Punished Sheepdog

The expectation that you will refer to a trans person by their preferred pronouns and name is not them ‘forcing you to accept them’ it is basic respect. You don’t have to like trans people, you don’t have to ‘believe’ our identities or whatever. You do have an obligation to treat us like people, though. If you had a 40 something cis male coworker named Bill and you repeatedly, pointedly and aggressively called him ‘Shirley’ and exclusively used she/her pronouns to refer to him, that would be a major HR problem. It is not persecution to have to show basic human decency.

Love the message but these posts are always about how trans women are treated and not trans men or non-binary people, we are also deeply affected by this! Treating people with respect is common human decency!

I am quite literally a trans man and this post was inspired by a trans man speaking about his experience being forcefully and purposefully misgendered by a transphobic coworker in an office environment. I’m not sure how you could read this post and think “What about trans men? This post excludes trans men and nonbinary people.”

The exception is cheesy local commercials. Those should be the only ads. I will listen to someone who runs a store in my city doing an awkward rap. We once had a furniture store with these awful CGI ads and the slogan "where the deals are so low, it's almost criminal!" and then they got shut down, by the cops, because it turned out. It turned out the deals were so low because. You're not going to believe this but the prices were so low it was in fact

y'know i don't really love how people use "butch" interchangeably with "handy"

*north american approaching lesbian couple* so which one of you is useful and which one of you is the woman

official linguistics post

I don't know how to articulate this well, but I really fucking hate the way a lot of thin writers write fat characters. Like how men write women "breasting boobily" there is something so dehumanizing about how fat characters are often written. "He waddled", "he lumbered", the writer of the book I'm reading always mentions this characters "fleshy hand" when he does something with his hand. Like, we already know that he's fat. There is no need to describe everything he does as "doing it fatly".

oh my god it hurts

and it's going to hurt forever

if female top nudity weren't viewed as inherently sexually explicit. oh brother. I would be letting those puppies hang like you wouldn't believe

the thing is I would be okay with being viewed as sexually attractive while topless. like a shirtless cis man can be a considered a hunk beefcake eye candy etc but it's not by nature r-rated. usamerican society at large is able to understand that toplessness can be sexually appealing but is not in itself a sexual act when a man does it. if I could be just casually topless on a hot day or something without the little flashing light over my head saying think of the CHILDREN I would be getting minoan with it

Can I get a hint

HINT MOUSE SAYS: *in a little squeaky voice* collect the silver rod from fabio’s grotto and bring it to the bridge of malice. be sure to talk to “knight doogle” on the way. *hint mouse scurries away into a nearby hole*

i go to fabios grotto

I say hello to Fabio, and ask them if they have a Silver rod?

i offer to knit fabio a nice hat, for when the grotto gets drafty in the wintertime.

I thank Fabio for his help, and leave the Grotto to head for the Bridge of Malice.

i give fabio two shoes made for dancing.

I give Fabio a big pair of glasses for his big beautiful eyes. 

I go ask Doogle for help

I remove Doogle’s helmet.

knight doogle you are beautiful

Wanna help us Get Fabio’s Silver Rod?

we call hint mouse for help

I clap politely in appreciation of his speech and ask him if he would like to come visit Fabio with us

i knock politely and ask if Fabio is home

I smile warmly at hint mouse, look knowingly at knight doogle, and gently push open the door

I turn to hint mouse and ask him to recite Fabio a poem that’ll blow his socks (and newly acquired shoes) off

I whisper ‘correction…dejection…direction…. affection’ to HINT MOUSE out of the corner of my mouth, with the realization that his hint-giving generosity has taught me how to give hints to others myself

i bring the silver rod to the bridge of malice

present the silver rod (or finger, i guess?) to the silver guardian! ask he how lost it, too, if it proves to be his

and honestly it's just fucking insane that every time we try to talk about harm to children in particular we have to talk circles around the fact that these things are very, very overwhelmingly done by parents/family members/teachers/religious leaders/known and trusted adults in a position of power over a child, to the extent that many people's suggested solution to child abuse is "give the people most likely to abuse a child EVEN MORE strangling legal and material power over the kid"

you're not supposed to actually address who is abusing children and what can be done to give those children recourse and the ability to leave abusive situations because nobody actually gives a shit about child abuse beyond the familial property rights violation it represents to them and the cudgel against minorities which it can be turned into

HIMEDANSHI BERDLEY?

this post posits a utopian world where either of these parties would support feeding schoolchildren, making it a masterclass in "hopepunk"

Egyptians continue to be hilarious