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oh ok

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Once upon a time…

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able bodied allies of disabled people when your disability genuinely has no secret upside and makes you useless to a late stage capitalist society

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"Don't be a Job Hopper" 1940s Disney WWII propaganda poster

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It is genuinely fascinating how many feminist cis women, including those who are on paper openly supportive of trans people, struggle to actually think about trans men as a concept.

A few months ago I ended up having a very long talk with a friend of a friend. She told me that she'd never really spoken to a trans man before, the only trans people she knew were trans women. There was a point, after the third time I reminded her that I was a man, that she just sorta of slotted me into her mental box of "man", and I could tell that happened because after that point she started trying to explain things to me as if I was a cis man.

I categorically do not "pass" and likely never will. I'm very short, my hips are prominent because I'm fat, I keep my hair long, charitably I could be said to have a baby face, I have D-cups and cannot bind due to spinal problems. To the majority of cis people I do not "look like a man".

But for the rest of the conversation I had with this friend of a friend I had to keep reminding her of how other people are going to view me, because there was no room in her mental idea of "man" for a man who is not treated as one. This was not malicious on her part, she was very nice to me, and I believe her when she says she wants to support trans people. I do not think she was lying when she told me how horrified she was to learn about how her trans woman friends were treated.

She said she was envious of me going out alone and how I need to understand that's a facet of male privilege and I asked her to look at me and explain why I'd be any safer. She was shocked to learn that I've been catcalled, been assaulted, that I regularly get spoken down to by cis men, shocked to learn I don't have a single transmasc friend who hasn't. She couldn't understand that I'm going to be treated the same by misogynists as any fat cis woman who doesn't wear makeup. There was no room in her feminism for trans men, because there was no room in her understanding of gender for men who are not cis.

We ended up talking about politics. She told me she was terrified of abortion being banned, and that this would never be a threat if men could get pregnant.

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someone in my notes is saying "I'm not disabled but it sucks I can't walk without experiencing pain" pal.

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does anybody know what to do about the flaming ghoul following me around at work

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im dying over this thread of algorithmically-generated/otherwise low-effort Kindle covers

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All twelve sacred beasts will defend me from economic uncertainty

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Transphobes having big feelings. Blocked me before I even said anything good.

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suicide bombs your cottagecore bedroom

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Chat gpt you will never be her

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ideologically i disagree with outside cats but i cannot deny the allure of being able to just meet a little guy anytime anywhere

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zoomer insults are so pathetic and limp wristed and nothing. "are you acoustic" are you scared of getting trouble for using autistic as an insult? "stupid ahh" how are you expecting me to be insulted when you're too scared to curse. dumb fuck. pansy. either be nice or grow a pair

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basically my position is that landlords should die until my siblings aren't forced into soliciting donations online for basic necessities like food and shelter and medicine. i do not consider this any more extreme than the popular position that poor people should suffer and die en masse so landlords can keep getting paid for doing fucking nothing.

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ok this will be the last one, but @isleofapplepies suggested Colon and Nobbs and it was too good not to draw!!

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Hear me out: Untitled Goose Game in Ankh-Morpork…

Think of all the mayhem you could create.

(I really really want so bad this game/DLC to exist. So much potential. @house_house_ call me (or, better, call the Pratchetts)) Next drawing: the Post!