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like in worm when taylor goes to arcadia, its just so fucking obvious how much shes slipped into her skitter persona over the course of the story by how she reacts to emma

Which is kind of just openly admitting you only know how to interact with people sexually? Aside from that being just blatant phobia.

And it doesnt just stop there. People think me being asexual is permission for them to ask me uncomfortable personal questions about my sexuality.

Most people still treat asexuality like it isn't real, or inferior to other sexualities. Most people tell me I'm not asexual bc I am still horny. I've actually gotten the "you just havent found the right fuck" bullshit.

And look, okay, listen. I have a film degree. Im not in any an expert on cinema nor am I a film scholar but I do have some higher formal education on the topic, and I am a trans person who has, unfortunately, been 21. Here's my 2 cents:

Firstly, trans-coded villains in horror movies (namely the "man in a dress" archetype) is pretty cinema 101. It IS so extensively talked about that you were probably drawing an eye in the back of the lecture hall if you dont remember anything being said about it. If you ever take a horror movie class specifically then you are absolutely guaranteed to have this conversation and have the plethora of scholarship about it thrown at you for required reading.

Secondly, I do not like this idea that simply being a bit rude or short with someone of a particular demographic is always and exclusively rooted in a prejudice towards the identity group(s) they are a part of. There is a VERY big difference between active transphobia and just being a bit of a dick, and conflating the two is going to make things very messy and potentially dangerous. For starters, you are going to create an extremely paranoid and jumpy bunch of young trans people who are absolutely convinced that the entire world is out to kill them when they inevitably encounter some random asshole in the real world. And you are going to give a whole bunch of conservatives a whole bunch of ammunition to say that we think every minor inconvenience or moment of discomfort is a targeted attack against us, frankly because you are acting like it is.

Additionally, every 21 year old has a very weird superiority complex. I did, you did/do/will. It just comes with the territory. Youre having your first taste of true independence and are probably in undergrad, which is an environment that drip-feeds you a lot of rewards for doing essentially what you just did in high school again but at a slightly higher difficulty with less social ostracism. If you live on your own or in the dorms with other 21 year olds, you will all just feed into each other's superiority complexes. You end up convinced that you and your friends are the smartest people alive and the first ones to ever come up with certain ideas, that I promise have been thought of by millions of 21 year olds before you. This includes "has anyone else noticed that trans-coded villains are common in horror movies?" And I think its justified to have a bit of a reality check in someone saying "yes, everyone has, this has been discussed extensively for generations, youre just 21."

Finally, I do not appreciate in the slightest the response to this tweet being "silence of the lambs has no artistic merit and should be scrubbed from the media landscape entirely because of Buffalo Bill." If you personally are not comfortable with/do not have the ability to look past the trans-coded villain archetype you dont have to watch it, but to act like the presence of a poorly-aged trope completely negates all the very real positive impact a foundational film did for modern horror is infuriatingly anti-intellectual and betrays your one-dimensional morality around media, as well as your complete inability to look at something objectively.

That whole section that seems to understand every 21 year old as a smug sheltered pseudo-intellectual attending college really does nothing but tell on yourself. That's not all 21 year olds dude, that's just who you and your friends were at 21.

You NEED your emotional support transmisogyny movie, and transfems complaining about it are just being overly sensitive and "giving conservatives ammunition". What kind of respectability politics bullshit?

Not every time someone is mean to you is it evidence of bigotry, but people tend to be a whole lot more comfortable being dickheads to marginalized people. For example, you pulling out this multiparagraph defense of condescending to a trans woman complaining about transmisogyny.

I'm so glad *you* can forgive the transmisogyny of the movies you like, but it's really not your place to make that call as a person who is *not the target of it.*

My god the stupidest takes on this site always start with "As someone who attended a college freshman general class on this topic let me learn you fuckos a thing :3"

In the US today, around a quarter to a third of aides and caregivers for the elderly are immigrants [1, 2], the vast vast majority of whom are women. (From what I can tell) a major reason for this is that nursing or social work degrees/certification programs provide a straightforward (well, relatively) pathway to citizenship or permanent residency; and many simpler caregiver jobs only require a high school diploma, which is useful for immigrants in the US who may not be able to attend college. While I'm sure many of these workers have a sincere passion for caregiving, in a world without severe immigration restrictions and these obvious pipelines the numbers would not be this skewed. I do not think most of these people would put these careers as their first choice.

For starters, they do not pay very much. Average base salary on Indeed for caregiver jobs was $16.83 an hour. For seconders, how often have you had to deal with older relatives making sexist, racist, or otherwise uncomfortable comments at family gatherings? Frankly, lot of old people suck to be around! So do a lot of mentally ill people! Mentally ill old people (so, a lot of the ones receiving home care or living in facilities) can extra suck to be around!! Sexual harassment, violence, and abuse towards workers is common in home care and facilities. [1, 2, 3]. Many caregivers of color experience racism from coworkers, patients, or patients families. Now, many of these people are not fully in control of their thoughts or actions (hence why they require care). And even if they were, being a racist abusive serial harasser doesn't mean somebody deserves to be tortured or medically neglected or left to die.

1- most of the people in caregiver jobs currently are not people who can really have their pick of whatever careers they desire. This is relevant because people often bring up "care provided for people who need it regardless of their sociability" in the context of like, what we as a society should work towards as an ideal. But in an ideal world, how many people would choose the career path of "care for the assholes nobody wants to deal with"?

2- many healthcare workers are nonwhite and experience racial harassment

lesser worldbuilders start from what they want the story to mean or contain. i am here to give you formal permission to reverse that: start from what you want to exist. "i want to write a science fiction melodrama about the ethics of teleportation" - wrong. "i want teleporters" - yes!!

the failure mode comes in two disguises, which is why this advice is hard to give. disguise one is theme-first: you decide the thesis and then build a world backwards to prop it up, and readers can smell a rigged demo. disguise two is trope-first: "there are kamen riders, and evil organizations, and they make robot monsters, and it's themed around such-and-such" - you've imported the genre's conclusions (evil orgs! kaijin!) without the causes that produce them, so nothing load-bears. same crime, different trenchcoat: fixing the outputs.

instead: find the stupidest, most childish version of the idea you're most excited about. "what if kamen riders were real." then work backwards and invent the FEWEST possible things that can justifiably load-bear - "why would a technology exist that lets one person become the functional equivalent of a tank, and how, specifically, does it print its armor so quickly?" establish your minovsky particle. then roll the tape forward.