since you’ve been showing us drunk followers lately I want to know what lamb is like when drunk (ik they probably don’t get drunk often but I wanna know so badly)
Y'know, I see a lot of posts urging people to comment on fics, so I just want to say, to all the people who do comment, and especially the long commenters:
thank you.
Long comments can be time-consuming. They can be difficult to write, but you leave them anyway!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, to everyone who comments.
You are the highlight of fanfiction writers’ days.
Her name is Valentina Petrillo and she is a visually-impaired sprinter.
Time to support her, because even without the racism element I expect she will be getting some flak from Awful, Awful People.
This is the shit I was talking about when I said that EVERY SINGLE ONE of you who have been posting variations on “yasss girl, go Imane, get her ass” and “She’s not a man, also biology is hella complicated and not black & white”, had better SHOW THE FUCK UP for Valentina, with the exact same energy and strength.
Valentina is different than Serena Williams, and Caster Semenya, and Imane Khelif.
All four of these people I mentioned are women.
But for Valentina, you can’t pull out the argument I heard a lot for the others, especially Caster and Imane. “She’s not even trans anyway, they’re just using a sexist and racist standard of what womanhood is ‘supposed’ to look like- see? Transphobia also hurts cis women!”
Because Valentina IS TRANS.
Yes, transphobia absolutely can and does end up hurting cis women. But let’s not forget that it always hurts the intended targets more. And the intended targets are trans people.
Valentina IS trans, and y'all better support and affirm her womanhood with your whole chests, and the same ferocity you did for a cis woman.
the donations post is once again dying out, so I’m making a new one.
We still really need money, I keep getting more sick.
It’s so bad that I can barely even be transported by car because the changes in speed makes it feel like my head is collapsing in on itself.
But also walking leaves me so exhausted I can’t comfortably stand up. I have been pretty much bedridden for weeks now, and my assisted living home isn’t accomodating my needs at all.
They’re supposed to be providing food, but since I have allergies. They don’t actually make sure I can eat it. So we’ve had to order take-away, which is obviously kinda expensive.
I’m still trying to get medical staff to listen to me, I have gotten blood work done to see if any of my hormone levels can explain my illness, and from what I can see, it doesn’t explain anything.
I also have a doctor’s appointment this monday after having had to wait all month for it.
So please help us out, we still haven’t been able to work on getting any further with marriage approval because of how sick I have been. We also need to have a diagnosis worked out for the approval anyway.
We genuinely have no way of making this all work out without help.
And “multifamily housing should exist in all neighborhoods”
Are incredibly unpopular in America
(It’s the classism and racism)
Because cars are a status symbol and a means of economic segregation, if you have to drive into the city, that means the poors who can’t afford a car can’t come to your neighborhood and do vague crimes. Even if you don’t think this way, this thought process is precisely why suburbs function the way they do and are designed in that way. They were created due to the desires of whites in the 50s to escape cities that had a rapidly growing black population in that time due to the great migration due to fears over crime that came about due to overt racism
lol I love how this jagoff thinks he’s gonna convince people they should be schlepping their groceries onto a bus lol go fuck yourself buddy. I hate driving but love the convenience of my car and ain’t ever giving it up, no matter what statistics you come up with lololol byeeeeeeee
I didn’t say you had or even should to take your groceries on the bus, I was saying you should be able to walk or Bike to the grocery story for small things you need instead of having to do large grocery hauls every few weeks. Not once in this post did I mention busses. The reason you thought of busses and immediately reacted so negatively is because of the classist association between the bus and the poor. And the fact that due to the shortage of multimodal transit in the US, we automatically assume that busses and cars are the only options that exist
And “multifamily housing should exist in all neighborhoods”
Are incredibly unpopular in America
(It’s the classism and racism)
Because cars are a status symbol and a means of economic segregation, if you have to drive into the city, that means the poors who can’t afford a car can’t come to your neighborhood and do vague crimes. Even if you don’t think this way, this thought process is precisely why suburbs function the way they do and are designed in that way. They were created due to the desires of whites in the 50s to escape cities that had a rapidly growing black population in that time due to the great migration due to fears over crime that came about due to overt racism
lol I love how this jagoff thinks he’s gonna convince people they should be schlepping their groceries onto a bus lol go fuck yourself buddy. I hate driving but love the convenience of my car and ain’t ever giving it up, no matter what statistics you come up with lololol byeeeeeeee
I didn’t say you had or even should to take your groceries on the bus, I was saying you should be able to walk or Bike to the grocery story for small things you need instead of having to do large grocery hauls every few weeks. Not once in this post did I mention busses. The reason you thought of busses and immediately reacted so negatively is because of the classist association between the bus and the poor. And the fact that due to the shortage of multimodal transit in the US, we automatically assume that busses and cars are the only options that exist
thing from beyond that gets really salty whenever someone assumes they can just turn into anything they want
“ohh you’re a shapeshifter, ohh just turn into a bird and fly over to-” fuck outta here, do you know how long legs took me? never mind the entire rest of this body. you think i can just fold myself into anything i want on a whim and have it work? hey you speak english, go talk to this guy in hungarian, they’re both languages right? that’s how you sound right now. asshole
Kindergarteners will be so proud of themselves for being able to draw a triangle. My GPU can draw tens of thousands of those in a second. You are not special.
