the Happy birthday song

Over the weekend, thousands of members of Mexico’s “pro-family” hate group Frente Nacional por la Familia took to the streets across the nation to protest the impending passage of marriage equality.

Though these homophobic demonstrators faced their fair share of opposition, perhaps the most powerful moment came at a rally in Celaya, Guanajuato when a 12-year-old boy jumped in front of a crowd of 11,000 protesters.

you

can

not 

trust

the 

media.

-you can not trust the media.

you can

not trust

The black residents of Milwaukee have still been the victims of astronomical police repression day in and day out for their entire lives. The city has been a powder keg, and cops as usual like to play with fire then make a fuss when they get burned.

here’s the thing

i have never, in my life, seen ant trans person jump down someone’s throat, or yell at them, or do anything that could possibly be seen as ‘crucifying’ when they get misgendered

what i usually see is ‘excuse me, sorry, but im actually a boy and use he/him pronouns’ 

but occasionally, trans people do get fed up (which is totally understandable and valid in their situation) so they might skip the pleasantries and just go for:

‘so i said to him-’

‘them’

‘oh right sorry, i said to them’

at least, that’s what the correct response should be when someone corrects you

unfortunately, more often than not it’s ‘oh my god don’t you know im trying???? you have to understand how hard it is for me to try and change when i’ve known you for so long as something else. cut me a little bit of slack, jeez, stop crucifying me’

and like

trans people have no obligation to be super duper polite, compliant and understanding, especially if you keep making the same simple mistake over and over again and then get defensive when you’re corrected

imagine this in any other situation

‘so i went to safeways yesterday-’

‘morrisons’

‘oh my god don’t you know im trying???? you have to understand how hard it is for me to try and change when i’ve known that supermarket for so long as something else. cut me a little bit of slack, jeez, stop crucifying me’

sounds ridiculous, right?

because if you get something wrong, just say sorry and move on

it’s not a personal attack when a trans person corrects you, and they’re definitely not saying that you’re not putting enough effort in or that it has to be a seamless transition for you

it’s just… well… you made a mistake

and when you make a mistake, people correct you.

teachers have been doing it for years, no one tells them off for ‘crucifying’ students when they hand back essays covered in red ink, because the students recognise that their teacher is right

when a trans person corrects you, they’re just alerting you to your mistake so that you can fix it

so when it happens, thats what you do

say sorry, and then restart your sentence using the right pronouns

eventually, you’ll get the hang of it

PEOPLE ARE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THIS DOGS MASCULINITY

People demand dog shampoos that smell “masculine” because “He’s a boy he doesn’t want to smell like flowers” even though he’s a dog and if he had his way he would smell like duck poop. And those shampoos exist! That’s the worst part! There’s enough demand for dog shampoo that smells like Axe body spray that they exist and they sell well.