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And yeah, this doesn't just mean "be nice to the people you WANT to be friends with."

If those people see you being a jerk to lots of other people for flimsy reasons, they are going to think: "what mistakes on my part might involuntarily turn me into this person's enemy? What does this person say about me behind my back already?"

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But ultimately I don't think it's helpful. The people who want you to detransition don't want you to exist. A dead trans person accomplishes their goals just fine.

Our goal is to survive. By any means necessary. Some people that will mean detransitioning for safety. It's soul crushing, but one day you'll have the opportunity to be yourself and you have to be here for it. Some people will have to go or remain stealth, severing any ties with their transness for their own safety. Two closets across the hall from each other each with their own challenges. But there is safety in the closet and you can survive in there despite the challenges.

Your only responsibility is to survive.

There are going to be visible trans people. People who can't or won't detransition for their own reasons. Or who have enough safety that they don't need to. Some who won't survive if they detransition and some who are staying visible so that they can be seen. To remind every we are here.

It was right those are good tags. I'm putting them in the post.

But ultimately I don't think it's helpful. The people who want you to detransition don't want you to exist. A dead trans person accomplishes their goals just fine.

Our goal is to survive. By any means necessary. Some people that will mean detransitioning for safety. It's soul crushing, but one day you'll have the opportunity to be yourself and you have to be here for it. Some people will have to go or remain stealth, severing any ties with their transness for their own safety. Two closets across the hall from each other each with their own challenges. But there is safety in the closet and you can survive in there despite the challenges.

Your only responsibility is to survive.

There are going to be visible trans people. People who can't or won't detransition for their own reasons. Or who have enough safety that they don't need to. Some who won't survive if they detransition and some who are staying visible so that they can be seen. To remind every we are here.

It was right those are good tags. I'm putting them in the post.

STOP IT’S BEEN MONTHS. MONTHS!

i just discovered this gorgeous progress flag design by FlailingSpade and was inspired to build upon it

the colorblind and photosensitive friendly color scheme comes from the star of david progress flag by dykeboytism

both of these flags will be placed under the read more just in case either link ends up not working

id like to think of this as the sunrise progress flag : >

Dedicated to my cat, who is very vocal about my bed time.

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the historically dominant social worldview is already one in which people love getting outraged over women's boobs and ass, and the love people (particularly men) have for such boobs and ass, being directly linked to the degradation of society. this does not require any kind of feminist belief to engage in. and so, even if you are putting in in feminist or pseudofeminist (by which i mean, vaguely calling on the cultural idea of feminism but not really connected to any actual feminist theory or ideology) terms, it is very, very easy for people to simply reword that ingrained, patriarchal worldview in new terms and carry on decrying those evil evil hookers and evil evil perverts, while, crucially, never actually threatening the patriarchal system. which is why such movements can get a lot of popularity quite quickly.

this is not to say that sexual objectification isn't an issue with real-world impacts and harm. but its also very clear over multiple decades that when feminists fixate on "we need to get rid of all the Bad depictions of women in any remotely sexual content from the media / culture!" that ends up being used to harm sex workers first and foremost (lest we forget that a radical feminist called for prostitutes to be "lined up and shot" after the hypothetical feminist revolution for "working with the patriarchy) and it is almost always co-opted by the patriarchy itself. this is how you get radfems continually cozying up to conservatives, because they both have the same boogeyman: the whore.

ultimately, if you try to get rid of all the Bad Sexy Images of Women, that doesn't materially threaten the system of patriarchy, which is built around gendered labor and social control. if we all lived in a Puritan village where nobody even knows how sex works before they get married and the very notion of A Pornography is incomprehensible, patriarchy could still exist. and we could also live in a society that is non-patriarchal where there are depictions of women's boobs and ass that exist entirely for the sake of making people horny, and this does not logically translate into any systemic oppression or dehumanization. because the material circumstances and overall culture would not be patriarchal.