#hopefully this makes sense. shes not feminist shes just transphobic

[maschotch]

You make suchhhhh a good point about jj's red flag "girl boss" moments. I think that the writers do a shit job with female empowerment at times, especially with her. Most of the girl boss moments I like are with Emily or Penelope, where they're being super smart or charming or good at their jobs (or Emily kicking the shit out of someone) lmfaooo. Minimal loss is a great example for me of Emily being a strong and feminine character. She's soooo badass in that episode and i love it <3 But a lot of times they completely miss the mark on strong female actions, particularly with emily and jj. A lot of times I think they rely on sexualizing them to catch or interview an unsub, which is fine until it becomes some of the only representation we get. I can think of sooooo many for Emily in particular where her big moment is just turning on the "feminine charm" to flirt with or arouse the unsub. There's the swinger episode, the episode with the fox, but the ones that stick out are 52 pickup and the Doyle arch ofc. Like it happens sooooo much it gets a little weird after a while. Then there's the flip side, where they have a girl yell at a male unsub who's? Already cuffed? With Elle she has that scene where she yells at the man who's house she's searching ("what's the matter scotty? Scared of a woman who's not afraid of you?") Or Emily pinning down that unsub in season 5 and telling him to "just relax" when he's getting r*pped in prison. It just. Doesn't seem empowering to yell at an unsub who's already in cuffs lol. And JJ. JJ is just a whole different breed because her girl boss is either being a mother or just being an ass to unsubs or just the male members of the team. She just straight up hates men at times which is funny until it just goes too far to people who don't deserve it. Being a jerk ≠ being a feminist

yeah the writers do Not do well writing women lmao and you can always tell when they’re trying to make it ~a moment. like emily in limelight “if she were a man you’d say she had balls” or that elle quote you mentioned or any other odd lines of dialogue that dont quite fit. they do their best when it seems like they’re not even trying: emily sacrificing herself for reid in minimal loss, penelope being just as if not smarter than reid and not shy admitting it.. those are good moments.

tbh the emily stuff.. like her flirting w unsubs.. thats just kinda what she’s good at? yeah it’s definitely repetitive and maybe even overdone (i can never get rnough of those moments ahfhkshd shes just so hotkdhskdjksjd) but its in line with her character and her specialties. manipulation is her forte and flirting is a good way to do that smoothly. it automatically lowers someones guard as they anticipate whatever possibilities are suggested and more willing to be open and susceptible to her casual questioning. it’s less suspicious. and honestly i do think there’s something to be said ab an attractive woman using the creepily lustful gaze that she’d be subjected to anyway and using it to her benefit

not gonna even attempting to say the prison r*pe comment was appropriate. however… i think that was less of a failed attempt at a girlboss moment and more about emily (and extension the team) taking out frustrations from the previous episode. they’re still grieving and hotch’s emotional state is kinda up in the air rn. his turmoil throws the others off balance too. emily snapping and crossing the line with an unsub is an example of that: a manifestation of all the pent up rage she has for what their leader went through. it also does come back around to the suggestion that hotch was sexually assaulted by foyet in his apartment

the point is that all the women on the show act like that at least once, thanks to the completely fucking idiocy of the writers. what makes it different with jj, at least in my opinion, is that she does that shit way more than anyone else. her very aggressively gendered comments combined with her “sassy snarky” personality where she makes fun of people and rolls her eyes all the time just makes her seem.. mean. and tbh we all go through a “man-hating lesbian” phase but it should quickly balance out to a more broad perspective of gender roles in society. continuing to bash men just for existing and lumping them all as one idiotic mass is just terfy. its not breaking down any barriers: its upholding the traditional binary, just degrading one instead of the typical other. feminism is not an excuse for transphobia. the way to end misogyny isnt through misandry, but i dont think jj HAS an appropriate perspective. shes still very (willfully) ignorant about a lot of this stuff if only bc of her refusal to listen

anyway anyway anyway long story short YEAH. theres an acceptable threshold to account for the show’s inevitable stupidity, but jj pushes way past that. its not just a line or two, its her whole fucking personality. it makes her very hard to like when she’s so fucking hateful

[recurring-polynya]

