i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma
You're going on a date with a beautiful transgender woman. You stay up all night reading internet memes about trans women in hopes of getting an edge in. You go over and say "wow cute skirt, I bet you make it go spinny all the time." She looks at you indifferently, like she doesn't know what you're talking about. "Oh, you mean like that meme for teenagers on reddit? I mean I'm 32 so I'm kind of normal about wearing skirts. I mean I get the excitement when you're like 15." A cold streak presses down your forehead. It's not over yet. You stumble out a line about Fallout New Vegas. She says that she never really got into that one. Crisis mode. You touch her hand and she reflexively recoils but then tries to play it off. You order drinks and conversation moves along: she tries to tell you about a novel she's reading. This isn't part of the script. You try to connect the plot of the novel to a niche fetish that you heard trans people on the internet like. The vicissitudes of discomfort play out across her face. She gets a phone call. Apparently her mom is in the hospital. What luck.
I feel like people these days don't really have a handle on how crazy the Satanic Panic was. A lot of cops wholeheartedly believed they were gonna have to arrest evil wizards.
I love the sex and magic pride flag. Pink and turquoise and sex and magic are so important to me. I've always argued that we need to put sex and magic back in the pride flag. Then I thought, why stop there?
This is the Sex and Magic Flag, reblog if you like sex and magic
When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.
Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.
What do we expect to happen?
Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.
It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.