Kill me

You think being in the military is 'They want to kill Brown people' or 'Fight for freedom' narrative. Ever think about the kids running away from abusive homes? Or the Parents who leave their family because they need a better way to provide. Some of us need the education or healthcare because you aren't privileged enough to do that because you didn't get to have two loving parents, or they just too poor to do so.

Check your mother fucking self before you rip into someone for making a harder decision. Fucking disgusting. Just because your safe here on U.S American soil to be who you are don't forget the others who will be K.I.L.L.E.D tryna be themselves too.

Y'all tend to forget how many men who go into the military do intense PTSD shit who come out stronger than ever who are trans.

Transgender people were not allowed to serve in the military until 2016. In 2019, the president attempted to ban trans people in the military again. This was met with much backlash. He did not succeed in banning them; however, a new rule passed in 2019 states that “They can enlist and serve, but only if they stick to their biological sex. No transitioning allowed.”

I don’t speak for trans men and women in the military. I can only speak for myself. As a trans man who suffers from mild to moderate dysphoria daily, a situation where I was not only put into danger physically but also forced to remain a gender I do not identify with would be a living goddamn hell. The only reason to put people through that is the bigotry that surrounds the government and military today.

It’s funny that you say all this in the wake of the most recent US action against Iran. You know, the action in which Trump ordered a drone strike against a prominent Iranian general. Notice that in that article, a senior analyst on Iran for the Defense Intelligence Agency states, “Killing him would be neither necessary nor sufficient to disrupt the operational progression of an imminent plot.” The backlash of this has been swift: fearmongering is evident in the sudden increase of World War Three propaganda spreading through the ranks of many social medias, even though that is unlikely to be the case.

I can respect the people who go into military service because the have no other choice, or because they have a misguided idea that they’ll be saving the world, or any of the other reasons that you stated in your reply to my post. In fact, I do respect them!! I respect the individual people in the military very much, and have no quarrel with them at all. What I don’t respect is the organisation as a whole. (Additionally, people who are escaping abusive homes, or parents who are trying to provide for their families should have more than merely “join the military” as an answer. We —read: the government, or the people— should be helping those that are less fortunate, so that they don’t have to resort to the option of joining the military simply because they feel they have no other choice.)

Lastly, @killmecuzihavedifferentideas, I leave you with a meme in this, our most trying time.

You got PTSD? Oh no like way to ignore all the veterans who were having to fight to get the help they need.

Also why does it matter whether your trans or not. Like did I ask? Is it a Pokemon card move? You're a human being. Whatdya think I'm gonna do? Nothing have some fucking respect. Why is it that because I'm military you assume I hate trans people.

You think being in the military is 'They want to kill Brown people' or 'Fight for freedom' narrative. Ever think about the kids running away from abusive homes? Or the Parents who leave their family because they need a better way to provide. Some of us need the education or healthcare because you aren't privileged enough to do that because you didn't get to have two loving parents, or they just too poor to do so.

Check your mother fucking self before you rip into someone for making a harder decision. Fucking disgusting. Just because your safe here on U.S American soil to be who you are don't forget the others who will be K.I.L.L.E.D tryna be themselves too.

Y'all tend to forget how many men who go into the military do intense PTSD shit who come out stronger than ever who are trans.

Let my stance be clear, I do not like “sjws”, feminists, leftist, whatever label you wanna use.

They’re homicidal hypocrites who want to see you dead for the slightest emotional infraction.

They’re the furthest thing from anti-facism, civil rights advocates you can get because they do not care about you and they want to hurt you. They want you dead.

It doesn’t matter if you’re LGBT, black, brown, red, yellow you step out of line, you question them, you resist? They will play judge, jury and executioner, they will strip away your humanity, they will wittle away at you till take your own life or become submissive.

I’m angry, I’m emotional, this isn’t the first time people who supposedly fight for people like me, minorities, bullied and doxxed people, trying to drive them towards suicide.

Let my stance be clear, I do not like “sjws”, feminists, leftist, whatever label you wanna use.

They’re homicidal hypocrites who want to see you dead for the slightest emotional infraction.

They’re the furthest thing from anti-facism, civil rights advocates you can get because they do not care about you and they want to hurt you. They want you dead.

It doesn’t matter if you’re LGBT, black, brown, red, yellow you step out of line, you question them, you resist? They will play judge, jury and executioner, they will strip away your humanity, they will wittle away at you till take your own life or become submissive.

I’m angry, I’m emotional, this isn’t the first time people who supposedly fight for people like me, minorities, bullied and doxxed people, trying to drive them towards suicide.

if you’re a (mostly) bald cartoon dude you have to wear this color scheme

#you forgot aang (michymouses28)

FUCK ur right

So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem. 

BUT! Let’s look closer! 

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.