gay not q*eer

Shortly after Bottom Ed was cemented as the default, Trans Ed started climbing in popularity and now it seems like there's at least one per page on the AO3 listings

So where tf may I ask does this leave Stede? The man spent the entire season slowly figuring out why his heterosexual marriage made him so uncomfortable and upset (to the point of tears, Mary points out!) and at the end it all clicks into place for him: he's gay, and in love with a man. The female body doesn't excite him, the male body does.

I understand that a huge talking point right now is “genital preference/fetishes” and how “gay men have to like trans men and vaginas because otherwise it’s transphobic!!”, but that’s always just been a disgusting display of homophobia. And it’s always been a complete lack of regard for homosexuals and our lived experience, which is clearly carrying over into people’s writing.

To too many people, 30 countries allowing same-sex marriage means more than 70 countries, including their own and countries like theirs, who think that prison is appropriate punishment for an act of love.

I am so, so sick of hearing people try to pit gay people as colonisers or oppressors, because we happen to be gay, as if that's how axes of oppression work. Your sexuality doesn't take away from or alter your nationality or race, and it definitely doesn't make you a villain against your own people.

It seems the news about Heard admitting to lying hasn't made headlines, there are, once again, only claims by Johnny Depp and his lawyers. And then the news about Amber Heard's recordings which are out of context snippets.

And then there's this about Heard lying under oath:

I couldn't find an in depth analysis of it's reliability, but The Blast is a gossip site found by a former TMZ employee which says a lot. I couldn't find the document mentioned on there, It may have been removed. Long story short she didn't admit to lying, Johnny Depp's legal team accused her of lying.

Them: Ugh! JK Rowling!

Me: Is she back on her bullshit again?

Them: When isn’t she?

Since their group was finished with the work and waiting for other groups so we could come together as a class again, we proceeded to have a conversation about how awful and prejudiced she is.

Them: Just, the TERFy crap, and the antisemitism!

Me: Don’t forget the Asian caricatures and pro-slavery nonsense.

Them: When did she become like the representation of British imperialism?

Me: She’s white, British, and now rich.

Why, in the current year, do I have to explain to theists that this is not how evolution works?

Why, in the current year, do I have to explain to grown adults that no human has ever produced or resulted from, any gamete other than ovum and sperm - least of all a “spectrum” of them.

If you subscribe to any of these beliefs while laughing at the others, then it’s time to realize you’ve been as duped as the people you laugh at.

In the 2000s, people got confused about what vaccines do. In the 2010s, people got confused about whether the Earth is flat. In the 2020s, people are suddenly confused about how babies are made, which is the entire biological function of sex.

Why does science literacy seem to be going backwards?