I have to say I knew that at one point renji, ikkaku, yumichika and iba were in the same squad with kenpachi but good god you managed to paint a beautiful picture for me. I simply assumed that for them it was simply party time all the time along with a few bald jokes but this is much better. Emotionally healthy squad 11 which still love fighting more than anything. I always cringed when someone would just describe them as hooligans that do nothing but fighting. I mean they do that too but I love the idea that they are all emotionally healthy and mature, a loving and supportive family to their own - in their own wakka doodoo kind of way thats endearing - and of course they are in my opinion they single capable force against sexisim. Because they don't care about anything else - gendere, sexuality, gender performances, race, mentality or anything - other than if you fight good you respectable and if you fight good in squad 11 you family. ( like when kenpachi just became captain he made yachiru his lieutenant and no one was against it no one thought it was beneath them, sure thru nag at her sometimes but that's mostly in a banter like way because she call them stupid nicknames but no one hates her for being unrightfully their superior. One day they got a new captain and a new lieutenant that's a child and they just went with it.) I admit their disdain and disrespect to squad 4 is still frowned upon but I do believe some squad 4s can handle their own, it's just that we saw the really peaceful ones. Anyways sorry for ranting. Just wanted to say that yeah, I really like how the past squad 11 with iba and renji in it was a great place in general. I think if they found out some one was being sexist - for whatever reason - they would be there right next to nanao - or iba's mom protesting. Kenpachi and yachiru as well. And that makes me want to be squad 11 ,despite not being much for fighting, so bad.

So, for starters, thanks! I try to have fun whenever I write Squad 11, and I’m glad you enjoy my take on them.

My Squad 11 is just... really not very canon, though. Canon Squad 11 is actually pretty gross and sexist. Yumichika is transphobic, Kenpachi makes homophobic remarks about Yumichika, they bully Squad 4, there’s a filler episode devoted to a guy that Ikkaku bullied for, like 100 years because the guy lost his reiatsu saving Ikkaku’s dumb ass.

When you write fanfic, you occasionally run into these more problematic aspects of the source media, and you can choose to dig in and analyze them, or just... remake them in your own way. Take for example, Gin. If you read fanfic about Gin, there are some people who will peel away the layers of him and his fears and insecurities and still make him be a horrible gremlin, and it’s really stellar writing. Other people prefer to write him in an AU where maybe less bad stuff happened to him, and he’s more mischievous than sociopathic, and this is a less meaty interpretation, but it’s also more fun. Sometimes fanfic is a meal and sometimes it’s candy. It fulfills different needs and different fantasies and all of it is welcome.

Yumichika, who for me is the fulcrum of Squad 11, presents this problem. I really don’t like the way his “appreciation for beauty” plays out in canon. He doesn’t actually appreciate beauty, he just likes telling other people they’re ugly. I don’t think he’s ever pointed out beauty in anyone else aside from himself or his zanpakutou. I remember the first time I watched his fight with Charlotte and it struck me as so off -- why wouldn’t he find her beautiful? I mean, I know it’s a transmysogynistic joke, that’s why, men dressed as women is funny, hurr hurr, but Yumichika is gender nonconforming himself. This was an opportunity to make a cool character point, and Kubo took the cheap laughs road instead. Going back to what I said last paragraph, a skilled writer could, in theory, write about his insecurities and his brittleness and meanness and write a pretty compelling story, but a) Kubo certainly doesn’t, and I have never actually found a Yumichika-centric fanfic of this nature, and b) this doesn’t fit the role I need him to play in my stories. I am rarely really interested in writing about Squad 11 for its own sake. I like to write them as a backdrop for the period of Renji’s afterlife where he hit absolute rock bottom and bounced back up again. We already know the role Ikkaku played in this, except that Ikkaku is a complete moron in terms of mental health, and I really, really felt like this is where Yumichika needed to come in.

I like to massage Yumichika’s character a bit, but I do want to keep the flavor of some of his character flaws-- he’s still shallow and mean and judgy, and I love that for him, but I like to add in a positive side to his appreciation for beauty. Having Yumichika make fun of Izuru’s pores is funny but it’s even funnier if he’s just given Renji a compliment on his hair first. The idea that a Yumichika compliment is attainable makes all his drags the more vicious. Yumichika also judged people by their beauty instead of their moral character, which is humorous to me. He dislikes Byakuya as a person, but is obsessed with his haircare regime. I like to have him treat Rangiku as an equal, beauty-wise, and a person whose opinion he respects based on her aesthetic. Rangiku is actually a pretty savvy and very emotionally intelligent person whom many people write off because she likes to present herself as a lazy airhead, so in an extremely convoluted way, this all works out. I like to think that Yumichika’s ideas of beauty are also caught up in boldness and risk-taking and having one’s outward presentation ring true to their inner self. To me, this is the core of why he loves Ikkaku. To him, Ikkaku’s devotion to doing the most Ikkaku thing at all times, no matter how stupid, is irresistibly sexy. 

Aside: At some point, I decided that the fact that a lot of people in Bleach have colorful marks on their faces and elaborate hairstyle and accessory games implied that make-up in Soul Society is gender neutral. I like to think there is actually more of a divide between the nobility, who like their make-up to follow rules and be classy, and, well, Squad 11, who like to get make-up ideas from Jem and the Holograms. I don’t even wear makeup (I don’t know how and it’s expensive and I am ashamed of myself, we can talk about my own gender presentation later) but I like to write about both my male and female characters wearing make-up. I don’t actually know how my readers feel about it, but it just falls under the “Is that what people want?”/“It’s what we do” philosophy of all my writing.

