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idk it's like, one thing if you conceptualize of yourself, personally, as a girl who used to be a boy, or a boy who used to be a girl. that is your prerogative.

but i just get a weird vibe from anyone who says it like it's this huge thing that we need to be okay with on like, a societal level.

i think you'll find that "trans women used to be men" is not an unpopular position in wider mainstream society. (or atleast, the parts of it that are polite enough to view us as women in the first place)

there are reasons that transfeminists push back on that framing! sure i guess if you choose to think of yourself as an x who used to be y, it might be slightly irritating for another well meaning queer person to say "oh but you were always an x even if you didn't know it." but i don't think you need to call for a social movement to make it acceptable to think of trans women as men about it.

idk maybe that's just me being antsy after hearing all those "male socialization" arguments from terfs. maybe i'm jumping at shadows here

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List of media where the title is significantly more accurate than you expect going in:

- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

- Everything Everywhere All At Once

- The Thing

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There's a movie called The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, based on the fantasy novel series of a similar name (The Dark Is Rising) by Susan Cooper. I'm a big fan of The Dark Is Rising! It's a multi-protagonist "secret world" fantasy story with heavy Arthurian theming.

The movie was outright hostile to the series. The director never read the book beyond the back cover blurb, and the screenwriter read a few pages and hated it, then made the movie out of spite. It's a truly cursed adaptation, the actual worst I've ever seen.

What would you guys consider the worst movie you've ever seen? Not something that's fun to make fun of, nothing you ironically enjoyed, I mean just an absolutely miserable moviegoing experience that you paid for, hated every second, and wish you had walked out of and asked for a refund.

For me, no joke, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. It did not even feel like a real movie to me. It made me see red! I was SEETHING with anger and annoyance throughout the entire thing, and I cannot for the life of me articulate why. I saw it once in 2012 when I was 15, I remember almost nothing about it now, but it struck a nerve with me like no other movie ever has before or since.

Tell me in the tags, which movie makes you disproportionately angry just thinking about it?

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Faux Pas: French for "fox pass", this is when a behavior or comment that is otherwise considered socially unacceptable is allowed because a fox did it and foxes cannot be held responsible for their actions. It is spelled wrong because the French like to feel special.

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just learned about farming simulator

I mean, I already knew about it, but I just learned about it

Did you know that the target audience for Farming Simulator is actual real-world farmers? Because I didn’t. I just assumed that farmers probably don’t want to go home from a day of farming to do some (presumably highly inaccurate) virtual farming?

Like, imagine if the target audience for Power Washing Simulator was actual professional power washers.

Farming Sim gets sponsored by companies and shit to put ads in their games. But since the game is for farmers, all of the ads target farmers. Advertising products that, realistically, only farmers would be interested in. Aka John Deere tractors and shit.

There’s a fucking farming sim esports league. Where do they play? Agriculture conventions. not gaming conventions. agriculture conventions.

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i think anyone who’s every used the internet has seen this picture at least once

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Interesting. I love Planesape Torment and Planescape as a setting, but I don't really enjoy D&D. Do you think there's a better system to run a Planescape campaign? If you don't have a specific system in mind, what kind of system do you think would work best?

Hehe someone just asked me the same question in the replies to that ask, here's my answer:

Even though I'm not exactly the biggest fan of Fate I think Fate is actually uniquely suited to Planescape.

I also feel Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine would work wonders as a system for Planescape, but that comes with a big asterisk because I'm actually stupid and have to this day not quite understood how Chuubo's works.

The closest thing to a "D&D" I would suggest for running Planescape would be Songbirds.

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i keep meeting transfems whose personalities are like, gaping wounds. girls who've been stomped on over and over until they start thinking they're uniquely evil and they deserve it. people shouldn't be allowed to treat us like this.

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no. but it is good

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Sweet, sending this to MIT.

