Just making this post to say that I read @photomatt ’s statement yesterday and it was horrible. I won’t be reblogging it because I try to not put hate reblogs and stuff in my blog and I don’t like getting involved in drama, but I just wanted to point out something interesting
For Matt, predstrogen “threatening” him was a big enough issue that in the statement, he said that he was working with law enforcement for harassment. But of course, the fact that the threat made him feel unsafe, which it does seem to have, I want to absolutely clear that I am not denying that it might have made Matt feel unsafe, but that is only a problem because he is a white cishetallo male. Trans women on the Internet as whole, including Tumblr, are never safe, and yet Matt refuses to address this very problem. Why when Matt’s safety is even seemingly under threat (and whether it even counts as a threat in beyond dubious, the “threat” was not realistic or very threatening), does he get to call the police, but when predstrogen’s safety is actually under threat, Matt and Tumblr refuse to do anything? The clear answer would be that Matt thinks something is different about this situation, but every variable I can think of actually makes this worse for this case with Matt compared to trans women generally. The threat was not credible, it does not serve to further some larger oppressive structure, like nothing here is even comparable. This leaves the only real interpretation of Tumblr’s and Matt’s actions being that they value the safety of a white cishetallo male over that of a trans woman.
At the same time, threatening (diction intentional) to get law enforcement involved is itself an act of violence. And a much greater one given how much more credible it is, and how much power Matt specifically has. But Matt doesn’t seem to recognize this. He doesn’t see police violence as violence because he’s a sheltered cishetallo rich white male. He simply doesn’t have the experience of being illegal like many of us queer people (and sex workers and black people and homeless people and a bunch of other people the ruling class don’t like) do, of what happens when the police are called on you. To him the police are protectors, but to most, they’re oppressors. You can learn this perspective, I even have, I’ve never been arrested, but it seems Matt doesn’t care to do so.
This is to say nothing of why predstrogen was banned originally or anything else, but this is the part I thought I had a comment on.
Its absolutely no coincidence that the people being sent baseless sexual assault accusations against predstrogen have, from what I’ve seen, been young transmascs.
The terfs behind the harassment campaign are so brazenly trying to prey on anybody they reckon might have any transmisogynist tendencies and are trying to use that to sow discord in the trans community. They see transmasculine people as potential avenues for recruitment (and eventual detransition) and it’s extremely fucking important that the people being sent these anons do not fall headfirst for the bait. They want you to go ‘uh oh, guess trans women are sex pests after all’ and that to stick with you and fester, and turn that seed of prejudice into the continued harm of transfem people.
If you want to be a meaningful ally to transfem people right now you have to be vigilant for this shit, and correct it where you see it. If you think being used as an angle ofrecruitment by bigoted harassment is gross, imagine how it would feel to be the damn focus of the harassment.
hey, transmascs, especially transmasc lesbians, transfems need your solidarity and support, we need to be protectors of the transfems in our spaces ans have absolutely no tolerence for baseless accusations or the way transfems get treated by terfs
transmisogynists are not your friends, they do not accept or sympathize with you, ice them out
we’re stronger together, anyone who says otherwise isnt on our side
Hey so if “I hope you get exploded with hammers” or whatever is enough to get not only get just one account permanently deleted but to get every new account you make permanently deleted, wiping an entire person past present and future off of the site, does that mean that all harrassment meeting and surpassing the same comically low level is now retroactively a permabanable offense, and therefore every fucking terf on this god damn site that’s ever left even a single hate message should have their entire existence past present and future wiped from tumblr? Just checking if there’s a transphobic (and transmisogynistic) double standard or not @photomatt, since you’re so convinced that tumblrs transphobia is just misinformation
On July 10th of 2023 I got an email on tumblr regarding a neo-nazi I randomly spotted and reported was not violating community guidelines with his comments towards another user and therefore no action would be taken.
This led to me asking this in reply, including a direct quote of what the neo-nazi said.
[Image reads: “How is saying you want your job to be "liquidating faggots like you two” not against hate speech rules or community guidelines? Like, can you explain that to me please?“]
Unpopular opinion but literally not one person in the world should have their human rights violated
If one person’s rights can be waved away, so can yours
yes, even those people.
Fuck it, adding on: This is why it’s frustrating to see criminal defense lawyers getting a bad rep.
