I grew up with FPS games and I am genuinely at "everyone who called all this stuff fascist propaganda was 100% right and I was making excuses for it when I downplayed that stuff to myself and others"

i'm not even saying "people shouldn't play violent video games" but there is a broad unwillingness to grapple with the role they might play in warping lots of people's brains and making our society less safe

Because the US has always hid behind the fig leaf that violence is a personal failure, never a societal one.

any games critic worth their salt has been trying to warn you for decades that this is where the worship of war games was getting us but y'all just whined "video games don't cause violence" and went back to playing Call of Duty

Like them or hate them, there is no denying that video games desensitized people to violence in the same way that the internet has.

I understand the rhetorical value of the 'transphobia actually hurts cis people too!' argument but I can't help but feel a little upset by the implication that if only trans people were being hurt then it wouldn't matter as much. transphobia is primarily bad because it hurts trans people, surely?

I can’t trust them because I’m trans. Not to be critical of this take, because it’s completely true, but also nobody says “I can’t trust politicians who are openly racist because they’ll be bad on other stuff too.” Being against someone’s human rights should be enough.

I occasionally toy with calling myself aromatic but I honestly don't know. I feel... something. I think. there have been a few people I've felt a faint desire to get closer to, even after already being friends. is that... romantic? I feel like there should be more to it than that.

it's such a pain sometimes being both asexual and into bondage. difficult to satisfy my desires on my own, but also near impossible to find a partner who would help, respect my (many) boundaries and also not mind that I'm not attracted to them. I need like a copy of myself to tie me up

people keep assuring me that pepe has been reclaimed and it's not just a right wing thing anymore but every 'leftist' I see using it always eventually turns out to have some reprehensible views, usually about women.

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.

nah i have been beating this drum for many years and i will continue beating it for many years to come it seems; *this modern wave of transphobia, especially in the UK, was championed and led through "left wing" party members, organisations and affiliates.* and that's why they won't fight back.

This is extremely why we should be preventing people like Gavin Newsom from having any national political clout, because in the US transphobia is seen as a right wing ideology and letting it infect the other side is a one way ticket to bipartisan approval of institutionalizing us all

god I hope so. if starmer's fall manages to kill centrism in the uk there might actually be some room to hope for a better future (assuming we survive the likely incoming reform government first). that said, I won't hold my breath. centrists are like cockroaches, they're nauseatingly persistent.

because the majority of the time when people say this they are saying that trans people are being entitled by wanting to be treated like human beings

found myself reading a lot of fpov het romance recently and I've got to ask: are straight women ok? not every one was like this but so many love interests who were so jealous that they try to prevent the protagonist from talking to or about other men. and this is meant to be... romantic?

reading is pretty cool, I think, and people should engage with it as a hobby however they feel best able to. some hypothetical more pure and virtuous reading style is completely worthless if it makes reading less fun or accessible to you.

I've never seen a more perfect example of "someone proving in their apology that they learned absolutely nothing from their mistakes." Yeah, FUCK Brianna Wu more than ever before.

You can have a conversation about your (our) specific needs as medical transitioners without pussyfooting around the fact that you clearly think people who don't medically transition aren't really trans.

I've said this many times over the years, but I'll say it again: If you think you need a word to separate you from Those Other Trans People, you're being a dickhead. No, they aren't less trans than you because their transition looks different. No, you don't need your own special word.

That's something that drives me nuts about being "cancelled". These people can go on and just live normal lives but no, they feel they deserve the thing that being cancelled proved they did not And the more rich the worse it is. like Mel Gibson could just do nothing the rest of his life and be fine

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

the centrist news slop machine is dogshit? colour me surprised!

Hey transgender people! Are you tired of this website that is owned by a virulent transphobe? Come to blue sky!! [two years later] so…about that……. 😏

The belief of many developers and engineers that their work is morally neutral, apolitical, and in some way distinct from physical reality is one of the reasons tech has been able to do so many of the horrifying things it has.

That provision would effectively ban trans health care for people of all ages everywhere in the country. If Dems can't stand up to that, then they deserve to lose forever.

