The Day and the Night and the Car Wash Too

like - kids are online, actually! theyre online, and theyre reading your posts, and they know that you think theyre gross and loud and annoying and- oh, sorry, theyre overstimulating - and you definitely want them to have rights you just don't want to talk to them, yknow. they can see you say that! So maybe don't say that

i think we should talk about degendering more as a very real form of transphobia. you should not be calling a trans woman "they" when she's explained her pronouns to you. you should not be calling her a "person" instead of a woman. she's not too gnc, she's not too androgynous, you're not "confused" about her identity, you're degendering her. I fear we've gotten to a point we've forgotten the very basics of this movement is "trans women are women" and "trans men are men", and not just "trans people are someone who's pronouns you have to memorize so you don't offend them." you see her as a man in a dress and it pisses me off

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

a large majority of TMEs haven't unlearned the patriarchal idea that womanhood is a bad thing, and they do not believe trans women actually seek and embrace womanhood. a lot of them seem to think we only want (and experience) the surface level aesthetics of womanhood

been getting annoyed at people responding to the claim that trans women's breasts are fake that they are grown through hormones because i do not think we should accept the premise breast augmentation creates fake breasts, whether on cis women or trans women.

if you're bored of casual sex and are finding yourself struggling to transition into a committed relationship i sympathize, I genuinely do, i've been there, but if casual sex didn't exist that wouldn't magically cause you to develop the social skills necessary to enter a committed relationship. if anything you would have even less relevant social skills because you wouldn't have developed adjacent social skills in a lower stakes environment.

if "hookup culture" didn't exist you wouldn't be in a committed relationship you'd just be both single *and* fuckless.

Pokemon SM was crazy for setting up 2 rivals and then they became each others' rivals instead of yours. Like you, the protagonist, are the side piece to gladion and hau's rivalry. It's fine though because while gladion is busy with that you get to date his sister.

8. into biting?

Important reminder

This reminds me of the fact that "Ancient Egypt" goes back so many thousands of years, that the most recent "Ancient Egyptians" were already studying (even more) Ancient Egypt.

Not even the most recent ones. It was an Egyptian prince from the 13th century BCE studying and restoring artifacts from the 26th century BCE.

For context, the last Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, lived in the 1st century BCE. Prince Khaemweset, known as "the first egyptologist", was as ancient to her as the pyramids and tombs he was studying were ancient to him.

I remember having me mind completely blown when I learned that the "New Kingdom" was pre-Bronze Age Collapse.

This has totally be mentioned in another fork of this post, but it reminds me quite a bit of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a museum in Ur, c. 530 BC, which housed mesopotamian artifacts dating back in some cases to the 20th century BC

listen. newly out tgirl. I am grabbing your hand gently. do not EVER, ever ever ever, trust any tme person who thinks of themself as more of a lesbian than you, or more of an authority on women's issues than you. I promise, no matter how freshly out you are, it's not that you need to quiet down and learn. you are not tainted with some implicitly anti-feminist maleness that you need to atone for. you are a woman, unequivocally. do not trust anyone who makes you feel otherwise, not even for a second. there are no exceptions to this.

Do you ever think someone in Big Oil is laughing their ass off and calling Peter Thiel or whomever to rub it in on the fact that an above 0 amount of people think that AI is driving climate change.

Weeks-long psychodrama after four 'Jewish ambulances' were burned including a national address by Starmer about Jewish feelings but fascists trying to burn black people, Muslims and migrants alive barely makes a dent in the national discourse. Two tier nation

Heartwarming! Man pissing on subway stairs genders you correctly, mortified he was doing that in front of a woman

He was doing it while on the phone and said “so long as there ain’t a woman around it’s fine” then turned around, saw me, and went “oh shit!” And started apologizing

Daily reminder to Americans on this website that American war on Iran is bad because Iranians are getting killed not because you can no longer afford going to the movies in the weekends or refill your car 😒

so what if we took this simple appealing logo that not only uses our iconic map pin icon, but utilizes our brand colors in a pattern evocative of roads on a map and replaced it with the late 2000s mac rainbow pinwheel after an incident involving a hole punch

they straight up fucked her till she gaped and her makup was smeared,