Shocking to learn that repeatedly aggressively attacking trans people doesn't protect you from fascists.

You cannot 'win' a rational argument against a trans-hating bigot because their entire movement is based on disgust, and the pseudo-intellectual, internally contradictory rationales are just backfilled off a disgust reaction to apply a veneer of legitimacy.

The reason people are so resistant to letting trans chicks figure it out, if you haven’t guessed it, is actually that eggs are an excellent source of feminized labor that you never have to pay for because the egg will be too ashamed about it

Highly recommend.

Feminism has spent decades in a doldrums, unable to reckon with the necessity of challenging heterosexuality as an institution, constantly engaging in constant lip service to some multiply marginalized demographic of women or other without truly absorbing what it means to center the vulnerable.

This will be the centrists' move post-Platner, to tie progressivism to that shitheel, and make their case that you can only trust the banal Schumercrats that the DNC has approved - here it is being workshopped by the conservative Dems' propaganda outlet.

When women (on a dating site for women) put "NO MEN" in their profile (and nothing trans affirming,) am I right to assume they are anti-trans? If so, I wish they'd just come out and say it rather than this cloaked bullshit.

Man, I haven't been following this, but hostilities between Louisibama and New Orleans have always been there, and the cold war has evidently turned red-hot, fueled of course by the Trump acolytes in state gov esp. hating the very blue and majority Black New Orleans.

When I was in college “Take Back the Night” was a big deal / rallying cry by feminists. I feel like the TERFy ‘feminists’ have ceded the night and every other venue to the unstoppable ferocity of men and declared that bioessentialist segregation is the only way forward. 1/

Trans woman calculations in the present age: if one gets FFS, would one have to update a currently-correct passport (i.e. would one have (more) problems going through border control, big or small, if they decide a picture doesn't match?)

one of the best things that could happen to this country is to disassociate green energy infrastructure from our stupid culture war bullshit and unfortunately I think that's why it's important Walmart does this and takes it seriously

The main thing I want from the Democrats is to be unembarrassed by left-wing positions and to stop trying to pander to this story about the conservative "median voter" by espousing incredibly watered down liberal policy or republican policy. I'm not saying every Dem needs to be far left, but...1/

I think it's somewhat ironic that in a purportedly capitalist and libertarian society, so much capitulation has happened because businesses (and I include universities) are utterly dependent on the largesse of government. Medicine, media, education, manufacturing all fawn and cave to trumpism. 1/

Weird christian perverts desperate to know in great detail what happens in women's restrooms and police it.

If we elect a centrist Dem in 2028, I feel like their signature policy achievement will be to fix the reflecting pool.

If the Dems understood the political winds and how to harness them, they would go full-on anti-data center right now. They wouldn't even have to talk about climate change, just how big tech is trying to destroy rural America, already reeling from tariffs, etc.

Rare moment of self-awareness when gaines says "I'm a pretty horrible conspiracy theorist, to be honest with you." Oh, we know, Riley.

Trans woman milestone. Met my first chaser IRL. I'm so oblivious I didn't realize what was happening (it was the eyeglasses shop owner) until he started talking about this massage he got in Thailand from a "ladyboy" and how his wife doesn't like sex anymore, asking "what surgeries have [I] had" 1/

“This isn’t about any individual story,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who said the project took her two months to complete, told me. “This is about the whole corpus of how they’ve covered trans issues over time.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

I am strongly in favor of Medicare for All and believe our current system is, to put it most delicately, a fucking mess. However, the actions of the current administration have made clearer to me that, if enacted, MfA would need bulletproof insulation from political interference. Even in...1/

For my newsletter I wrote about how Kier Starmer should serve as a warning for centrist Democrats in the US. It's a real crystal ball moment. www.burnsnotice.com/its-the-cent...

Narratives which cast (sis) female prisoners only as potential victims & male prisoners (incorrectly including trans women) as potential perpetrators simplify the dynamics of interpersonal violence to the detriment of all:

it's official: these new bathrooms in pdx airport represent the peak of human accomplishment. individual, private rooms. no gaps. a shared sink and waiting area. light, bright, pleasant. accessible. the toilet gold standard. we did it folks

Still upset the vampires gentrified all the trans people out of Transylvania. Would be nice to return to the motherland and settle down on the banks of the Estrogen River and visit friends on Lake Testosterone.

