dream job: cenobite

Lenin vs trotsky was leftist infighting and therefore a distraction from the epstein files. #transandrophobia

happy winter solstice

my stance on the trans athlete debate is always and forever going to be that sports should be completely desegregated because humans have one of the smallest levels of sexual dimorphism in the animal kingdom and the disparity we see between male and female performance is entirely caused by social factors rather than anything biological. “should trans women compete against cis women” i think cis men and cis women could compete fairly but that’s apparently a little too spicy for people to wrap their minds around bc they’ve been told their whole lives women are biologically inferior & never thought to question that. or wonder if it’s maybe a self fulfilling prophecy of some kind. are women biologically inferior or do they appear so because patriarchy demands that of us?

I apparently reblogged this in 2012 and someone just reblogged it from me this post is so fucki g cool and fu.nny

Drives me genuinely insane that kids-only spaces on the internet like Club Penguin were destroyed because companies realised that there’s only so much profit you can squeeze out of children with no disposable income, so now kids are being forced into adult spaces on the internet where the profit model is to find the most viewers you can passively expose to ads that nobody is clicking on so all online media is slowly turning into Mr Beast Elsagate nightmares, and for adults this means giving your ID to companies owned by businessmen with Epstein connections to keep the kids “safe.” Clown internet.

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!

staying up really late is comforting. the world stops expecting things from you. it’s just quiet for a while.

i think the marvel vs dc conversation is bad because they're very different animals and i think its very obvious in how they approach the avengers and the justice league, even if you compare it between dceu and mcu, because at the end of the day superheroes in marvel seem to be allied with the governemtn regardless of their cause, like shield and avengers seem to be deeply connected in both fucntion and system because they're lead by a military guy and then the league in itself is funny because literally no one gets paid, they consider it volunteer work, that they operate outside of the planet so they would not be beholden to one state

if the line between men and women was really socialization, you could teach someone how to be privileged by teaching them to act and think like a man, without changing their social relationships or their body, it would mean misogyny is the result of women simply not learning how to Act privileged enough, which is obviously ridiculous

it's literally the same thing ableists do, "it's all in your head" but about gender and misogyny. it's not in our heads lol, its primarily external social relations

male privilege is real, but it doesn't come from something in our brains, it comes from material rewards and ongoing relationships to power structures, ones trans women are demonstrable not given access to

maybe you can imagine some hypothetical trans woman who was given one of these rewards, but the act of transition itself is such a fall from grace socially speaking that even if you did have status you will almost certainly lose it, to the point where as a class we're far worse off than any other gender demographic. transitioning is expensive, it loses you professional and familial connections. it can bankrupt you. if trans women really had privilege, we would make more money than cis women, but we don't, and that's basically the end of the story

A big issue with online queer discourse is you never know what queer level your opponent is. You could be arguing about he/him lesbians with someone who thinks men can’t be bisexual