cracked porcelain smiles

Context of ops post btww. Obviously the comments don't know the context but god damn everyone pisses me off so much. There are a few good comments which makes me feel a little less miserable.

I think that people can choose to wear labels that are meaningful to them and bring comfort to them.

I think that policing word usage creates division in the community, when all of us are seen as unacceptable in the end.

I think that the spectrum of human experience is vast and complex and beautiful and can't be shoved into neat categories without finding some kind of outlier every time.

I think that there's no wrong way to be yourself.

Are they a choice he has made, or are they a circumstance he simply has to live with? Is he low-income, does he have health care, does his health care cover gender confirming surgery? Does he have medical conditions that make binding dangerous? Will his family block him from pursing the surgery? Does his partner beg him not to lop them off because they’re so fun to play with? Will his transphobic boss get suspicious if he takes time off and returns with a flat chest?

Why are we assuming that the choice he has made now is the choice he will make forever, or a choice made without coercion?

And if he does retain his breasts fully of his own volition... why are we disparaging him for making a decision about the shape of his own body?

The comments on this video are absolutely fucking disgusting, a TRANS man came onto tiktok wanting to know why trans men are often excluded from queer spaces.

Clearly he is upset that he isnt invited to a lot of spaces because he passes as a cis man, of course I make the dumb mistake of opening the comments.

ALL the top comments are straight up fucking rude and disgusting towards him and trans men in general. Heres a few I wanted to share

Like im sick and tired of seeing straight/cis women claiming to be allies of the queer community WHEN THIS IS HOW THEY TREAT TRANS MEN

Like if you look at the original video this dude looks so sad that he isnt invited to any spaces or seen as queer because he 'passes' as a man and its absolutely disgusting how the women were acting in his comment section.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Same with a character who's an amputee. Grammar check insists that he has two hands. He's gotta have two hands. Every sentence in which I refer to him using his hand and I use 'hand' singular and not 'hands' plural? Wrong. Correct that shit.

bring all of your materials with you

find a nice quiet spot void of distractions 

make sure to take little breaks every half hour or so

maybe bring a little snack

don’t look at the giant floating baby

just don’t 

try to forget about the giant floating baby in the library 

we’ve got THIS

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.