watching porn and paying for sex will fix you

gotta hate being affected by a unique intersection of transphobia and misogyny which is not allowed to be called transmisogyny but also isn’t allowed to be given any other name or else i’m evil

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

I appreciate this video a lot--people don't realize how important it is to start slow if you're trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!

just in from tiktok: pictures of babies in diapers on the side of a diaper box is pedophilia

is that why they're calling it pedophilia? i fogured it would be because the babies are probably only wearing diapers. like no clothes.

I mean, regardless it's a baby... My niece is 4 and runs around in her underwear all the time, especially when it's hot, I think I would be right to say "what the fuck is wrong with you, please move far away from the child" if someone said it was a sexually explicit to be acting like a 4 year old.

i have to admit, it does make me contemplate the latent eroticism of art pieces that i would not have considered erotic without the label

I'm out of words and patience to explain once again that 'empowering' does not mean 'makes me feel confident/good/strong/powerful'. for something to be empowering it actually has to be enfranchising, it has to give you power not just the feeling of power. male approval is not empowering no matter how much it makes you feel like you have power over men by being sexy to them. this fantasy of leading lustful idiotic men around by the dick serves only men.

This whole idea of women having succubus-like power to manipulate men with our beauty and sexuality is really a product of male fantasy that's been polished up and sold back to women as though it originated in female fantasy, and as though we could actually make it a reality, but we can't. Men aren't helplessly enslaved to their dicks, as much as they want to pretend they are, and the power you get from appealing to them is only as much as they're willing to grant you, which isn't much. No woman is actually so beautiful that she isn't disposable, and men are more likely to resent and hate you for this power they project onto you than they are to fall over themselves to please you.

crazy how if you do your chores and obligations first thing on a day off you can enjoy your free time more than if you feel like you’re procrastinating your chores and obligations the whole time. i will not be learning from this experience