I think one of the theses of my writing is that middle management is more important to the character of a squad than the person at the top. Captains sort of act as ideals to strive for, but they are generally unapproachable for one reason or another. Yachiru is more like her captain in this respect (which makes sense, since she is, in fact part of her captain). Ikkaku and Yumichika present this dual idea that 1) strength is awesome, fighting and being the best is awesome, and 2) part of strength is presenting yourself to the world in a bold and confrontational way. (The fact that both of them are hiding huge parts of themselves is laughably ironic). Kenpachi and Yachiru are shining examples of Do Whatever You Want and Be So Strong That No One Can Stop You. 

What really makes this work is that you need someone one layer down-- does anyone actually subscribe to this nonsense, and that’s why Iba - Abarai Squad 11 is Best Squad 11. I really, really enjoy the genre of Reddit posts where a total bro will find out that his girlfriend is trans and react by becoming a vehement advocate for trans rights. I love the bodybuilders typing encouragement to each other meme. Our world is flooded with disingenuous messages from concern trolls trying to tell us why being kind and inclusive to one another is bad or that you should reject help because struggle makes you stronger and the idea of a Himbo looking at something like that and saying “that seems dumb" is delightful to me.

I actually feel like there are a lot of awful people with bad ideas in Squad 11, it’s just that Renji and Iba don’t put up with their shit, and over time, that becomes the culture of Squad 11. I think that Squad 11 has incredibly turnover, but the ones who stay are the ones who subscribe to the ideas you mentioned-- fighting is what matters, if you wanna go argue about shit, go join Squad 5. In the IkkaYumi story I wrote, which happens shortly after Zaraki takes over, a ton of people leave. The Bount Arc (which I know a lot of people skipped) features a dude who was extremely pissed off because he had liked the old Kenpachi and thought Zaraki sucked and was so mad about it that he betrayed Soul Society. You might think that this arc would feature Zaraki caring about this in some way shape or form, but he really didn’t. So, I think there are a lot of Soul Reapers that took issue with serving under a little girl as a vice captain, they just aren’t in Squad 11 anymore.

Oh, one last note on Iba’s mom. I am of an age where a number of my friends have mothers who were Second Wave Feminists. The moms in question are a real mixed bag, because they Came From a Different Time, and on one hand, you have to respect what they went through, and on the other hand, they are very difficult to get along with. I liked the idea that Iba has always chafed against his mom and her big personality, and then Renji comes in, and is like, “hey, your mom is strong as hell and she has a lot of ideas that I never thought of but they make sense” and Iba realizes that, even though she’s still a huge pain in his ass, his mom is the person who made him who he is. Moms are complex.

Uhhhh, I have definitely lost the thread of wherever I was going with this post. Thank you for enjoying my Squad 11, which is nothing like canon Squad 11. Hopefully maybe this year, I will actually finish my Squad 11 Self Care story, where Renji stops being a drunk disaster person after Yumichika teaches him how to fill his brows; I got stuck on a part where Rangiku gives Renji a talk on ethical sluttery.

[thelast-genderbender]

At the age of 15 I had terfs harress and constantly sexually assault me online. A minor. Terfs don't care about women's rights, they only care about owning the 'trans' cult, that in the process that have hurt masculine woman and woman who are intersex. Many of your ideals have fuelled abuse of transgender minors from parents, they feed into the lies that the detransition rate is higher, that we are dirty and unworthy of love. I've never had such low self confidence until I learned of terfs. After I came out as trans I was happy to be myself, I went to doctors and they signed me up for a clinic to diagnosis me with gender dysphoria. After publicly stating I am trans, I got terfs trying to convert me, saying fucking awful shit and objectifying me to what's in my pants. Never have I ever got that sort of treatment even from men, it's always been women. There's nothing wrong with being a woman of course they are wonderful and deserve respect, I'm not one. It's honestly disturbing to see a person my age actively in terf circles, terfs are literal predators, who bitch about conversion therapy because a trans woman loves a woman, while actively seek out trans men to try and convert them to lesbians, to make them love their 'womanhood' it's disgusting, the stories I've seen these women post about trans men are r*pe, plain and fucking simple. Terfs will talk big about being welcome of detransitioned women but as soon as that woman still supports trans rights, she is labelled 'handmaiden' it disgusts me deeply. Many women are traumatised by men and I've seen terfs twist this so much and turn it on trans women, telling young traumatised women that they are going to come into your bathrooms are r*pe you. A lie from terf circles debunked by common sense. It's honestly upsetting to see radical feminism is nothing more then a transphobic dogwhistle. Some of the sweetest people I've known have been trans women, many have been scared to even dress a certain way in public incase they get murdered on the streets. I've never met a trans woman who is a predator. Being a terf is a choice being trans is not.

