ok good news is i double checked this and they were also discontinued in 2013 after everyone got mad at them for it. bad news is said article also includes a testimony from a police officer where he says he uses photos of his own kids for targets so "he doesn't get caught off guard in the field" (paraphrasing) so uhh they're just doing it themselves i guess. either way explains a lot

All I can say is that I hope you never have to be reliant on strangers for money. I hope you never have to do survival sex work. I hope you never have to degrade yourself just to live. I hope you never, ever get an online account deleted and your first thought is, "Fuck, how am I supposed to make rent & eat this month?". Because this is the reality for an extremely large amount of transfems on this website. To deny that this is violence is a violent act in itself.

there’s no untangling the incest kink from queerness or queerness from the incest kink. so. congratulations and/or sorry you’re finding that out.

like wow you’re surprised that queer people really resonate with this idea of a love that’s so taboo it’s unspeakable. with the idea of someone knowing you more intimately and deeply than anyone else possibly could and wanting you. with the idea of someone being willing to risk every other connection in their life and being hated and disgusting everyone just to have you. with the idea of feeling like the whole world is out to get you so the only person you can see a life with, can rely on, can love, is someone who has already been through everything with you. that really sounds so out of left field to you?

so many queer people are rejected from and hated by their actual families, and then you turn around and act like they’re freaks for wanting to feel loved and wanted by someone they call mommy/daddy/brother/sister/etc in bed.

I am so very serious when I say that minors should have a legal and easily reinforceable right to say "I don't want to live with my parents (or other adult caretakers)/I don't want to be around that person/I don't want to go to that place" and actually get their wish accommodated. So much childhood trauma could be avoided or ended if children actually had the right to leave the situation or the person hurting them.

you do have to feel bad for incels because they want to be seen as coquettish and demure victims of circumstance so bad but they can't stop detailing violent fantasies publicly on the internet and also killing people so

this whole “sorry about your blog, just log off” stuff is a very important reminder that the average tme person fundamentally believes that trans women are exaggerating or flat out lying about the difficulty of our daily lives

kinda fucked up to be like "trans women being run off tumblr isn't at all related to social murder" when i literally would have been homeless a few years ago if i wasn't able to fundraise through tumblr

like this isn't an isolated or rare type of situation and i think it's at best ignorant and at worst actively transmisogynistic to act like there aren't trans women on here who actually do rely on having connections via tumblr to like. continue to be housed and alive. and pretending like it's exclusively white women in that type of situation so you have a handy way to dismiss anyone taking issue with your post is an extra layer of transmisogynistic

ill never forget when my noob grandfather despawned right before my eyes

the way they treat people with poor memory it's really like. extremely shit. people take poor memory to be some kind of flaw or fault with the person. where they believe that evidence of poor memory is done intentionally, and when someone is finally convinced that poor memory is unintentional then the person with memory issues is considered to be without the ability to think, have likes and opinions or have anything good or meaningful to say. people take their ability to talk over someone else as a given, or a as something funny. and instead of helping someone with an issue that can quite often be either very frustrating or very scary, these malakas don't even answer basic questions