#legbutt

[brotoman]

ok, i am currently watching the new hbomberguy video and i got to the part with james somerton, and this is actually painful. i cannot believe how fucking creatively bankrupt someone can be. like, does he even watch or engage with the media he makes video essays for? i can't be sure. if he just regurgitates everything, then wtf does this guy even believe? this is so insane to me. i can't imagine making all these videos copying other people's work verbatim, it's all so empty and soulless.

the thing i love about video essays is seeing what others are passionate about talking about. i guess to me, sharing that enthusiasm (especially if it features good analysis) is so satisfying! it says something about you as a person: what you like, what you notice, and what you feel from art. art that has had a strong personal effect on me is part of how i understand my identity. so i guess there's something nearly uncanny valley about a fucking human content machine spitting out videos featuring nothing but other people's thoughts, opinions and observations. it's all so cynical.

and it's made even more upsetting that this guy is, ultimately, a marginalized person standing on the backs of other marginalized people. profit in the name of "queer analysis." it fucking spits in the face of what the queer community should be - we should be looking out for each other. uplifting one another. you'd have to be a real fucking scumbag to treat others this way.

EDIT: i got further in and uh,,, my question "what is this guy even passionate about," was answered! it's hating women. he's a misogynist. wow. fuck this guy with a brick.

EDIT: WHY WOULD HE MAKE AN ATTACK ON TITAN VIDEO IF HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO SPELL "SHONEN." THAT'S NOT EVEN REMOTELY IN HIS WHEELHOUSE FFS IM INSANE \

edit: to follow up on anime not being his wheelhouse, apparently he was gonna make a neon genesis evangelion video (despite as recently as 2 weeks ago saying he'd never seen it and didn't understand the watch order) and a revolutionary girl utena video. thank you, harris, for saving us from this fate. good fucking GRIEF

[dunglizard]

Frederick Pride did in fact rule

[lizardywizard]

yknow thinking about the concept of “i used to be a lesbian” it’s like

i’m sure i’m seeing it through rose tinted glasses and all, but in the UK, in the 2000s, there was some great underground (and overground, wombling free) lesbian culture. and i loved being a part of it. i loved hanging out in dykey zine spaces listening to slam poetry on the open mic. i loved hitting up the bars on canal street with my equally gay equally plural bestie. i loved the hippie granola vegan cafes. i’m sure i met some terfs but it was never flung in my face, like it was great to be genderfuck, it was part of our culture that some people were butches or he/him lesbians or outright preferred to refer to themselves as men.

but somewhere down the line, terfy attitudes took over, and that open, rebellious, freewheeling space... i don’t know if it still exists, in the same places it did. and i can’t help thinking, when terfs complain about “losing our butches to the transmasc pipeline”... you know, i would have stuck around if you’d let me. all the people you’re “losing” to transmasc identity are people who had previously happily fit into the lesbian community. we’ve always had bois and people who took hormones and people who bound their chests or got the teat yeet. we’ve always had he/him pronoun users and people who didn’t fit in the traditional gender binary. you just suddenly decided we weren’t welcome any more.

[abra-ka-dammit]

honestly the multiple girl-crushes in my history that have turned into transman-crushes wouldnt be as troubling if they didnt keep transing into gay t4t

follow ur bliss of course, but either my luck is ridiculous or im just so awful of one that i keep making ppl i have feelings for swear off women as like, a whole concept in their lives

[sheepinthebigcity]

I’m gonna be honest I think all the times I almost got killed make me a lot more inherently political than being bisexual and non-binary does.

[gothicprep]

a couple of days ago, someone made a very bad webcomic about a former coworker they didn't like. coworker's transgressions ranged from saying something like "you're great as you are" in response to the author saying they were rejected by their family in coming out, to doing a bad running joke about hating birds.

this got a lot of backlash because it radiates "mountain out of molehill". the author takes the comic down and issues a statement about being insensitive to women and lgbt people or whatever.

life tip: do not do this under any circumstances. apologies should be reserved for people/relationships that matter to you. what do you emotionally owe to strangers? nothing. i don't get what's so difficult to understand about this. you can't repair a relationship with someone you don't know, because you never had one in the first place. parasocial doesn't count.

there's also something about it that comes off as narcissistic, i guess. as a woman from the legbutt community, my life isn't made materially worse because you made a dogshit webcomic. you're not that important. don't issue a fucking press release about this.

