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I'm opening the world's first afab only walmart

you all need to unpack your bioessentialism, but we also need a better theory of gender than "it's just dressup." I will pick my words carefully here, but the word "gender" itself refers to so many different phenomena that have been lumped together, and we need to un-lump them

my opinion on merch has really drastically changed in the past two years im kind of straight up disappointed when an artist I like or something announces plushies/acrylics/etc., made by a faceless corporation that obfuscates their business practices. That and honestly a lot of projects are inappropriate to make certain merch of and but sometimes artists just don't give a shit anymore and want money. The fact that they made a marketable plush of Anya from Mouthwashing and included a little bottle of pills she uses to kill herself with a magnet inside so she can hold it was extremely off-putting. I don't think I can even believe anything made above a certain budget can genuinely express anti-capitalist themes if they pivot so hard into doing merch outsourced to factories leveraged by the imperial core. Knights of Guinevere made an entire pilot about "the entertainment industry flooding the world with useless plastic bullshit for consumption is bad for the environment and the people living in it" and then as soon as the credits roll they have to be like "please consume our useless plastic bullshit" without any grace whatsoever. No damn self awareness.

hiragana/katakana work pretty well for it

it’s fun that Mormonism is based off pseudo-archeology and Scientology is based off pseudo-psychiatry. By that logic the big American New Religious Movement of the 21st century is gonna be based on… pseudo-computer science?

playground insults in 2030: dude your dad looks like ai generated gay porn

LLM psychosis is simply the democratisation of being surrounded by yes-men and unctuous toadies, an experience previously only accessible to dictators and kings and cult leaders and venture capitalists

After some years of HRT I've been left with this deep, low simmering rage. Because what do you mean it was always this easy to be happy

and this isn't even getting into harm that's genuinely necessary! i read a book recently that was intended to educate people in healthcare about medical trauma, written by a medical professional who found that there weren't existing resources to help her cope with the aftermath of the extremely traumatic c section that saved her life. the whole tone of the book was "i know you've never thought about this before, but walk with me through this case study" and it's aimed at other medical professionals! it's aimed at the people who are doing this harm, and so many of them think that people aren't allowed to find it harmful just because it's necessary!

so many trauma resources assume that your trauma is from a specific person or people who treated you in a way that society deems unacceptable. if your trauma doesn't fit that profile then you're left sitting there like. idk i dont think most of this stuff applies to me. where are the resources for people like me.

if you were ever scared or in pain and were told that you had to grin and bear it because it's necessary for you to do the thing that scares and hurts you, you are allowed to say that that was traumatic. you are allowed to say that you were scared and in pain and that even if this was the least bad option, even if it was lifesaving, it still was not okay. something being necessary does not inherently make it okay.

This is a common gateway to pseudoscience. People experience trauma from receiving, or from seeing a loved one receive, lifesaving medical care and aren't able to find the space to process that it was necessary, the alternative was worse, AND it was really and truly awful. People who are afraid to go back. People who need accommodations to make necessary medical care less stressful and scary, and can't get them.

sorry, but you were socialized christian. I just can't trust you in a trans space

they literally taught you that trans people were subhuman and that you were better than them. I don't know if you can be trusted around other trans people

they scapegoated and abused you for showing signs of transness? uh... no? christianity is the most privileged religion there is. stop whining

gotta say I was not expecting people to go to bat for my strawman

God it really doesnt get more "caricaturized stereotype of Christianity/Catholicism" than wanting to *preemptively* punish hypothetical ex-religious people for their future crimes. Like at what point are y'all gonna realize that fighting Generalized Hate with Generalized Hate is simply never going to work, short term OR long term? Let people change! Let people get better than who they were! *don't be intimidated by the fact that someone improved themselves*