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yeah no we were all really bored and nobody wanted to go buy weed so we ended up vivisecting rachel. you kinda had to be there

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using the bus tracker app is like. oh it's going to be here in three minutes. now it's five minutes. oh the bus has killed itself

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M. C. Goodwin

How stars are made. 2022

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"We need more complex female characters" you guys can't even handle Chappell Roan, Real Life Woman with Boundaries

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bat mosaic at the rijksmuseum you are all i think about 💖

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I’m so tired I can’t even tell if this is funny but my half asleep brain found the idea of it hilarious

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it's so funny to me when i see pearl-clutching articles about how "teenagers are diagnosing themselves with mental disorders via tiktok" because like. this is not happening in a vacuum. teenagers are severely and i mean severely medically neglected. i cannot stress this enough. teenagers do not have free access to medical care. those same news outlets would be clowning on women with housewife psychosis in the 1950's.

i sometimes go pale when listening to some of what my friends have gone through in their childhoods and teenagehoods. they talk about it so nonchalantly, things that would be considered straight up torture if done to an adult, can't fathom the effect this has on children. they are on multiple anti-psychotics and several antidepressants and anxiety meds now that they are adults. medical neglect has legally and effectively disabled them. a timely diagnosis and intervention could have saved them. of course teenagers are self-diagnosing using tiktok. if your knee-jerk reaction is to scoff at the idea and dismiss it as dumb teenager shit instead of being radicalized because the best shot young people have at attaining the mental health support they need is a fucking dancing videos app, you're categorically a political enemy of the youth.

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if you abandon gender hard enough you can unlock the secret state of nirvana where all clothes give you the thrill of crossdressing

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The well-meaning 101-level phrase "trans men are men" gave people the wrong idea that "trans men are men, and therefore are equal in patriarchy to cis men, and are therefore acceptable targets for our frustration with the patriarchy."

If any of that were true, Nex Benedict would be alive.

Yes, we are what we identify as, as a basic tenet of trans theory. But to act like the patriarchy agrees is just wrong-headed and bonkers. The patriarchy views us as deluded women.

Transmascs experience misogyny. Which in our case weaves into anti-transmasculinity.

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everytime i hear someone call depression and anxiety ‘destigmatized mental illnesses’ i wonder how they react when they find out someone has spent weeks or months in bed or struggles to shower or eat

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pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up

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TBOY WRESTLING WAS A BLAST!! thanks to everyone who came!!!

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Hey, cis women who say "I wish I was a man but definitely not a trans way, haha! I would never be a man :)"

I say this with all the gentleness in my heart: It is okay for you to be a man. If you want to be a man, you can just be one. You also don't have to stop being a woman to be a man. Multigender people exist. You can be a man and a woman at the same time. Or you can be just a man, or a non-binary man, or non-binary, or something entirely different. You can do and be whatever you want and whatever makes you happy.

Becoming a man is not a betrayal of womanhood and feminism. And everyone who makes you feel like it is an absolute asshole, and you should not ever listen to them. You do not have to push your own happiness aside for other peoples' comfort.

If you want to be a man, try it out! See where it gets you. Maybe it turns out that you really weren't trans, or not a trans man but something else entirely, and that's fine, too. Maybe it turns out you are a trans man. In any case, following those thoughts might get you to a happier and better place in the end. And if you turn out to be happier as a man than you were as a woman, that is wonderful.

Please don't feel forced to stay a cis woman for feminism - any feminism that mistreats or hates trans men and transmasculine people is bad feminism. Being a trans man or transmasc is not a moral failure.

Trans manhood and masculinity are wonderful, and you deserve happiness. And if you find that happiness in manhood/masculinity, you don't deserve to be shamed or harassed for it, and you should not be made to feel the need to put yourself down for it, either.