We all owe ach otjer solidarity, yet when discourse repeatedly asks transmasculine people to pause that analysis to reassure others that they are not the oppressor, the conversation gets recentered around transmasculine accountability instead of the structures producing anti-trans violence

That religion is a second-order discursively constructed phenomenon invented and imposed by Western academics, and not something innate and essential across cultures.

Affirming sex, instead of someone's individual will, is an interesting anthropomorphisation of physiology. It's an exercise in teleology that hides God's will behind behind something that sounds neutral and scientific. This is classic Gender Criticality, which is all about hiding intentions.

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

I mean this support has lasted this long because American white evangelicals see Middle Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Christians as a racial and religious Other. The only reason this may be cracking now is that the right seems to be having a debate on whether Jews are actually even more of an Other.

tomodachi life living the dream

i'm not your dad so you don't need to follow this advice, nonetheless—

Looking at "traditional" trans "exploratory" therapy vs modern CBT methods that encourage "experiments" -- even if you were convinced that someone wanting to be a girl was running away from their "real" problems the best way for them to figure this out for would be them trying out being a girl.

This kind of treatment is what the transphobes want. They want to torture people for years until they age out, and then deny them access to care as adults. They would rather we be miserably pretending to be cis than exist as happy trans people.

if i had a nickel for every time Jews were told not to use a word coined to describe a specific thing that happened to Jews, i'd have at least two nickels which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened at least twice

Incredibly this parsimonious explanation works for both transfemininity and transmasculinity.

I've said this before, but the only woman I have ever seen get shit for using the bathroom was a butch cis woman.

unfortunately “it's all corrupt girl” will be entering the lexicon

“I’m saving up for the other sleeve and then maybe a back piece”

I’m a civil rights lawyer and that’s pretty cool

I'm learning from some folks on here that neoliberalism causes fascism. Which makes neoliberalism the most important ideology to pursue as it allows time travel.

People still hating on the No Kings stuff are telling on themselves. They don't *want* a popular resistance movement. They want to be little rare political flowers who get to complain about the brunch moms but oops actually the brunch moms gave up on brunch and want blood, now

A reminder that the clocks change next week, check your pronouns and swap out if the battery is low.

WAR DON'T SEX should be a rally cry

along with murdering the (hard) efficient market hypothesis, they also enacted a public execution of the hippie theory that if you just got everyone in power to take LSD the world would be a better place and you say that innovation is dead

Evelyn Normielib is real and she is coming and there is no better place to meet her than a No Kings protest

I'm having a thought, that people are blamed for not being able to pay attention to movies due to their attention spans being blasted by phones, but I really wonder how much modern cinematography/style is to blame. Like Wes Anderson and the new Frankenstein movie were easier to pay attention

head sculptor at hot toys (gabriel soarez) just did the coolest frankenstein fanart ever

The most confusing thing about the "straight couple sizing" jayvik wedding rings is not that Viktor's ring is a "woman's" size but making Jayce's an average men's size implies someone found a cishet man willing to play yaoi scientists. Where is this guy? Cmon I just wanna talk.

they used the DSM-III to pass this. a version of the DSM that is so out of date that three more versions had been released by the time i was in grad school for clinical social work in 2006. they are now even further beyond that. this decision is outdated, unscientific, and TRANSPHOBIC AF

So I'm half watching Heated Rivalry and I don't get it. Rozanov is too mean and Hollander isn't nearly mean enough.

the best way to describe my feelings about people occasionally assuming I'm a trans woman is this Lady Gaga interview where she told Anderson Cooper she doesn't give a fuck because it doesn't matter

Refusing to grant gentiles the ownership of their own stupidity and having to shunt it off on some Jews is pathetic beyond measure, but we are talking about The Independent here Trump can do bad all by his self

On the left, The God of Provenance, of Old Blood and Imprecation; on the right, Viktor. #jayvik

my husband is so fascinated by the way people react to me on social media. he was like "you made that man so mad he did homework? you made him write a whole book report?" lmfao

I mean, maybe if our society is so fragile it can be destroyed by me using different pronouns and wearing a binder, it deserves to go. Who can say. Not me. I'm busy trying to kill the Netherbrain in BG3.

My congressman told me Iran keeps shooting his white soldiers so I asked how many white soldiers he has and he said he just goes to the high school and gets a new white soldier afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding white soldiers to Iran and then his daughter started crying.

My cat insisted on trying oat milk and I think she feels betrayed

it’s literally medieval European great chain of being bullshit and if you’re a leftist who even flirts with restricting freedom of movement in any way whatsoever you’re, like, not even a secret capitalist, you’re a secret fucking feudalist and you need to get your goddamn head checked.

…and therefore decided that any actions taken against Jews, up to and including mass murder of entire communities, was justified because it was done in the name of upholding the Christian feudal order. and now we have leftists talking about “rootless cosmopolitan gentrifiers are destroying America”

this bred resentment against Jews from local populations, who viewed Jews as violating the fundamental societal rule of “you stay where you’re born, your family owns you, you belong to a piece of land, and if you leave where you’re from without the Pope’s permission you’re oppressing people…”

fun fact: modern antisemitism stems from the fact that Jews were one of the only groups of people in Medieval Europe who were not legally tied to a specific piece of land and therefore frequently traveled from realm to realm to, like, conduct foreign trade and other necessary economic activity.

i’m so tired

Emoji consortium: please add a pomegranate emoji

What does the androgynos say? "Am I halakhically mandated to be naked all the time because i'm chayyav for both issur beged isha and issur kli gever at the same time" And how do you respond? "Put some clothes on please"

This modern gender stuff has gone too far. We need to RETVRN to when we only had ONE gender and that was enough for EVERYBODY

Incredibly rude poomang.com/en/t/smooth_...

Looking at the country over the last year, it appears that DEI was load bearing for our economy, military, government, etc.

Imagining a world where you're an idiot for believing in poltergeists because EVERYONE KNOWS it's just the really normal and natural psychic powers of PMSing teenage girls.

I take no joy (much joy) in telling you that "teen girls are psychokinetic around menarche and make poltergeists" remains a common paranormal explanation and originated in the early 1900s, pioneered by researchers like Nandor Fodor. Gef the Talking Mongoose and the Enfield Poltergeist are examples.

My favorite thing is telling people reading golden age sci fi that no, they’re not lying about being sci fi, people just thought psychic powers were real in the 70s

Alternative haggadah

Loyalty trope kink should have something foul to it. If someone is acting like a guard/attack dog there should be a sinking feeling of alienation or dread. It's your duty to make it hot but making it cute is a crime.