The most. profound thing about HRT for me has been claiming ownership of my own body to the fullest extent. It feels like I already broke the warranty seal and this bitch is now mine to fix.
If my body is a temple, then it’s a temple to gods i no longer worship. It’s abandoned, overgrown, crumbling, but it’s still there, and it’s mine. I will fix it slowly, I will restore it, but no longer in the image that one might expect proper for a temple.
Brick is just brick, stone is just stone, flesh is just flesh, other people’s meaning doesn’t imbue them with anything holy.
Nothing is permanent. Nothing is reversible. Get that tattoo. Get the piercing. Cut your hair. Dye it. Shave it. Split your tongue. Get that surgery. Move out. Break up. Hook up. Start HRT. Start working out. Gain weight. Post tits. Do drugs. Live by you and yourself. Put a halfpipe in the church. Ollie over the redeemer.
- cherry wine is about domestic abuse. it’s now called a cute proposal song.
- too sweet is about seizing the day and ignoring healthy habits in favor of having more fun with unhealthy ones. he’s actively critical of himself in the song. it’s now called a song about thinking you’re superior for drinking black coffee.
- take me to church is about worship as a metaphor for sex. it’s called a religious song.
- eat your young is a song about war and political greed. it’s called a song about sex.
- now, the strongly political message of nobody’s soldier is being ignored in favor of calling it a metaphor for hozier’s relationship with his fans.
when are we going to stop simplifying hozier’s music down to cute little cottagecore bogman forest music? maybe you dont want to hear this but i don’t care. quit listening to hozier for the aesthetic. there’s a reason why empire now, foreigner’s god, butchered tongue, etc. songs with unignorable political messages are among his least popular songs.
The opposite of a mansion murder mystery where everyone present is a bounty hunter who really wants to take credit for the murder and the detective has to find out who really did it
Assistant: “What about the gunpowder found at the scene?”
Detective: “I thought about that as well! But as you can see from the bullet wound, it was clearly done posthumously.”
Assistant: “Remarkable find! But why would someone shoot a corpse?”
*Bounty hunter ‘Gun shootman’ tossing his hat on the ground and stomping it as he rips up the contract he hoped to cash in on fulfilling*
Femme fatale: his ink bottle was knocked over detective. I dont know if that means anything but its all i could find. *coquettishly turns and shows off ink stains on dress*
Detective: The victim was murdered in the lounge actually so i don’t think there should have been any ink there at all
Femme fatale: *takes off heels and throws them through the glass window*
In the end it’s revealed that the “victim” died of natural causes
I remember once while I was still taking college classes, the professor (a cis man who liked having open discussions, teaching a very small class that was mostly cis women with I think one cis man and me, the openly trans man) decided to ask us a question that was definitely not an original idea but the point was to see what we’d say.
If we found a way to reproduce without sperm and decided to sterilize all people with penises and testicles and let them slowly die out to form an all-woman society, what would we lose?
Now, if you’re like me, you’re probably going to lose sight of the actual point of the question itself and get lost in the flaws built into it. If you’re not like me and you’re capable of disregarding the problems inherent within the question and engaging with it as intended, I’m going to ask you to not do that because that isn’t really the point of me sharing this story.
Probably much to the professor’s annoyance, I could not resist my urge to call attention to what I saw as glaring issues with this premise. I also, naively I guess, felt the ethical concerns of wiping out an entire group of people was obvious. So the first thing I said was
“This wouldn’t even actually wipe out all men, since trans men would still exist.”
Yes, there’s more issues. I didn’t get to say them all. This was the one I managed to get out and I wasn’t willing to cause a scene over this. I, definitely naively, thought that since I was the one trans person in the group, there would be some awareness that I had experienced and perspectives that the others hadn’t heard and they would be willing to listen. A cis woman was very quick to dispel that thought:
“No, they wouldn’t cause there would be no point [to being a trans man].”
