I cannot stress enough that women can't save men from themselves. Women can't be there in the boys' locker rooms, they can't shield them from other drunk men at football matches. Women can't control the media their coworkers consume, they can't stop their brothers from watching violent pornography. It's not even a matter of saving or prioritising ourselves over men, though we are well within our rights to do so. We physically can't be there. I solemnly swear that every man I come across, I aim to make them just uncomfortable enough so as to offer them a small way out of their terrible view of the world. I just can't pull them out.

I am an almost 30 year old woman, I consider myself decently well put together with a robust social support network and no threat of homelessness. And even I found detransitioning to be one of the most difficult excruciating things I've ever done. To all my sisters who are not detrans, please give patience and grace to those who are on this path. I first "peaked" 7 years before fully committing to detransitioning. It takes time and immense strength to do something like that, doubly so for those who underwent surgery and/or have their lives homes and careers wrapped up in the trans community.

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

Op will unironically say ‘Genocide of trans people’ when what she puts her money towards is literally just women’s rights and protections. Feels disingenuous and inappropriate to fearmonger and misuse a word like genocide and idk feels maybe even heavily misogynistic to frame women’s rights as evil and bigoted hm idk

Again why don’t they draw their faces ?

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

Op will unironically say ‘Genocide of trans people’ when what she puts her money towards is literally just women’s rights and protections. Feels disingenuous and inappropriate to fearmonger and misuse a word like genocide and idk feels maybe even heavily misogynistic to frame women’s rights as evil and bigoted hm idk

Imagine wasting money on all that shit instead of other amazing things while you're there. The only thing I could MAYBE understand is clothes, especially if you're going to a place with a vastly different climate/modesty standard than your home country. But the nails, lashes, and waxes are utter bullshit.

Oh yes those ancient Egyptian double mastectomies and ancient Incan artificial hormones