The right to a fair trial is a human right. In practice, a fair trial necessitates a lawyer. This means that even if somebody committed the worst crimes you could possibly imagine, they still deserve a lawyer.
Somebody has to defend them as a matter of human rights. As one of my professors said, way back in my first semester at uni: “Everybody deserves to have somebody in their corner.”
nb the source of criminal defense attorneys getting a bad rep is always, always copaganda. same with the incredibly bullshit narrative of “if you didn’t do anything wrong then why do you need a lawyer?” the purpose of both these terrible stupid pro-cop arguments are to deny you your legal rights.
Someone else said it very well here on this website:
A government whose people lose their rights once they become criminals has a very vested interest in making their critics criminals.
a giant, glass shattering noise comes from the sky that is unmistakably the smash bros announcer saying “KING DEDEDE”. it makes headlines worldwide and people are scared. scientists find that the source of the noise was a dead star 2.7 billion light years away
I had to pee really bad and o forgot that I had just sliced jalapeño peppers and the chef is looking nice at me weird because I’m pouring milk on a rag and running to the bathroom
My dick has been on fire for over an hour
I told my chef what happened and he was like “you only make that mistake about fourteen times”
He tells me this story about this time he had gotten out of a chili class in which he had been cutting habenjero peppers all class and he goes back to his dorm and starts finger blasting his girlfriend and she stars SCREECHING.
She he fukin SPRINTS to the dorm prep kitchen and gets a gallon of heavy cream and runs back to the room. He starts pouring this shit all over her Cooze right, and she’s like shoveling cream into her hole. And he’s freaking out. Like he’s so sure that this chick is don’t with him forever.
So they deal with this thing and the cream works and he’s like massaging it into her pussy for like a half an hour because you have to constantly soak it to nullify the habenjero oils or whatever. And she gets INTO IT.
She fucking CUMS
And my chef tells me this stupid ass story and looks me in the eye and says to me
“Nothing says I love you like a gallon of heavy cream in her pussy”
And I think that’s the best sentence I’ve ever heard in my entire life.
Yes good story but WHY IS IT IN LIKE 8 DIFFERENT PARTS DO YOU KNOW WHAT PARAGRAPHS ARE.
ITS THIS. YOU COULD HAVE DONE THIS.
SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE AT WORK AND CANT POST EVERYTHING AT ONE TIME FUCK OFF
put spikes on your wheelchair’s handles. wrap barbed wire around your cane or crutch so it’ll hurt like a motherfucker if someone kicks or grabs it from under your hand. wear a personal alarm and pull the pin every time someone moves you without your consent, leans on your chair, takes a seat on your rollator, taps your hearing aid, steals your AAC device. scream for help when you’re abducted. wail like you’re in agony when people trip you up or knock into you. take pepper spray to the grocery store. take a knife to the club. leave cards that say “fuck you” under the wipers of inconsiderately parked cars and scratch access codes for bathrooms on the outside of the door. we are not begging for mercy, we’re fighting dirty. we have to.
And what, pray tell, is so wrong with that? Must a king lower himself to the vocabulary of insects? Must an academiac explain his reasoning to kindergartners? There is no shame in knowledge nor is there in verbosity. Quite the opposite, they are to be celebrated. But I guess this is the world we are forced to inhabit. This world… This planet, teeming with life and all its infinite possibilities. And you would dare dilute it, so that a simpleton’s mind could comprehend it? I will not stand for this. No more shall a man be judged for his might, his ambition, his intellect. No more shall we look down on those who propose a mere thought experiment about owning a human pec9sdjv0 c9i2ewokhndvoi adsjvci uwqeowdsxujvnli ufdsiuljfcniu ofeidcvjpc9nUIODSuljvniuwqopisafjvp985erioewaudJHB9jrg8frjuv8ar9jvuw08rd9vujq35g89spdujigk[0e9ravjik0rvu9jq54w8yvh r8og;af9ukjgmoiaelgurj9g8zboifyhvlo8fivujawp89 OC:Ivjare0sd9oizl
Please leave the mall, you’re making a scene.
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An asexual and pansexual become room-mates and have wacky adventures
The show is called ‘All or Nothing’
Well, well, well…
10 years of All or Nothing.
