Ekko Does Things

Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry

Turning dog gravity off so they all get whisked away

got my first ever official customer complaint because when i was going over the terms of their life insurance they were like "well i don't plan to die" and i was like "well you're going to"

that's right and good

even if that random trans woman did do all that I don't care lol

very funny that literally just riffing on a common tumblr joke about women, but with an especially marginalized group of women, has people months later coming to me like "oh yeah well what about what THIS trans woman you've never met did?" and the answer is still I don't care lol

if I had posted the same thing without the word "trans" the population of this website would go "true" and then keep scrolling

idk which transgender bitch needs to hear this but u are better than everyone else

someone said something like "a stock standard binary trans woman is more transgressive and challenging to the status quo than the genderfuckiest TME alive" and yeah lol good fucking lord???????????

I'm gonna pick my words carefully here but I think quite a lot of you hear "gender is different from sex" and you don't change any of your preconceived bioessentialist notions about sex, you just treat gender as a paper thin aesthetic draped as mere decoration over what you ~really~ are

"there are only two genders but an infinite number of ways to style them" is what a lot of you seem to actually think

I wrote my final paper about this in my gender studies class last semester but I think at some point we need to discuss what we as a community think gender even is