistic fixes will never solve systemic issues! God forbid EVERYONE eats and not just me!!

[mars-hollow]

writing a movie about a violent man in a dress who kills women out of a desire to become one and then insisting over and over that it can't be transphobic (despite it's cultural influence to the contrary) because he isn't a real tranny is. well it's beyond parody isn't it.

[mars-hollow]

reallyyy not a fan of the habit people have of deflecting guilt for making abhorrent and obvious caricatures of trans women in media by insisting that it was actually super progressive because he wasn't a real transsexual!! you see the same shit with rhps. just a complete failure to take some accountability and say "yeah that was insensitive we shouldn't have depicted a real group of people that way and it has brought them material harm as a result."

[emrakulsstrongestkitty]

It's so frustrating when people pull the "but he isn't a trans woman," like yes, the transmisogynistic caricature will not be called a woman by the source material, please consider why that is

[lunaticchimaera]

"The Hateful Image of You is a community building thing for us though." "We felt so safe in The Hateful Image of You it let us explore ourselves." "The Hateful Image of You inspired women to join imperialist government organizations." "Honestly I dont even care how you feel about The Hateful Image of You it doesn't matter that nobody acknowledges the affect it has on You." "I have personally helped facilitate dozens of productions of The Hateful Image of You its not amazing its just a movie."

Silence of the Lambs, Ace Ventura, RHPS, Sleepaway Camp, Longlegs, Psycho, the list goes on and on and on and The Hateful Image of You lives on in the hearts of everyone around us and TME people expect us to just, not care? Is it so hard to empathize with a trans woman for one minute that they can't even conceive of having The Hateful Image of You depicting yourself in a warped portrait with blood smeared on it and how it makes us feel? Especially that its a beloved community gathering thing to take part in The Hateful Image of You? That The Hateful Image of You unites everyone else in enjoying it? That the sharing of it perpetuates its renewal over and over again?

Nah, I'mma be a loud pissed off tranny about it. The least I can do to fight what kills so many of us before we can even be ourselves is shit on every one of these shitty fucking things yall make. Fuckin Hell.

[st-just]

Covid's cultural hangover is fascinating because on the one hand no one really wants to think about or remember it, but on the other it does seem to have permanently destroyed the last shreds of (at least) American civic society, in a way which is only becoming harder to ignore as time goes on.

[lawbutch]

It also started an ongoing health crisis that everyone is in denial of in a way that makes me feel absolutely insane. Long covid has overtaken asthma as the most common chronic illness in children, causing fatigue, depression, anxiety, and more. Disability rates in all ages have skyrocketed and will continue to grow. Every covid infection can cause long-lasting or permanent immune system and BRAIN damage and we're wondering why everyone is sick all the time and has no attention span or critical thinking skills. A study found that driving a car with acute or long covid is as dangerous as driving drunk because your brain is so fucked.

It wasn't just social isolation that's making everyone nuts, it's the wreck-your-brain-disease that everyone is spreading every day like its their full-time job. If you want to fight fascism, wear a mask!

[slowspinningredemption]

unfun fact: any flu virus can cause this damage. even regular "normal" flu. covid seems to be very efficient at this, but influenza viruses can also cause "long flu" and months or even years of issues. i can't even count the number of people i've seen saying things like "i don't understand, it's been months and i still feel wiped out. it wasn't even covid, it was just flu!" like bruh. there's no "just" flu. flu fucks you up and can kill people too, especially the very young, very old, the chronically ill, and the immunosuppressed.

masks stop every virus, not just covid. wear a fucking mask.

[mousidy]

your male socialization is obvious just by the way you keep calling cis women "oppressors" lmfao

possibly top ten funniest asks I've gotten

[mousidy]

a REAL woman would never think cis people oppress trans people

[mousidy]

REAL women know intersectionality is bogus. there is only one axis of oppression and the rest are made up and fake and gay

[mousidy]

throwing you to the wolves? that's impossible I'm literally just a helpless innocent woman. pretty misogynistic of you to suggest otherwise!

[aesths-deactivated20220604]

[mtftk9]

panicked when i heard crouton.net was down so i went and got the crouton from the wayback machine in case anyone needs it

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[mousidy]

What is your opinion on Misandry? I have been told frequently that it doesn't exist, but I think it is the foundation on which a lot of TERFs hate us. The concept of a rape organ, or that trans women are men invading women's spaces seem rooted in this idea that men are evil. I value your take

the logic of the patriarchy is that men are strong and capable, while women are weak and helpless damsels, justifying men's control over them. but because women are cast as ineffectual, a class of women the patriarchy wants to violently suppress must be rhetorically masculinized, or else they could pose no convincing violent threat worthy of said violent suppression

if terfs thought men were evil, they wouldn't collaborate so happily with the very structures of patriarchy that oppress them just so they could stick it to a marginalized group. the masculinizing rhetoric doesn't serve on its own to paint us as evil--only strong enough to be capable of enacting evil. it's the transfemininity that actually provides the "evil" part of the equation

[mousidy]

to build on this further, terfs never seem to take any issue with men having close proximity with and/or power over cis women

I don't see terfs protesting male doctors treating cis women, I don't see terfs protesting the catholic church, which frequently gives men close access to and power over cisgender women, and I don't see terfs protesting the unit of the family itself, in which fathers have extremely high levels of access to and power over their children, including cisgender girls

no, terfs have no issue with men having close proximity to and power over women. they have an issue with trans women

[mousidy]

surely any day now terfs will start protesting male gynecologists

[mousidy]

if terf rhetoric were ever actually meaningfully "misandrist" there would be a massive male counter-movement working against it. but there isn't, because terf rhetoric doesn't bind men, it empowers them

it serves the interests of the patriarchy very comfortably, reifying the myths of male superiority and the fragility of women while pinning all of women's oppression not on men, but on an extraordinarily marginalized class of women. it's a great way to obscure the reality of the patriarchy while upholding the logic that it's built on

[mousidy]

reifying the fragility of women makes the patriarchy appear natural. it tees the patriarchy up to go:

"of course women aren't holding positions of actual power. it's not because men oppress women, it's because women are too weak to do the important work. therefore, women need men to do all the heavy lifting for them, so the best thing they can do for themselves is become appealing and valuable to men. systemic oppression? what are you talking about? it's just biology"

[shinosarna]

I literally plainly asked a terf once that if she doesn't want trans women in women's prisons, why is she okay with male guards in said prisons. She said she doesn't care because they 'belong' there.

[gazeldhazel]

just got an email from Tumblr that a blog that exclusively posts stolen sex worker content does not violate any of their terms or whatever, so you're fully allowed to post literally any amount of your exposed body sans crotch. haha no it's only if it's stolen content and not your work and also you still can't be a trans woman on this site fuck you

[gazeldhazel]

most of the accounts posts do not have any mature content warning, which just makes it seem like their shitty algorithm for marking posts and blogs as mature is almost exclusively just a tranny detector at this point. so. really good site. I'm so happy to be here. yay. yay. haha. haha. ha.hah.ha.

[sonypraystation]

Girl Shake That fat Communist Ass

[tamamoland-with-a-gun]

[ambidisastrous]

every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

[moniquill]

Yes and: Make education more affordable and achievable!!

[resumbrarum]

The destruction of public and higher education and the degradation and subjugation of workers has been an active part of conservative policy for more than fifty years.

Related: when conservatives say "no one wants to work anymore", what they mean is "no one wants to give up a substantial portion of the fruits of their labor in order to enrich an idle capital-holding class".

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

[daovihi]

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

[nociceptrix]

tweet sequence of a not-quite-friend and artist i admire that i find myself thinking of constantly