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‘hurting people to get what you want’ is also literally the only way to proceed towards mitigating climate catastrophe, ending capital, historically achieving anything given the ruling classes freely use violence to protect the status quo

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Reblog if your tits are free-use stress balls for any lesbian who needs them

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(cw: sexual assault) the pedophile -as it is understood outside of academic circles- is a mythical creature. the idea that a complete stranger who kidnaps and sexually assaults kids is their biggest threat is absolutely insane; not one case of CSA (child sexual assault) in a hundred looks like that. CSA is committed almost uniformly by adults in a preestablished position of authority (such as family, family friends, clergy, or teachers) and in a way that a victim who doesn't know what sexual assault looks like will be left unsure what happened to them. without knowing concretely how sex and sexuality works, would you be able to tell the difference between molestation and the various other forms of unwanted physical touch and abuse kids are regularly subjected to? would it even seem that different? but parenthood and the submission of youth to adults as institutions are threatened by the reality of CSA. adults need to justify their ownership of children through an imagined outside threat constantly held at bay through their diligence. the truth - that putting yourself in such a position of authority over children directly enables abuse (including sexual abuse) - is thrown aside.

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i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

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been repeating this in my head all day

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If you say shit like this to a questioning trans girl, you're committing transmisogynistic violence. Like what the actual fuck is wrong with you?? You see a girl expressing fear and pain and your response is to tell her to shut up and deal with it??? You're not helping or warning anyone, you want this woman dead.

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people love transfemininity as long as it's a performance put on for them and not a person who is living their life for themselves

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I actually snapped for the first time yesterday and swore both my friends.

So, as most of you know, I go by Terra now—and I’ve been doing so for over three months. I've been patient, I’ve given people time to adjust, and I haven’t pushed hard about it, because I understand change takes a moment.

But yesterday… I hit a wall.

I was working, and things were busy. I was teaching two new players how to play Magic, helping a kid constantly pestering me for Pokémon cards from the store folder, checking in everyone for a yu gi oh tournament, sorting out entries, and bouncing between all of that while also helping with snacks, drinks, and product sales. On top of it, a friend had come to the store just to trade me two cards—but they ended up getting swarmed by my two friends let's just go with Tim and Dale, who were trying to get trades off them too.

So yeah. It was a lot.

But the part that really broke me?

While I was juggling all of this, Tim and Dale kept calling me "Deadname"—over and over again. Like:

"Hey Deadname, can I check your file?"

"Deadname, did you bring your Final Fantasy stuff?"

"Deadname, wanna pod up for a game?"

I kept my cool, but it didn’t stop. It was so constant that even John, who knows me as Terra, got confused and started calling me Deadname too. Then he paused and literally asked, “Wait—I know them as Terra? Why do you keep calling them Deadname?”

And Tim and Dale casually said. “Umm, that’s because it's his name.”

That’s when I snapped.

I said—loudly—“For fuck’s sake, my name is fucking Terra. Get it right—I won’t be asking again.”

And Dale? He had the audacity to say:

“Wait, you’re still doing that?”

And I just stared at him and said,

“Of course I’m still fucking doing it. I’ve been going by Terra for almost three months now, and it hurts that neither of you have made a single ounce of effort to even learn or remember my name.”

John just nodded, like it finally clicked, and went back to shuffling his Magic deck. But gods… that moment stung more than I can explain.

Both Tim didn't make eye contact or attempt to speak to me the rest of the day, except for Dale who appolagised and called me Terra the rest of the day.

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these are KILLING me

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i said this in the replies of some random post, but ill say it here too.

if youre against the terms tma and tme, saying that they're "another reductive binary" or "everyone is affected by transmisogyny", then you're blatantly antifeminist and transmisogynistic.

your main argument is that everyone can be accused of being a trans woman, from cis woman to drag queens. which. comparing us to drag queens... i should justified in hitting you with a brick just for that.

but also, tme people have the ability to say that they aren't actually trans women. tma people dont get that excuse.

if your only defense against misdirected transmisogyny is "um, that that person isn't actually a tranny", what happens when she is? what excuse are trans women supposed to use against transmisogyny?

its the exact say behavior that pop feminists use when they say that men are also affected by the patriarchy. its a massive oversimplification of actual systemic oppression, and shifts the blame from the system at play to people complaining about it.

"why are you feminists so angry at men? the patriarchy affects men, too, you know! men are expected to work and make all the money and die in wars" is fundamentally no different from "why do you have to use tma/tme? you realize that everyone is affected by transmisogyny, you know! i could potentially be called a tranny by a person on the street."

and if your only reason for disliking tma/tme is "well i could potentially be mistaken for one of you, so technically that makes me just as oppressed as you", either you're intentionally mudding the waters of the actual conversation around real oppression and making everything about yourself, or youre just actually beyond stupid and should not even be a part of this conversation.

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Looking like vogue

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you could make a racist colonizer character but if he is drawn in a appealing artystyle or is overall charismatic, then fandomite white ppl will be over his dick because they'd fuck a fence if it was painted white.

