[ID: Three panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.
Panel 1: A tall purple person and an olive green person with a square head are standing outside the entrance to a building. There is a poster with a purple person on it.
Purple: “Ugh, can you believe they’re doing another FNAF reboot?”
Olive: “FNAF?”
Purple: “Yeah, Friday Night at Frank’s, the horror franchise from the 80s? With the really chromophobic caricature of a purple person?”
Olive: “Oh right, I think I’ve heard of it.”
Panel 2: The two enter into a hallway, Purple with some difficulty due to the door frame failing to accommodate their stature. There are posters for “Sundered Moon” and “Dulhaniyaa” in the background, as well as a soda machine labelled “Torment.”
Purple: “It’s so bad. That first movie alone has like all the stereotypes I get thrown at me.
Always with the ‘oooh do you always come back???’”
Olive: “They have to be addressing that in the new one, right?”
Purple: “No, they just 'clarify’ that the killer is just faking being purple and run with it.”
Olive: “Holy shit, they barely even tried.”
Panel 3: The two arrive at a counter, where a person with a baseball cap is working.
Baseball cap: “Woah hey has anyone ever told you you look like-”
Purple: “Yes. I know.”
Olive: “Yeah they get that a lot. Two tickets to Hades Calculus please.”
[ID: Four-panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.
Panel 1: Several people are sitting in a chair circle. One of them is visibly green, another is visibly pink with a bright blue jacket and orange pointy anime glasses. A third one is wearing a blue cap. The person in the middle, who is none of these things, leads the conversation.
Middle person: “All right everyone, time to do a hexcode circle! My hexcode is #000000, what are yours?”
Several people respond “#000000”.
Panel 2: Zoom in on the green person and the middle person, with a third in between them.
Green: “Mine’s #00FF00.”
Middle: “Oh, but we’re very inclusive here! You don’t have to fit into primary hexcodes!”
Green: “…I prefer #00FF00.”
Middle: “I’m just saying, if you want to go with something like #33BB33 that’s fine! It would suit you!”
Panel 3: Zoom on the one with the blue cap.
Closeted Blue: “I’m uh… Well, um, uh, you see-”
Middle: “Oh, looks like we have exciting news!2
Closeted Blue: ”…#000000. Sorry. I’m not uh. I’m grayscale. Can we move on?“
Panel 4: Zoom in on anime glasses.
Anime Glasses: ”#LEG3ND.“
Middle: "That’s not a real hexcode!”
Anime Glasses: “I don’t give a shit.”
Middle: “I’m sure you can find a valid hexcode that suits you!”
Anime glasses: “You dipshits can’t handle a visually green person using #00FF00, I’m not playing this game.”
Actually my favorite replacement for both ‘kill myself’ jokes and jokes about reacting violently to things/people that upset me is “I’m going to end up on the news” like it’s versatile, it’s vague, it’s not going to get me in trouble with any censors or websites that take joke threats seriously, it’s family friendly while still getting the point across, what’s not to love???
Published in “Transvestia” magazine #38 (April 1966). I think original art could be by Bob Tupper.
not sure if anyone’s added this info here but because I wanted to know more I checked and….
Every issue of transvestia magazine, which ran from the 60’s through to the 80’s is available through the uVic archives. It was a groundbreaking publication for the crossdressing and later the transgender community. Check it out.
The word ‘rural’ is in the public consciousness again and every time people start going in about the 'rural values’ 'rural way of life’ I remember just how subjective that word is.
I have a friend that lives in LA. He considers Columbus, OH to be 'rural.’ A population of over 900k. Thriving arts community, tons of culture festivals, every kind of restaurant you can think of, one of the most annoying college campuses ever, several smaller colleges, lots of queer spaces, comic book conventions, huge concerts… rural.
The town I live in considers itself 'rural.’ 38k population. Arts festival every year, a small pride celebration, monthly gallery hop, big Halloween festival. Five ice cream shops, three coffee shops, a couple fancy bars, so many grocery stores. Huge library, conservation and sustainability advocates, queer spaces, a hospital, one private college. Rural.
The town we nearly annexed, but lost the deal considers us 'urban’ compared to them. Less than 5k. They have a limited hospital, often send their surgeries here. Downtown has hardware store, bars, craft supply store, a couple grocery stores, pizza places. There’s some farmland, but much of the square acreage is golf. Mega churches. The houses here are 500k. Most people drive ATVs. They have a handful of festivals in the summer.
A town I would often get sent to to cover their high school sports- a little over 2k. There’s a Subway, a Domino’s, Family Dollar. Some bars, some corner stores. Some local crafts. All the students grow up knowing each other, most of them stay there. But they have craft fairs and art galleries, still.
