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semantic pet peeve i have is when people conflate ageism against children and elderly as the same force. like great grandpa still has complete legal and social authority over those kids, most of the cases when the arrow points in the other direction is because of ableist abuse. which is important to distinguish because children can also be disabled and suffer the things categorised as "elderly abuse"

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my high school used to start at 7:30 and I lowkey think that was child abuse

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Trans women are erased plenty, btw.

Like. When I was starting transition, I thought I wouldn't fit in with other trans women because I'm an academically-inclined lesbian with nerdy interests, and my only frame of reference for any trans women at all consisted of the most mainstream-friendly trans women alive: Conventionally attractive straight women who work as fashion models or actresses.

Turns out that in online trans spaces, once you get inside, people like me are pretty common. That's not something anyone outside these spaces is aware of, because trans women's thoughts, ideas and opinions are systematically not platformed in the mainstream.

And the conflation of "images of the type of person you are get a lot of attention" and "the views of your demographic are centered" is a pretty fucking sinister tactic, actually.

You see it on this website constantly, even, in how arguments against transfeminists barely engage with the substance of any transfeminist claims, in favor of arguing with an idea of transfeminism that's pretty much been imagined from first principles.

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before I go though, I do wanna point out how crazy extremely normalized transmisogyny and excusing it is on this website that transfems are literally constantly dealing with harassment, threats, and worse from other users of the site, including trans users, just for existing and annoying the wrong people, getting their blogs deleted without recourse due to transphobic mass reportings; but these open transmisogynists who are literally constantly engaging in and organizing this punitive transphobia and hate against transfems and their allies rarely if ever face any kind of moderation action, and never any lasting consequences or acknowledgment from the rest of the user base. the transmisogynists of this website feel so safe and secure in their transmisogyny that not only do they publicly and happily organize this behavior from their followings, but even celebrate when it comes to fruition and they successfully misgender and scare people away from gender experimentation like 2014 transmeds. because “of course it’s just a man lying about his identity to get away with bigotry, why are you calling me a terf? would a terf say that?😂”

every other day i see otherwise normal, jokey posts with tens of thousands of notes from guys like this and have to not freak out because no one else realizes or cares that op publicly sexually harassed trans women, baselessly called a trans woman a pedophile to an audience of thousands out of irritation with her, or worse.

at what point can we seriously start reckoning with the fact that this website, and it’s non transfem user base, have a serious, dangerous transmisogyny problem and start taking literally any actions to recognize and challenge transmisogyny and stand with trans women for once

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i hate that transmisandry discourse has breached containment. i hate that i, an adult woman in 2025, have to explain why "not all men" is a bad statement to people who are supposed to be safe to talk to. years from now we'll all look back at this stupid phenomenon as another gamergate, but for now i have to be viewed as the Angry Feminist Bitch for saying basic sociology 101 shit about structural misogyny. i hate it here!!

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well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?

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transandrophobia theory is just a worse version of oppositional sexism at best

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Sure since adopting self checkout they got rid of 99% of grocery workers and if something goes wrong you gotta just stand there for 20 minutes while the employee managing 30% of the store singlehandedly tries to juggle helping you with their other responsibilities. But at least groceries are less expensive now right. Why are you trying to whisper in my ear I have a girlfriend

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my transfem coworker yesterday said "i can't wait to get on hrt so i can be a lesbian" and i was like hand on her shoulder. girl..... you're already a lesbian. i see you with my dyke eyes. you are already a beautiful lesbian dont let anybody take that from you.

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realism in video games

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So the new itch.io guidelines are out and they are both predictably bad and also quite unpredictably bad. There's so much to go over here but here are some of the highlights:

First we have the broadly worded content restrictions. So much of this is just strictly bad for several reasons (for example, you cannot have a NSFW game that doesn't even fetishize rape but has rape be an important thematic element under these new rules) but my personal favorite is that these are so broad that huge swaths of content are just banned from itch.io. You like VNs of monster girls having sex? Sorry, but your favorite spider girl VN is animal-related, we cannot prove that you don't want to fuck spiders so its gone.

(a real problem anyone thinks about??????)

Game where you can transformed by magical artifacts and sometimes fucked? Sorry, that's non-consensual content. Banned. You cannot be transformed into a maid against your will. You also cannot have your protagonist call an older woman "mommy" because likeeeee that's incestual right?

"Minor-presenting" what the fuck does this mean. Genuinely. If a grown woman wears a fetish uniform is that minor presenting??? What the fuck are you talking about.

Also by the way if they feel your content is "too bad" for their platform, which includes a list of conditions incredibly broad to contain things like "a woman who likes being gagged during sex", they will just steal your revenue. No no no not just the revenue from the work in question. All of it. This makes any NSFW work a ticking timebomb, especially since itch.io doesn't have the fucking staff to deal with all of this! There's no second chances. You are not protected against fraudulent report or our dumb as fuck employees.

itch.io right now is just not a safe platform for NSFW content, and honestly, it really should be said, a fair swath of SFW content too. Don't use it, find alternative ways to survive in the market right now.

It's not going to be easy, but it's necessary. Here's a link to an article going over some solutions. I cannot personally vouch for any of these in particular but you need to do what you gotta.

Also, harass VISA and Mastercard. Phone calls over emails. Ruin their workflow. Do it for weeks, don't give up.

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fucking hell man every online service now is becoming like Scan your face and bootyhole and provide blood sample to confirm you are over the age of 35 in order to view this post. warning! obscene imagery detected in the post. the photo included in the post promotes unhealthy perverted dangerous behavior i.e. taking off one's shirt. your employer has been contacted.

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No I dont think it's racist to hate robots, I just think it's weird that as a white person you keep trying to come up with slurs for them and describe acts of violence usually directed at racial minorities

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received a call from my marxist son's kindergarten teacher. she is concerned because he rearranged the wooden train track toys and lego people to create the "trolley problem" and asked his classmates philosophical and political questions, calling one classmate a 'total lib' for suggesting compromise

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sorry wait. I contacted visa to file a complaint about the censorship stuff they've been doing and their AI. immediately threatened to kill itself?

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video games are one of the last mediums left where getting blasted full force in the face by maximal concentrations of 19th century adventure fiction racism is still entirely commonplace and uncontroversial