probablyasocialecologist:

Transphobia cannot be separated from fascism because it relies on white supremacist principles to function. There are two genders, male and female, each serving a singular biological purpose: the continuation of the race. Anything outside of that binary logic is broken or degenerate. And while not all transphobes might agree that this race must be white, it’s generally white beauty standards that transphobes choose to call upon when trying to determine what a woman is.

The rules prohibiting high levels of testosterone in sports are still more likely to eject black cis women than anybody else, while the assumption that ‘real women’ will always be shorter, smaller, and less hirsute than ‘women who actually men’ leads to the unfair and unnecessary scrutiny of (usually queer, non-white and/or disabled) women’s bodies, sometimes to the point of even the most slightly gender non-conforming cis women being attacked.

Maddison Stoff, Why gender essentialism is a white supremacist ideology

cripple-cryptid:

christfucker-deactivated2023040:

whenever I tell someone “I’m tired” and they say “go to sleep” and I say “I’m not that type of tired” and they say “there’s only one type of tired” I always feel amazed. Astounded. How do they not know the different versions of tired.

  1. Physical exhaustion from the chronic illness. Not drowsy, but needs to lay down. Maybe my Hashimoto’s or bad knees or plantar fasciitis is acting up, but either way, I need to relax with an ice pack and a tens unit.
  2. emotional exhaustion. The type of “tired” people mean when they say “I’m sick and tired of x.” I’m so numb and usually I’d be about one minor inconvenience away from snapping but the exhaustion of being alive has gotten so heavy that I don’t even notice inconveniences anymore.
  3. drowsiness. If I’m trying to tell someone I need to sleep, I’ll say “I’m sleepy” or “I want to go to bed.”
  4. unable to process what’s going on but the closest word I can use to describe how I’m feeling is “tired.”

5. The kind of tired that comes with severe brain fog. You don’t mean to be struggling so much just to answer a simple question, but you are. And the effort makes it worse.

womenintheirwebs:

i think feel like cis women’s antagonism….towards trans women (fighting for their bodily autonomy and the right to exist in the public space) is rooted in this very strange kinda calvinist idea that liberation and scarcity are the same.

like the ‘there’s not enough freedom for all of us so u wait ur turn! me first!’ is very strange and i very much think a manifestation of a white supremacist paradigm of relation to difference. like dogs accepting scraps from their master. cis women will jump @ the opportunity throw trans women under the proverbial bus—call the scraps of patriarchy they have access to ‘freedom’ and say they’re doing it for women. be serious.

genderoutlaws:

iamramonadestroyerofworlds:

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Not the first! The only one now but there was one previously!

^^ true! the workers at Lusty Lady in san fran were union until it closed in 2013 </3

seat-safety-switch:

When children are young, the agricultural mafia tries to get their hooks into them. It is believed that an essential part of early childhood development is to learn about every animal you will see on a Western European farm, and to memorize their noises and favourite foods. Why is this, when most of these children will visit only a cubicle farm for the rest of their lives?

One argument is that schools are not solely a vehicle for career training for children, but instead a glorious academy where the passions and curiosities of the young mind can chase new ideas. That’s a really nice utopian belief, but even the folks pushing the “learn about cows” program don’t believe in it either. Here’s what I think it is: Big Pickup Truck wants you to think of yourself as a bit of a hayseed.

Crazy? Not so much. Think about the last time you got into a hobby or other intense volume of knowledge. There is a sort of arc, where at the start you felt like you really understood everything there was to know about the hobby. This happens about five seconds before you realize how little you actually know. If your local Chevy dealer can keep you at about that level of knowledge re: agriculture, you’re more likely to buy a bigger truck. Yeah, we need the half-ton, honey. What if we encounter a sick sheep? They go “baa.”

Primed with this baseline structure of factual farm-animal knowledge, North America is kept slavishly obedient to the pickup trucks. Barns, too, but that might just be because I keep wanting to look inside them to see if any shitty old pickup trucks are hidden within. Pickup trucks, you see, they go “vroom.”

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arrantknave:

binary-bird:

Hamlet as a D&D paladin.

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some gems of insight from the reblogs (@aspiring-protagonistโ€‹ and @moderndayathenaโ€‹):

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koschhei:

sometimes i truly forget that everyone sees characters straight as default bc i saw a comment like “next thing you know they’ll make luke skywalker gay” and im just…….. he…. he is ?

ratfuck:

im not at all worried about dumb sci-fi bullshit like chatgpt or whatever becoming fucking SHODAN or whatever but regardless I think people should be swarming outside the headquarters of whatever tech idiot is developing this shit and beat down their doors like zombies

txttletale:

gothhabiba:

any account of ‘socialisation’ that acts as though people who don’t have some kind of 'identity’-based reason not to fulfil the expectations of that socialisation necessarily have a good & okay time with it is a failed account, imo

For both cis and trans people, family, peers, and mass media provide models for appropriate gendered behaviour, beginning in early childhood and extending through the life course. Learning through enactive experience occurs as individuals engage in gendered behaviour, observe how others respond, and adjust their behaviour accordingly. Early-life punishment for gender nonconformity is often regarded as a characteristically trans experience. In reality, however, not only do cis people share similar enacted experiences, but successful discouragement from gender transgression constitutes much of the cisgender phenomenon.

— Noah Zazanis, Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing (Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context