Less rural still than the town I go through to get there, population of around 600. Houses, farmland, post office, general store.
Who would still look down upon the town of about 400 that I would go to sometimes- post office. Gas station. Bar. The school is the only big thing there.
And yet still, I have seen towns with population in the double digits that have a church and a post office.
Even just looking at the numbers doesn’t lend accuracy to what 'rural’ actually looks like. Because this is what it looks like in ohio, but it’s different in West Virginia- where your closest neighbor might be a mile down a hill. Or in Montana, where your town might be planned very tightly and your neighbors are very close, but the nearest grocery store is an hour and a half away. These are places I’ve been, friends that I’ve talked to. I’ve never been to Missouri or Alabama or Louisiana- I’m sure they have a unique experience of being 'rural.’
So my point is that when people talk about 'the rural experience’ or 'rural values,’ they are talking about millions of people across the entire country who all have lived unique lives- and who may not even agree on what 'rural’ is.
Think about who is talking, and who is being talked over, and who isn’t even being asked to join the conversation.
every so often this starts circulating again and every time i remember that people tried to come for me for “spreading medical misinformation” with this post
Transfem oppression: yeah the other day this jealous cis girl told me I have an obvious adam’s apple and that I’ll never be a real woman and now I wanna die because I’m not pretty like the other girls!!!
Transmasc oppression: yeah the other day this guy that had a crush on me in high school found out I transitioned and now he keeps texting me begging me to detransition for him, and he somehow found out where I live and where I work, and he keeps sending me rape threats. Also yesterday I went to the men’s restroom and I almost got raped but thankfully my friend walked in before anything happened. Thank god nothing happened especially because if I got pregnant I’d get no treatment cause I already changed the gender marker on my birth certificate.
See how stupid that was? See how when I talked about “transfem oppression” I cherry picked a specific issue that mostly affects white binary trans women, completely overlooking the experiences of trans women of color and non-binary transfems. See how this post willfully ignores the very real violence that happens to transfems? See how this doesn’t help transmascs at all and only undermines transfems. See how this implies that cis men only target transmascs, and that cis women are incapable of violence?
Wow it’s almost as if we don’t have to gaslight one group and undermind their experiences in order to talk about the experiences of the other… Funny that.
I tried to slip CBD gummies into some kids halloween candy like i saw on the news but the kids recognized them and laughed at me for not having any real weed
These are the sort of people that would lose their life savings to a guy doing three card monte on a street corner if he was wearing a zoot suit and introduced himself as “Vinnie ‘Quickfingers’ Sanchez”.
whenever i eat fish i get so impossibly pissed off because i cant eat it more frequently, than like once in two months when its on sale. and the reason why i get pissed off is because i live in a coastal fisherman town.
but the fish caught here is too expensive for me to purchase because the restaurants (for rich tourists) drive the price up. not only that but i cant even buy fish on the peškarija in my own city because its more expensive than the one from the store.
tourism is a form of neocolonialism. its destructive to the native working class. people cannot find apartments to live in here for the full year because landlords will throw them out in june and take them back in october. im all for travelling the world but please think about what tourism does to the countries affected by it.
I regularly use isopropyl alcohol to clean electronics, and I’ve had trouble getting the same kind of pre-moistened wipes I usually use. So I realized I could just get some more of the same kind of I use when injecting my estrogen! they’re just pre-moistened sterile wipes with a bit of IPA on them.
unexpected side effect: now everytime I try to fix electronics, they smell like girl
this does ignore that I don’t really have a sense of smell, so what I’m “smelling” is really more “isopropyl alcohol hurting my nose/eyes a little bit” which is as close as you can get to smelling something when you’re me.
but if I phrased it like “these electronics now hurt me like girls” that’d mean very different things
So one of my players looks at me. Like. Second session I ever played with them. Just narrows his lil eyes and stares me down and ejaculates, “Why do you talk like that?”
For context: I generally speak with actual words from my mouth exactly the way I type words to make posts on tumblr. If we’ve known each other for any length of time, you may already understand a bit of why he asked me this. Evidently, I speak in a way that is easily understood, most of the time, but approaches sentence structure the way English countrysides approach roads- in a winding and roundabout fashion.
I didn’t say anything witty, but I did say, “Because words are beautiful and I love them. Why don’t you [talk like this]?”
Anyway, he had a crush on me. And I think the point of the story is to talk like you’re in the process of making deep, sensual, tantric love to the language in which you’re communicating. 😎
Having had at least one dick in my mouth that I’d really like to hurry up and get out of my mouth, I feel like this is an applicable and very visceral addition to this post. Thank you. Food for thought, for sure.