I'm in a much better place now and I will be much happier after transitioning. I hope you can find happiness too, as terf circles are filled with negativity and predators. If you are going to just misgender and invalidate my and every trans men experiences, then don't bother replying. This is just my personal experiences and an hopefully eye opening read.

Just a heads up, if you want to start a meaningful conversation with someone that has views that contradict your own, you probably shouldn’t start your message with a narrative that is incredibly vague and disingenuous. I want to talk with people that disagree with me because it’s important to me that my beliefs aren’t based on inconsistent logic or cognitive dissonance (because they 100% were when I was a liberal/”intersectional” feminist), but in order to have those meaningful discussions you need to make arguments that are based on something more than anecdotal evidence. Even if the story you just told was 100% true, it’s an undeniable fact that what you experienced was abnormal and that virtually every woman on the planet has been abused by a man- and those who haven’t are still living in the same patriarchal world that the rest of us are in. I’m not going to try to prove to you that sexism exists, but if you’ve been living under a rock since the beginning of civilization here’s a link to a WHO report over global rates of femicide. 

I wanted to go through this ask more thoroughly, but I’m studying for midterms and I just don’t have that kind of time. Believe me when I say that your understanding of radical feminism is incredibly flawed. It seems as though everything you think you know about us was fed to you by someone who knows that if you took the time to understand our views you would probably agree with us. Please try to think outside of yourself and your interests for 5 minutes; think about victims of male violence, think about the women who are having their job opportunities and athletic victories stolen from them. Think about the women who are being forced to share sex-specific spaces with males, after those spaces were earned by feminists who dared to argue that women should have safe spaces outside of their homes that they can retreat to in order for them to be able to participate in the public sphere as much as men can. Maybe open your eyes and read the articles written BY TRANSWOMEN about how pretending to be female is sexually gratifying to them! How about this article by a transwoman who was sexually aroused by “breastfeeding” their child? Or this one about a transwoman who thinks that what makes them female is their desire to be treated as a sexual object? Do I really need to explain to you how transwomen perpetuate horrifically damaging ideas about women when they will do the explaining themselves in articles that they would NEVER have been featured in had they never began identifying as women? 

Believe me, I would love to read something eye-opening about radical feminism. The fact that I’ve never seen a compelling, well written, or logically sound argument that even briefly threatened my stance on this subject is the reason why I’ve settled with these beliefs. It is going to take more than your “personal experiences” to prove to me that a male can become a woman.

[ranger-report]

Opinion: Don’t Buy HOGWARTS LEGACY, Harry Potter Needs To Step Back A While

Sony’s recent Playstation 5 livestream event brought some interesting news to the gaming world. First and foremost was the reveal of the PS5′s price and release date, but also reveals of new games coming for the system. Final Fantasy XVI, Five Nights At Freddy’s: Security Breach, God of War: Ragnarok, among some other impressive titles. One, however, is garnering controversy for doing nothing other than being associated with the creator of the universe it’s based on, and that is WB Games’s Hogwarts Legacy, an open-world game set in the Harry Potter universe created by JK Rowling, author and noted TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist). Yes, we’re going to get the elephant in the room out of the way with early: Rowling is transphobic, she continues to hammer home this point, and is losing points with fans because of it. It’s been happening for some time, to the point where WB Games has issued an FAQ on their website for Legacy noting that Rowling is not involved with the creation of the game. Others, including website Inverse, have issued a rallying cry stating that the gaming world shouldn’t let Legacy suffer as a result of Rowling’s continued efforts to bury herself in a mire of her transphobia. When a game has to distance itself from the creator of the universe it is set in, you know things are bad. Not simply bad like “Oh we disagree with her statements,” but bad as in “We spent money on this and now we’re really hoping that you will too even though JK Rowling is a TERF.”

Here’s the problem: supporting Hogwarts Legacy isn’t just supporting the developers of the game, it is supporting JK Rowling and the continued use of the Harry Potter universe as a franchise, and we really just need to get off of that train for a while.

Look, JK Rowling already has her money. Let’s face it. With a former net worth of close to $1 billion, now resting somewhere around $60 million due to many charitable contributions, Rowling is not in want or in need of money anytime soon. She continues to write, is involved in the Fantastic Beasts films (a third film of which is in suspended production due to COVID), and is set to release a new book under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. PS: Robert Galbraith is also the name of the real-life person who invented conversion therapy. And her new mystery novel under that name involves the hunt for a cross-dressing serial killer. But we were talking about her money.

