the right's propaganda against trans people has been one of their most successful campaigns as of late. it's been so obviously astroturfed, so clearly manufactured. but they have useful toadies like singal who gets opinion pieces in the NYT to convince the liberals it's okay

This is important, general advice - Whatever is weird, whatever is considered fringe, is what keeps the rest of us safe. It is what lines the frontier of what is allowed, is safe to do, to think, to say in society. The farther out that frontier goes, the more "normal" whatever you are into becomes.

botany is an incredibly important and underrated science - an insane amount of things we enjoy and manufacture, including food ofc but also medicines, clothes, building materials, almost anything you can think of initially comes from plants bc plants are amazing and make a wide variety of crazy shit

I think we should seek to ultimately do away with pornography as a distinct category from the rest of art/entertainment. Action movies, horror, tragedy, all play on activating libidinal impulses and I don't see why sexuality should be any different. We'd have better porn if it wasn't ghettoized.

Yeah I am very sympathetic to the “porn bans are actually bad for queer people and all art” argument but erotica is worth preserving for itself.

Trust me, I am going to be Worse. And this is a one-way street. I'm not going to suddenly 'calm down' if and when things get better for us. No, you pieces of shit lost that option when you decided to throw in with the fascists. Now you get horniness front and center every day as a fuck you.

What I've been saying for 15 plus years on social media. Being pro-porn means you also protect reproductive rights and civil rights and LGBTQ+ equality.

Porn is good and can even be great art, and masturbating is healthy for you

They always come for porn because it's the thing people are least likely to be vocally in support of, but the tools they use to restrict porn are always used against everyone for all sorts of things you'd never in a million years describe as pornographic. You'd just call them free speech.

if you cannot express yourself through the creation of adult sexual content(or even just nudity in general which isnt inherently sexual) because some dipshits in the government Dont Like It, then that effectively means anything They Dont Like is subject to their whims. Thus, porn is the foundation,

Porn and smut are the canaries in the coalmine! If you see governments start to restrict them, you better start making NOISE, because next comes "normal" media and other forms of speech. Inb4 "what if kids see it??" TALK TO YOUR DAMN KIDS ABOUT INTERNET SAFETY LIKE A PARENT SHOULD

the problem is bigotry, but the tool they're using to spread it is *the concept of pornography*. as long as we accept the idea that "pornography" is 1. meaningfully distinct from other forms of art, and 2. inherently bad or shameful it will continue to be a weapon conservatives can use against us!

you can and rightly should go into depth about how this is all a stealth attack on queer expression, about how it's a short leap to labeling gay and trans people "pornographic" and how they are not subtle about this being their express intent. But You Can't Get Around Defending Actual Pornography

I had the same thought. we literally can't afford not to. the old status quo worked for everyone, but the nazis decided to wage a war against us using shame over porn (or anything they could label as such) so now we gotta go loud and proud

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this is the real motivation behind age verification laws

combine defining trans people as inherently sexually explicit with the worldwide rollout of ID verification on its surface appears to be: “trans people are hidden from minors” wrong: it results in “trans people cannot communicate without showing ID & can only communicate with those who show ID”

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this, age verification, ebike bans, and library book bans are a cohesive whole

The reason they are so adamant about the binary birth certificate bullshit is because it's literally the first chance the world has to impose its will upon you. To reach for freedom from that first instance of external authority is a threat to all authority. And the patriarchy won't have that.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

So, two conventions Two sets of threats Two compliance for safety What have the Puriteens learned: Violence is the answer. This is why “ew!” is bad in furry. If you don’t like something STFU and MOVE ON. No one would FORCE you to talk to the GoH. Fucking hell.

It's flabbergasting that you would give into the demands of conservative activists trying to eradicate healthy sexual and LGBTQ+ expression in the fandom. This literally tells the conservatives that doxxing is a viable strategy to deplatform people they don't agree with.

Babyfurs run your cons Babyfurs dance, and win dance comps Babyfurs draw art for cons and make up a good chunk of dealer’s dens Babyfurs are tech moguls Babyfurs are popular fursuiters Babyfurs design clothes. Babyfurs fight for LGBTQ+ spaces Babyfurs do not involve real children in adult spaces

Now that their harassment campaign has proven effective and scored them the exact outcome they wished for, I'm sure they will stop and never bother you again. That's usually what happens when you obey bullies, right?

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At the end of the day, a lot of this boils down to audience capture and cowardice. A lot of these breadtubers that are hardline against lolicon and the weird fictional kinks are being performative so as not to piss off their audience. They would rather avoid their audience's anger than be genuine.

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I think people still underestimate the extent to which the panic over an increase in trans boys transitioning is about the belief that AFAB bodies are rightfully for breeding and should be preserved as property belonging to their future husbands.

for as wrong as i was about as much as i was, at least this is something i grasped fully from the jump. i came into transitioning from a marriage that was falling apart and the number of things i'd have functionally have to sign off on as a husband gender/bodywise disgusted me

Their scapegoating naturally becomes another path to normalizing the cognitive authoritarianism on which the fascist minority control by oligarchs relies. bsky.app/profile/sexa...

To conservatives, kids are property

The European commissioner for human rights urges countries planning to exercise authoritarian restrictions on children's access to online connection to instead focus on creating safer online platforms that protect children's rights.

Honestly have been saying this for a long time but the electoral politics world almost completely disregards the rights of the child because they don't vote

I don’t say it enough but the core thread in the Epstein files which nobody wants to talk about is that there was a centralized elite conspiracy to defeat feminism

A growing narrative targeting trans youth, autistic youth, many other cohorts of young people (but especially pushing attacks on civil rights for all of us through targeting children) is that parents don't have enough control over children and need enabling to be more controlling.

Politics of state-sanctioned child abuse

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The overarching goal is reproductive control--denying autonomy to those designated as gestational resources, coercing those who "shirk" their "reproductive duty", and managing the populations of "undesirable" demographics. Sex and reproduction is a central fixation of reactionary regimes.

If you want to be cheered up, think about how many uppers and weird research chemicals trump is gonna be on for the state of the Union to keep him from falling asleep mid-babble, how stressed he is, and how very fragile his cerebral arteries are