Autistic thoughts, straight from my head.

MLK was a star trek fan

no for real what the actual fuck @staff explain yourselves. now.

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

:)

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QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

cool. another black child died in a hate crime

im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

My new pet theory is that people get self-conscious when something is pointed out to them about media that they didn't notice. And then shuts down rather than admit (to themselves) they missed something interesting.

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying

If your "fun" involves deliberately and knowingly doing something that annoys and irritates people then yes you are having fun wrong, its also not just about you doing analysis; if it was just that you can do that in your head, but you don't, you insist upon other people and upon their work when its clearly not welcome or appreciated. Keep your thoughts to yourself

I am talking about posting on my own blog and engaging with posts by others who are doing the same thing, and you are responding to my post. Do you understand the irony of what you just said?

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

As much as I appreciate the support and understanding of the TME persuasion, it is endlessly disgusting and disheartening that all to frequently it takes someone who isn't transfem talking about how they see the axis of oppression is real to convince people we transfeminists aren't just manhating-ugly-chronicallyonline-sexpredator troons who should be hunted for sport 😾

“I ain’t reading all that” your brain is rotting and shrinking

Yes, but also, I am begging you on bended knee, paragraph breaks.

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

like the social justice version of 'are they nice to the waiter'

Or the shopping trolley.

I think part of the reason TMEs hate TME/TMA so much is that "TMA" is a nigh unstigmatizable term. like good luck turning "person who is a target of transmisogyny" into like, a derogatory term or slur. the terms refer pretty directly to our oppression and I like that about them

I don't think calling someone "non-transfem" really has that kind of heft, you know? it's essentially a synonym of TME, but the "exempt" in TME refers pretty directly to privilege. and when I criticize some TME nonsense, it's the privilege and its associated behaviors and entitlements that I intend to criticize, not simply the fact a person is not transfem

"sex is real" is a very funny thing to say to a group of people who very famously change their sex on purpose