Any question? Awesome! Do all non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function have a real part of one half?

yes

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i hadn’t looked too hard into the michfest thing, but i’m just now doing my research and reflecting on alison bechdel’s relation w trans people and she honestly strikes me as a massive coward 😭. wrote a comic critizing michfest for its transphobic policies, continued to go. said some vaguely trans positive things in interviews and some comics, does some base level trans activism these days, but doesn’t seem to have done any deep dive on her own transmisogyny. i guess, and i’m asking this genuinely, is terf an accurate word for her if she’s just a fucking coward? is terf a good word for someone who reposted something supporting trans youth just a couple months ago? like (today) she’s more supportive of trans people than the average person but the bar is fucking on the floor. trying to figure out this things for myself cause idk if there’s an easy answer. but yeah michfest was fucking awful i can’t believe i didn’t know more about it sooner. thanks for having generally good opinions and sorry people are harassing you

people have let the idea of the word terf simmer down into like, Only Completely Rabid Crazy Bigots Who Are Totally Blatant About It, like JK Rowling etc.

the truth is, the word terf was literally coined to describe the people who attended Michfest specifically. that is literally what it was meant to describe, always. i don't think it's cowardice for Bechdel to play nice with a bunch of transmisogynists and terfs, not at all -- what is she afraid of? the consensus is totally behind her and her ilk. she doesn't challenge it because even though she thinks that trans people deserve to be treated politely/kindly, she does not value trans women's perspectives as women and sees us to be male socialised. you can support trans youth, read trans books, promote trans artists all you want, if you believe terf rhetoric you are a terf.

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the yin base saga: a heavily abridged summary

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i hadn’t looked too hard into the michfest thing, but i’m just now doing my research and reflecting on alison bechdel’s relation w trans people and she honestly strikes me as a massive coward 😭. wrote a comic critizing michfest for its transphobic policies, continued to go. said some vaguely trans positive things in interviews and some comics, does some base level trans activism these days, but doesn’t seem to have done any deep dive on her own transmisogyny. i guess, and i’m asking this genuinely, is terf an accurate word for her if she’s just a fucking coward? is terf a good word for someone who reposted something supporting trans youth just a couple months ago? like (today) she’s more supportive of trans people than the average person but the bar is fucking on the floor. trying to figure out this things for myself cause idk if there’s an easy answer. but yeah michfest was fucking awful i can’t believe i didn’t know more about it sooner. thanks for having generally good opinions and sorry people are harassing you

people have let the idea of the word terf simmer down into like, Only Completely Rabid Crazy Bigots Who Are Totally Blatant About It, like JK Rowling etc.

the truth is, the word terf was literally coined to describe the people who attended Michfest specifically. that is literally what it was meant to describe, always. i don't think it's cowardice for Bechdel to play nice with a bunch of transmisogynists and terfs, not at all -- what is she afraid of? the consensus is totally behind her and her ilk. she doesn't challenge it because even though she thinks that trans people deserve to be treated politely/kindly, she does not value trans women's perspectives as women and sees us to be male socialised. you can support trans youth, read trans books, promote trans artists all you want, if you believe terf rhetoric you are a terf.

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elle woods plays ace attorney

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petition for the Bechdel test to be repurposed to refer to whether or not a "trans ally" was a regular michfest attendee

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somebody made a post claiming you said anyone who went to michfest back in the day is transphobic, i didnt believe the post but you should know about this rumor about you

well Michfest segregated trans women from attendance as a policy for decades, and everybody who attended this from at least the 90s onwards was intimately & personally aware of that segregation, because Camp Trans protested outside every single year.

just from a glance at the opening paragraph of wikipedia, you’d find out that The Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the National LGBTQ Task Force all publicly opposed Michfest & its transphobic policies. even fucking celebrities like The Indigo Girls announced in 2013 they would not be returning or performing again whilst the exclusionary policy was still in place — which it was, right up until Michfest stopped in 2015 due to lack of support & constant boycotts.

i need yall to understand Michfest wasn’t like… incidentally transphobic, this was a massive massive conversation all throughout the 90s until 2015. Dyke Marches were canceling performances from musicians who attended Michfest, because it as universally seen as dirty, bigoted, “I got mine” behaviour to anybody who gave a fuck about trans rights.

Like, I have to reiterate; Michfest was a music festival that by policy segregated trans women (and trans women specifically by the way). It is segregation. Yes I fucking think everybody who happily attended SegrationFest, known for the violent hatecrimes & sexual assault that routinely happened to trans women who snuck in, and hasn’t apologised for it is transphobic.

AlisonBechdel was talking positively about Michfest being free from “the male socialised” (read: trans women) in 2017. Her most recent book, which only came out a couple years ago, openly praised it for its segregation policy.

It’s not a rumour, I think it: Michfest attendees are/were all terfs. The word terf was literally coined to describe Michfest attendees. By even the most basic & oldest usecase of the word, Alison Bechdel is definitionally a terf. just because she drew a nice cartoon or two about us doesn’t change the fact all her idols were terfs and all the people she hung out with were terfs and her politics are copy-pasted directly from the terf playbook.