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Teen LGBT Squad

Another Hometar Runner fancomic for pride month, this time starring the Teen Girl Squad.

This was mostly an excuse to make that “ow mein kampf” joke

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When you complain about trans mascs wanting to 'change' feminist vocabulary, because they are 'whiny mras' who can't handle not being the centre of attention...

You are a moron.

Literally, for the past 100s of years, trans men, have always been included in feminism, they were just never called 'men'. Don't believe me?

'abortion would be legal if men could get pregnant'

'men think their p-nises...'

'men don't understand what its like to have biologically stronger...'

'men don't want to (male sex specific thing)'

And you can think of 100 examples of this. Back when feminism started women was thought of as the sex, with gender not being viewed as separate to sex.

Obviously, we now have come to a new better understanding of gender. But this is not what caused trans men to protest the language being used.

Trans men understood, and know that we were included in feminist conversations, despite the misgendering, because women's rights (especially reproductive rights) were also our rights. Every law ever put in place to affect women, also affected us.

The only reason we are trying to widen language now is because of the rest of you! Because so many dumb ass people apparently don't understand this. Like yall genuinely believe trans men are forcing themselves into a space where we have been since the beginning.

And you say 'look at the words being used'. The words we accepted because fighting for our and women's rights was more important than the misgendering. And pretend that rather this being a sign of what trans men had to put up with, it is instead proof that we were not there.

So NOW because of YOU IDIOTS without any READING COMPREHENSION we are asking for change. This wouldn't have happened if you had bare bones knowledge of queer and feminist history.

Words change. The feminist community has always included trans men, and it still should.

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I did this as a shout out for trans men who aren't good at sex, but tbh this applies to any and all men who feel the pressure to perform sexually.

Not everyone is or even can be good at sex. It's okay if you aren't. Sex does not define your manhood, even if there's a lot of people out there trying to get you to internalize that.

Shout out to all the trans men who are bad at sex.

Shout out to all the trans men who aren't going to "be better lovers to the women in their lives" (compared to their cis counterparts I guess) because they simply Are Not Good At Sex.

Shout out to trans men who like when stuff is done to them but can't really perform when it comes to topping or eating someone out or sucking someone off because they don't have the energy and/or desire to do all that.

Shout out to trans men who simply don't want to have sex.

There's a lot of people who objectify men when it comes to sex. A lot of people who think it's the man's job to get them off. A lot of people who make fun of small dicks or lacking sexual performance when they don't like a man. A lot of people who judge men who aren't interested in performing oral. A lot of people who expect men to want sex just because they're men, who don't check in with you first to see if you actually want it, but rather assume they're doing you a favor for allowing you access to their bodies. There's a lot of people who equate a man's worth and manliness by his ability to fuck them right.

I'm here to tell you that you are no one's sex object. Being uninterested in certain sex acts doesn't make you a better or worse feminist. It just makes you a person with preferences and boundaries. You are not on this earth to eat pussy. You are not on this earth to make someone's legs shake with orgasmic power. You are not on this earth to be someone's fantasy of a man. You do not have to prove your love, your manhood, or anything else about yourself through sex. And, sure, it's okay to want to improve so you can be a capable and attentive sex-haver, but it's also okay to be bad at sex. Being bad at sex proves very little about you as a person. And not wanting sex at all is also fully valid and doesn't make you less of a man. Don't let any asshole tell you that you aren't allowed to have sexual boundaries just because you're a man. Don't let them convince you that you're a bad partner just because you can't sexually satisfy someone. Sex is not the end-all-be-all, and you don't have to let it define you if you don't want it to.

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Shout out to all the trans men who are bad at sex.

Shout out to all the trans men who aren't going to "be better lovers to the women in their lives" (compared to their cis counterparts I guess) because they simply Are Not Good At Sex.

Shout out to trans men who like when stuff is done to them but can't really perform when it comes to topping or eating someone out or sucking someone off because they don't have the energy and/or desire to do all that.

Shout out to trans men who simply don't want to have sex.