Yes, JK Rowling has money, so how would essentially boycotting Harry Potter have any sort of effect on her? After all, wouldn’t the developers of Hogwarts Legacy be most hurt by this? True, these devs are collateral damage in a war that they did not ask to be a part of, but like all boycotts we should not look at the ground floor, but the top. Supporting the ground floor means supporting the top. And Rowling is the very top floor. Despite not being involved in the creation of the game per se, Harry Potter is still her intellectual property. Warner Brothers no doubt paid a hefty licensing fee to be able to publish this game among others, as it did to pay for the rights to the Harry Potter films. Money goes to the top. Supporting the games for the developers doesn’t make sense when they’ve already been paid; yes, hopefully they’ll receive residuals, but they’ve already been paid where WB Games stands to actually be making money on sales. And if WB Games makes money, they’ll spend more money to make more Harry Potter games, meaning JK Rowling makes more money. You can’t simply support the bottom rung without that support going all the way up the tower. It just doesn’t work that way.

But as we’ve said, her net worth is established, so why not spend money on Legacy and have the game we want to have? Legacy looks like the kind of game Potterheads have been salivating for, a deep dive into Hogwarts in the 1800s, the ability to fully explore the Wizarding school, learn magic, it seems simply delightful, albeit engineered. Let’s put money aside for a moment. Do you want to support a transphobic human being? If the answer is yes, good luck and godspeed on your way out the door. If the answer is no, then you shouldn’t buy Legacy. Or, to that effect, anything from Harry Potter, at least for a while. Supporting Harry Potter with your dollars means supporting a human being who is a TERF. That’s the end of the debate. You can’t support the bottom without it going all the way to the top. Companies pay millions every year to make products to sell to the public. Creators like Rowling earn millions from companies who want to license their intellectual property. Purchasing the product creates a demand for more, meaning Rowling’s ideas will continue to generate interest from companies, who will continue to pay her for the rights to do so, etc. You cannot just purchase something with it putting money into the hands of the person at the top, and when it comes to Harry Potter, unfortunately a transphobic woman is the person at the top.

No one likes thinking about this. Harry Potter is a worldwide phenomenon. It is a cultural touchstone, a part of millions of people’s childhoods. It brought us together in ways that hadn’t been seen since Star Wars. The idea of not buying or supporting Harry Potter is akin to not buying or supporting Star Wars. But if George Lucas hated gay people, would you be okay with purchasing that Death Star LEGO kit for your kids?

WB Games and Portkey Games are doing their damnedest to not lose money on Hogwarts Legacy. And I can’t blame them: this is a game that has been rumored to be in development since 2018, possibly earlier, before the majority of Rowling’s views were fumbled out onto the internet, but during the controversy of her defending Johnny Depp’s casting in the Fantastic Beasts film. A lot of money has been invested into Legacy, so of course the publisher and developers are going to try to save face by stating and restating that JK Rowling has nothing to do with this game. But the truth? She has everything to do with this game. She created the universe. Someone paid her to make movies of it. Then someone paid her to make video games out of it. Then someone paid someone to actually develop the video game. Now the people who paid to make the game are hoping to get a return on their investment. Rowling has been paid; she stands to make more on royalties as well. WB Games looks to take the loss if the game doesn’t sell. But if they don’t see a return, they’ll have to consider how profitable it would be to continue to make Harry Potter games. If they don’t see a return, JK Rowling is looking at not seeing future returns for her IP. At some point, the films won’t bring in the returns necessary to continue making films, either. Maybe at some point Rowling will pull a full George Lucas, sell Harry Potter completely to one company, and walk away with her money. Then she can settle into her grumpy chair and tweet about how women are women and something else transphobic while fading away loudly, ignored by people who can finally purchase Harry Potter again knowing that their money -- and support -- doesn’t go to a known transphobe.

We can only hope for that day. But it starts by boycotting Hogwarts Legacy.

One final note: fuck TERFS and fuck JK Rowling. Trans women are women.

[feralseraph]

one thing that pushed me away from black tumblr was the way men esp gay men and trans women were held to this untouchable standard idk theres this causual cruelty that just made me sad. the ability for eveyone to talk about hoe tips and dicks appointments while posts about femaleness were immediately ragged on and the women would be called cunts or white feminsits or just trashed bc they said vagina . posts like that as well as the upholding of the 'nuclear black(manhood) family' was too much :/

“oh man i guess i wasnt done. i was also SICK of going to bat for men who hated me. maybe a horrible thing to say but true! the amount of men that i protested for who posted about hating black women or roaches(darkskinwomen) like me was just too much. obviously i want better and hate police brutality and will fight for us but still... somethings gotta give. if u believe in #sayhername then dont call me a roach!! also i was looking for lesbians and i found that in radfems (which isnt perfect!)“

I agree with you! I would see this a lot on facebook as I never got too involved in Black Tumblr. But yes, similar patterns of men (even straight ones) being able to joke about watching porn and blow jobs, but the minute a woman says something positive about female bodies she’s shut down by these same men for being exclusionary or transphobic. Also on black meme pages I followed they do really exalt the nuclear, male led, black family in a way that’s disparaging to other types of families. 

