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to be clear, ron renzetti saying the transgender subtext of jenny wasnt intentional is understandable to start with . Nobody wants to do a "dumbledore is gay" especially after jkr has lost all goodwill. But its more important that he followed it up with saying the transgender subtext does exist nonetheless. He didnt just say its okay to read her as such, he acknowledged the textual basis for that reading. "you can headcanon whatever you want" implies the reading carries no water. that its simply just "playing with toys" and not engaging with what the text says beyond what its author meant. A woman being called a male name only when she is being threatened with violence has transgender subtext. A character who previously was trying to be another male character saying they no longer want that while being physically curvier and having trans flag colors in their design has transgender subtext. And a robot girl insecure about not being a "real" girl has transgender subtext. That it is not the intention doesnt change whether subtext exists. For some reason, it is the cis man who didnt even intend to tell queer stories who can acknowledge that, and not the ones trying too tell stories about queer characters.

Hey y’all, how long do you think it’ll be until the current tumblr pedo moral panic escalates to “we can’t talk about people under 18 transitioning because-“ type shit given the current trajectory of “getting angry at the implication that trans youth should be allowed to realize they’re trans”

the three girls are all trans and in their mid-20s

No, you should definitely keep calling it a kill switch. It helps describe my feelings on the matter.

Finally a tech company that gets it. Make new features opt-in. It’s that simple.

“The ad was in a women’s magazine and if I remember correctly, was for a perfume. It featured a white woman lying in bed with a black man. The man’s shirtless back was to the viewer, making only his taut, muscular form and powerful-looking arms and shoulders visible. He was faceless, unidentified. The woman looked sultrily at us from over his mysterious form, satisfaction writ large over her features. She had partaken of whatever delights this man had to offer and was smugly, luxuriantly basking in the afterglow. The ad copy was, “Take a walk on the wild side.” My teacher used the ad as an example of how marketers can use certain words and images to convey large amounts of information subtly and effectively. A white woman having sex with a black man? How risqué. The implication: be a little like that woman. Spray on that perfume and feel like the kind of girl who has sex with faceless, muscular black men in ritzy hotel rooms because it’s an adventure, a thrill, a risk, something illicitly pleasurable. These are the semiotics of race. This is why columnists will trip over themselves not to call Lupita Nyong’o or Angela Basset “beautiful”, choosing instead to use terms that call to mind a kind of savage, animalistic magnetism: fierce, striking, edgy, eye-catching. Words like “pretty” and “beautiful” and “cute” are for white women whose bodies and sexualities are not seen as wild, animal, or untamed. Black men are hulking, threatening, thuggish; white men are charming, sexy heartthrobs with hearts of gold. Brown women are exotic, with their “honey-coloured” skin and their “mystical”, “enchanting” beauty, unlike their white counterparts, who are held up as not only ideal, but knowable and safe. White people are beautiful; non-white people are dangerous.”

it had a huge sticker on it that said “this is not a toy”. the gas station i got it from had a sign infront of the display for these only that said “buy first, then test”. the first time you strike it (from the fins, by the way) you find out exactly why. they have added incredibly bright flashing blue LED lights on the eyes, which point directly into your eyes and the eyes of whoever is looking anywhere close to the fish that makes you blind.

adults every generation when the children that were born 10 years ago don't know what was going on 15 years ago

"my 10 year old doesn't know what CDs are!"

One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go.

schizophrenic person: makes a post trying to raise awareness about the disproportionate abuse and harmful stereotypes schizophrenic people face

1) schizophrenia hardly ever causes people to be violent so schizophrenic people aren’t more likely to be violent than anyone else

I’m a bit torn on sharing this because, on the one hand, it’s important to get Julia Serano’s work into more people’s hands, but on the other, she is very much not wealthy and relies on income from her work to survive. On the third hand, I don’t think a post pointing people to her current work will travel as far as this one. One thing you can do, if you want to support her, is to subscribe to her free newsletter, Switch Hitter and to encourage other people to subscribe. There is an option to sign up for a paid subscription, to support the immense amount of free work she makes available. You can also sign up for her Patreon, for other rewards (or if you dislike Substack). She is also currently selling signed copies of all of her books:

this isn’t what i normally post here but firefox just switched ceos and this “anthony” dumbass is trying to put more “ai” slopware into it, meaning more bloat and privacy loss

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