There's a lot of people who objectify men when it comes to sex. A lot of people who think it's the man's job to get them off. A lot of people who make fun of small dicks or lacking sexual performance when they don't like a man. A lot of people who judge men who aren't interested in performing oral. A lot of people who expect men to want sex just because they're men, who don't check in with you first to see if you actually want it, but rather assume they're doing you a favor for allowing you access to their bodies. There's a lot of people who equate a man's worth and manliness by his ability to fuck them right.

I'm here to tell you that you are no one's sex object. Being uninterested in certain sex acts doesn't make you a better or worse feminist. It just makes you a person with preferences and boundaries. You are not on this earth to eat pussy. You are not on this earth to make someone's legs shake with orgasmic power. You are not on this earth to be someone's fantasy of a man. You do not have to prove your love, your manhood, or anything else about yourself through sex. And, sure, it's okay to want to improve so you can be a capable and attentive sex-haver, but it's also okay to be bad at sex. Being bad at sex proves very little about you as a person. And not wanting sex at all is also fully valid and doesn't make you less of a man. Don't let any asshole tell you that you aren't allowed to have sexual boundaries just because you're a man. Don't let them convince you that you're a bad partner just because you can't sexually satisfy someone. Sex is not the end-all-be-all, and you don't have to let it define you if you don't want it to.

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we shouldn't overlook how gender plays a role in the fact that it has been largely immigrant men being kidnapped and imprisoned, how patriarchal views on maleness is fundamental to the racist fearmongering around immigrant criminality and violence towards specifically white citizen women & girls. just as much as patriarchy is always a factor in how society interacts with people seen as women, it is always a factor with people seen as men. labeling all immigrant men as violent gang members looking to rape and murder white american girls is gendered racism & xenophobia. this is just as much patriarchy in action as anything relating to birth control and abortion and trans healthcare. patriarchy has always sought to enslave & kill marginalized men.

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The thing is that books usually DO teach you something, but it's not usually something explicit in the text. (Sometimes the author has an explicit moral they want to push, but whether they pull it off or not is another thing.) Reading fiction teaches you about experiences and viewpoints beyond your own. It can act as a safe way to engage in hard emotions like grief, anger, disappointment, betrayal, etc. It can also be a safe way to engage with certain experiences you'd rather avoid irl. Most folks don't want to go to war, but understanding even a little bit of what war is like for the people who are forced into war is extremely good insight into other people's lives & experiences. That's the kind of thing a story can facilitate. Most people who do bad things DO justify their actions in one way or another, and stories can help you understand how someone could think or act in certain ways. So, yes. The more you read the more you learn, but the things you learn are typically cumulative over many stories with diverse points of view and not every one of those stories is *trying* to teach you anything. Even when a story is trying to teach you a lesson or a moral, you don't have to accept or agree with that lesson, but it's good to think about things you don't agree with just as an exercise in critical thinking.

In short, the best education from fiction you'll get is by reading a lot of all kinds of things and asking yourself questions about what you believe and what you want to prioritize in your life. The lesson is in your ability to comprehend what the text is telling you about the people and places and culture(s) it's presenting in the story and to take that information and process it and, hopefully, learn more about how other people think AND more about why you feel the way you do about things.

If you're reading for an explicit moral or lesson, you're gonna have to stick to Aesop's Fables and simplified stories of good vs evil, which is just not how life is or ever will be.

“it sounds like you’re justifying their actions-“ i am. they’re a fictional character. i’m okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.

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Hairy, fat, balding: my beloved 💜

Ugly is subjective and conventional attractiveness is fleeting. Trans joy is forever.

The whole "trans men are ruining their beauty" or trans men themselves being afraid to transition because they're afraid they'll become an "ugly man" is very funny to me as someone who only experiences attraction to men, even just aesthetically. I promise you, this idea of "ugly man" is not universal, there's plenty of people who find masculine traits much more attractive than feminine ones.

