It is kinda incredible to fully without irony or self consciousness write a headline thats just: but what about MEEEEE????

the purpose of calling transfems and trans women "masculine, patriarchal, male socialized" etc is to make them feel like they must make themselves smaller. must defer more, must not speak too loudly, must not defend themselves. it's a form of coercive control.

i think politics is probably just a real appealing career choice for rapists, various domestically violent kinds of guys, aspiring rapists, etc. its like being a cop

for cis people, “im just trying to live my life as a teen girl but the government, backed by a vast shadowy web of fanatical religious groups, is hellbent on using its full might to destroy me bc i was born special” is an outlandish YA novel plot for teenage trans girls in america its tuesday

and btw you should absolutely take RW signals about the 19th amendment seriously. they absolutely mean it and will only get louder.

incomplete thought: liberal/leftist men loudly demanding that women vote for a domestic abuser or else it's women's fault if democracy, are mirroring the more explicit right wing expectation that wives should vote the same as their husbands or else it's women's fault that "america is in decline"

The AIDS genocide was a choice and both parties have been reaping dividends ever since

These people simply do not see a political movement primarily driven by women as legitimate, even if it clearly constitutes a majority. They NEED to win a majority of MEN, or else they're not REALLY winning, in their minds - they're cheating, because women's votes aren't real, in their minds.

You can also see this in all the coverage given to "Democrats are losing young men", and the complete absence of "Republicans are losing young women" stories, even though young women lean far more Democratic than young men lean Republican

When the punishment for minor distributions is the same as for major disruptions, there's no reason to stick to minor disruptions. Especially when major disruptions can often be done without being physically present at the scene and subsequently arrested. Tough-on-crime pols really are very stupid.

How you can you write the first sentence here without realising that it completely nullifies the second?

All these guys sound exactly like those accountants who were stoked about using slurs at work when Trump got elected again

This. Meta is demonstrably tearing a hole through politics globally, and going ‘what people are seeing on here is hugely damaging, they must be 18 in order to look at’ is to totally miss the point of what is actually happening.

my sister once got asked the man vs bear question at a social gathering and afterwards she explained to me that she only said man because she was genuinely afraid of how the men around her would react if she was truthful and said bear

When people ask for "positive masculinity" they fundamentally ask to preserve the hierarchy in which manhood sits atop all. A gentler, kinder, less violent---or at least, less OPENLY violent model of manhood. Few are ready to confront that the problem is attempting to preserve manhood at all.

Hegemonic masculinity is usually defined as autonomy, independence, leadership---that which women are not supposed to possess nor aspire to. Gender is in and of itself an act of excluding women from humanity and agency, drawing a boundary between those who possess and those who are possessed.

It's true that a very shallow identity politics has been weaponized by establishment against the left, but it's also true some leftists have internalized that as justification for openly reactionary beliefs

It's all gender. But it's not ONLY gender. It's "class-identity politics". To hear his fanboys talk, being the *boss* of an oyster farm makes you *working-class*. Think about that. While the lady doing admin at the hospital is the dreaded PMC.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

I think people don't realize that the 'give a trans person 50$' meme isn't a joke. You can save a trans persons life by giving them 50$.

HR protects the company, not the abuse victim. This guy is actually playing the HR role

This man is a ghoul.

Graham Platner hates women. Ken Klippenstein hates women. Ryan Grim hates women. Mehdi Hasan hates women.

It's masculinism. The Platner camp are pro-chud and anti-fem, and that unites Dirtbag Leftists and Anti-Woke Centrists, usually bitter enemies

He looks like he's about to complain that he had to do it because otherwise the judge would have given his bitch ex-wife full custody

the toilet vigilantes imagine themselves bravely calling out and humiliating a pathetic tranny and the tranny withering in the light of their righteousness and everybody seeing how good and righteous and strong they are, the tranny being beaten to death being optional but ideal

“[Bovino] once stated that ‘Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions,’ referring to supposed decadence of pre-war Germany before the rise of the Nazis”

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

Suggesting that a shadowy cabal of Israel supporters are the reason drunk-women-are-asking-for-it Nazi tattoo guy is accused of abuse is a highly embarrassing combination of wishful thinking, misogyny, and antisemitism

classic use of "problematic" as a euphemism to obfuscate what is actually being described. unfortunate that a word that should have been analytically useful & neutral has been reduced to "anyone using this word is hiding something they know would be indefensible if they were specific about it"

The conservative movement explicitly, no-shit, no-other-explanation believes that an educated populace is directly opposed to their vision of a peasant class having 15 kids and building wealth for the Chosen Few Elites forever and want to repeal the 20th and the 19th century to achieve that goal

very standard church position in fact

This is horrific. It is also an incredibly common dogma of abuse culture, and not just among churches. I've literally seen this rationale used by "transformative justice" types in radical spaces, and seen survivors and those who defend them extensively harassed for refusing it.

CW: CSA - people sometimes treat me like a conspiracy theorist for pointing out how institutional transphobia is connected to a culture of child sexual abuse and then this shit happens

Gonna be real, this is why appeals to democracy fall flat to my ears. I dont give a single solitary fuck what a plurality or majority of Americans think. "Democracy" is mob rule. You either support individual autonomy or you don't.

Bluesky really not beating the allegations (the Venn diagram of people who think this Platner stuff is acceptable and people who make 'anti-bedtime caucus' jokes will be a circle)

I literally can't get over this he joined a fucking DECADE after the Nisour Square massacre. It was 2018!!!!!!!!! WE WERE ALL AROUND FOR 2018!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

you could write whole books about all of the “this is why democrats are losing men” and “so now domestic violence is bad” self-reports people (mostly men 🤔) are doing around platner, almost as if these people support him not despite but because he is a piece of shit that loves murdering people

Apparently this post was made with the assumption that people would agree this is okay to do to a child

incidentally like 80% of smug online anti-anarchist dunks are basically variations on sneeringly asserting that children are the archetypal object of legitimate violence & therefore anyone who can be legitimately compared to a child is an acceptable target of abuse, but people aren't ready for that

"i've had my own struggles" yes we all know that the men rushing to platner's defense are doing it because they recognize their own behavior in the allegations and thus they are defending their own interests and their own right to abuse with impunity

Surrounded by a group of men intent on committing hate crimes upon her, our trans sister was thrown to the ground and pulled her gun to defend herself. The men who assaulted her face no charges. She faces 15 years in prison. slate.com/news-and-pol...

imagine getting really mad every time a female video game character looks like an adult. imagine publicly melting down and being like ew I can’t be attracted to her now, she looks like she can vote

One of the founders of Jezebel. There's a reason every feminist spent the 2010s grumbling about fake ass "Jezebel feminism"

Ah, we are being reminded how many people believe men forcibly restraining women to "calm them down" is distinct from domestic violence.

Like a lot of it makes sense when you realise that they're not using "working class" to mean a relationship to socioeconomic power but to mean a big, strong, white guy who'll put all us mouthy bitches in our place.

ken klippenstein and ryan grim tomorrow: "trump proves voters *like* sexual assault, the b*tch was asking for it, do you expect platner to be, like, a ken doll or something"

Ryan Grim’s most consistent political position is that men accused of harming women must be defended at all costs