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Midoriya Analysis, Vol 2

Last time (five minutes ago) we talked about how Midoriya’s goal was not necessarily to save people, but to be a hero as BNHA defines heroism. The next step is to look at Midoriya’s worldview and how it matches, or doesn’t match, with the worldview the fandom assigned to him. Once again: I’m not hating on 15-year-old quirkless Midoriya for this worldview. This is more of a how it started vs how it’s going situation.

We don’t get a chance to see much of what Midoriya’s life is like pre-One For All, but given that he’s in school with Bakugou and Bakugou is allowed to do pretty much whatever he wants, we can guess that it’s not good. I’m not going to say that Bakugou’s behavior is a microcosm of how BNHA society treats the quirkless, but if his behavior is acceptable, I think it’s a signal that quirkless people, while being a minority at this point, are not a protected class. We also don’t see Midoriya having peer-group interactions with anyone but Bakugou and his cronies, so I can’t speak to whether he’s completely isolated or not, and while I could see there being a social cost to being less affluent or being raised by a single parent, I think the driving factor in Midoriya’s treatment by the rest of the world is his quirklessness. And he accepts it.

I think this is the point where our (the fandom) opinion of Midoriya diverges sharply from Midoriya’s opinion of himself. When faced with Bakugou bullying him, Midoriya seems to internalize that it’s his own fault — that he deserves this, somehow, because he’s lesser than Bakugou in some way. Where most people would probably feel justified in hating someone who bullied them for years and told them to kill themselves, Midoriya continues to try to win Bakugou’s approval and respect, even though Bakugou’s long since proven that he doesn’t deserve it. What we can take from this example is this: Midoriya believes that people who are mistreated deserve what they get, and if they’re unable to get stronger and fight back, they should just be stuck like that forever.*

Because of Midoriya’s devotion to and adoration of heroes, and his belief that ��hero” is the only worthy job on the planet, he’s uniquely ill-equipped to recognize that hero society as a whole is deeply corrupt and cruel. He sees his mistreatment as his fault rather than the fault of society, and consciously or unconsciously, he projects that viewpoint onto the villains he later fights. Villains like Stain and Gentle Criminal, who adhere mostly to society’s norms with a few changes here and there, are easier for Midoriya to understand and empathize with. They’re playing by the same rules as Midoriya, for the most part, which is how you get Midoriya talking about how he “understands” Stain, even though his understanding is superficial. And Gentle Criminal wanted to be a hero too, so he and Midoriya are best buddies. /sarcasm/

But there are villains who don’t accept that they’re the problem. Who don’t see their mistreatment as their own fault, and instead point the finger at people who’ve hurt them — and try to fight back in ways that don’t align with the archetype of the stoic victim or the poor, innocent angel. Midoriya has vastly more societal privilege than the members of the League of Villains, but his experiences of ostracism and rejection in BNHA society are similar to the experiences they’ve had. Although these are the villains Midoriya should be able to empathize with, he sees them as worse than the others, to the point where they’re unworthy of life. (See: The non-reaction to Twice’s murder + “well, at least I saved his heart!” response to murdering Shigaraki.)

There’s a metaphor that comes to mind for me when thinking about the situation of Midoriya, the villains, and hero society. In discussions of abusive family dynamics, the idea of rocking the boat is introduced — a family in a boat, where one individual is shaking the boat and attempting to sink it. Although everyone knows what the problem is, it’s the person who points out that the boat is shaking who takes the blame for the situation. This is the dynamic BNHA ends in, for Midoriya. He identifies very heavily with hero society, to the point where rejection of it deeply wounds him (see: Kota), but he’s not so blind that he can’t see some of the cracks in the system; after all, he fell through them himself. The difference between Midoriya and Shigaraki, in Midoriya’s subconscious, is that Midoriya didn’t throw a fit about it. Midoriya saw that it was all for the greater good and accepted that as a person who is seen and sees himself as lesser, he’s an acceptable sacrifice in order to preserve the greater good of hero society.

So in short, while Midoriya’s experiences should suggest an ability to empathize with villains, his worldview itself presents the stumbling block. He’s unwilling or unable to see hero society for what it really is — if he did, he’d have to reckon with what was done to him, and I doubt he’d ever be ready for that.

*refers to Eri and Kota, who deserve to be saved by virtue of being cute little kids who haven’t had time to make mistakes yet. There’s also the weird element with Kota where it almost seems like Midoriya’s trying to prove to him that his feelings about heroes are wrong, which — eugh. No thank you.

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hey girl your pfp is so awesome and cool can i print out a picture of it and cum on it

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the david zwirner gallery and the felix gonzalez torres foundation in the smithsonian removed the descriptive plaque for portrait of ross in la by felix gonzalez-torres. the old plaque explained portrait for ross' origins as the artist's partner's aids related death, and replaced it with a plaque with absolutely no information about the piece itself, who ross was, or who gonzalez-torres was either. portrait of ross was also reeranged to lay on the floor long ways instead of in a pile as it typically is situated, and the plaque outside the exhibition FOR GONZALEZ-TORRES omits his sexuality, as well as his aids related death. i'm in utter disbelief

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