I think someone going from hairless to hairy is extremely attractive. I think the way Testosterone dominace changes your body composition and face to look masculine is peak beauty. And I promise you that there's plenty of women and gay men who feel the same way. Not everyone is attracted women or to feminity. Those traits you think are ugly is very attractive to a lot of people, it sucks that part of society and even other queer people makes you feel this way about yourself but there's plenty of people who feel the opposite.

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queer natives because pride is indigenous

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Sergiu Ciochina, Blossoms of Spring #3, 2025, Oil on board

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“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

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Pretty sure Annie (or someone) mentions that the vampires don't die just because the original dies; they'll have to kill all of them individually. There's also a moment during the big vampire fight where Mary gets Stack's attention and gestures that they need to get out of there. It's implied that they run off before the big showdown with Remmick.

They aren't moments that the film lingered on so I could see how they're easily missed, but the plot does cover it briefly.

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Molly Hashimoto block prints

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I also think there's a matter of time and place. I personally don't think the wider internet is a great place to make generalized comments about hating men/straights/whites if all you're trying to do is vent and you don't really mean everyone from that group. It's better to vent like that to your friends or your therapist in private places where your anger or hurt isn't going to be misconstrued and weaponized. When you make a post that JUST says, "I hate men," and you fail to follow that sentiment up with the specific thing you're venting about, at that point you're just promoting radfeminism. If you don't want radfeminism in your feminism, you have to be vigilant about spreading their rhetoric casually. You might understand that you're just venting or just making jokes or what have you, but the rest of the world doesn't know you like that. You give a shield to the people who actually, truly HATE these groups and want to see them all suffer or pushed aside. Then those people push more and more genuinely hateful rhetoric. If you respond to criticism by saying it was just a joke or just venting, know that that's how radfeminists will respond and deflect and justify their own actions too. You are basically announcing that you aren't safe to be around. And on top of that, the more you generalize uncritically about a group of people, the more open you are to accepting those generalizations as facts and turning that venting into true hate.

When you hate on men specifically, the people who are hurt most are: trans people (of all sorts, no matter our actual gender), marginalized men, and young boys who often already feel alienated from feminism. It's never a gotchya to the powerful men who are actually doing harm, because those men don't give a fuck about your feelings, and it will always overwhelmingly affect people who are marginalized and abused. Trans women are constantly demonized for their perceived proximity to manhood. Trans men are often afraid of transitioning or get convinced to detransition because of the hatred of men even within progressive groups. Nonbinary people who are "too masculine" are barred from queer spaces and support. Many young boys are getting all sorts of abuse -- physical & emotional -- and NEED support. They NEED feminism to be on their side, but are so often barred from genuine & compassionate engagement on all sides. And if you think men -- even young boys -- don't deserve compassion or should shut up when they're upset about something, your "venting" has already turned into something genuinely negative and harmful and actually only helps to reinforce patriarchal standards.

Not to mention, putting the full weight and responsibility for the patriarchy on men will never get to the root issues of the patriarchy or do anything to actually solve them. Patriarchy is a systemic and societal issue that is upheld by people of all genders. The more you further any kind of gendered divide in our society, the more you're affirming and accepting patriarchy as natural. Abolishing patriarchy absolutely requires people of all genders to understand their role within it and how it has shaped their thinking. We all have biases and unlearning to do extremely including women. I've said it before and I'll say it again: my mom was one of the biggest misogynists I've ever known. Which is why naming the behavior you're venting about is the more important thing. I could say that I hate women because my mom abused me & my brother and treated us differently based on our gender, but the issue isn't that she's a woman. The issue is that she's a misogynist and her behaviors & actions were harmful and misogynistic. She operated from a patriarchal mindset even though she is also a victim of the patriarchy in various ways herself, and by doing so perpetuated the very thing that hurt her.

