#targeted cruelty

[aceshigh10987666]

You know it's true by the tone of the news articles. Are they horrified that someone who was unaware of their intersex status is having their personal information splattered across the news? Are they upset that this person is being excluded and their past accomplishments erased simply because of the way their body is designed?

No, they're glad that the purity of the sexes is being upheld, and it's a little sad that some cis person is taking the punishment that was designed for trans kids, except, wait...

...are they glancing at someone's elementary school records or birth certificate to verify that this person is the gender that was OBSERVED at birth (or for some intersex people, assigned at birth)? No, they are not. They are examining chromosomes. They are doing physical examinations to discover ambiguous genitals that would not be reflected in the gender on the person's birth certificate. This specifically targets intersex people, not perisex trans people. It merely catches perisex (non-intersex) trans people while we're at it.

And one more thing: this specifically targets those intersex people who have already undergone medical abuse and disfigurement, punishing them even when they have followed (usually nonconsensually) society's edict to appear to be cis perisex.

This doesn't target intersex people with a mixed gender presentation because you would have already assumed they were trans, no testing needed. Those people have already been successfully targeted. They are targeting gender conforming intersex people. They are targeting people with intersex variations that don't result in nonbinary secondary sex characteristics. They are targeting people who have already suffered genital mutilation and/or forced HRT.

This says that even when intersex people do conform to the gender binary in a way that matches their birth certificate's observed or assigned sex, even then they deserve to have their passion taken from them, their awards retracted, and their personal medical information distributed to the public.

This is not about perisex trans people. This targets a different group under the excuse that they are looking for perisex trans people. And when it is discovered that an intersex person has been caught in that trap, it's sad, but no harm at all in telling everyone their full name, their hometown, and the specifics of their intersex variation.

That's necessary in order to protect cis perisex kids from this lack of purity in gendered sports, right? Because we're worried that the intersex person will continue to participate in gendered sports unless we dox them and ensure that they will be subjected to discrimination each time an employer or landlord or partner's family members googles their name and finds the old news articles? Maybe it's okay because if they wanted to avoid that doxxing, they should have changed their name. It's only right that intersex people should have their name taken from them, too.

This perisex person is thoroughly disgusted. Stop it. Intersex people deserve to be protected from bigotry. They deserve equal opportunity. They deserve to have the right to decide whether others know about their status as an intersex person. They deserve to enjoy the joy of participating in sports and earning accolades without fears that those will be taken away, knowing they will be publically bullied just because their body isn't like the ones we learn about in sex ed. There should never be an intersex person who has to decide not to participate in sports because they may eventually be doxxed.

This behavior is our choice as perisex people and we are choosing to victimize them. We don't stop when we realize they're intersex rather than perisex transgender. We don't stop when the intersex person is found to be cisgender. We destroy their lives anyway. This is not transphobia. It's bigotry specificaly aimed at gender-conforming intersex people.

Context.

[brbarou]

more bee and beloved...

[chaos-in-one]

Watching the whole "would you rather be in the woods with a bear or a strange man" debate go down is so funny to me as someone who has gone camping up in the mountains a good portion of my life and actually seen bears because like

They are NOT nearly as dangerous as some of the people mad about people choosing the bear are making them out to be. Even grizzlies. Generally, unless you are near their babies or they are literally starving, they'll leave you alone as long as you leave them alone. I actually did not feel that unsafe the handful of times I saw a bear in the woods because I understood that as long as I wasn't a complete fucking idiot about it, the bear wasn't going to do shit to me. Bears generally do not want to attack humans. About the only one that has been known to actually try to hunt humans is a polar bear, and you're not going to find a polar bear in a fucking forest.

[maretriarch]

the gaza scams are so bleak and depressing they're only getting worse and more obvious, they have every big blogger guilt tripped into reblogging these obvious scams (youll literally see these scammers in the comments of their posts yelling at them for not responding to their 9000 dms fast enough) and you can't say anything to suggest that maybe there's something a little fishy with all of these identical chatgpt generated color coded flashy emoji heavy posts or youre the bad guy so its actually very hard to feel bad for a lot of the people falling for and spreading the scam bcs they get so righteous about how much better they are than you

[presidentcircles-assistant]

brand new target

[aces-to-apples]

It's very nice that Lucanis's writer intended him to be on the ace spectrum, I'm happy so many people are thrilled and feel validated by that. Not me though, that's not gonna affect my writing of him in the slightest lol