And while I can understand that for centuries, stereotypes about black men and families have been incredibly harmful, but people act like this means you can never critique black men because of how they’re treated in society. It doesn’t do black men any favors to act like they can do no wrong. 

And yes, I actually saw many black women kinda joking about not marching for terrible black men which sounds bad but the underlying message is that black women are constantly advocating for men who hate them and it does get to be too much at some point.

The way I see it, the main beliefs of radical feminism I do agree with. However, people (mainly online) call themselves radical feminists, but then just spend a lot of energy getting into arguments with men and being mean to women and female people they don’t like. It’s unproductive, and honestly disheartening. 

Hopefully that makes sense and thanks for your message! it’s always nice to talk to other black women about issues like this

[stimmyvillainarchive]

WHY does the android app gotta suck so much, when i click the faq link it just like refreshes the page,,,, this happens with all links in bios on the andoird app :[

NNNN lovin this broke ass app.

I’mma go ahead and paste the FAQ just under the cut, hopefully you should be able to read it now :’))

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“What does REG mean?”

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Trans/Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Meaning radfems who are transphobic and are violent towards trans people (especially trans women).

“What does SWERF mean?”

Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist. They’re radfems who try to exclude sex worker from their feminism and often treat women attracted to men as less worthy.

“What’s the ADT community?”

ADT stands for “Actually Dysphoric Trans/Transgender” and was created by transmedicalists/truscum to break off from the trans community. It’s an insult to the trans community, an insult to the creator of the transgender pride flag (it’s removed the white that was there for people who ID as non-binary/outside the gender binary), and is there purely to start drama and create rifts in a community that’s already got enough enemies for simply existing in a transphobic world

“He/Him lesbians don’t exist/they’re transphobic towards trans men”

As a trans man who doesn’t think the world revolves around me and who understands that what lesbians decide to do it literally none of my goddamn business: get the fuck over yourself you whiny pissbaby

“What do you mean by people in the true crime community?”

People who sexualize, romanticize, excuse, and/or support serial killers and their actions/crimes. This doesn’t include people who are INTERESTED in the topic of crimes, serial killers, etc but acknowledging how these people are disgusting and their actions are unforgivable.

“Why are you anti-cgl?”

Cause we hate pedophiles and are decent human beings.

“You’re bigoted to kinksters just like homophobes are bigoted to gay people!”

I hate to break it to ya bud but I’m proudly kinkphobic and you’re a giant homophobe!!

“I’m a SFW cgl(re)/littlespace blog so I’m following/interacting uwu”

No the fuck you aren’t!! You’re a kink blog, there’s no such thing as a “sfw kink” even if you’re remaining two braincells are too busy fighting over the last pacifier to tell you some fuckin common sense. Your ass is getting blocked and I’ll also be using your blog to take a look at the people you interact and block them too just for safe measure! Eat a cactus, fuck nugget

“You hate lesbians if you hate TERFs”

You owe every lesbian an apology for assuming they’re all mysogynistic, LGBT+phobic pieces of horseshit like you are. Eat a dick.

“aces/aros aren’t LGBT uwu”

Wow… that’s so wrong Alexa play Fuck You by Lily Allen

“Me/Someone I know/(insert user/s) has been blocked. Why?”

There can be a number of reasons why you’re blocked, and I’m not afraid to block people as I want this place comfortable and safe for the mods and followers. So there’s several reasons as to why.

- You apply to our DNI (see BYF)

- You’re a (insert harmless children’s cartoon) critical blog (I tend to block those due to them saying LGBT+phobic things)

- You get into kin drama

- You’re an ace discourse, pan discourse, bi discourse, and/or overall REG discourse blog (this does not mean I block inherently block discourse blogs! I block the shitty ones)

- You’re a spam/porn/etc bot (if I’ve gotten this wrong, lemme know! I tend to block shady and empty blogs for this reason unless their desc/url/etc says it’s empty/weird for a reason)

- You’re a blog that frequently posts/centers around one or more of my triggers

- You’re an aesthetic blog (though I tend to soft block for them. But this is NOT an aesthetic blog and stimmy is NOT an aesthetic)

- You’re an “anyone can interact” stim blog

- You’re a stim blog that steals/doesn’t credit the gifs they use

- I feel you and I are going to argue and I’m just saving us the trouble of future unpleasant encounter/s

- You’ve been shitty to my friends or just been shitty to people in general and I’ve noticed it

HOWEVER I’ve made slip ups in the past! If you feel you don’t apply to any of these, you can contact me through my main and ask why. Sometimes I don’t always remember why I blocked somebody (sadly there’s a lot of shitheads on this site I’ve needed to block) or I’ve confused one blog for another person’s blog. Or maybe the person was more chill than I thought. Please contact me yourself rather than ask somebody else to do it though so I can get all the details! Even if I don’t lift the block, I won’t report you for block evading or anything.

