I'm venting and discoursing Susan

Bi people: “So are you going to address the fact that gay people take the resources meant for us and leave us with the scraps?”

Gay aphobes: “No.”

Bi people: “But-”

Bisexuals got less than 1% of LGBTQ grant dollars despite making up about half of the LGBT+ community. Also both gay men and lesbians had an increase in funding (good thing!) while funding for bisexuals decreased (bad thing!). Which is appalling considering they were already getting less than 1% to begin with.

for starters the first link is broken so here is a fixed link if anyone wants to correct me (im not saying it was intentional probably a mistake bc this site is broken). i went down to the grants and it CLEARLY STATES on page 10 for grants: “The vast majority of LGBTQ grants in 2014 targeted the LGBTQ community broadly. The data below looks at grants that specifically supported one segment of the LGBTQ community”. which means the VAST MAJORITY of ALL MONEY lgbt people can access is available to ALL LGBT members. gay men and lesbians are not ‘stealing money or resources’, the table that comes after this is what SPECIFIC grants are for. 

now it does look as though gay men have more–bi people are the light blue/aqua color. but why is that? well

“Funding for gay men nearly doubled in 2014. This jump is almost entirely attributable to the spike in HIV/AIDS funding. Nearly 90 percent of the funding specifically awarded to gay men was for HIV/AIDS.” almost all of the funding gay men can get is for HIV/AIDS. 90% of all the money they can and do receive isn’t ‘just to support them because they are gay’ its so they can get treatment for a life threatening illness you heartless assholes. in fact, if you take away specifically HIV/AIDS funding gay men get around only one percent (10 percent of 11 percent is 1.1 percent, are you seriously about to start fighting over fractions of percentages too though?) 

also nice of you to ignore how much funding trans people get compared to lesbian women and bisexuals–or are gay men the only evil ‘resource hoarding’ ones here??? or maybe you are forced to admit that these specific grants are sometimes needed to support specific members of the community more than others?

Sources

First known use of “transgender”

Comparison of BSTc size and shape

Quality of life in treated transsexuals

Common questions

Am I supposed to feel like a specific gender?

How do I know I’m experiencing gender dysphoria? [1] [2] [3]

What else could these feelings be? [1] [2]

What’s the difference between body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria?

Should I use inclusive language for transgender people?

Does not being attracted to transgender people make me transphobic?

How can I help loved ones that are transgender?

Research & info

List of peer-reviewed papers on gender, transgender and intersex conditions

Collection of transgender studies on Tumblr

Helpful information for and about transgender people

These are all from a Christian meme group that I joined for some reason but fell in love with

You’re able to call your teachers “Mr” or “Mrs” and their last name. You’d get in trouble if you addressed them by first name.

You’re able to call a celebrity by their chosen stage name.

You’re able to call your friends a shortened version of their name, their middle name instead of their first, or a completely random nickname.

You’re able to call a married woman by her husband’s last name, even though she was not born with that last name.

No for real in 2k15

Can fandom bring back the concept of a squick

A “squick” was a trope or topic that made the reader deeply uncomfortable, even might cause anxiety or intense emotional reactions

Everyone’s squicks were personal and diverse, and it was considered polite to say, “sorry I can’t read this because it squicks me, but you have fun in your corner doing what you doing”

Key to the concept of “squick,” as it was first explained to me lo these many years ago, is that it is not a value judgment.  If I say “mpreg is gross,” that’s a negative statement about mpreg (and, by extension, about those who enjoy writing or reading about it).  If I say “mpreg squicks me,” that’s a value-neutral statement about me and my emotional reactions and how they affect my enjoyment of fiction.

squick: Something that makes you go “ewwww” and wish you had never seen/read it. Something that makes you deeply uncomfortable. Something you’re not interested in reading/seeing/thinking about, ever.

trigger: Something that you associate with/reminds you of a past trauma (mental, emotional, or physical) and therefore triggers your personal reaction to trauma (be it flashbacks, panic/anxiety attacks, unhealthy behaviours, a crying jag, whatever).

As long as it comes off as a sincere effort at representation, and not just an item on a checklist, then there should be no problem.

Unfortunately, yeah, a lot of the people who cry “forced diversity” tend to screech that at literally anything with an even remotely diverse cast.

take a look here:

These are just five hairstyles off the top of my head that i myself cycle through at least once a week !! look how cute and interesting they are! and if you’re worried about hair physics don’t worry! shit doesn’t move much unless you get it wet anyway! 

a friend of mine, a straight trans man: i don’t currently “pass” as male, so if i am out with my girlfriend in public people may identify us as a lesbian couple and enact violence against us. also, many people believe that people like me are mentally ill freaks who need to be violently put in their place. this is a huge problem and means i am oppressed

The following images come from this website. Oddly enough, it’s one for an eating disorder… an eating disorder website body shaming by claiming slimmer women are “unrealistic” and that they’re photoshopping video game characters with “realism” in mind. I’m just gunna break down why this is nothing but body shaming, misogynist bullshit. to use their own words so to say. 

She’s a character from Tekken. Fighting style, Capoeira. Let’s take a look at some real practitioners of capoeira. 

They aren’t just “fatter” than Christie. In fact, they’re slimmer than the “realistic” photoshop Bulimia.com did. 

Notice how these two women are slimmer than the “realistic”  photoshop?

Let’s take a look at some female athletes… Because Lara basically is an athlete. 

I guess these women are fake and not at all realistic. 

Isn’t it just disgusting??? See look… absolutely no woman would ever look like this.

Just look at these unrealistic women. It must be photoshop because no real woman would look like that. 

Isn’t it just disgusting how these women don’t have realistic body types? There is absolutely no woman in existence that is slim or has abs. 

So don’t you get it? Obviously, these women don’t exist and the only way for a woman’s body to be realistic is for her to be fat. Slim and petite women are nonexistent. Women with abs don’t exist.

It is perfectly fine and acceptable to put down women who “don’t exist” in order to feel better about myself by photoshopping characters to be “realistic”… and by realistic, I only mean making them fatter rather than potentially giving them a body type suitable for the work and jobs they have… because women who aren’t fat don’t exist and it’s just an unrealistic standard that will never be achieved by your average woman. 

If you have a body like or similar to any of those ~~unrealistic uwuw~~ video game women it’s because you don’t take care of yourself or eat right. You aren’t eating enough if you aren’t fat. 

It’s like the idiots who whine about how the Sisters of Battle in Warhammer 40k have boob plate, in a setting where the elves murder fucked a god into existence and the Orcs are made of fungus and can make things red things go faster because they “Believe” they do.

Comparing fictional characters to real ones and then whining about how the artist shouldn’t have made them like that isn’t really a useful argument, it’s just aimless bitching people have been conditioned to accept as well reasoned.

I mean take Tifa up above. Girl’s punching titans alongside a guy whose sword weighs close to that of a car, and another guy who’s a talking cat with a bioluminescent tail, and her having a trim body and big tits is their immediate source of contention? 

“does this man add or subtract from my life?”

There’s a lot of gay men (myself included) who have wanted our own flag. Yes there’s the rainbow flag but it’s more of a umbrella flag. We wanted a flag that represented only gay men, and here it is!