It's about ending cycles of harm and abuse. Uncritically hating groups of people is just not going to cut it and will always weigh down community building, education, and progress. Obviously you're allowed to feel angry and upset when men hurt you. You're allowed to vent. But if you're trying to build community or engage in theory or organize movements for change & progress, you need to learn how to express your anger responsibly in ways that don't demonize entire groups of people that many of your allies are part of. A good ally won't abandon the cause over it, but you will likely find yourself cut off and isolated from those allies because no one wants that kind of toxicity hanging around them all the time. I certainly avoid and block people who vent and joke by hating groups of people, and frankly my feminism is stronger for it.

So, yeah. Idk. Maybe let's just try judging people as individuals who are all capable of harm AND positive action. And as individuals, let's try to err on the side of positive action.

hey i was wondering something and i wanted to know your opinion on it

Why is it problematic to say i hate men but not white people or straight people

(i'm a trans south east asian man btw)

I'd say on, like, a casual exasperated level, its not problematic to say "I hate [x]." It gets problematic when your venting about a group becomes your sole lens of viewing + interacting with that group.

Like, its entirely alright to be frustrated with behaviors common to cishet white men and express that in a vent by saying you hate them. But... its like how people make the correct point that they shouldn't be expected or obligated to give all their energy to coddling people with power over them, but translate that into "i never have to care about a member of this group at all" which directly conflicts with just. being in a community? Like women should not be expected to be caretakers for men, but people in a community need to take care of each other. When the only way you engage with a group of people is by expressing hatred and asserting how much you aren't obligated to care about them, its easier than people think to find yourself dehumanizing them.

Which does not mean "you are just as bad as a racist/misogynist" or "you are oppressing them"; you are An Individual whose biases are not necessarily backed up by powerful systemic powers. But, for one, its very easy for those biases to be used by systemic forces: with men, misandry is very easily used to justify all kinds of violence towards marginalized men & people perceived as men. You also have situations where people will say the Holocaust "wasn't as bad" as, say, US slavery, because it was "white on white violence," or saying the Armenian genocide also wasn't that big of a deal because "it was done to Christians and Christians are always killing people" (two real things I have seen been said). And, again: if you are going to care about community and restorative/transformative justice and all that, you need to be able to give a shit about all kinds of people who you live with. You need to be able to see them as whole beings you are capable of connecting with on some level. You don't personally need to date or befriend men, but you do need to be able to give a shit about men in your community.

Its fine to feel annoyance and anger and use "hatred" to express that. But the problem occurs when people take "its okay to be angry with your oppressors and not spend all your energy coddling them" and make that the end-all be-all of their relationship with people of whatever group; revolutions can't accomplish compassionate goals when they are run on hatred. Very hooksian concept but "love" (as in "a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust", not in a strictly emotional sense but as an action) is a skill that is as vital as understanding class dynamics and protest tactics. Maybe you don't need to love everyone, but try to have the capacity to love anyone; the ability to physically care for someone you don't emotionally like is, I think, a vital step towards truly challenging and bringing down the kyriarchy.

Basically its about recognizing when your venting stops being an outlet and starts being a way for unproductive feelings to shape how you view other people.

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Activism is not cold-calling.

Activism is not cold-calling, and this is critically important to understand.

I'm seeing a lot of posts on here about 'building bridges' and 'finding community,' and then (extremely valid) response posts saying "BUT HOW??" And I'm going to explain something that can be very counter-intuitive: there is strategy involved in community.

As a longtime volunteer labour organizer, I’ve taken and taught many trainings on the strategy of talking. Something that surprises a lot of people is the very first thing you do in a union campaign. You sit down with your organizing committee, take out pen and paper, and literally map it out. You draw a physical map of the workplace: where are the entrances, exits, break rooms, supervisor offices. Essentially, ‘where is it safe to have a union conversation.’ Then you draw another physical chart of your coworkers. You sort out who is union-friendly, openly hostile to unions, or somewhere in the middle, and then you plan out very deliberately and carefully who talks to whom and in what order.

