if i want to play board games with a bunch of lesbians i’d also just go there, there‘s no lesbian police inside asking me for my credentials in lesbianism

i think what's lost in taxonomization for taxonomization sake rather than communicative sake is that it forgets or omits how sexuality is the social dimension of gender(ed desires), and is kind of inextricable from the concept of subcultures or scenes

i say "for communicative sake" because i think the reason people find utility in sexuality labels is more often than not *because* of their ties to (living) histories, subcultures, scenes, particularly those where platonic, romantic, and sexual life can be negotiated out in the open rather than

being compartmentalized like heterosexualist norms do

you're all familiar with the "gay people i don't respect" meme, but the heart of that is the idea that sexuality can be stripped of subculture or scene, and simply exist invisible among a "normative" heterosexual mainstream world (the dominant sexual culture), constrained by

an abstraction of taxonomy in service to keeping queer and trans embodiments ane sexualities as precise and universal peculiarities that are sidelined to a heterosexual world. that seems like a pretty dour world to me, even for the heterosexuals

I think a surprising amount of sexuality identifiers, as with gender, is who you want to be friends with and that a failure to comprehend this leads to an ossified politics of petty faux-nationalisms that just do not bear out in social spaces that are not online.

There is little less respectable than queer people using the "you can't use modern terms like 'gay' for historical figures" canard as if that isn't a mechanism for erasing queer, especially trans, people from the record via epistemicide. You're not fighting bi erasure, you're being a useful idiot.

I think the satirist who quietly pushes lots of feminist ideas through irony posting is good, actually.

What am I even meant to say when trans women start acting like the average fox news viewer.

There's a certain type of anti-social bullshit from a lot of trans women that can only be appropriately dealt with by refusing to take on the placating, motherly role that they try to push you into doing. Sometimes you straight up have to be Not Nice.

My older sister was a medic in the TA to help pay to do her nursing degree in the 00's and yeah, this is how it goes. This is beyond widespread and is the natural outcome of joining a high control masculinist murder cult. Sexual violence goes hand in hand with that.

It is possible to hate the BBC as an institution because the reality is that it has been rotten through for longer than I have been alive. The liberal fantasy of it doesn't mean we have to tolerate the reality of its harm.

There really is something to be said about how fervently masculinist commie politics ran with the Karen archetype to slur literally all women. This is full on "women are bourgeois" levels of misogyny.

They'll 100% do this to To Kill A Mockingbird within a year, btw.

Brb getting raptured.

I think it's becoming clear that Your Party is the British Bündnis Sarah Wagenkneckt and its excommunication and failure will allow actual leftist politics to flourish. Social conservatives hold leftist parties back. Both organisationally and electorally. Good riddance.

Actually extremely pissed off at Corbyn for indulging red brown fantasism when his party had 700k sign up to the mailing list and tens of thousands join today. And none of them joined for this group of four right wing mp's nobody's heard of. He's ruined his name and hers.

there should be proactive work to end misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, and connect with the largest growing proportion of proletarians and underproletarians worldwide. Destroy All Fraternities

it's kind of absurd that "nominally leftist organizations in 2025 should At Least be half women in membership and in leadership and if they aren't then something is wrong" is some kind of radical take

Fundamentally, "you shouldn't try to change anything you dislike about yourself because you're VALID UwU" and "you shouldn't try to change anything because it's hopeless and you're doomed forever" have the same functional outcome. The idea that these are the two "sides" is a lie.

Downloading custom drivers to use the eyetoy as a webcam as it was the best possible camera.

[very smart online tgirl voice] the trans women who are thriving and succeeding in their transitions have nothing useful for me, I need to get my transition advice from the "we are all doomed and can never get better" community

if you think i should stop listening to the "we are all doomed and can never get better" community it's simply because you do not understand the unique depth and complexity of my struggles

*every girl who wants to justify using 4chan ever voice* No, no, you don't understand. Unlike you, *I* suffer from dysphoria

Why does he always look so British?