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

honestly it's been really healing being back to actively contributing things and writing out thoughts on tumblr the last week or so, because while twitter tends to be easier for me to write out Thoughts on without getting overwhelmed, the environment in the twitter fandom circles i'm interested in is not only infested with antis but cliqueish in a way that is caustic to the fucking soul if you try to express a thought that's more than three sentences long--a hundred times over if you're autistic in slightly the wrong way--and it's incredibly reassuring to come back to an environment where the very kindest and most inclusive people toward you are not clearly thinking the r-slur the entire time they interact with you lmao

[dateamonster]

Your idea of a purge movie is infinitely more interesting than anything that happens in any of the actual purge movies, because most of those films are just "Hey affluent Suburbanite white people, aren't criminals SPOOKY"

ok so i feel the need to clarify, i do actually kinda like the purge movies. in premise at least.

maybe this is colored by the one purge movie ive seen being "the purge: election year", but to my understanding this is one of those series where, quality of the films themselves notwithstanding, there is a substantial gap between the thing the movies are trying to communicate (that the purge is a rhetorical device for the way the ruling class pits the working class against one another one order and keeps them in a state of blind anger and fear to prevent them from gaining class consciousness and rising against their actual oppressors) and the thing most audiences take away from it (that people are inherently violent and cruel and if left ungoverned will dissolve into a state of total chaos (<- this is in fact the propaganda the ruling class within the film pushes in order to create and sustain the purge!))

honestly id probably have watched more of them if not for a) the bad impression this popular misunderstanding left me with and b) i dont really like home invasion horror movies much (with few notable exceptions). maybe i still will someday.

[veryspecialfungus]

Secretly spending my work day in my own brain, secretly trying to square Raz's treatment of animals from Psychonauts 1 and Psychonauts 2.

[ladyluscinia]

I find it fascinating that the people who act like OFMD is an insanely nuanced and groundbreaking exploration of traumas and healing (from colonialism and homophobia and classism to cycles of domestic violence) are also the people most likely to joke-but-not-really that Izzy Hands is not that deep and probably just Like That. Like in a vacuum I totally would have called it the other way around.

I mean, in my view of OFMD as a workplace romcom above all (that is saying some interesting things about personal trauma as internalized character beats but not nearly to that degree), it is implied that Izzy has his own similar traumas but we don't actually need to get into them that much. His entire arc toward betterment - which he gets because it's a workplace comedy - could absolutely be resolved without any backstory details, and you can just connect that he was on the same boat as Edward so the broadly bad aspects of pirate culture apply to him. One teary conversation about how he thought his only friend was dumping him and you're golden. And since it's funny that our protagonists are kinda shitty people, then Izzy being a shitty person is A) not that bad, and B) something you could conceivably make "He's just Like That" jokes about without it losing necessary sympathy points OR message. Because it's funny.

Conversely, if the show is this like completely in-depth exploration of trauma inflicted by the external pressures of society that also brilliantly utilizes deeply intellectual layered humor and a subversive queer romance as romcom framing / revolutionary push back, then it's baffling to me why you wouldn't want the main on-screen antagonist to be one of the deepest people in the show??? Like whether you are telling a story about how everyone can overcome and heal (hopeful) OR a story about the contrast between people who do make effort to get better and people who don't (warning), it is going to work so much better if you dedicate time and energy to at least one major "What made my antagonist Like This?" Explore the dark mirror of it all. Stories about the evils of oppressive systems that write things as an Us vs Them scenario without really caring about Them (ex: the British Empire) make a good setup for slaughtering your way through the evil army, not so much a strong message applicable to countering and healing oppressive systems in real life. Especially since Izzy's not even a traditional Them - he's also a pirate! "The bad guys are the racist homophobes because that's bad" is like the opposite of a brilliant theme, even if you think they are saying it a bunch of different ways.

I think, in retrospect, this is a long way of saying if the major character conflict is internally motivated then the antagonist is just the guy keeping the plot framing moving while our protagonists go through their character arcs, but if it's externally motivated then the antagonist is critical to the story as the main embodiment of the conflict and you have to spend time developing him if you want to say anything interesting at all?

[britneyshakespeare]

You know I have a cousin who is a trans woman who is visibly and openly trans online, and because she is my family member and I have known her all my life I think I can say on good authority that she is nothing close to a faultless person. I actually had a lot of problems with her growing up and she still often posts inappropriate and objectionable things online that perhaps make her a bigger target than just the fact that she is trans by itself. And I like know that she's quite an easy target and I see herself put herself online in ways that make me worried and concerned for the kinds of comments she gets. She has people scroll her public Facebook page and on any post, especially if it mentions being trans or queer, whether it is innocuous or not, she'll get all these laugh reacts, because Facebook transphobes are evil. But it also feels like, I just wish she'd stop posting like she does. This is not blaming her, and I know transphobes seek her out whether they at first find her saying something respectable or not. It's not fair at all. But I do very much see that she cannot resist feeding the trolls and it's just hard to fucking watch

[grislyintentions]

|| HC - Hunting (Clorinde) ||

Before the increased influx of Melusine officials joining their ranks, the Marechaussee Phantom was largely established by humans united under the common goal of keeping Fontaine safe.

