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yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

And i shit you not the pasta was creepy

My step mom unironically does this with her friends. They call it art club. They're in their 60s

I think the historical treatment of left handed people is objectively the funniest form of bigotry mankind has ever displayed

Bitches will create a binary and use it to oppress the other side for ANYTHING

The etymology of the word “sinister” having Latin roots that just mean “on the left” is easily up there with the origin of “bad”

This.

I don't want to knock qprs obviously it's something that works for some aroace people and that's fine but it does really annoy me when it's presented as a "solution" for being aroace or basically treated as romantic relationship lite. it's ok just find the one special person who understands you better than anyone else and you spend all your time with and maybe you can kiss if you want but you don't have to. like I feel that misses The Point of being aroace, to me

saw something a few days ago like "support aroaces who don't want to be in qprs!!" and I'm sure it originated from insular internet discourse but the concept of "we've created this term to describe people who don't want to be in a romantic relationship, but we assume these people want to be in a DIFFERENT long-term personal relationship which we will talk about like it's dating but maybe you don't kiss (but you can though) and if you don't want that you're weird" is hilariously depressing

The most important part of all this is that these small acts of bravery and noncompliance cannot be known as long as the enemy still stands, and might never be known. Just because it doesn’t seem like anyone is doing anything doesn’t mean it’s true. The best malicious compliance or subtle sabotage is the one that’s never detected, but makes ravages nonetheless.

My job is literally in safety and emergency management and that phrase makes me break out in hives. Which is to say that you are entirely one million percent correct.

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

Internet hugs for anyone else out there dealing with burn out or other mental and/or physical issues that make it hard to interact right now

Omg I just got unreasonably nostalgic about In the End by Linkin Park. like the generation of deep 14 year old boys posting lyrics to that song as their status is over.

It really makes you realize that time is a valuable thing, watch it fly by as the pendulum swings

the mind is uncomfortable and the body she is also uncomfortable

I hate the cosmetic surgery industry for so many reasons I really do. But the line between cosmetic and medically necessary plastic surgeries is as a cloud, and we cannot sacrifice bodily autonomy for bans so. We need to dismantle white supremacy and the patriarchy in order to effectively tackle the issue. I should be able to get elective top surgery without medicalising my transness you get?

a critique that always irks me a little is when people say a fictional gay male relationship is actually being written as a lesbian relationship, like first of all what does that even mean and second of all a good chunk of the time it seems like people are only saying that because the men are emotionally vulnerable with each other