I made this post when I was 20 years old and there was basically no asexual/pansexual rep in media.
I’m 30 years old now and…well, there still isn’t a lot, but at least we have Todd on Bojack Horseman and that guy from Schitt’s Creek?
A lot has changed in the past 10 years, both in the world and within myself. Looking back on the anxious, self-criticising barely-adult that I was back then really helps to put things into perspective.
Despite the Everything that’s happened with this post, I’m still glad it’s around and that it’s circulating - a little slice of classic 2014 tumblr nostalgia.
To everyone who has gotten something positive out of this post - I’m glad I was able to brighten even a small part of your lives, even for a moment.
To everyone who’s amazed I’m still here - Same, honestly. Please keep adding such comments though, each other gives me more power so that I may one day ascend from this mortal shell.
To everyone who’s left unnecessary negativity on the post - Okay 👍
And to everyone who may be wondering ‘how does one celebrate the anniversary of such a momentous part of history?’
and then you can bring up any personal instances where you have recieved transphobia from staff, and/or mention one of the many instances of staff unfairly targeting trans people
to help you fill it out for company you wanna put : Automattic and/or Tumblr for address you wanna put : 12 E 49th St Fl 11, New York City, New York, 10017, United States for phone number you wanna put : (646) 513-4321 and for category of discrimination you can put : Discriminatory harassment and basis of discrimination you can put : Gender; Gender identity
it doesnt take very long and the more examples and people that speak up the more likely there will be some kind of legal action, witch is the only thing likely to actually make tumblr try to be less transmysogenistic
I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”
I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.
It’s not not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.
Words cannot describe how happy I am that this resonated with so many people.
#something that really helps is i used to verbalize these thoughts in that way to my brother #like wed be cooking and id just go “i take your big chef knife and stab u. yeah?” and hed respond w smth like “i perfectly block. loser.”
This might be my favorite coping mechanism of this genre I’ve heard yet. Sibling goals.
Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.
Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this car screeches up, stops next to us, and the car was covered in hammers and it exploded and the hammers went flying everywhere. I was punched and kicked a bit too (by the hammers. from the exploding car), but I managed to avoid brutalization by not protesting this case. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back (the hammers), getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called the FBI and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.
Some computer related jobs will periodically send you emails posing as phishing scams and if you open it you automatically have to take a web safety training seminar and I just think they should do that for tumblr except with reading comprehension
CEO of a less popular website. Treats trans women so poorly that he’s direct messaging them and is threatening violent actions and calling law enforcement when all a friend of mine wants is… To have her transition timeline online in a spot she felt she could be seen and connect to people. Utter rancid dogshit of a human being. Petty. Pathetic. Spineless. All this when there has been fire under his ass for this behavior before. Erasing years of pictures and art and a whole person from her online life is sickening.
Fuck anyone saying “just go somewhere where its friendly to trans people” girl that’s what this was promised to be. I’ve migrated like 4 times now.
Mass erasure of data is always something that messes me up, ever since I overthought about the library of Alexandria. Like, all that information and all that human work is just completely gone.
I literally did an entire class presentation one time where I ranted for several minutes about the Spanish conquistadors and how they burned down a ton of mesoamerican libraries in their quest to violently convert everyone to Catholicism. Like, there’s a massive hole in our knowledge of history, and it’s not even because nothing was recorded. Things actually were recorded. And now they’re just gone.
This kinda gives me similar feelings. Like, all that data and information, everything she posted, so many thoughts and ideas and images, and they’re just gone now. Like they never mattered.
Idk maybe I’m being too overzealous about this, but this stuff just makes me really sad.