“When Big Tech makes fakery their highest priority, lies reach epidemic proportions. We are now living with the consequences. And if tech accelerationists get their way, the deceptions will get much, much worse—and very rapdily.”
In syscourse news today, Aimkid continues to be harassed and slandered for supporting endogenic systems.
The part about Aimkid being endogenic is just a another anti-endo lie. Last I checked, Aimkid is a traumagenic DID system.
But when have anti-endos ever cared about truth? 🤷♀️
And there’s more:
Remember, having a complex relationship with gender and sexuality as a trans person is literally transphobia now. /s
That seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction to finding out someone is accepting and supports the existence of other people. /s
That’s just not at all how reclaiming works… 🙄
I wonder how many of the people attacking a DID systems for supporting endogenic systems are even systems themselves and how many are singlets looking for excuses to spread hate against systems for being different.
Anyway, here’s a shout out to Aimkid for standing firm by her principles, and not letting herself be bullied into silence, even in the face of overwhelming hate!
The plural community appreciates it!
Hi there,
I am a part of an extremely oppressed minority that’s basically impossible to prove the membership of
Hmm it seems that some people claim they are part of the oppressed minority but they don’t have the Trauma that Proves it
Well if someone who claims they’re disabled doesn’t remember having anything happen to them that justifies them being disabled in my mind then they’re faking it!
I’m sure accusing random potentially disabled people that they’re faking it is a good idea and not ableist at all.
I will now hate them and maybe even harass them if I feel like it
“A TERF is a white supremacist whose gateway to white supremacy is anti-trans bigotry, instead of anti-Semitism or anti-Blackness or anti-migration or misogyny. As with any gateway, many people engaging in this ideology may not be aware of their proximity to white supremacy. This is the standard radicalization pathway that we have seen over and over and over with, for example, anti-Islamic sentiment. Personally, [I] find it is most comparable to how anti-Semitism gateways are used. Often, we see white supremacists exploiting legitimate grievances with the financial systems by turning into an anti-Semitic issue. White supremacists take legitimately frustrated and class-oppressed people’s anger at banks, and carefully plant the seeds of anti-Semitism. They’ll point out the irrefutable fact that there exist Jewish people in executive positions in banking and vilely twist this. TERFs take a legitimate grievance: patriarchal oppression of women and homophobia and turn it into a movement based on systematic exclusion of a specific class of people. This is the redpill. [We] need to stop the good-faith engagements with their ideology and start treating it like the gateway to white supremacy that it is.”
I don’t think a lot of people understand that transphobia is, in fact, inherently racist.
it never would have occurred to me that transphobia has roots in racism or that TERFs are a gateway into white supremacy.
information like this is vital.
It’s inherently racist because it assumes all cultures follow the western concept of the absolute gender binary rooted in what genitals you have.
It’s also racist because it defines womanhood using conventionally attractive white women as the baseline.
Women who have facial hair, have thick or “excessive” body hair, have broad shoulders, have “masculine” facial features like angular jaws, have deep voices, are taller than “average”, have receding hairlines, are muscular, etc are immediately assumed to be men because they don’t fit white European ideals of womanhood. And these standards do affect white women of course, whether they’re cis or trans, but they mostly target Black and brown women.
There’s a reason why Black women, particularly athletes, are the ones who get targeted with so many accusations of being men. Why they’re expected to undergo hormone testing. Why they’re accused of having “excessive” testosterone. Why they’re expected to undergo physical examinations to “prove” that they’re “real” women.
Radical feminism, trans inclusive or not, is based around biological essentialist white supremacy whether radfems want to admit it or not.
“A TERF is a white supremacist whose gateway to white supremacy is anti-trans bigotry, instead of anti-Semitism or anti-Blackness or anti-migration or misogyny. As with any gateway, many people engaging in this ideology may not be aware of their proximity to white supremacy. This is the standard radicalization pathway that we have seen over and over and over with, for example, anti-Islamic sentiment. Personally, [I] find it is most comparable to how anti-Semitism gateways are used. Often, we see white supremacists exploiting legitimate grievances with the financial systems by turning into an anti-Semitic issue. White supremacists take legitimately frustrated and class-oppressed people’s anger at banks, and carefully plant the seeds of anti-Semitism. They’ll point out the irrefutable fact that there exist Jewish people in executive positions in banking and vilely twist this. TERFs take a legitimate grievance: patriarchal oppression of women and homophobia and turn it into a movement based on systematic exclusion of a specific class of people. This is the redpill. [We] need to stop the good-faith engagements with their ideology and start treating it like the gateway to white supremacy that it is.”
