#its a dogwhistle

[lostryu]

if you are posting about how people who are religious are uneducated, i genuinely hope you know that what you are saying is a talking point that x-tians use to defraud other beliefs of non-white races. like that is a legitimate reason they use to go on mission trips and colonize. and if you're gonna back up with "oh i was talking about christianity" no you fucking werent! otherwise you'd be specific! and newsflash, even with that flimsy argument, religion isnt the problem, its conservatism. thats what youre talking about.

[nerdsandqueens]

Anyone complaining about Mythal's design just like people complained about Mystra's design is a dog whistle.

Blocked. Blocked. And Blocked.

[nightmarish-fallen-angel]

I'll occasionally see posts that are like "well obviously transandrophobia is because the trans community is against afabs"

I hate it I hate it I hate it

Stop referring to me by my sex and ? just generally being wrong.

The majority of transandrophobia I've experienced has come from cis people, and specifically cis women that are close to me and get so so upset that I "chose" to be a man. And the ant-trans rhetoric that others will peddle about trans men and why they can't possibly be in their right minds to choose to be a "disgusting" man.

[trans-axolotl2]

Fuck the DSM. Seriously, fuck the DSM.

The DSM is and always has been used primarily as a method of rationalizing mistreatment of the people it labels as "deviant." When you look at the history of psychiatry, it becomes clear that things like drapetomania, protest psychosis, hysteria, and homosexuality as a disorder were not just thrown into there randomly. Rather, it showcases the power of the DSM: labeling and categorizing ways of being as mental illness opens up new paths of incarceration, social control, and curative violence. I need people to understand that the modern DSM still works like this: these classifications of madness/mental distress/neurodivergence into psychiatric labels encourage society to treat madness/mental distress/neurodivergence with the apparatuses used to eradicate "deviance." Diagnosis is not neutral.

As mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent people, we deserve access to more explanatory models of madness/mental illness/ neurodivergence than what the psychiatric language of normalcy and disorder offers us. Whether this looks like rejecting diagnosis, embracing varying cultural understandings of mental experience, or any million different ways of interpreting our bodymind, we deserve the option to move beyond clinical language that tries to convince us not to trust ourselves. We deserve to view ourselves wholly, leaving room for all our experiences of madness/mental illness/neurodivergence--the meaningful, the terrifying, the joyful, the exhausting. We deserve to have our own relationship with our madness, instead of being pushed to view ourselves as an inherent "danger to self or others" simply by existing as crazy.

Here's another truth: I hate the DSM, and I still call myself bipolar, a diagnosis that came to me through psych incarceration. While I wholeheartedly reject the DSM and the system intertwined with it, I simultaneously acknowledge and believe that many of the collections of symptoms that the DSM describes are very, very real ways of living in the world, and that the distress that they can cause are very very real. When I say fuck the DSM, I don't mean "Mental distress, disability, and neurodivergence aren't real." Rather, I mean that the DSM can never hold my experience of what it is like to be bipolar, the meaning I derive from experiencing life with cyclical moods. The DSM can't hold within its pages what it's like to see my mood cycle not as a tragedy or disaster, but instead as an opportunity, a gift, to grow and shift and go back to the same place over and over again, dying in winter and blooming again in spring. The DSM can't hold the fact that even though I experience very, very real distress due to those mood cycles--they're still mine and I claim that as something that matters to me. I call myself bipolar as a shorthand to tell people that I experience many things both extreme high and low, but I do not mean the same thing when I say "bipolar" as a psychiatrist does.

When we build community as mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent people, I want us to have room to share, relate, and care for each other in ways that isn't calling to the authority of a fucked up system with strictly defined categories. I don't want us to take those same ways of thinking and rebrand it into advocacy that claims to fight stigma, but really just ends up reinforcing these same ideas about deviance, cure, control, and danger. I dream of the day when psychiatry doesn't loom as a threat in all of our lives, and I think part of that work requires us as mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent people to really grapple with and untangle the ways we label and make meaning of our minds.

ok to reblog, if you want to learn more about antipsychiatry/mad studies check out this reading list.

