The Lucky Cat

Consent doesn’t just apply to physical things either. You should have someone’s consent for emotional things too. Emotional boundaries are valid and deserve to be respected.

owning cats is mostly just about getting meowed at

Getting meowed at is an essential vitamin

@maximum-mom

I'm actually really scared that like I'm just not going to get donations beyond this. And I'm not going to lie. I had to take this 55 on a pharmacy run for essentials. Which is fine. It's the purpose of it all. But my mom is really struggling to help and she will make it happen because she's a good mom but it will be a hard and unfortunate sacrifice on her part like seriously.

the queer stereotype cycle often goes "queer group starts making inside jokes > these jokes are overheard by cishets > cishets now start using these inside jokes against queer people > these inside jokes fall out of favour > because queer people aren't a hivemind some queer people keep making these inside jokes > these queer people are then attacked by other queer people for perpetuating stereotypes > nobody criticises the cishets who made it into a bad thing in the first place" and youse just keep letting that go round and round.

You really gonna spout this when "Queer" was a slur to start with huh

yes <3

Queer legit follows the line OP uses. It was are word first and than cishets starting calling it us in a derogatory manner (just like they use gay in a derogatory manner), and now queer people get attacked for using an ID that has always been ours and has legit been RE-claimed.

Queer was always our word.

it starts with something like “all nudity is sexual” or “wearing kinky clothes is inherently a sexual act” with the accompanying “since it’s sexual it requires consent from all involved parties, and seeing it is a form of involvement, so you need my consent to go out in public where i might see you” and once you start with that it has historically been – i’m as leery of slippery-slope arguments as anyone else but it *has historically, repeatedly been demonstrated* – a very, very short trip from there to policing gender expressions and etc and you know, we still live in a deeply homophobic and transphobic society, the whole thing where people are trying to make it illegal to exist in public while trans is … a thing, in real life, right now? and your “wearing a collar in public is an act of bondage sex to which i do not consent” bullshit is absolutely 100% in support of the evangelical puritans’ “existing while queer is an offense against god. jesus did not consent to you wearing clothing inconsistent with the gender i believe you should be presenting” i’m sure there are a number of people who KNOW those are the same thing with the same end goals/results and are doing it on purpose; i know that there are in fact bad-faith actors repurposing social justice language in service of oppression, you can watch it happen, see also all the conservatives currently parroting “my body my choice” as they endanger everyone around them during a global pandemic. but i think some of them are just naive and genuinely believe themselves to be both correct and leftist, and like. nope

it wasn’t all that long ago that people were in fact regularly getting arrested for wearing clothing inconsistent with their assumed gender. like it was illegal to cross-dress and the cops would go out and arrest trans women and trans men and butch lesbians and effeminiate gays, because of trans- and homophobia, and wearing the wrong clothes was literally the offense used as an excucse to enforce those -phobias. i am not eager to return to that in any way. you cannot argue that your imagined rules against “sexual clothing” would somehow not be used against trans people because, get this, there ARE people in the world for whom cross-dressing is a sex thing, even though the vast majority of trans people are not doing it for any such reason. if you think it’s acceptable to literally police the actions of everyone based on the fact that there are people who might get off on it, then your beliefs are, in actual practical fact of effect, in support of arresting trans people for failing to conform to gender presentation

Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

A mimic colony that's being used as a union-free Hollywood set

@wyndelinewriter