[degenerate-perturbation]

Everytime bi women who are married to or dating men whine and complain about not being gay enough for legbutt community I double down on my newfound heterosexuality. I have a cisgender fiance and that makes me straight now. You losers might need to be gay to be cool but not me. I can be cool and heterosexual at the same time, due to my abilities

[loving-n0t-heyting]

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Damn I’m getting overcome my apoplectic fury towards The Homosexuals lately again I had really hoped this was behind me until smth rejiggered my old resentment and now I find myself seething about it a good bit

“But LNH,” you might reasonably ask, “aren’t you The Homosexuals?” NOT ACCORDING TO THEM IM NOT. NOT ACCORDING TO THE ONES WHO SPENT MY LIFE FROM AGES FIFTEEN TO 25 PATIENTLY EXPLAINING WHAT A REVOLTING SEXUAL MENACE I WAS COMPARED TO THEM. NOT ACCORDING TO THE PPL FOR WHOM MY PERVERSE INHERENT REVOLTINGNESS WAS FIXED ENOUGH TO REMAIN STABLE UNDER THE TRANSITION FROM “the degenerate faggots are the real risk” TO “the hegemonic cishets are the real risk” WHILE LETTING THE SYLLOGISM CLASSIFY ME ACCORDINGLY INTO A SEXUAL LABEL FIT TO BE REVILED

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

I like keith haring. It is nice to have someone unambiguously on Their side whose art I am able to properly enjoy. He even died of AIDS! Tho tbh if I’d been around in the 70’s to have inevitably contracted HIV and died emaciated in a hospital bed to the shame of my mother those legbutt ghouls would presumably have found some reason I was still too infected with the straightness in order to disown me the fucking dipshit cunts I WAS TREATED LIKE MY GAY SEX WAS A DISEASE BEFORE YOU KNEW WHAT SEX EVEN WAS YOU FUCKING TREACHEROUS PETTY BITCHES

[jrueships]

the LeGBuTtS are Conversating . . .

[cosmicastrogazer]

LGBT: Legbutt

LGBTQ: Legbuttock

LGBTQIA: Legbuttockia, land of our dreams

[dunglizard]

Hello gay community. Haphazardly applied orange blush inspired by Trixie Mattel. Purple inspired by I like it. Basic concept from the edible I took around 5:45.

On Sunday night Maria and I watched I Saw the TV Glow and it carved me open like that boxcutter did Owen. Utterly harrowing stuff. It actually made me have a very real crisis about who I am and what kind of transition I’m pursuing. “Am I asking for a radical reduction instead of typical top surgery because it’s what I really want? Or am I just flinching away from totally abandoning my most feminine characteristic?” I decided that no, this isn’t a flinch. If it was, it would be a pretty silly place to draw a line. I know what I want, and I know what I am: transgender. I’m not a woman, and I’m not a man either. I might not be a lesbian, but I’m some kind of dyke. I’m Maria’s wife. I’m a little high right now. I feel pretty good about the future.

[shoutyourporpoise]

Legbutt!? 😂 Haven't heard that one.

Lol I started saying it in grad school to inflict psychic damage and now it is just part of my vocabulary

[skadream]

i just think its so cool how the legbutts have a sixth sense about each other how all my friend groups in school had a disproportionately high number of transes and gayses like its not always the looks i was finding the nonbinary kids in a very small all girls school with a strict uniform so like is it just like the energy do we have an aura it happens online too and obv you can be more intentional abt finding like minded ppl online but like people i did not know about thru specifically lgbt communities turn out to be gay or trans all the time it is happening at an exponential rate is it just the gay agenda or what its crazy

[wordcubed]

And LGBT people are a key part of the Democratic coalition now, which is part of what makes MattY's suggestion so ludicrous. (Even aside from the obvious moral reasons that Democrats should support LGBT rights anyways.) That link puts them as voting Democrat at a rate of 86%, levels only exceeded by black women!

Exit polls placed LGBT voters at 8% of the electorate, meaning a little under 7% of ALL American voters are legbutts who consistently vote blue. If the Dems across-the-board lost even half of that, in pursuit of "moderation", then far from helping them, that'd just be another massive, massive handicap. "Dems lose another 4% of the voters" would result in a far redder, even-more Republican-dominated US electoral map.

Matt Yglesias seems to think the only thing for the Democrats to do is to lurch as far to the right as possible and throw trans people under the bus, but I think this is stupid; MAGA candidates not named Trump ran behind their peers, plenty of Democratic policies passed in the form of ballot initiatives, and many Dem candidates outran Harris by at least a little bit. AFAICT the election was genuinely a backlash against incumbency and not a repudiation of Democratic policy positions generally.

Which sucks! But it also implies you shouldn’t screw over members of your core coalition to try to seize ground already firmly occupied by reactionaries. People with reactionary politics will vote for the brand name version, and you run the risk of alienating people who up til now voted for you. The problems liberals have relate predominantly to messaging in a fragmented media environment and the uniquely troubled circumstances of 2024 than they do to an electorate disgusted by trans women in sports or pandering to people who use the phrase “toxic masculinity.”

[pans1es]

even conservatives (and even assorted liberal flavors atp) are starting to feel that the empire is over and that civilization is on its last little legs. The problem is they think the issue is legbutts and the word salad known as "cultural marxism" instead of the capitalist death cult so to them the solution (if it can even be called that) is to roll back rights for marginalized groups they've hated anyways in hopes that well somehow return to the glory days (spoilers: we won't).

[butcherhog]

i dont like how long ive been on tumblr for bc sometimes i'll still read lgbt as legbutt