and yeah, "cringe culture" and "lolcowing" has completely fucking ruined people's creativity and joy and whimsy towards making whatever the fuck they want. it's not dead it just keeps reinventing itself into whatever form that can bully neurodivergent people.
every post about trans women does not need an addition that creates a parallel equivalent for transmascs. make your own motherfucking post
o/ <- person waving
o7 <- person saluting
ol <- person raising hand
o1 <- person scratching head
\o> <- person stretching
things should be easier for trans women.
shayma escaped gaza before the crossing closed and has been struggling to care for her family of 16 in egypt. rent is skyrocketing, and now her brother needs help funding his master's degree. she just lost her childhood friend and her friend's family, she needs support right now.
she didn't ask me to post this, i just wanna show her there's still people out there who care. please help her
Holding up snarky signs doesn't seem to be working.
For me, it isn't about whether this action is appropriate or not. It's about how this kind of action is inevitable.
I'm going to let Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explain in a quote no one seems to post during his annual holiday.
"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?"
If you only speak up about a supercharger catching fire and ignore the unheard, you are prioritizing a thing over people.
idk how thats not obvious to everyone but you really can’t both hate men and love trans people at the same time. there will always be a section of trans people you’ll hurt. whether it be trans men as a whole, closeted trans women, trans women who you refuse to acknowledge as women because they don’t fit your idea of womanhood, multigender and/or genderfluid people who are sometimes and/or partly men. even if you have a clause that says ‘*except trans ones’, you are still forcing us to out ourselves. that is dangerous. that kills people.
and frankly youve already made me feel unsafe enough around you that i definitely do not want to out myself, cuz in my experience, 9 times out of 10, people who hate men are way more violent in their hatred to trans people than cis men, even if they claim to be an ally, because they know they can get away with it.
side note but they’ll also be more violent towards black men, latino men, mentally ill men, any men that are societally considered more violent. for the same reasons. and also because if you’re afraid of masculinity, you will be more afraid of those who have been hypermasculanized. you are not immune to the biases who’ve steeped in since birth.
I love it when dogs try to help but the task at hand requires zero dogs so they just kinda stand in front of you and look serious.