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hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

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Job market these days is like

REMOTE BOOKKEEPING

$77/hour

90 years experience required

LOWES CART ATTENDANT

6months experience working for Lowe's required

OYSTER SHUCKER

Applicant must be comfortable with standing naked in smashed raw oysters 14 hours a day

BURGER FLIPPER

do not call us

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If moonpaw is a gray cat, she must choose.

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And I hope you guys realize the death toll in Gaza has likely been massively underreported for the past couple of months due to Israel wiping out their whole infrastructure and presumably making it more or less impossible to take any sort of body count. It’s officially hovered around 30k for ages now but that doesn’t make sense because we haven’t seen anything actually change, in fact Israel’s assaults have only escalated and they’ve been very transparent about that. The actual death toll could be like 60, 75k right now and we would not know

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"No one cares if women / transmascs / afab people wear pants and boy clothes!!!"

On my knees begging you to talk to people who grew up in religious fundamentalist communities and high control groups / cults

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Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

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i’m spending today thinking about how saber toothed cats ALSO probably had a potato form.  how they also had a stage where they were fat little babies with very triangle tails and tiny squeaky voices.  how they also probably play wrestled and failed badly at calculating jumps.

i’m going to fistfight god for killing them off before i could personally see fat potato saber kittens

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Found this one that checks all the boxes on r/boomerhumor.

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it was kind of fucked up for wall-e to be that way about fat people now that im thinking about it

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Wake up, babe, new religion just dropped

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The spouse is getting curious about tumblr

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Dog Meshi.

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Yamato, Transness, and "Passing"

Now that we're nearly a full arc removed from Wano and Yamato's introduction, I want to talk about the reaction that a subset of the one piece fandom had to his reveal as a trans man/transmasc person, the transphobia behind that reaction, and how the concept of passing plays into that reaction. I'm not going to be arguing that Yamato is a trans man, as I think it is very obvious that he is given how he is referred to in the canon text. This is instead going to be more of a fandom dissection of why (in my personal opinion) so many people refuse to acknowledge Yamato as a man.

When we are first introduced to Yamato, he is dressed in a way that gives him the appearance of a flat chest, and is wearing a mask to hide his face. He looks like a man in a cis-heteronormative way

When Yamato was depicted like this, he was (from what I can tell) mostly referred to with he/him pronouns by the fanbase. This is based on comments underneath his chapter debut and episode debut. There are comments under his episode debut that do use she/her pronouns and refer to him as a woman, but because these episodes have been out for a while, it would make sense that these kinds of comments would be left on his debut after his second design was revealed.

Then, when he removes his mask and outer layer of his outfit, he is depicted like this

After this reveal, more people began to refer to Yamato with she/her pronouns, and refer to him as Kaido's daughter, despite him referring to himself as Kaido's son, as well as the people around him using he/him pronouns exclusively for him. What changed? Well, Yamato went from having a design that looked traditionally masculine to having a more traditionally feminine one. As such people who associate only women with having breasts and more "feminine" features began to insist that Yamato was a tomboy, or a delusional woman, anything but accept that fact that he is a man.

There is a phenomena with trans "acceptance", where a character is accepted as trans only if they look like their gender according to the cis-heteronormative ideal, and questioned and denied if they don't. Kiku, a trans woman who "passes" as a woman did not receive nearly the same level of speculation and denial of her trans identity. (This is not to say that Kiku received no hate or transphobic comments, but that because she looks like a woman to the average cis-het viewer, she was treated as a "real" trans person, whereas Yamato was not).

Yamato has been repeatedly referred to as mentally ill for being a "non-passing" trans man. He has been called bad representation (despite large numbers trans men/transmasc people, myself included, saying that his IS good representation). People have made claims with no canon backing in an attempt to hand wave away his transness because he "looks like a woman", a popular one being that Kaido some how forced Yamato into being a man, despite his backstory telling us the exact opposite.

And the reasoning for all of this speculation is that trans people are held to such high standards in terms of appearance and presentation, even in fictional media. A trans man must have a flat chest, deep voice, facial hair etc. or he isn't actually trans. A trans woman must have breasts, a high voice, a lack of facial hair, etc. or she isn't actually trans. Non-binary people are dismissed entirely. This denies the many different and diverse ways that a person can be trans. Sure, some trans people wish to medically transition, get the "surgery" and go through life as if they were cis. But not all trans people want that. Gender is messy and complicated, its not nearly as black and white a we have been taught to believe. There are many trans people (both binary and non-binary) who will never medically transition. That does not make them less trans, it does not make them delusional. Yet because we have this black and white thinking ingrained in us from childhood, any deviation from the strict boxes of "man" and "woman" are immediately questioned, and that includes gender non-conforming people - both trans and cis.

This type of transphobia is not talked about enough, as the people doing it will so often hide behind the idea that they are protecting "real" trans people, and just want to make sure that they are respected and taken seriously. But, respect for a persons gender identity CANNOT be conditional. It does not matter if they "don't pass". It doesn't matter if they are a good person, a bad person. The second you start dictating who gets to have their gender respected is the second you stop being an ally. And that includes fictional characters like Yamato.

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Dungeon Meshi's been a big fav of mine for years.............I can't believe I haven't drawn like any art for it

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I am seeing more and more women identify as right wing and radfem specifically, not just gender critical, which is an interesting and extremely telling phenomena.

If your ideology is so easily co-opted by the right wing, I think you need to recognize the fact that it was never a real threat to them to begin with. You should ask why that is. You should really pause and ask yourself why the far right is willing to partner with you against trans people, why your words and ideas slot so neatly into their worldview.

like full offense i don't think your "far left theoretical framework of analysis" is as solid as you think it is.