“You used to be kidheart friendly and now you’re not, why’s that?”

Sadly, Raven (the creator of Kidhearts) has proven to be a bully sympathizer and feels it’s okay to compare agere to kinks/cgl and sides with regressionuncensored. She condones bullying/harassment/the sexualization of minors and I am not nor will ever be okay with that.

“But Raven sai-”

I don’t care what she says. She made it abundantly clear that she supports regressionuncensored and I don’t care that it came back to bite her in the ass. Bullies deserve no support, no sympathy, no nothing. And if you side with her than don’t come near this blog. This is agere safe and I will not allow people who support sexualizing it to interact. Kidhearts WILL be blocked on the spot, no questions asked.

“I’ve left a community on the dni list, can I follow/interact?”

Yes!

“Why are you anti-(insert thing on blacklist here)?”

Camp Camp: It’s racist + antisemitic

Dragon Maid: It’s pedophilic

Killing Stalking: It’s homophobic, ableist, sexist, perpetuates rape culture, and fetishizes abuse

Your Lie in April: It romanticizes child abuse and it literally starts off with a gross pedo joke when we meet the love interest in episode one

Split: It’s ableist

Hetalia: It’s antisemitic

Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling’s works: Actually there’s nothing inherently bad about the story. I just don’t like it. HOWEVER: I can’t stand J.K. Rowling as she’s a TERF/overall LGBT+phobe, and racist. So none of her creations will be featured here.

Sonic Boom: Nothing inherently problematic. I just can’t stand the show because it just fuckin sucks

13 Reasons Why: It romanticizes suicide and the creators refused to listen to actual mental health experts and have made the show potentially dangerous to anyone who even slightly deals with suicidal thoughts/urges

Detroit Become Human: It’s racist + antisemitic

Voltron: Legendary Defender: It queerbaits/it’s LGBT+phobic

“REG is a transphobic term”

I, Mod Joker, am trans. Try again.

“A-specs aren’t LG-”

*buzzer sound* wrong. So sad for you

“You’re not LGBT+ because you DARED disagree with me because you actually acknowledged that tumblr didn’t credit the community sweaty uwu”

We get this shit because a lot of you assume I’m ace or at the very least a-spec. And… Ya couldn’t be far from it. I’m a pan, genderfluid trans man. Even with all your gatekeeper (sorry, BULLSHIT) logic; I’d still be attracted to multiple genders and not be cis. I’m p queer. So no matter which way you slice it, I’m part of LGBT+. Die mad about it.

“You’re comparing aphobes to TERFs and SWERFs you fucking transphobe!”

Wow I didn’t realize setting boundaries meant that I viewed y'all in the EXACT same light. I’m so glad I have the lovely aphobes that have told my friends that they should kill themselves to set me straight.

Asking people not to interact doesn’t inherently mean I think they’re the EXACT same thing.

“Mod Joker is a gif-thief and reposts people’s content without properly crediting them!”

I have made this entire post explaining that’s wrong. Idrc if the post is too lengthy for you. Don’t talk shit if you don’t even have all the details.

Additionally, if you send me somethin about this in a negative light I’m IP blocking you. One strike and you’re out. If you want to believe people with false info and false accusations then that’s your baggage. Not mine.

HOWEVER if I’ve accidentally mis-credited, forgot to/messed up on crediting a person for their gif/video, or so on let me know! I’ll make mistakes, but I never do it intentionally.

[two-dead-swans]

I almost completely agree with this and think it's a valuable addition, thank you a lot. For me personally, I think that gender and sex intersect oppression wise and find it ignorant to ignore one in favor of the other, no matter if the people do it are transgender/allies or radical feminists. I absolutely AM treated like I'm one step away from being diagnosed with hysteria the moment I enter the doctor's room and they learn my birth sex, but this does not negate the fact that I am privileged/chosen over women when I am in settings where I am seen as male. Essentially, passing is conditional, but so is sex based oppression, because it is operant on people knowing I am trans.

I find both the transgender and radfem of either gender or sex (generalization, not all transgender or radfem people are like this obviously) oppression to be unmaterialist and based on ideas rather than reality. Transgender TME/TMA in bio types (you hopefully know what I mean here) thinking that oppression is perfectly based on gender instead of taking into account that the real world is very much cisnormative/transphobic, and radfems assuming that every trans person is perfectly clockable, both of which are false. This leads to hilarious ideas in the trans community like trans men, even ones that are pre everything and couldn't pass to save their lives, even ones that are IN THE CLOSET, experience male privilege??? Contrasting that with the radfems that believe that passing trans people are a mythical unicorn, because the trans people that do pass tend to uh.. not talk about being trans, lol. As someone who is trans/nb with a lot of trans/nb friends please know that the insufferable Zoë🏳️‍⚧️She/Her nyaa nyaa I'm a catgirl!!/uwu soft Kai trans bean he/they plz 👉👈 types annoy all other trans people. Most trans people are actually just normal people you can talk to. This doesn't mean I don't respect them even if I disagree with them on most things; it's sort of how radfems work on uplifting all women even if they're the tradfem Catholic types.

