im sorry this is so fucking funny to me. they woulda taken my 8year old ass outback and put me down like old yeller
we laugh but this is the first step in criminalizing furries. which is the first step in criminalizing any deviance not already covered by criminalizing ‘traditional’ queer identities.
also, the fake stories of litterboxes in classrooms are usually brought out as a supposed slippery slope from trans rights, i.e. “if a boy can decide to be a girl and u arent allowed to question it, why cant a kid decide to be a cat?”
all our struggles are connected. never give fascists an inch
“Trans men and women are both suffering” and “trans women are often specifically targeted by bigotry and harassment even within their own communities and deserve to be able to talk about their own unique challenges without being talked over” and “trans men are often erased from conversations about how bigotry and transphobia targets them and are not exempt from all the horribly draconian laws transphobes are attempting to pass” and “being trans doesn’t make you immune to participating in horrible transmisogyny even and especially if you aren’t aware you’re doing it” and “holy shit don’t reinvent bioessentialism but for trans people like holy fuck men are not destined to be evil and women aren’t automatically incapable of harm” are all opinions that can and fucking SHOULD coexist
Also nonbinary people exist in ways that can’t and shouldn’t be reduced to “trans man lite” and “trans woman lite” and experience transphobia in ways that frequently can’t be generalized at all.
Also Intersex folks can have complex relationships towards their gender due to their experience and people should keep that in mind. Y'all also need to listen when an Intersex person tells you that you’re being intersexist.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
RATING: RELIABLE
you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here
the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don’t. i’m outside his house with a gun. he’s not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he’s just an unforgivable asshole
I cannot emphasize enough that ppl with “feminine presenting nipples” showing their boobs/tits is not flashing. I don’t care how they do it, flashing is sexual assault and not comparable in the least.
If showing your tits was flashing, flashing wouldn’t even be a fucking crime ‘cause skinny cis boys would be flooding the jails in mass because they can’t keep their fucking shirts on. Don’t use words like that if you don’t know what they mean, please.
ok so I guess tumblr’s userbase might be aging also in what universe are people not texting each other. are we just making up things to feel insecure about now
it’s a valid point: phone usage prior to 2010 was more likely to be person to person, now a significant fraction of that is going to be consuming public content and a smaller fraction producing public content, mental awareness of and exposure to Society at large (on a global scale!) is far more prevalent than it was when you could only text people whose numbers you knew personally.
You’re letting “valid” do a lot of heavy lifting. I think you know this person complaining about influencers does not think the issue is that if it’s easier to message an Australian than at any point in time prior. Whatever point you want to make about “exposure to society at large” and knowing every person you talk to in real life has very little to do with what this complaint is
I don’t follow, phones used to be exclusively for person to person comms, which they can still do, but time spent on phones today is more likely to be spent browsing and posting on social media, a very different activity that has very different effects.
“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.
Blood test results are back. 0’s across the board, dry as a bone under the hood, they’re not sure what they’ve got in those vials but it recoils from light and lunges towards living tissue, which is all normal for girls these days.
“Women and non-binary” poll that only lets in afabs 😔
(!?) op is a trans woman…
Hdishskdhshs I meant it as a joke about how many spaces that describe themselves as “women and non-binary” (adding non-binary to the woman poll) don’t include trans women not as a jab at you sorry
Oh, thank you for clearing that up. Unfortunately I have encountered that :(
poll 4/2
Should OP be raptured for not including nonbinary people?
The village people sang “Go West” so west is men and east is women because that’s where the women are compared to west (note: everything is east compared to west)
> go East
You go East.
As your journey stretches on, there are fewer and fewer men.
What do you do?
> go East
what the fuck did i stumble upon
this is a perfectly normal post, don’t worry about it kitten
Hi followers wanna fuck up this Trainwreck of a post even more
Can someone tell me where these feminine trans guys with massive tits who wear push-up bras and skimpy outfits that I keep seeing transphobes complain about are? I’d love to see massive tboy boobs.
Please can transphobes stop gatekeeping the tboys with massive breasts who wear glam makeup . Plsss tell me where you met these people . They sound awesome .
Transphobes trying to create a caricature of a trans person, every time: Okay so imagine this extremely hot cool person right-
Hey, no homo, but I am sitting on the broken swing set out back in the perfect, quiet, 2:00am blackness and picturing the softness of your voice and the darkness of your eyes with such perfect and terrible clarity that it feels like I’m choking on my own heartbeat.
Now I’m eating croutons straight out of the bag.
Still no homo ?
I’m gonna level with you, friend: I am eating these croutons gay style.
honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible
i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”
I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.
No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.
…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.
mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone
I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them
I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic.
If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.
devastating news for the discourse poster: “media literacy” in the modern age includes the ability to identify which posts are bait
before you go on lamenting the death of media literacy on the post of some guy who may, perhaps, have a financial incentive to get as many eyes on their slop as humanly possible, take a second to assess whether this “literacy” you speak of could apply to you in this very moment, because otherwise, brother, i bear some bad news,
For the past half year, my doctor and I have been struggling with medicaid to get me a wheelchair, which I need because of fibromyalgia, plantar fasciitis, and the fact that the cartilage in my knees are being ground to dust. Insurance is refusing to cover the costs of the wheelchair despite repeated appeals, and I’m at the end of my rope with waiting as it gets even more difficult to just get outside. So I’m taking things into my own hands.
The wheelchair I’m aiming to get is a Fold and Go, with the $94/month payment plan. I live on disability, however, and even that much will cut into what I can do/pay for with my current set of bills. I need the leftover money for surprise bills and transportation to doctor’s appointments. I’m aiming to get the full $2,695 so that I can pay it off as soon as possible and not have that sword hanging over my head.
Genuinely, anything y'all can do, even just spreading the word, will help me out immensely. Thank you. If you send money through paypal, please let me know so I can grab the money!
One of my favourite bits in Monster Con so far has been every website and product getting a bland name but Tumblr is just Tumblr like who gives a shit lol
Saved by the actual killer; let’s not forget that Luigi Mangione was almost certainly framed and is most likely not The Claims Adjuster. (I love that name. Robin Hoodie was good too, but The Claims Adjuster is perfect.)
I mean. Days after the killing, he is still carrying around the weapon and a handwritten manifesto in his backpack? A 3d printed weapon, which he could have melted down and destroyed, or thrown into the Hudson River, because the thing about 3d printed guns is that unlike standard manufactured guns, it’s really hard to identify who printed them? When his bag was searched out of anyone’s sight, hours after his arrest? By a notoriously corrupt police district under pressure to make an arrest?
We need to stop accepting reflexively the narrative the NYPD and the media have tried to sell us; it’s got way too many holes in it and it runs the risk that an innocent man will spend his life in jail or be executed for a crime he didn’t commit. The fact that we would all support him if he did commit it is irrelevant; the state will grind him through the gears of injustice if it can.
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