Consider: If Vocally Leftist Jane walks up to Conservative David and says "hey what do you think about unions," David is going to shut down immediately. He's not inclined to listen to Jane. But if Jane talks to Moderate Jason and brings him into the fold, then Jason is a far more effective strategic choice to talk to David, and David may actually hear him out without an instant reaction.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: If Conservative David turns out to be Alt-Right David, and could be dangerous to follow organizers, we write him off. We are not trying to reach Alt-Right David. We are trying to reach Conservative David, who may actually be persuaded to find solidarity with other employees as fellow workers. Jason is a safe scout to find out which one he is. It does no one any good if Leftist Jane (or even Moderate Jane who is a visible minority) talks to Alt-Right David and puts herself on his radar. Not only has she done nothing to convince Alt-Right David to join a union - she's probably actively turned him against the idea - but now she's also in danger and the entire campaign is at risk. NOBODY WANTS THIS. Jane was NOT a hero for doing this. The organizing committee was foolish and enacted a terrible strategy to everyone's detriment.

Where you can make a difference is with people who will listen to you. You having a conversation with your well-meaning but clueless Centrist Democrat Auntie, and maybe gently helping her understand some things the media has been glossing over, is way more strategically useful than you marching up to MAGA Neighbour You've Met Once and trying to "build community" or "understand" them. They don't care. They're impervious, dangerous, and cruel. But maybe your beloved auntie will think about what you said, and then talk to her friend Anna who IDs as "fiscally conservative" but didn't vote because she can't bring herself to get on board with Trump. Then perhaps Anna talks to her brother Nic who has MAGA leanings but isn't all the way there yet. Proto-MAGA Nic would not have listened to you, nor would he have listened to Centrist Democrat Auntie, but he might absorb some of what his sister is saying.

This is not a cop-out or an echo chamber. This is you spending your time and energy strategically and safely. You are not a useful activist to anyone if you’re dead. Anyone who is telling you to hurl yourself directly at MAGA assholes like cannon fodder has no understanding of the strategy behind community building, and you should feel comfortable writing them off.

Last point: If you are tired, emotionally devastated, and/or in danger: take a break. This post is for people who would feel better jumping into action, not for people who are too overwhelmed to even think about it right now. You are worth so much even if you’re not actively Doing Activism, and your rest is worth more than “a break period so you can recharge and Do More Activism.” We all deserve the individual dignity of being worthy of comfort, rest & safety just on the basis of being human, outside of whatever we're doing for others' benefit. To deny ourselves that dignity is to devalue ourselves, and that’s the absolute last thing any of us should be doing right now.

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Please don't ask me for relationship advice unless you are prepared to receive some truly upsetting information because some people are ready for the "He's exhibiting the literal textbook signs of a psychological abuser and you need to get away from him before he successfully cuts you off from your support network" talk and some people aren't

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Got harassed for wanting to use the bathroom in public again today. Guy was mad because I was waiting for the stall. Said he didn't want me looking at his dick. I told him I wasn't trying to look at his dick. He kept arguing with me, asking me if I was a man or a woman. I kept saying, "Does it matter?" My partner was with me, and they backed me up as well. The harasser guy left the bathroom saying he was going to use his own bathroom at home. I told him that he should do that. Security and police came over (police hang out in our local grocery store unfortunately), but I was calm and they could tell that this guy was the only one who seemed to have a problem and ushered him out of the bathroom area away from me. I then proceeded to get into the newly open stall and have to try to pee while I can hear him arguing. So I have to listen to this guy have a massive fit, yelling about how he "doesn't like transvestism shit" to the security & cop. Somehow I'm able to focus on peeing (I'm not shy in public, but when people harass me it's hard to relax enough to do it) and my partner and I go on with our grocery shopping.

I guess it's a good thing the cop & the store were on my side and that there were other men and also my partner there to witness the harassment and support me. I wasn't afraid of that guy at all, especially with other folks around me, but it sucks being questioned and accused of being a creep when all I'm doing is trying to piss.

Anyway, I hope I ruined that guy's whole day by just existing and refusing to let him bully me out of the bathroom. I hope he pisses himself because he had a big baby boy tantrum about someone with a body different from his.

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*psychically telling everyone this* Not every post you make about generalized transandrophobia has to specifically mention trans women do that.. thanks