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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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listen I hate pop psychology/therapy terms but there's no other way I can describe this phenomenon, when people tell trans men that we have male privilege and we respond like

"ever since I transitioned, I am constantly comparing my experiences between my life as a cis woman and my life as a trans man, and I can distinctly say that it's been much harder to gain the respect of my peers now. I feel like I'm demonized for 'choosing to be a man', much more than a cis man, because people don't view being 'born as a man' as a moral issue like transitioning. i also think comparing my struggles to that of trans women and trying to say who has it worse is reductive because we all have different but overlapping struggles, and me speaking about my pain doesn't erase someone else’s. the only way I would do that is if I were to claim that trans men have it worse than trans women, which i would never do, because it distracts from true solidarity. so i fail to see how me voicing my struggle is indicative of male privilege"

and they tell you "yeah that's how privilege works. of course you dont notice it. look harder"

like that's gaslighting right?? 😭 we can literally tell you how much we overanalyze how experiences and pick apart how people treat us, but you're still like "you're not looking hard enough. it's there. I can't tell you what it looks like. but it's there. if you cant see it youre still blinded by misogyny!" like WHAT

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I still can’t get over what brits call musical notes like bro please I’m trying so hard to take this country seriously

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maybe when I have time I can sit down to articulate a more coherent argument, but it’s apparent to me that the “all eyes on _”/“you can’t hide” slogans, “cringe culture” & “cancel/callout culture”, RING door cameras, & supermarket cops are all part of the same cultural/societal shift towards mass-surveillance.

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Entry-level jobs should not require any amount of prior experience, I don't know why this has to be said ffs

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It’s such a red flag to me when cis people are involved in trans discourse because genuinely Who Asked You

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I never got the whole don’t threaten me with the Supreme Court thing in 2016. Hillary Clinton wasn’t threatening anything when she said if she lost democrats were going to lose the Supreme Court for a long time. She was telling you what the consequences of her losing would be and she was right. It’s not a threat to tell you the realistic outcome of an election.

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hate when people are like "trust your gut! listen to your intuition!" like okay well my gut is telling me every person i lay eyes on is hunting me for sport and my intuition is saying i should find a secluded cave and live there forever so what do you suggest i do with that information

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hate when people are like "trust your gut! listen to your intuition!" like okay well my gut is telling me every person i lay eyes on is hunting me for sport and my intuition is saying i should find a secluded cave and live there forever so what do you suggest i do with that information

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University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh

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Thank Hashem

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It was a long time coming: An incomprehensive list of similarities between antizionism and transphobia:

An obsession with deadnames: Transphobes tend to insist on calling trans people by the name they had before they transitioned. Antizionists tend to insist on calling Jewish people who Hebrewfied their name or just changed their name to a Hebrew one, by their old name.

"If you want your own representation so badly, why don't you make it yourself?" *representation exists* "omg why do you have to shove it into our faces all the time??"

"One of the good ones", tokenization on the greater scale of hate - Queerphobes will look for transphobic LGB people to use as tokens, and nothing more. Similarly, antisemites will look for antizionist Jews to use as tokens. And nothing more.

"Your existence doesn't add up with my beliefs, so clearly you just don't exist / you're not who you claim you are"

"Actually zionism is the real antisemitism slash the reason antisemitism exists" / "Actually trans people are the ones giving a bad name to queer people"

"They are coming for us": "Trans people want to turn other people" / "Zionists want to take over the world"

Pretending to care about academic sources but actually disregarding most studies made (studies showing Jewish indiginity over the levant / studies showing the results of transgender healthcare)

"Why would you need to be defended? You are already the most protected group on the planet!"

Obviously a lot of Nazi background for both rethorics.

Pretending to care about children, oh but not THOSE children: Transphobes basic off of "protect the children" because "trans people are trying to turn out children trans", ignoring how untreated dysphoria leads to higher suicide rates among trans youth, or how a trans kid is literally murdered for being trans; Antizionists claiming to care about kids dying but cheering on when Jewish kids are being fucking murdered.

Refusing to listen to the targetted group about their own fucking experience (because clearly they're lying to achieve some secret agenda).

This might be a small thing but demonization of a flag to extreme extents: "The star of david is problematic because it appears on Israel's flag" / being "suspicious" of anything that's colored using the same scheme as the trans flag (or any queer flag in this case)

Hating on an identity trait and/or claiming it's not actually an identity trait, thinking that claiming enough that people don't exist will make it true ("Israel doesn't exist" / "there are only two genders")

Treating an identity trait as an ideology (being Israeli equating to an "evil" ideology / being trans equating to an "evil" ideology)

This one is pretty universal but telling people to kill themselves

Telling people their very existence actively causes harm

Being nosy and not minding their own fucking buisness (antizionists actively looking for posts made by Jews/Israelis to send them hate, transphobes actively looking for posts made by trans people to send them hate).

"Why make it your entire personality???"

you lot are welcome to add more

edit א:

"i identify as a toaster" / "it was promised to them 3000 years ago"

edit ב:

"cis is a slur" / "goy is a slur"

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update number two they finally realized they were being a little silly

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"The road to fascism is paved with people telling you to stop overreacting"