Kids books seem to split bimodally into “cute kids do wacky things with fantasy creature friends and no stakes” and “violent death and vertiginous dread done page-after-page.” Finding books for an emotionally intelligent Big Kid isn’t easy.

I need a how-to makeup book that is co-authored by an engineer, artist, and sociologist. "Sculpt your face" - why? What is the goal? What, applied where, has what effect, and to what end? Every tutorial is like "here's how to do this look." But it's not transferable because every face is different.

Does the UK have *any* left-wing press? Every article I see that comes out of the UK seems like it ranges from center-right to making-nazis-blush.

A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

I wish cis men understood that, even if we grant their premise that women like secure and 'strong' men, the fact that your manhood is completely undone by a hint of femininity is profoundly weak and fragile. See Tom Holland/Umbrella, etc. It's not the femininity per se, it's the self-assuredness.

If we ever get back to making practical laws, retaining our payment information, or personal ID info ‘on file’ after a transaction/verification is completed should be illegal. The problem isn’t how many letters, numbers, etc. my password has; it’s that you all can’t stop getting hacked.

I think often of an academic paper on abortion I read in grad school. Survey questions on abortion attitudes were given to men and women; they had a great deal of gradation - i.e. always permissible, permissible only at X time, life of mother, always illegal, etc. What they found was….1/

If you post in the forest and no one likes it, have you posted at all?

I have no idea what you are referring to.

The realization I keep hoping the Dem establishment will have is to understand that people are so hungry for left-wing positions espoused with an unapologetic attitude that they will overlook all sorts of shitty behavior to get it. 1/

My son still calls me Dad. Does that make me a girl Dad?

What an amazing window into the many characters inhabiting New Orleans.

I think often of the “protect women” crowd, particularly the women, who spend hours a day online spewing bigoted anti-trans rhetoric online while approx. 230 million girls worldwide have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, often performed by women and supported by women. If these bigots gave…1/2

If you make a bare comment like “I always knew he secretly loved pomegranates.” without a quote post or reply or any other reference to what you are talking about, some of us have no idea. Maybe that’s the point - ?

The entire political philosophy of terfism is based on them offering up trans women for men to rape and assault in the hopes that it will spare them from rape and assault. It's society-wide v-coding.

You cannot indulge biological essentialism without serving the patriarchy. You cannot reduce women to gametes, uterii, and chromosomes without reducing them to fertility and baby-making and men's efforts to police and control baby-making. Most 2nd wave feminists figured this out in the 1970s.

Cis men (and some women) tend to view trans women's presentation in much the way they view cis women's presentation - as being for their consumption. That what we wear, how we walk and talk, etc. is for them. For us, though, they view our entire transition as being for their consumption. 1/

This is my moment to shine, but so many choices. This just says EIGHTIES to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXu...

It doesn’t do any good to “take back the House” or “take back the Senate” if there are 3-7 DINOs as part of that group, and we’ve already seen on a multitude of votes that there are. It’s like the breathless coverage of “breaking the supermajority” here in NC only to have 2 DINOs enabling the Rs.

I think most centrist Dems think America was just swell in 2009, and are trying to find a way to get back to that rather than recognizing that the deeply broken country was already there underneath the "we're so enlightened for electing a Black president" self-congratulatory rhetoric.

I just generally don't take misgendering very seriously unless it's malicious (which I've fortunately rarely experienced) or I have an ongoing relationship with someone. People who I've hired to do jobs or folks in service industries I interact with - I do not correct them. In part, because...1/

I don’t really understand how an argument to segregate trans people out of bathrooms (because somehow we’re all ‘men’) isn’t an argument for gender segregation in day-to-day life. While I get that having your ~pants down may *feel* more vulnerable, is it?The idea that a “man will sneak in”…1/

I honestly think we need more trans elder representation in our media/movement etc. While I'm glad there are so many young people who have found themselves early/earlier, and fights like we are in may need youthful energy, I'm often struck by the visuals of 50-60 year-old anti-trans bigots...1/

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