as is tradition I would like to wish a happy pride month specifically to this Indian guy I used to work with who came SPRINTING to find me when there was some buzz in India about gay marriage being legalized (this was in like 2018ish, it's sadly ended up not panning out) to ECSTATICALLY say "you know what this means??? it means men better start acting better, or their wives are going to leave them for women!!!" he was so excited for all of these hypothetical women who were about to finally leave their loser husbands and lez out. that's a true ally, I hope he's thriving wherever he is.

woke Aerosmith: dude looks like a they/them

I'm sorry Steven Tyler I wasn't familiar with ur bigender game

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

happy pride to the boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend that mr the killers had in February of last year

this callout couldve been a block button

this callout couldve been a private conversation

The reason why so many of y'all's feminism sucks is because you still believe deep down in your hearts that there are only two kinds of people in the world: precious, ethereal, fragile dollthings called "women", and violent, lustful, rage-fueled apes called "men". Until you throw that idea away, 3rd-grade-tier "girls rule boys drool, girls are princesses and boys are stinky :(" is as feminist as we'll ever get-- and I hope it's obvious that that's lightyears away from the bare minimum of where we need to be.

Nonbinary people are so cool I wish our rights were taken seriously haha

Genuinely though it is so frustrating that nonbinary rights and exorsexism are not treated seriously at all, even from within the queer community. It sucks that there's not even an option for an X gender marker in so many countries, including in more progressive queer-friendly ones. It sucks that if enben want to get gender affirming care that we're advised to lie about our gender (or lack thereof) in favour of a more binary trans identity lest we jump through a million extra hoops on top of the million already in place for binary trans people to prove we're serious in order to get the care we want/need. It sucks that in most cases we're still forced into some kind of binary and I wish that the issues we deal with were acknowledged more.

in a move that will make people on all sides mad, i would like to propose that we start creating more cis characters who got or want to get themselves gender-affirming surgeries. cis girls should get a phalloplasty if they just want a dick. cis guys should rock breast augmentations.

in an ideal world, these would just be things anyone can choose to do with their own body whenever they want, and fuck a diagnosis or a letter from your therapist. vaginoplasty is for everyone. and in that ideal world, i would hope that we’d also see this reflected in the characters we see and the stories we tell, where it’d be totally normal to have a trans guy and a cis girl realize they’ve both had top surgery and bond over how much better life is now that they don’t have to worry about tits.