This whole thing is such a great example of how class power dynamics involving the state make justice impossible.

Note how a 17-year-old trans girl is a “child” who must be protected when it comes to making her own medical decision, but an “activist” who can’t be afforded the basic protections of the law when she is assaulted by a 50-year-old man with a history of harassing trans people.

The way trans issues and trans lives are discussed in contemporary culture is the ultimate example of talking about people like they're not in the room *while we're in the room* begging to speak.

Horryfing article to read. I knew finland was fucked for trans people, but this is still somehow worse than I imagined.

Wenn ihr euch fragt, warum es keinen funktionierenden Widerstand gegen den Faschismus in Deutschland gibt, dann richtet euren Blick auf den Totalausfall @die-linke.de die sich nach über 2 Jahren Genozid immer noch hinter einen Terrorstaat stellen, und Pro Palästinensische Mitglieder aus der Partei

DEATH TO AMERICA

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

Smut artists and sex workers are crushed underfoot while AI gets a green light to steal your yearbook photo to make hard-core porn with the caption "AI GIRLS NEVER SAY NO"

“Elite” is a pretty contested term and seems to shift between referring to a fairly small group to referring to anyone with a college degree and white collar employment. But Larry Summers really is a useful exemplar. There’s people like him that just get to sit at every single table somehow.

The first set of filters are pretty obvious—did you go to a top tier school? Did you teach at a top tier school? Did you get acknowledged in your field somehow? But even from there the filter is unforgiving, there’s a handful of people who end up like Summers compared to the rest.

As has been observed repeatedly by journalists and social scientists, there’s a huge overlap between who sits on the board of just about anything (from corporation to nonprofit); a narrow set of people get to be on the lion’s share of boards. Similar for who politicians nominate or make top staff.

If you stare at this too closely it becomes easy to sell yourself on conspiracy theories of both how it happens and whether some particular social outcome was intended by this group. But for the first, normal network/preferential attachment dynamics lead to this outcome every time.

We tried letting doctors say who's really trans and control our access to healthcare and the sheer quantity of rape and sexual abuse and sadism those doctors used that authority to indulge in should, on its own, be enough to abolish gatekeeping as a practice/ideology.

For the "opera is/should be pretty and bland" crowd, please enjoy the press photos I just received of the Komische Oper's upcoming SALOME, which qua press release features "no fewer than 147 severed heads."

Dunno, would be nice if trying to talk about our oppression wasn't treated as pooping a big party that everyone's always having and which would solve everything if we just ignored patriarchy hard enough.

I really think the people who say "anyone can call themselves trans these days" imagine some kind of past where you'd go to the doctor feeling poorly, men in white coats run a battery of tests and then, eventually, the doctor says solemnly "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have to diagnose you with trans"

I think you cannot understand anything until you realise the scale of cis society's obsession with transfeminity and the lengths it goes to not only to quarantine and punish it, but construct social rituals to navigate its presence in everyday cis life.

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

This is what ally ship looks like to me.

This was so long ago now. They're more unhinged now.

There is a trend of video game narratives where women are prominent to be overly focused on motherhood and the 'natural' nurturing urges we're all supposed to harbor. It happens even when the woman in question wears power armor and blasts aliens with a giant arm cannon.

I would love reeducation camps for medical professionals. Where they all get to spend some time and learn about all the abuse the committed and all the sufferring they could have avoided.

These men grew up with The Secretary™ whose job was: • Be sexually desirable • Be sexually available • Look after them like children • DO THE TYPING. Not being able to email is a status symbol:

If the Prescott memo is true, and there is a secret cabal of LGBTQ+ journalists stopping any negative stories about trans people being published or aired at BBC News, then, I have to say, they’re doing a really fucking shit job of that.

it was always the most “open secret” shit imaginable and no one did a fucking thing about it. people don’t give a fuck about sexual abuse unless it convenient rhetoric to weaponize against communities at high risk for sexual abuse—trans women in particular

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Ana is being maliciously targeted by payment processors for her dogged reporting on that issue. Please give her money through the one remaining means there is to do so.

As if to illustrate how post-reality and ideologically incoherent the British intelligentsia and political class has become, the BBC is currently embroiled in a scandal about being too left-wing, pro-migrant, and pro-trans.

"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.

INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights? LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York

on my sigma grindset (transitioning) to amass capital (boobs) so I can join the ruling class (women)

Doctors are high status, are People, and trans people are abject, subhuman- to punish a Person for harming a subperson is unthinkable, a violation of the natural order

(Note: Not asking for criminal charges is already a very lenient compromise on our end to be honest)

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

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This is a big reason why I'm so attached to Edelgard because she actually is allowed to kill her adversaries and change the world (lets not talk about Azure Gleam) @takamomchi.bsky.social this is also something I talk about with Fate's story arc as well (women must be infinitely forgiving of abuse)

greyishtober challenge day eight! 🖤💛🦅 ghost crow can spot for snipers #greyishtober25 #oc #art #sketch #rkgk

Funny how all the 'big tent' talk is actually about which minorities it is good to shove out into the night to die of exposure.

I keep being asked why I am not still studying, if I obviously still enjoy doing the work. (Because I am still doing it, just as a hobby now) and I have to tell them that sometimes love isn't enough. Because what else is there to say. It's not that I don't want, it's that I can't.

The Hearth (1/21) A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.