And if that doesn’t say a metric fuck ton about how cis people view trans men, then the way absolutely nobody but me was willing to argue with her on this and the fact that cis people since then, especially cis women, have found ways to communicate the same sentiment in various other ways over and over again certainly fucking does. And it’s the blatant refusal to acknowledge how trans men are seen as “women trying to be men because misogyny/patriarchy” and not as actual trans people or as actual men (with us sometimes fitting into one category but not the other depending on who’s talking and what’s convenient for them in the moment) because the very people writing about trans men as non-trans-men are thinking of us in exactly the same way as well that leaves me finding every single thing talking about trans men that wasn’t written by a trans man as deeply lacking and ignorant of the realities of being trans men.
It’s been years since that day. I’m still frustrated. Not just by that moment alone but by how often it’s never directly said, heavily implied exactly once, but still made clear repeatedly in every other way that I’m not viewed as actually trans by some, not viewed as actually a man by others, not viewed as actually either by most, and at no point am I allowed to argue against it without someone, especially cis women, being quick to shoot me down with their willfully ignorant idea of a correction.
Now, this post was supposed to be about statements like “kill all men”.
“Kill all men - not you, though!” Yes, because you think I’m a woman playing dress up to escape misogyny and in your female supremacist fantasy utopia I’ll just detransition. After all, there’s no longer a point to all this that you can see. Can’t be that I have an internal sense of identity that happens to be best described as manhood and that being forced to be a woman is effectively erasing my actual identity in favor of some version of me you happen to like the idea of better, thinking I could ever be that when that version of me is nothing more than an idea and not actually me.
“Kill all men - including trans men cause I’m inclusive!” I guess KAM is technically shorter than “get back in the closet”. Because that’s the impact this has. You’re telling trans men to stay in the closet or get back in there if they’ve left. You’ve established that it’s not safe to be trans around you. As if it’s safe for any trans person to be anywhere. Look, we can agree that a trans man in the early stages of transitioning can, for short periods of time, pretend to be a girl for survival, and we can agree that a passing stealth trans man will likely be treated like a cis man as long as he stays stealth, but 1) this is not evidence of trans male privilege and you are a clown for thinking “having to closet yourself for safety” is anything other than proof of oppression, 2) trans men do not just look like butch cis women until their first T injection and then suddenly a beard shoots out of his face and his muscles instantly double in size, there is an in between point where you cannot pass as a cis woman or a cis man. There is no safety in being a trans man. Statements like KAM are going to impact us differently because in saying this you’ve made it clear that even in trans friendly spaces we’re not safe or welcome. We can either be trans and born-female but not real men and therefore okay or we can be men and gender traitors who know nothing about the magic sisterhood shared by all womyn and must be eradicated with all the cis men (ooh, maybe start with the trans men so we can give any lost egg trans sisters time to come out - we know trans men are men, but some of these “cis men” might not be!). The fact that you decided trans women are women and trans men are men (but not actually trans like trans women are) doesn’t make this better. It’s even worse if you’re not trans yourself and pulling this, cause you’re putting on a masquerade of acceptance and using it for violence, which I’m sure you won’t hesitate to wield against any trans women or possible-trans-men who step out of line.
And no, I don’t care that in this moment you’re not literally killing us. Cis women with these beliefs can use what social power they have over trans people as a whole to their advantage and take their man trauma out on us as they please and we have to walk on eggshells and expect nothing from them in response. We may not be dead but we’re sure as hell not being treated well.
“It’s just a joke, we’re just venting! Calm down!” There’s a time and a place for this, you know. A cis woman who just got sexually harassed by an older man and angrily telling her friend “I wish men would just die” is not really my enemy here. A trans man venting about an experience with a cis man being creepy, rude, transphobic, or all three is not a good time to say “men are gross and should die”. You’re using KAM jokes to distance yourself from your cis status (cis women are also guilty of being creepy, rude, and transphobic to trans people, including trans men) while also establishing the literal victim of a cis man’s behavior as being equal to the cis man in terms of how bad they are. You can put “kill all men” on your blog and say it’s a joke but if I put “die cis scum” or “I’m a cismisogynist” on my blog as a joke about the negative experiences I’ve had with cis people but especially cis women*, I know some of you will be up in arms about that.
* (keep in mind it’s not just casually transphobic comments, it was a cis woman who sexually assaulted me, it was a cis woman who manipulated me into a toxic relationship, it was a cis woman who outed me as trans at work by screaming about my genitals the second I told her I wasn’t planning on ever getting pregnant cause I’m a man and I’m not comfortable with the idea of getting pregnant, and there’s been too many cis women who see nothing wrong with weighing in on trans issues just to show how much they hate trans men because we’re men… or did they mean gender traitors)
I said it once, I’ll say it again.
If you have issues with trans people get tf off my blog.
