holding on to little dreams

she got angry and said "then they need to pick a different word". and so you need to pick a different word.

don't think this is exclusive to public spaces like the mall or the park or whatever either. she has a tablet and access to the internet, just the same as you do. she can read, write, and make her own decisions. she has a husband.

Transmisogyny was shadow banned way back along with a lot of other tags around racism and other socially progressive tags around the ferguson protests as a part of a mass silencing campaign. Since then transfems have been pressing staff on this. Longer even than the Tgirl situation. And just this month when Tumblr thought they could get away with dropping the T from their corporate celebration of pride month, after retroactively adding the trans aspect to the progress flag as a bandaid failed to remove the heat suddenly look at that the transmisogyny tag suddenly comes up in searches and is followable again.

This still isn't going to do anything for them. It's not going to make all of the transfems on this site magically forget how transmisoginistic Tumblr's moderation policy is. But it does give reason as to why even the most petty and minor aspects of tumblrs transmisogyny baked into the coding goes unfixed even though it could be done overnight to garner progressive points. It's because they view fixing those problems as a get out of jail free card that needs to be held onto like a resource. As a treat to throw in one direction to distract the barking trannies while they make their escape.

kendall

I talked about how conservative authoritarians define "pedophilia" as "youth autonomy," but even among less overtly authoritarian communities, the spectre of The Pedophile is, at best, a distraction from the reality of CSA.

"Pedophiles" are a distinct, discrete type of person. They're Not Like Us, but also, they Could Be Anywhere. They're hiding in plain sight among us, lurking and sabotaging. Anyone could secretly one of them. They're queer, they're Jewish, they're vaguely foreign. They conspire. They're a cabal. They have secret signals. They're rich and powerful and secretly control governments, but they're also poor and dirty and hide in alleyways. They're sexually deviant. They're everywhere and nowhere, and you should constantly be on guard against anyone who might be one.

Child sexual abuse, on the other hand, is abuse. It's an action, not a type of person. Anyone can commit it, because it's an abuse of power, and all adults and many other children have power over all children. Any adult has the ability to sexually abuse a child, because every adult has the ability to wield power over any child. Child sexual abuse is part of the continuum of child abuse, which in turn is part of the continuum of abuse, which can be committed by anyone who has the power to commit it.

The Epstein clients are the most prosaic phenomenon in the world. Rich, powerful people trafficked powerless people to force the powerless people to serve them. Rich, powerful people got away with breaking laws. Rich, powerful people uses people as objects -- in this case, as sex objects, but by the same structural mechanisms by which they use people to clean their houses, pick their crops, and assemble widgets in their factories.