#instead of oppressors

[femmeloverboy]

people actually sit here and believe that the whole point of gender is "man oppresses woman" and apply that to conversations about trans men. As if we exist as trans men just to oppress women bcuz ... apparently that's why gender exists. Great heavens.

I think they hate the idea that trans men are actually not oppressors, and are in fact oppressed, because its challenges their view of gender when all they know is "men exist as a class to oppress women" (which is... so radfem. And probably why all the "trans inclusive" radfems hate trans men)

[i-am-but-a-beta-fish]

don't look at me

@the-elder-polls — hello! it is tcs friday, so i wanted to share this piece i made of my ldb road, who enjoys magic, extreme mountain climbing, and never talking about herself, ever. don't worry about it. she's definitely not lying about her name or her age or any significant personal information like that. the mask is just a fashion statement. don't—don't worry about it. 

(she's sixteen. she only started going by road because she thought she got carted to helgen for being an enemy of the thalmor, so when hadvar revealed no one had any idea who she was she was so startled she just blurted out the name of the first thing she saw. which was the road. somehow no one has caught on to the fact that this is a really weird and suspicious name for an altmer to have, even if their parents didn't like them very much. she's come to genuinely prefer it over her original given name, but she's been living in horrible teenage anxiety about it for so long that it hasn't once occurred to her that maybe introducing herself like that at this point is not, in fact, lying, and therefore road does not, in fact, have to feel incredibly guilty about it.

she still does, because she's a emotional disaster masquerading as a functional and mentally stable adult, but she'll get there.

…eventually.)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i’m so glad you brought up that bit in excalibur where magneto’s ideal prison is him getting to be a husband and father again, because it’s so relevant to the idea that the house of m reality isn’t actually everyone’s ideal life, but just wanda’s idea of what everyone’s ideal life would be. all the time i see x-fans condemn magneto for house of m because his ideal world is him becoming exactly like his oppressors, but house of m isn’t actually the life magnus wants! any time magnus gets to become a political leader, he hates it. he hated ruling genosha. he hated ruling krakoa. deep down, he doesn’t want to be superior. he just wants to live in peace with the family he lost.

also, shoutout to magda and anya, who never get to be anything other than magneto’s women in refrigerators. i wish they got to be more important than that. i love it every time we see them in comics, but it’s so rare. and shoutout to magda in particular since she’s been almost completely erased from the narrative by the maximoff retcon. really hope we get a reveal that natalya maximoff was magda all along when we inevitably make wanda and pietro magneto’s mutant children again.

i honestly didnt know excalibur was a predecessor to HoM when i heard about both runs so when i saw that set of panels for the first time it really had me reconsider HoM and the 'ideal reality' bit, im surprised i dont see it mentioned more often

i really wish there were more appearances of mags, magda, and anya; if there are stories focused on them i barely see them talked about... ive heard magda is mags' best-written partner from some but i also very rarely see stories that feature her directly named, so i never get to see her beyond the few fleeting instances i just so happen to catch her. id very much like to see more of her and mags' domestic life....

i think if we find out that natalya was magda all along i'll howl: this family really Can get more complicated contrary to popular belief 💀

[shoezuki]

my brother has stopped botherin me to watch arcane n im p sure its cuz he had to realize he didnt like it. like i listened to his rants and rambles bout arcane n how they developed from 'it was amazing but they should have had more episodes to flesh it out fully' to 'they fucked up viktor so bad and ruined the conflict and power imbalance between piltover and zaun'. and ngl its been funny as hell to me. but more than that. ive discovered hes quit playing leage of legends. like.

they completely revamped viktor's character in league, entirely to match arcane viktor. and it is not liked by viktor mains at ALL or at least not from what i seen. cuz it was obv an attempt to revamp viktor, who did need a glow up, but wntirely by appealing to arcane fans and drawin em in which did not work at all n fucked w the viktor mains. and my bro was a viktor main. was essentially the only dude he played. and now its been months and instead hes pestering me about warframe

[bi-dykes]

OMG Y’ALL GELPHIE IS CAITVI IF IT WAS WRITTEN WELL

[problemnyatic]

anyone else get the sense that people pathologize feedees who want to become fat because they see fatness as a virtuous suffering that the ontologically abusive Thins are trying to Invade instead of something fucking neutral and normal. Does anyone else think it's extremely weird to dictate what other people are allowed to want to look like even if you're doing it in a way that """subverts""" the societal trends. Does anyone else think bodily autonomy exists unconditionally or is it just a buzzword you say to signal that you think the Opposite bodies are Morally Superior. Can anyone hear me. hello

[cosmicredcadet]

Idk i just find it interesting that the conversation of "romance negativity" only ever comes up in regards to romance repulsed people and as a way to try to shut us up and the only evidence that gets brought up for "romance negativity" is actually evidence of misogyny and oppression of women specifically and not really Romance negativity.

[sinnbaddie]

I get people do it because it’s one of his chakra elements but making Sasuke a firebender in ATLA au’s does NOT sit right with me…

[skullrock]

i absolutely cannot believe the amount of people (majority white liberals) thinking they are any better than bigots (and fascists) by harassing and targeting their neighbors of color who did not vote for harris. how the fuck does that make you any better than the people you oppose. it makes my stomach actually hurt that people are so stupid and so cruel. fuck you, and i mean that loudly, louder than i’ve ever said it in my life!!!!!

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

if you're deconstructing your ideas of binary gender and binary sex— you also have to deconstruct your ideas of binary sexuality and romantic attraction, too, fyi

[okcoolthanks]

Yea HOW did so many people think Not Like Us was only about drake

[sillypilled-friendcel]

trans people are dying and i don't think the thing we need to do is infighting i think we should actually just start fucking biting cis people

[villalunae]

grabbing tumblr by the lapels and telling everyone that when someone says "i hate [type of oppressor]" that theyre almost 100% speaking out of experience and venting and you should take a hint and realize not everything is about you and your victim complex and Keep Scrolling

[anendoandfriendo]

Okay, ya fucking shill.

For anyone wondering what our problem is, it's not this person being neurodivergent, it's that, yeah, we see it will be needed while shitty consists exist and are being taken down, but the DSM and ICD are the biggest perpetrators of ableism and saneism in the first place. Anyone defining themselves with DSM codes of all things in this way is/should be a red flag ioo.

[proustianrevelry]

absolutely hilarious when writeups about the 1914 Christmas Truce conclude "yeah, some people tried to do it again in subsequent years, but it never really happened for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "

IT NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN BECAUSE IT WAS A CAPITAL OFFENSE

Lions Led by Donkeys put out an episode discussing this, but the soldiers doing this were the equivalent of American GIs in Vietnam refusing to shoot first: They were doing exactly what their commanders didn't want them to do. Many of the soldiers in 1914 negotiated informal ceasefires with soldiers on the other side against direct orders from their officers. Both allied and axis governments attempted to bury the heartwarming Christmas Truce story, and when it leaked via neutral countries' press, British High Command deemed such actions "fraternization with the enemy" and warned that any soldier caught chatting up Jerry, at Christmas or otherwise, would be court martialed and, if found guilty, executed.

Humanizing the enemy is bad for morale, and generals already knew the western front was going to be a long, slow war of attrition.

Management always sees workers bonding with each other as a threat, and they're right. :)

[hussyknee]

Nahel the child killed by french cops was not black he was maghrebi, of algerian origins

My bad! Thanks for the heads up, I made the correction both at the top and bottom of the post.