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someone very very earnestly tried to get me to reblog a plot saying "actually tma includes intersex people because julia serrano said so" and i've been sitting here trying to articulate my frustration and incredulity here so let me just say if you can understand that while there are similarities between the intersex and trans experience it would be wrong of me to start calling myself intersex and walking into conversations about intersexism As An Intersex Woman, despite (to the best of my knowledge) all variation from my Assigned Male Sex being voluntary transition on my part, hopefully you can understand why the reverse- every single word for "assigned male and transitioned to a feminine gender" being either branded as Bigoted or turned into a meaningless (and often insultingly masculine) Aesthetic that anyone can pick up- is bigoted and problematic too.

when one group of intersex people have been pushed out of the community on this website by the rest of the community, and the first group is transfeminized people and the latter is not, it becomes a bit silly to say that there is absolutely no social difference between the two groups.

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it/its people are instantly hot. not sorry

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HOARAH LMAOUX, CHIEFTAIN OF THE BLOGLANDS... THE EVER-BRILLIANT, LOLMASK... FIA, DEAD THREAD COMPANION... THE LOATHSOME DERP-EATER... AND SIR GIDEON ONLINE, THE ALL-POSTING!!!

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Gray Wolf Canis lupus

Observed by mikewerner, CC BY-NC

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Gray Wolf Canis lupus

Observed by krfbirds, CC BY-NC

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Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)

Observed by scwraw, CC BY-NC

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Sometimes when a trans woman does something mildly #problematique, you gotta just learn to let it slide or just talk to her about it in private because you know that there are hordes of #leftists who are just salivating at the chance to isolate a trans woman from her community

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99% of posters quit before they find the perfect wording no one can misunderstand

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My lukewarm take is that one of the greatest privileges of all is the ability to exist as the «default setting», being seen as just a person, and not as a representative of a group of people who share your gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or cultural/religious background. Which is why the «not all men» pushback against any mention of structural sexism was what it was. Because suddenly people who were used to being the default setting were being made into representatives of their gender, having to prove that they were better than the stereotypes forced upon them. And they did not like that one bit.

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i’ve started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.

and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can’t even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?

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weirdly enchanted by this

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its crazy how many people on that post will be like 'but dont you know that this phenomenon happens because the people making these jokes see sexual violence as smoething that could happen to them while war crimes as some vague ambiguous nebulous thing that could never impact their lives?' yes amiguita thats literally what the post is about. the whole post is about that fact. Thats the opint of the post

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my opinion on the current porn ban is that it benefits the state to have its people filled with shame. they want you to be ashamed of yourself and they want you to hurt others who aren't ashamed of themselves. these changes will not benefit the marginalized

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An older comic from when I used to work at Build-A-Bear

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"xyz is marked red on shinigami eyes because they post about transmasc and/or intersex issues"

so close! they're actually marked red because they gleefully regularly participate in the transmisogynistic-harassment and anti-transfeminism fandoms! :)