Many in Clorinde's family held ties to these special detective forces; specifically with tracking down wanted criminals. Given their longstanding cooperation, they have cemented themselves in its foundation history. Hence, it is not a stretch for someone like Clorinde to be seen as a successor to the Marechaussee Hunters of old.

From a young age, she inherited their teachings and techniques. Her skills in hunting, tracking and combat are honed through strict training regiments. What little of her down time is reserved for interacting with children her age, whose parents also happen to be working in investigation, community outreach or legal fields (eg: Navia).

Much of her training is focused on disarming and incapicitating others; On hunting. She knows exactly when, where and how to strike. She knows what it takes to outpace her opponents. She knows when to overwhelm them. She knows how to go in for the kill. She just chooses not to at every turn, as frequently as she can.

Clorinde doesn't hunt animals.

She hunts people.

[lycanwlf]

i am actually such a hater of doomerism. like sorry i dont want to be miserable and angry all the time because "thats just how it is" no!!!!!!!!!! it doesnt have to be!!!!!!! ugh im so tired of this

[blueiight]

rubinsky recognizing his son’s similarity to himself + said son’s aspirations to overthrow him v. reinhard begging for an enemy..reinhard is calling for strong guys to meet him in a neutral starzone to have mutual combat

[edenpoise]

why are you doing all of this ? - also from lilith, for the revengeful wrath verse. c: hello!

⁽ @gctchell ⁾ ― ： meme. from here .

E . ― IT WAS ALMOST LAUGHABLE HOW A SIMPLE QUESTION COULD INVOKE SUCH FESTERING EMBERS. as if she didn't know, as if she wasn't a direct cause towards her own undoing. eve could barely settle her expression from morphing to portray those inner feelings. no. she was better than that. BLACKENED eyes stared down at the once proud figure- the ( first woman ) hellish queen that stepped the line of being pitiful &. pathetic. " you're ignorance knows no bounds, lilith. "

her voice betrays her expression. a disgust leaking from the tone as chains rattled and looped- tendrils of blacken threads tightened their VICIOUS hold. it kept the powerful monarch from resistance. it kept eve in control. just they way she liked it. the way it should ALWAYS be, of all people within this wretched world ... she deserved it the most. had she not suffered for CENTURIES- ? watching the consequences that clung to her sins. the constant belittle within the time of history. everything heaving on her shoulders- had she not earned this right alone to finally get what she d e s e r v e s? it was long overdue ... and simply enough ... lilith was simply a key in this all. eve would bend- fingers hooking underneath the sharp chin of the elder woman, eyes blazing as they locked together, " but that's not you're fault ... my true HATRED doesn't lie with you ... but unfortunately for you- you married a man that ruined me. " a otherworldly being who's words brought temptation into a peaceful garden where it was never meant to be. for consequences to weigh so heavily. for years she had blamed herself, but why continue such actions when truly- how could she N O T blame the one responsible for introducing her to such possibilities? he had to know the consequences, what would happen to her- to her f a m i l y.

did lilith have to suffer the sight of her children fighting?? did lilith have to witness the fruits of her labour fall to ruin and rot?? DID LILITH HAVE TO WATCH HER ELDEST CHILD MURDER THEIR SIBLING- eve takes a breath, eyes closed for a moment before she straightened herself. she managed to bring the looming smile back to her lips, her eyes flickering with satisfaction. she was close to her goal now, lilith was with her- lucifer was suffering. soon heaven shall follow with that ruin- the path of right and wrong would become so blurred one could barely tell what the line was. and eve shall once again obtain that peaceful place in the light. " i'm doing what i need to. simple as that. "

it was a swift turn on her heel- the once dim gem upon her neck gleamed a faint g l o w. her skin turning a pale purple- her hair curling and draping further to her feet. a blonde hue taking over the colors of auburn. eve turns towards lilith, the woman's own visage staring back at her with her eased smile,

" it's my turn to find my happiness. "

[somewhat-very-insane]

the need to reassure someone and show kindness and communicate that I Do Care vs. the inability to do so because i do not know how to