I think my fave example of the BBC as a whole being kinda fucked is that one summer when like four different BBC staff compared trans healthcare to nazi torture which may have also been the same year a certain comedy writer went on Newsnight and did the same. No apologies were issued. None.

A transfemme walking down the street in a dress shouldn't have to be an act of societal rebellion. She should just be viewed as a goddamn clothed woman going about her day and running errands. The world will be a better place when that view is achieved by the masses.

it's so funny that there's been SO MUCH carping about journalism disappearing and about how we have to support the outlets we have left or it'll be gone forever and this is what we're supposed to support

I guess I don’t understand the whole “If we abandon our values we’ll win elections” thing. Kind of seems like it misses the point but I’m just an actor.

I just feel inclined to remind everyone that when trans people raised concerns about harris stating she would 'follow the law' with regards trans rights at a time more states than ever were enacting anti-trans laws, libs shouted us down insisting she was an ally. Listen to trans people.

*A Centrist restaurant consultant walks into a pizza parlor* "I can't understand why you're not doing more to get people who hate pizza to come in here to complain about your menu"

I keep blocking every account I see suggesting that trans people are morally obligated to sacrifice ourselves at the altar of political convenience and yet there are always more. they're like ants I just can't get rid of them.

I truly believe that electing a transphobic Dem could have the same effect that electing a transphobic Labour party in the U.K. had: the worst possible outcome where being anti-trans is a consensus view bsky.app/profile/park...

It also betrays a view of trans rights as a "nice to have" issue in the way that it portrays those demanding trans rights as spoiled children who won't play if they don't get their way rather than a population desperately trying to survive in a world increasingly hostile to them from all sides

reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

Hey for real, South Park contributed more to transphobia being normalized in the pre-Rowling era more than any other media I can think. Garrison alone. Them doing a Trump video where he has a tiny dick and is sleeping with Satan is not something you gotta applaud them over. They're assholes.

This is basically an object lesson in why Big Tent ideology is worthless dead-end bullshit, you can't have a coherent party with a coherent platform when one of your guys is making a queer rights legal hotline and the other is doing podcasts with nazis and agreeing that they have some good points

its obviously just a transparent attempt to stalk everybody online more than they already do but i really want to know what logic they'd spew is like. how does Me (adult) uploading My Passport to PornHub protect the children from anything. what is that achieving. please explain.

It's amazing how little it takes for liberals to abandon civil rights. Conservatives poured money into making trans people a culture war fixation and transphobia still isn't actually an electoral winner, but liberals are ecstatic to "make a tough sacrifice" and mulch us to run right and lose again.

honestly it's getting harder to not just dismiss the field of journalism outright with how eager people and publications are to platform bigots uncritically or with the most halfhearted 'but some disagree' balancing imaginable. it's so tiring.

I don't think this is a *good* statement but it was an inevitable one. They clearly had no interest in ditching John Boyne after burning themselves so thoroughly clinging on to him, but also knew continuing at this point would have been a farce that would have permanently destroyed the awards.

It's over - The Polari Prize has been halted for 2025. Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author. Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.

the 'male loneliness epidemic' is such a misleading phrase. when I first saw it mentioned I thought it was talking about how men struggle to make and keep friends because toxic masculinity has tricked them into thinking showing emotions is a weakness. but no, instead it's about finding partners?

While yes, transphobia has knock on effects that will harm cis people too, you should care because it's harming trans people right the fuck now

encouraging people to read classic literature (or otherwise broaden their reading list) doesn't make you a snob but dismissing other works as not being "real books" 100% does.

My earnest advice to Labour supporters concerned about the new left party is to accept that: 1. The Labour Party leader told those people to leave 2. Those people are now gone. 3. You will not scold them into returning. 4. You have 4 years to get your party to attract them back into the fold.

LGBTQ+ rights are not a “Ieft wing purity test” and if you think that way, you’re part of the problem.

I don't know why this post is making the rounds & people are agreeing with it. It's not that far removed from "don't say queer" No. This is NOT what the two elder activists meant when they said "shut the fuck up"