I don’t think a lot of people understand that transphobia is, in fact, inherently racist.
it never would have occurred to me that transphobia has roots in racism or that TERFs are a gateway into white supremacy.
information like this is vital.
It’s inherently racist because it assumes all cultures follow the western concept of the absolute gender binary rooted in what genitals you have.
It’s also racist because it defines womanhood using conventionally attractive white women as the baseline.
Women who have facial hair, have thick or “excessive” body hair, have broad shoulders, have “masculine” facial features like angular jaws, have deep voices, are taller than “average”, have receding hairlines, are muscular, etc are immediately assumed to be men because they don’t fit white European ideals of womanhood. And these standards do affect white women of course, whether they’re cis or trans, but they mostly target Black and brown women.
There’s a reason why Black women, particularly athletes, are the ones who get targeted with so many accusations of being men. Why they’re expected to undergo hormone testing. Why they’re accused of having “excessive” testosterone. Why they’re expected to undergo physical examinations to “prove” that they’re “real” women.
Radical feminism, trans inclusive or not, is based around biological essentialist white supremacy whether radfems want to admit it or not.
being moderately proficient with computers in the early 2010s was casting a hex on your family to call you sheldon
i got a big bang theory box set and a bazinga t shirt for christmas when i was 16
my dad wanted to get me a psych eval so i could say “im not crazy. my father had me tested.” like sheldon did and after the psych eval they diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia
this could be the funniest thing that has happened to anyone ever. my condolences king
whoever was the first person to make the observation that transphobia against transmascs is rooted in this kind of paternalistic misogyny whever everyone asks like they’re just poor confused widdle girls who don’t know how to make decisions for themselves was so SO right about that. like I’m not even transmasc but it’s infuriating to see these posts every other day being like “do you realize that these medical procedures are IRREVERSIBLE?? If you get top surgery it will PERMANENTLY take away your breasts. If you go in testosterone it will PERMANENTLY change your body??” When the obvious fucking response to that from anyone who’s even considered going through with any kind of masculinizing gender affirming care is
Like transmascs (teenagers and kids included) aren’t fucking stupid. they’re not too ignorant or impressionable to make decisions for themselves.
Hey! If you see a random post that has nothing to do with transandrophobia and is just talking about people transitioning in a transmasculine way, and your response is “why would we want more of those people in the world”, that is just transphobia (or, dare I say… anti-transmasculinity?). Believe it or not, millions of conservatives would agree with you on this one.
(Sorry to OP for blocking out your username, I didn’t want anyone to be able to find the commenter’s blog. If you do somehow find it, don’t harass them.)
helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!
Read it if you have the time, it’s very interesting.
Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.
It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human’s hormone and only does weak human things:
Given the fitness world’s persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you’d be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries.
Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat’s energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males.
Estrogen’s ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body’s response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn’t receive estrogen supplements.
The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that “Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes,” and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.
Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors’ skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
I also thought this part was cool :)
PLEASE read this article, this information is incredible for everyone looking to unlearn bioessentialism
helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!
Read it if you have the time, it’s very interesting.
Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.
It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human’s hormone and only does weak human things:
Given the fitness world’s persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you’d be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries.
Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat’s energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males.
Estrogen’s ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body’s response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn’t receive estrogen supplements.
The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that “Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes,” and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.
Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors’ skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
I also thought this part was cool :)
PLEASE read this article, this information is incredible for everyone looking to unlearn bioessentialism
I wanna know what’s up with these fuckers specifically
for the left, the guy on the left only knows that guy, and has 0 social awareness, and thinks that his telling him “Bro, fuck off, you’re an annoying piece of shit” is a joke.
my advice to you is to never waste your time trying to fit into a club or hobby or any community who makes you beg for acceptance and approval just to participate when you could do the alternative—get involved in a niche and endangered hobby run primarily by old people.
i wanted to learn how to hunt ruffed grouse and train bird dogs so i sent an email to my local chapter of the ruffed grouse society explaining that getting into wildlife groups is intimidating to me because I’m trans
and all they saw was that someone under 60 wanted to learn to hunt grouse & several months into my mentorship I was told that like 7 old guys argued over me until they had to pick a number between 1 and 100 to decide who got to personally mentor me.
imagine vying for the acceptance of some gatekeeping weirdos when your mere interest could be inciting verbal combat among retirees
my mentor was so sweet & funny too. he suggested we meet over lunch first so he could tell me about what to expect before we got started & I emailed back “I’m ready to get started right away!”
and he said “I was actually suggesting lunch first for your comfort on the assumption you wouldn’t want to get together with a man you’ve never met, in the woods with a gun.”
Like, I trusted him because of the referrals I got from one of my professors but like, right you are sir fair enough. Lunch it is.
