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"wait, but what do I say to describe people who cannot get pregnant?" a guide.

Men cannot get pregnant: INCORRECT. Transgender men are men and many are capable of getting pregnant. Also, excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

Cis men cannot get pregnant: INCORRECT. Intersex men who are technically cis, but have uteruses and ovaries, may be capable of pregnancy, even if it's unlikely. Also, excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

Cis perisex men cannot get pregnant: Correct, but excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

People without uteruses cannot get pregnant: Correct, but excludes infertile and menopausal people with uteruses who also cannot get pregnant.

People who cannot get pregnant: CORRECT. Excludes no one.

To use inclusionary language, you don't need to rip through the reeds in search of wider terminology when you could quite literally say things exactly as they are. Inclusive language isn't "overcomplicated" at all. It's straightforward.

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖

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its fascinating when shows go "this character does not have sex" and you can just watch the fans minds just start going "well he doesnt have sex, therefore hes asexual, and as we all know, asexuality is a spectrum, and some asexuals actualy do have sex, and therefore he is probably having tons of crazy sex literaly every time he isnt on screen"

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Guys … what if we made art of these politicians having gay sex and being trans… you know what if we made art where the whole joke is someone who I don’t like is gay and trans. I’m so progressive they should give me a medal

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aroaces ready to come out: let's go gambling

[almost no media representation] aw dang it

["you just need to find the one"] aw dang it

[getting told to get therapy] aw dang it

[less visibility than other queer people] aw dang it

["I couldn't do that, that's such an important part"] aw dang it

[marriage and children being standard/expected] aw dang it

["that's gonna be such a sad life"] aw dang it

["that doesn't exist, quit your bullsh*t"] aw dang it

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Aromantic people and asexual people can have kids

I keep seeing these end of the family tree gifs with the aromantic or asexual or aroace flag on them (no hate to the creator/creators doing this)

aromantic and asexual people can adopt or have kid’s biologically or both

People choose to have kids for many reasons

Aromantic or asexual people can choose to be single parents or raise kids with a friend or a partner

Aromantic or asexual people can choose to have a partner just to raise kids with them

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I get to be more free as an adult than I ever did as a child and I think more kids need to know that. as a high schooler part of what made my depression so bad was being told over and over again that it was the most carefree time of my life. while I was trapped in an abusive home + amongst bullies at school + in a body that wasn’t right for me. opportunities to be carefree don’t end when you turn 18. you can be more you than ever as an adult and that’s such a gift. I know ‘it can get better’ is an annoying thing to see over and over when you’re as trapped as I was back then. and I know that if you’re still a kid you deserve to be free right this second. but it can and will get better and this is not where life stops being interesting. promise

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It's 2025, can we agree that you can be straight and LGBTQIA+ finally? Or is the concept of asexual straights and straight trans people still too complex for this world?

Not aimed at the community as a whole of course but some of y'all gotta stop being so uppity about straight people existing within the community.

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whyyyyyyy does the tumblr populace keep making up new reasons to be awful to each other. no transmascs are not inherently evil. no transfems aren't inherently more pure and they're not evil either. no the death penalty isnt good. yeah even if they really really deserve it. no turning yourself into the one benefiting from bigotry is not any better than where we are right now. no it's not people's fault for being fucking bad at math good lord just calm down and be nice to people

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​“calling yourself sapphic sounds like you wear mushroom earrings and listen to hozier” “calling yourself aroallo is literally just calling yourself a fuckboy” well maybe if we stopped relentlessly assigning stereotypes to queer identities the way we get mad at non-queer people for doing we wouldn’t have this problem

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Nooo don’t respond to an unreasonable societal standard by pivoting hard in the exact opposite direction creating a different yet equally unreasonable standard you’re so sexy haha

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It's pride month so I'll allow myself to express one opinion on the internet :

There are no "exact color" of pride flags.

I see more and more sites and posts talking about the exact hex codes for the lesbian flag, or the right purple for the ace one, and how it should be more or less saturated and I just want to say: pride flags were meant to be sewn in your kitchen. To be spraypainted and to be recognised.

There are no "exact colors" of pride flags because you should do them with what you have ! Nobody should care if you use a crimson red instead of a cherry red or whatever ! Be free ! wave your colors ! The colors you have !

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we were talking about the criminalization of homosexuality in class and my professor (who as far as i know isn't in any way queer) said something i quite enjoyed in that. well the exchange was more or less this: a student asked a question (doesn't really matter what exactly just know that i was rolling my eyes So hard internally) and the prof looked at the student and was like (i'm paraphrasing here this conversation was not in english) Do you have any queer friends? and the student went Uhhhh in a manner that made it clear the answer was probably no and the prof said Actually statistically speaking you most likely do. If I had to divide this room into two groups the way to do it would not be "people with queer friends" and "people without queer friends" it would be "people whose queer friends are out to them" and "people whose queer friends aren't". And if you're in the latter category you should consider why that is--if maybe your behavior is indicating to the queer people around you that you're not safe to come out to. to come back to your question if you really want to know about queerness there's a very simple way of doing that: you make yourself a person queer people feel comfortable talking to about their experiences and then you fucking listen to them when they do (the fuck is not paraphrased) (there was a fuck involved) (frankly king shit)

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I'm gonna say something to Americans right now and I'm going to beg of you to have some reading comprehension and literacy when I say it and know what I'm talking about.

Your government wants you dead, this year there is no discourse at Pride.

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I think a lot less people would feel threatened by the prospect of a character being aroace if they learnt how to conceptualize and write character relationships and dynamics outside of sex and romance. Because as long as people think no longer being able to write both characters in their favourite dynamic being sexually and romantically attracted to each other means a loss in intimacy and closeness, they're going to see any aroasexuality as an attack on character dynamics they care about and get upset when characters are confirmed aroace, unless those characters are unshippable side characters they never really cared about so they never accidentally get invested in an aroace character.