scuttling among the shallow pools

People who are open about desiring dicks sexually are viewed as perverted, wrong, while cis men who use their penis usually describe it in terms of achieving feats of domination ("I got her to suck my dick") or power ("I've slept with x women [this elevates me in the social hierarchy]"). And frequently people talk about cis men as being steered by their dick to do things that would usually be beneath their "rational minds", most especially when said man has sexually assaulted someone. This is also reflected in the way rape culture has us talking about SA victims ("What was she wearing?" "Looking like that it was bound to happen" etc)

It was 2012 and I was a "white washed" (not real but you know what that means) junior in undergrad and an entire chapter included in this textbook was dedicated to our pidgin/dialect whichever your argument. 14 years later and the amount of borrowing with and without permission of rest of English is truly a marvel to the point where things I know damn well are just AAVE are attributed to wide ranging sources such as "Gen Z/Alpha slang" and "gay lingo" and "internet speak" in general. Our range

These are just a few of our many common grammatical rules:

Habitual "Be": In Standard English "He is working" means right now or generally. In AAVE "He be working" specifically means he works regularly or habitually, a distinction that Standard English can't make without adding extra words.

Copula Deletion: Dropping forms of the verb "to be" in places where Standard English requires them ("She tired" instead of "She is tired" or "They going" instead of "They are going")

Double Negatives: In Standard English, two negatives make a positive. In AAVE, using multiple negatives ("She ain't never going") simply adds emphasis to the negation, a common feature in many of the world's languages.

Metathesis: switching sounds within a word, the most famous example being "ask" as "aks," a pronunciation that has roots in Old English.

Remote "Been": When you say "I been knew that" the stressed "been" means you've known it for a long time, remotely in the past, which doesn't exist in Standard English without adding extra words.

Completive "Done": "I done told you already" is a way of saying the action is finished and the matter is settled with an emphasis on finality or frustration.

Subject-Verb Disagreement: In AAVE verbs are often uninflected for the third person ("She walk" instead of "She walks") to simplify conjugation.

It was not to prevent the spread of drugs, it was to funnel Black people into prison and permanently curtail voting rights, to keep a provisional Jim Crow that could deflect criticism long enough to get the average white moderate to accept it, and to make the average white liberal’s dreams of “reform” still include the same framework.

Like, I am just at a loss for words. I don't know how to explain to these people that marginalized white people and men are not oppressed or neglected on the basis of being white/men, so it's quite silly (and that's being generous) to assert that there is any type of intersection between their marginalized identity and their identity as a white person/man that makes them uniquely oppressed. In fact, in positing such notions you lend credence to fascist concepts such as "anti-white racism" or "anti-male sexism." And when I try to explain this, they will ignore me, hurl misogynistic and racist slurs at me, or most bewildering of all bring up white people and men with additional marginalized identities as a "gotcha!" of... sorts. Either you fundamentally do not understand what I'm trying to explain to you or you're being willfully obtuse, but either way you are twisting the writings of black feminists so that they can fit into your incredibly reactionary worldview and I refuse to engage with you ghouls any further on that basis.

I see a lot of people saying that the monster gender binary is just "different" and they "don't understand the human gender binary" without any sort of citation for it -- it seems pretty obvious to me that Hometown has a generally quite rigid, conservative outlook especially on things like gender, and that the vast majority of monsters seem to be assigned male/female as a gender at birth the same way as humans (with the exception being the gender-neutral-by-default ghosts who... don't even seem to be born? and the majority of the ghosts we see end up transitoning away from gender neutrality anyway) so i really don't know where this is coming from? you'd think that a town/culture with a "different concept of the gender binary" would have multiple obvious examples of that rather than seemingly reflecting the same conservative values on gender that the human world has.

We even see the Lioness from Undertale being too nervous to present as a woman but being inspired by Mettaton's performance to come out, implying that there are, y'know, transphobic undercurrents to monster society that would make somebody closeted to begin with