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nicky messaging erik about his day vs erik reading it

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people talking about me

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Sorry my posts haven't been as frequent or funny as usual. It's because I'm eating well, sleeping regularly, and exercising

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I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

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Purring

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hey people !!

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i get so annoyed when people extend a word incorrectly. what do you mean you had a "hugeeeee" burger. dont you mean a huuuuge burger? are you saying "huge-eeeeeeeee" out loud huh??? you start buzzing like a damn mosquito? well i fucking kill those. so watch out

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(gripping the skink with both hands, pale and feverish, sweating and shaking as I look at myself in the mirror) “killing a character is a valid writing choice that can be a crucial plot mechanic and lend beauty and depth to the story as a whole” (wretches up blood into the sink) “even when it’s my favorite character”

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neil sketch

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Cuties

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Not team Trojan red card or team Trojan clean record but a secret third thing: team Catalina Alvarez punches a Raven after the game ends.

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nicky in early trk checking on his teammates whenever they're distressed and making sure they're okay.

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Tragic. Tumblr user made a good point but was unnecessarily condescending about it. Will not be reblogging

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Just remember that when Jean was in Andrew, Kevin, and Neil’s apartment he a. Found a drawer filled entirely with mini candy bars and b. Promptly threw them all away like young man that is someone else’s stuff in someone else’s home what is wrong with you

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"help me." "let me."

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what about trans men that /do/ experience male privilege? like, i'm a transmasculine bigender man/woman that presents male in most situations offline. and i absolutely experience male privilege. jobs treat me better, strangers address me before my feminine partner, i get to live in a house that a woman was kicked out of by a misogynistic woman, people listen to me. i'm privileged for the male half of myself that i show to the world, and i would lose it if i wasn't a man and didn't present like one.

There's a difference between individual privilege and systemic privilege.

While there may be some individual transmasc people who are privileged, they still aren't systemically, nor do they benefit from the patriarchy.

Take for example, black people. Sure, you have the occasional successful ones (Ben Carson, Obama, Clarence Thomas, Tyler Perry), and even some successful black women (Oprah, Sheila Johnson, Mia Love), overall, these are outliers and by no means represent the wider black community, or women at large.

These individuals still can be affected by racism, or sexism.

In the same way, sure, there may be some transmascs who "make it" and beat the system. But, at the end of the day, even the most successful and privileged transmascs is still affected by reproductive rights issues, corrective rape, and other elements of transandrophobia.

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So, you know how certain Christian missionaries are trained to act in a very obnoxious way, so that most people they preach to will reject them outright, so they feel like the world hates them for being Christian and they can only be friends with fellow Christians? You know that thing?

I think as activists, we sometimes need to stop and ask ourselves whether we're acting like those missionaries. I think this type of behavior is a little more ingrained into our society than some of us realize, and some of us have internalized it without realizing what it's actually meant to do.