It wants to be "omg so heckin horny and irreverent," but it has the maturity of a Disney XD cartoon. It wants to be adult and sexy and mature and dark but it never wants to really go there because deep down it's a cartoon for redditors and teenagers so they can sell merchandise. Above all else it's a palatable series, never too challenging for general audiences.

Like, I recently ran into a random post essentially trying to explain their theory is that many of us used 4chan, it altered our brains somehow, and it made us "crazy and delusional". Exact words.

There's just something about that post, because it wasn't just the abelism, it wasn't the classic terf tier stereotype of transfems being 4chan rejects. It was the sheer casualness of it. Other queerunity posters in the comments were telling him he was being insightful.

I honestly can't bring myself to even be that mad because I'm just so stunned. Not just by the sheer ablesim and transmisogyny the sheer casualness of it all - as if it happens all the time.

Because it does! TMRAs especially use the term delusional all the time. They have pages and pages of theory describing the alleged neuroses that make us "wrongfully" hate them, and they're about on par with your standard victorian psychologist in terms of sheer misogyny. I've heard one refer to transfeminism as a "trauma ideology" - and with hardly any pushback from non-transfemisits!

Thank you for support! < 3

✨️kofi doodle request✨️

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.