Nerd/Dork/Geek

If you're going to fuck with a good thing, which everyone knows you keep trying to do, here's a post-it.

I want folders. I want tabs. Specifically, I want something that lets me save a post to a folder/tab I name so I can find it by topic later. Bonus points if post creators get a 'saved' metric, as in how many times people do that.

Like. "Like" is nice. But I 'like' a lot of things on this site. Liking something is like clipping an article or ad out of a newspaper and chucking it in a shoebox. It's all well and good, but if that shoebox is big and overflowing, finding Suzy Q's awesome sourdough starter in it is going to be a slog. I want to separate out my likes, so that I can at least dig through the 'recipes' box instead of the entire shoebox. Y'get me?

"If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."

Me watching Psych: “Based on my own experiences, it’s pretty clear to me that Shawn is very intelligent but gave up long ago on ever really achieving anything because he will always mess up somehow. He plays up his naturally carefree personality so that everyone perceives him as just a goof, which is much easier than trying to live up to other people’s expectations only to inevitably fail or fall short of the mark.”

Other people watching Psych: “Shawn is a fun character to watch on TV but most of his problems are his own fault. He’s clearly intelligent but he’s lazy and refuses to pull his act together or take anything seriously. He’s a screw up and would be doing so much better if he would take the skills he has and actually applied himself.”

However, that still does not make trans men as a whole an oppressor class.

That is lateral violence.

There are some trans men that do harm because trans men are people, and there are people who commit violence in every community, no matter how marginalized they are. Anyone with any identity can hurt you.

There are some people who hold more power over others, and that makes harm more likely and liable to be allowed, but trans men are still fundamentally trans first and foremost. Even a passing trans man only has male privilege until hes exposed as trans, and then hes just as likely to suffer violence and discrimination.

There are and there will always be people in your community that dont suffer the exact type of oppression as you. There are and there will always be people within that category who are bad actors and who will harm others, and there are and will always be people who suffer the exact type of oppression as you that will do the same.

You dont have to stay around any individual who is harmful to you, whether they are a trans man or a trans woman or nonbinary or gay or a lesbian or bi or aspec or.

But the person right next to you who is also having their rights attacked is not an oppressor class.

The guy in the dungeon cell next to you, no matter how much of a dick they are, is not the person holding the key to the cell.

Not all violence is oppression. Oppression demands a level of privilege that other trans people simply do not have! The person who would get deadnamed on the news if they suffered a hate crime as well does not have the level of privilege to significantly oppress you on a societal scale.