For those that are familiar with Homer's Odyssey (which I'm assuming most of you know something about it, more than the average person) this is a good article about how Nolan translated the meaning of it for the movie. www.elle.com/culture/movi...

Just got back from Nolan's The Odyssey and it is, words are hard to describe, but stunning, amazing. This is the accumulation of Nolan's work. It is The Northman by way of Dunkirk.

There's a point where I've experienced enough cis women turning around and doing to trans/nonbinary people what cis men do to them, and then they propagate that they are the better species or something.

I've dealt with smoky air from wildfires for some summers now, not a thing I experienced even 10 years ago, and yesterday was the first time I stepped outside and started gagging from it.

Cis woman, joking to me, about how everyone wants to give the post menopausal women their e patches, because of the shortage.

I see we've escalated from asking Trump voters about their feelings about the price of eggs in the cafe to asking a Trump cult stalking an LGBTQ bookstore across the street. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

As a transmasc, when you are sacrificing yourself for nothing in return, that cost you think is inconsequential, is burdened onto those that come after you.

This is for transmascs: what I've learned because I am a parent. Giving of yourself was what you learned, because you learned you were never enough. When you are sacrificing all of yourself in penance, it is not a cost that is born by you alone.

Biology is an interest of mine, so I know a fair amount, but I don't want to speak authoritatively about it, but this is why the binary sex model is bad actually for science too.

or, as i put it in talks: "we can observe the sexual phenotypes of a turtle. we can't ask the turtle its gender- and even if we could, its answer would like be incomprehensible to us"

I remember watching the Temple Grandin movie, about the autistic woman who designs a more humane way to slaughter cattle. There is a scene where she can create in her mind a mental map of what the mechanics of a gate are...

The sex binary exists because each sustains the other in opposition. In the patriarchy, you cannot have a manhood that is not defined by not being womanhood and vice versa.

Took the kids to see Supergirl and it was a lot more fun than I would have expected. Now, I don't much care for Superman generally, so the deviation made it more enjoyable for me. Plus. Supergirl is a tomboy.

This is propaganda, designed to provoke blame on transmasculinity. The problem isn't that there is some self hating trans man out there who would believe this, because the very few who would go that far, don't have any real power to do anything about it anyway.

There is this big hole in the disk horse whenever a trans person is behaving badly and that badness somehow affirms an inherent "male quality" that could be solved by recognizing that women can actually be bad, full stop, and furthermore to think that women are incapable of being bad is antifeminist

Kept watching just to hear him say "maahnster" again. Mesmerized by the combination of stoner and effortless proficiency. Recommend.

It looks like I'm finally able to move on with my life now, but there is a large cost. I am about to embark on a phase of my life that is fulfilling my dream life, or it would be if I wasn't pushed to do it after all this terror and precarity.

I'm just going to stop following anyone who won't shut up about Platner.

Hormonal birth control made my depression worse, and I tried it a few different ways over the years. Now, I was depressed without it too, but I pretty quickly connected the birth control to my depressed state becoming untenable despite everyone telling me it couldn't be so.

To anyone who claims to be a centrist I will say that unless they promote to the left at bare minimum, half as much as to the right, then they are only a wolf in sheep's clothing.

The Crow was my favorite movie as a teen. There are many great things about the movie, but it's Brandon Lee's performance that really elevates it. And the tragedy of his death means in watching it, you yourself feel that loss of his life.

LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE, he is toxic and bad and useless and a gender traitor. He is not his own person at all.

to have. He is only useful as much as he can make super sekrit observations on cis men, like a spy. Trans men's only purpose is to exist in service to someone else. If a trans man isn't dedicating his entire being to making some other group's life better, even if the proposed actions are

than them, without any consideration to his own health, safety, etc. AND if you look at the article, it is the only type of comment on which trans men are allowed to speak at all -- "I have this new insight on how bad men are by living among them!!!" This is the only insight a trans man is allowed

It describes a course of action that transgender men are literally unable to do (a guy with that much beard growth is uh going to have too much T to be allowed on a woman's sports team, no matter how he was born), and they should do it IN SERVICE to another group that is perceived under more attack

I don't want to put this individual on blast by QRTing them but this is like an ultimate summary of the epistemological appropriation of transgender men:

Note that this wouldn’t be technically legal either; the laws would simply be unenforceable against the president at any point in time. That’s how insane this decision was.

Imagine coming up with theory based on the belief that states a trans gender is more gender than cis gender, and that's why they are the real trans.

My favorite Mika song, btw, is Elle me dit, which has the English version, Emily, but it loses its meaning in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiHW...

This new Mika album, Hyperlove, is turning out to be my favorite yet. This album is really an album in the truest sense of it in that it is meant to be experienced as a whole, although some songs are streaming friendly (similar but different from radio friendly).

but racist elements embeded in fantasy have been hard to shake. It's hard to see goblin bankers as racist, when you don't have that history. But it's also I think then easier for someone to be later SOLD on racism when someone points out 'oh see it's just like THAT'. Which is the intention.

Assigning value to a gender does not equal wanting to be a gender. Misogyny is the default expression of womanhood, which is because of the patriarchy, not any inherent aspect of womanhood.

Polling place is where we vote. This is one of the ways they want to make it so that people don't vote so they can stay in power.

Does "electability" matter? Sure. Obviously. But you only see this being brought up in the context of telling someone not to go "too far left" or whatever. It's a way for centrist/moderate consultant/pundit types to argue against the left without having to ever actually talk about policy.

What kind of berry are you?

The thing you really have to understand to snap everything into alignment is that a lot of people who call themselves the heads of the Democratic Party honestly do not believe this true statement.

Watching Xanadu (1980) with the kids and explaining The Death of Disco in 1979 to them.

I went ahead and skimmed through The Amazing Digital Circus, since it has become the means for furthering internet fights, I figured I should understand what it is. And what an exhausting set of grievances.

My kids are into The Amazing Digital Circus, and I watched only about 10 minutes before having to turn it off because it was too irritating, but immediately I thought to myself, this was made by a trans person. And I was correct.

If a trans man and a cis woman are being misogynistic together, the point is that the trans guy is there for you to get mad at, so that you won't notice the cis woman having a lot more relative power.

The waste is part of the point. Trump allies live their pockets with our tax dollars and the government is less able to serve the country.

It would be nice if we could talk about leaving or staying like we say we should talk about say, transition, or most commonly, abortion, where you assume that someone is making the best decision for themselves and their family based on their individual circumstances

The news pieces are about wealthy cis parents of cis kids because that's always about what news pieces are about--the wealthy and the cis.

Just because all the news pieces about trans people fleeing internationally are wealthy cis parents with trans kids, do not mistake that for being the definitive story of trans immigration.

Seriously getting close to the point where I drop kick the Internet out of my life.

It seems like the summer of music because it seems like all the artists I like are releasing something this year. I'm trying not to glut myself and spread it out longer.

Does anyone else remember La Roux? She was the epitome of the 80's new wave revival in the 2010's with her androgynous style. I liked her music but was more envious of her style-one I've wanted since I was a child in the '80s myself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8e...

My new music obsession is the new Mika album and in particular this duo song, Coeur Stone, with Styleto. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVba...

I tried watching The Wolfman 2010, which was suggested to me as a movie I would like, and that was correct in that it is a movie I wanted to like but found it disappointing. There is just not enough there and it feels empty going through the motions.