Thank for telling us that they have group chats where they call us slurs, this is brand-new information and it makes perfect sense you had to call us slurs in public to find it out

You know, it's funny. I've been able to work alongside plenty of social conservatives over the years. You can't avoid it in the real world, not realistically. I've worked with people who think I'm deluded, and had a completely fine time with them. Because they know to mind their own business.

Well Isaac, when this guy likes and reskeets shit like this, I think it's fair to say he just thinks it's bad when trans women exist as anything other than his subservient underlings.

It's the most extraordinary abuse of power by the court. I cannot think of another case where the Supreme Court openly and determinedly went directly against the will of Parliament to the point of declaring the opposite of its intention. It should be considered a constitutional crisis.

People just get on this app and do their darndest to be context-collapsing pricks, huh.

The right winger cries out in pain as he shoots his neighbour and blames it on you.

This is actually quite important, and is a missing piece of analysis. Capitalists aren't good at business, and their goal isn't actually the greatest economic output. That isn't true outside of some idealogues in a few central banks, at best. They want power. It's just power. That's it.

If you pay attention, there is a co-ordinated international response to climate change involving exceptionally good buy in from world and business leaders. It's working spectacularly well, and their plan for the future is quickly coming to fruition. And it's evil.

I think calls for de-escalation are appropriate. De-escalation of political violence. No more assassinations of democrat politicians. No more abductions off the streets by masked men. No more torture prisons. We need to take steps to restore calm. De-escalate.

There's a lot of competition, but I think Starmer's utter complacency with ongoing pogroms on the streets of the UK is the most depraved of them all. He could end it in one evening if he chose to.

Wow, Apple has made its first ugly iphones.

does anyone else notice that every single thing around national birth rate panics carries the implication that there needs to be state enforcement of getting women to bear individual men's children and not like a massive welfare system and national sperm cryopreservation to be accessed on demand

I don't expect the OP to have any idea what on earth I mean when I say this (and it'd take a day to explain), but reading this this reminds extremely strongly of trans politics around 2016.

So I'm a fairly open-minded person. I've willingly spent time with ex-ultranationalists, ex-TERFs, former drug dealers convicted of manslaughter, all sorts. There's one group of ex's for whom I hold great contempt: ppl who leave the GC detrans grift when they realise they want to retransition.

You didn't make an argument beyond a merry "oh but his fate will be in a judge's hands, then" lol. I understand the fictions that underpin concepts of separation of powers and parliamentary supremacy, but unfortunately I get to live in the non-fiction version where judges are indeed to blame.

I think some people need to learn that naming a systemic power imbalance isn’t doing violence against men. Again, if you think that using “men as a class” is violence on an individual level, I don’t know what to tell you other than maybe read a goddamn book.

"trans women thirst for the ability to punch *down* at trans men to take out their violent misogyny on them and if they talk about transmisogyny they're idiot baeddel terfs". Oh you're an oink oink piggy pig, huh.

There's a reason that the tendency is to use trans masc as the umbrella term and to use trans women as the umbrella term and that is because of the asymmetry of oppression and how it affects non binary trans women differently to non binary trans mascs.

Thinking about how I went out clubbing the other week and ended up getting followed all night by some guy who, when he was trying to flirt with me, demanded to know why I don't have kids at 31 and, when asked, couldn't tell me one thing he loves about his 8 year old son. The sheer lack of shame.

the right can't seem to really make earnest criticisms of it, instead gesturing towards how ridiculous it is the end result seems to be that they end up looking like irony-poisoned supporters a lot of the time

just wanting to come back to this because i'm really weirded out by the way some are saying those who are apathetic towards this 'scandal' are apathetic due to misogyny as if those not complaining simply haven't experienced the Unique Female Trauma of losing their money to breast growth hypnosis

The entire city of Köln.

I don't think my English law degree is worth the paper it's written on because I don't think English law is worth the paper it's written on. The last ten years have been a systematic mockery of everything they teach you in school. None of it is real. None of it.

Update nano-seconds later: He's gay! Imagine the sight of a gay man telling a woman her boobs will grow under hypnosis. It's outright cute. Quaint! Fun! Seems like a nice guy!