Essentially what I'm trying to say is that the binarization of gender oppression by TME/TMA trans types and the retaliatory arguments that it is strictly sex based is tiring. I find the denial of a specific trans based oppression tiring (I have been literally physically assaulted over looking trans), but I also find the idea that we live in a perfect society where everyone is perfectly oppressed based on gender a joke.

Does that make sense to you?

Question for radfems that believe oppression is entirely sex-based: what about trans people that pass/are stealth? I know stealth trans women who get treated like women in daily life, and have seen them get abused and oppressed by misogyny and groped and mistreated like any cis women would. Before you say that cases are rare, everyone I know on HRT passes to a minimum of some extent & I'm also a stealth trans person and people genuinely think I'm the other way around when I say I'm trans. I'm a Marxist and as such a materialist, but for me this means that acknowledging passing trans women are oppressed by the basis of being perceived as women.

On the contrary, I've seen trans men and butches that get perceived as male, and have experienced some benefits of this firsthand, one of them being that wearing my binder stopped me from being groped. My main example is that if I were to go from America to a country such as Saudi Arabia, I would be treated and given the privileges men have, while my trans women friends would be harshly oppressed. In any place where there is a stark difference between male and female, I would be placed as male and they would be placed as female. I have had men come up to me after I started passing and start a discussion about which girls in the class they would rape. I'm obviously being socially treated as male. In most contexts, as long as I don't immediately blurt out I was born with a vagina, I am afforded the same privilege given to men. This goes vice versa for the trans women I know.

I'm not interested in getting into whataboutism with things other than passing trans people receiving oppression or privilege that does not correspond to their AGAB [birth sex], but my main question is this: how is the concept of solely sex based oppression rather than how we are perceived materialist/going by what we see in society? I'm not saying to exclude passing trans men from feminism because all of them have experienced misogyny first hand (me very much so), but rather asking why all people who live as women, regardless of AGAB, are not treated as the same receivers of misogyny?

(people who come into my post/dms to harass me will be blocked, but my dms are open for discussion within limits. I'll talk to radfems, not fascists lol)

[alyciagaynam]

about the 'hating taylor swift' meme

you know what i hate about social media these days? if you wanna turn the world against someone you just gotta say theyre racist/homophobic/transphobic/etc even if it isnt true

and i get it, if you tell me someone did a racist/homophobic/transphobic/etc thing my whole perception of them would change because i simply do not tolerate that shit

but it has become a problem i see clearly in the whole taylor debate. i mean, people have always loved to hate her for their own stupid and awful reasons like their own sexism (she dates too much, she writes too many love songs!!!), their delusion about a guy (he is mine bitch!!!!), and have used truly disgusting things to insulte her, like body-shaming her (yikes)

they never had a valid reason to hate her and when the whole kanye/kim vs taylor thing happened they embraced it like their lives depended on it. forget kanye supporting trump, forget the gross things he did to rihanna, amber rose and taylor herself, forget that kim isnt an outstanding human either; i mean, taylor got 'exposed' why should they care about anything else????

people ignored their common sense, which if they had listened to, they wouldve heard it saying that taylor never said she wasnt informed of the "taylor and i might have sex" lyric, she was probably angry and annoyed at the gross as fuck music video or at the 'i made that bitch famous' lyric. if they had actually heard taylors ""shade at kanye"" they wouldve seen that she only said 'hey girls! your success is yours and dont let people tell you they made you who you are!' (hows that shade?)

self proclaimed feminists started saying she was racist for "demonizing a black man", which wouldve been a very valid reason to get angry had that been the case. we're so used to white people being racist and assholes that when someone merely suggested that this was racism everyone jumped on it and refused to see it any other way (spoiler: its not racism, its just someone defending herself against someone who wronged them, and they happen to be white and black individuals, respectively)

and despite not having any proof, people still actually think taylor swift is racist. granted, most people who spread hate against her are people who arent involved at all and just happen to see a viral tweet about it so they join in on the 'fun' so they can get a retweet or two. which saddens me to be honest because they dont find it in themselves to actually fact-check that info. sad.

so yeah, hating taylor swift has become a meme. i can bet all the money in the world if you ask someone why they hate her they wont have any real reason, hell, they might just answer with one of those stupid rumors! and every day they aim to find new things to pin on her to make her look bad.

now, im not saying everybody has to like her, but this senseless hate does hurt her! she is a fuckin human being stop thinking celebrities are immune to the things they are exposed to.

hopefully this long-ass message makes people question their behaviour.