shout out to my fave under-appreciated unbreakable transgender hero
The thing that gets me is he didn’t ASK for the impenetrable skin. Poseidon was just like “cool cool but you know what you need? skin of IRON. don’t worry bud it’s on the house”
After seeing the situation it always just reminds how the burden of “bring nice and perfect and polite” (which really means quiet) always falls on the victims of harassment and bigotry. It never falls on the people doing the harassment or the bigotry ofc because the response to harassment and bigotry is what’s viewed as “the violence” instead of you know the actual violence
“We keep making our service worse, cancelling shows before their time, hiking up the prices, and generally ruining what once was a decent product–piracy keeps wining somehow. 🤷”
i was supposed to make an intelligent maze bot that would avoid moving obstacles and such... but it didnt. none of its sensors worked. i staged a whole presentation where i manipulated the obstacles manually to the tune of a sousa march while the robot followed a hard coded path with predetermined pauses
no one noticed. no one asked. i submitted my actual code with it, with comments that said it didnt work and that i was sorry, and the prof either didnt look at the code or didnt care
i got a passing grade in a programming assignment once where i couldn’t be assed to do it so i just wrote some rp ass text in the report about how the customer (we got like a fake customer request to fulfill) discussed with me about how the project failed and how we would do it differently next time. crucially i did not do the actual project, like at all, i just quickly wrote fanfic about my teachers made up company and my self insert company being bad at working together. i still feel kinda bad for the people who actually did the project and somehow scored lower than me.
Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.
Zombies are docile when adorned with flowers.
Settlements overgrown with herbs and flora.
Barely any banditry; everyone is focused on farming and gathering.
Different human factions and towns named after flowers like Lilies, Orchids, Roses, etc.
Instead of immediately killing an infected survivor, they’re given special funeral rites - the zombie is covered with flowers to keep them calm, and allowed to walk out from the settlement to join the hordes.
Thank you all for the responses!!!! I got a few more notes to share from folks asking me about this setting :D
It’s incredibly risky to attack zombies. The scent of
the attacker’s aggressive intent coupled with spilled pungent rotten blood drives other zombies into a frenzy.
Zombies given funeral rites grow flowers within their bodies, eventually bursting from their chest and head area. These zombies are naturally gentle and their presence tames other zombies in the vicinity. Due to their helpfulness, it’s taboo to harm “blooming” undead:
Sweaty summers are the worst and everyone hopes they have enough dried flowers to last the winter.
It’s a colourful apocalypse! An overabundance of flowers in the world leads to plenty of dyes and busy little honey bees!! Scented candles are a thriving export.
Survivors who help spread flowers, look after “blooming” undead, cull the hordes, and herd zombies away from safe areas are affectionately called Florists.
Regular weapons such as guns and knives are still used but everyone prefers perfumed water guns, spray bottles, and incense.
Zombies are so overwhelmed by the pleasant scent of rain that entire hordes cease movement until it’s gone.
You know, historically, one of the big reasons that centralised social media was able to eclipse self-hosted forums so readily is that people wanted to get away from the constant Damoclean peril of the local boy-king flipping his shit and going on a banning spree every time someone mildly criticised him. When folks wax nostalgic for Web 1.0, I’m reasonably certain this isn’t what they mean!
in the group of “men” there will always be women. in the group of “women” there will always be men. no matter how you define these groups there will always be people on the “opposite” side. frankly this should be a basic tenet of transfeminism because its vital for all trans people- not just multigender people. its vital that any resource catering to men or to women understands that they will also, inevitably, have someone of the “other” gender who needs their services. its vital that any discussion of gendered experiences understands that no experience is incapable of being had by the “other” gender. tbh if including trans people in your feminism doesn’t shake up your entire understanding of gender you aren’t doing it right
I wanna be real clear that this post is about binary monogender trans people, too.
In any population where there’s a lot of cis girls, there’s inevitably going to be a trans guy. Maybe he’s in the closet, maybe he doesn’t realize it yet, maybe he’s out but still has his old friend group or his old hobbies, but he’s there. Same with trans women & cis boys.
Trans people are inevitable. You can never know for absolute sure if that group of men has no past, current or future women in it. You have no idea if one of the women seeking your help is a past, current or future man. And trying to enforce this artificial binary will only cause harm.
THIS
I knew of a woman who came out in her 90s, a handful of days before she died of kidney failure, and spent her four day girlhood picking out a green dress to be buried in - a dress that she’d wanted since she was 40… At which point, as she said, she’d already KNOWN she was a woman and before that a girl, for 30-odd years, and then she held the idea of this green dress in her head for fifty years, before finally telling her daughter. I never had the privilege of meeting her, I knew of her because a friend of mine was the mortician who prepared her, and her daughter told the story to her, and she told me. And I’ll carry her name as well.
All the way through her life, there was a woman in the various factories and rowing clubs and masonic meetings and nightclub audiences, that nobody but her knew. And there will be millions more like her right now, that we should be mindful of.
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