[dreamyintersexouppy]

did i really just see a girl trying say we have to fight against "cultural feminism" and "female chauvinism" just because cis women can also perpetuate the patriarchy....??? absolutely embarrassing take try again after you've escaped the antifeminism goop pit

[ejsuperstar]

frustrated by a "non political" server im in, paraphrased conversation i saw

Free Palestine. If you think any other way. Unfollow me. I don't want you here.

[gremlingirlsmell]

the terms transandrophobia/transmisandry are unsalvagable btw, because they're symbolic of a community of a transmisogynistic hate movement. they're primarily used to position transfems as uniquely anti-transmasc. if you want to discuss transmasc struggles literally just use anti-transmasculinity or trans-emasculation

[sunsetforestzone]

how it feels to unfollow people voting yes on that "do trans men systematically oppress trans women" poll on my dash

[stclover]

if someone is against sex work, kink, "contradictory" labels etc. theres a good chance they buy into terf/transmisogynist rhetoric. yes even if they're "against terfs" and yes even if theyre being really really really careful about their wording around these topics lol

[ciderjacks]

Hey just for the record, the lady from the "fuck Christopher Colombus" image is antiblack! even though the sentiment rings true, she said the n word hard r several times before

ohh well that’s embarrassing. Deleted that.

[puffles]

Hey so if you haven't seen it already, the new "translation" is apparently just a rewrite of the original script. Except for Madarame's route and later parts of the game (SUPPOSEDLY) but I didn't play it so I can't verify

Evidence here

Anedoctal evidence for the JastBlue panel

I'll put some screenshots below from the thread if you don't have twitter.

From the team themselves:

Semi-related, there is anecdotal evidence that the "they/them" pronouns were approved by Nitro Chiral themselves during the panel below. A few people have said they heard it or read it from the JastBlue team (including me). I haven't went to find JastBlue talking about it but yeah, just extra clarification on it.

[callifawnia]

were putting double-blind placebo-controlled randomised controlled trials back on the shelf until people can learn some basic research ethics and study design

[casey-complains]

The whole "Thomas doesn't owe us anything" is stupid. Because, yes he does. This isn't some hobby he is doing on the side for some cash. This, content creating, IS his job. His literal job is to make entertainment. He has promised us, his customers, a product (SS videos) and he hasn't delivered it. Imagine working a 9-5 desk job and telling your boss "I'll get the report you really want done" and then get anything else done except for what the boss wants. This is basically like Netflix renewing a season of a popular show, then nothing comes from it, of course people are going to be mad/annoyed. I'm glad he's making content he likes, but people being annoyed is valid

"he doesnt owe us anything" is my least favourite anti-critisism in the world

listen, im an artist and a writer. i mostly keep to myself and draw/write what i want. i can go days without doing either for fun, and thats fine! its just for fun and for myself, i dont owe people anything

...but i also do commission work. i also participate in art trades and gift exchanges. i need to do these within a certain amount of time, because im getting something out of it (whether it be art or money), ergo, i owe people something

10 years ago, it wouldn't matter if thomas didnt post a vine for a while. he didnt owe us anything! he wasnt being paid! but now, it does matter when thomas postpones the sasi finale for years... because he's being paid by both ad revenue and his patreon. he owes us something.

[poryqons]

seeing someone's profile on twitter and getting this weird unshakable "this guy seems annoying" vibe but not blocking since that's not really a crime, only to learn months later they're actually a huge fucking proshipper/shotacon weirdo that proudly ships rick and morty is a really puzzling and angering feeling

[crossnamara]

does someone want to tell me to kill myself so i can feel something

[eriexplosion]

Honestly I think that if your Take on Israel involves it being any Special Kind Of Evil it's likely based on some kind of antisemitic theory. The Israeli government is doing blatant crimes against humanity in front of everyone, but it's unfortunately not special. There are multiple genocides ongoing perpetuated by different countries and governments right now because humanity has been doing this since the start of recorded history.

Netanyahu is not a special kind of evil, Israel is not a special kind of evil, its actually an extremely typical kind of evil. Which doesn't mean it can be ignored, absolutely speak out against it and put your voice behind the Palestinian people. They'll need it now that the ceasefire has ended again. But trying to conspiracy theory out how actually the Zionists are running everything or trying to make the Israeli people out as being somehow more evil or more likely to lie than any other group of people? That's just antisemitism and its been rampant ever since people felt like they had an excuse to let loose.