Whose Baby is That?

will make header tomorrow. metalmasq 5

like i just think we need to understand that when you make some sweeping & prejudiced statement against people with restrictive eating disorders you are not making that statement against skinny people [oppressor class] you are making it against disabled people [oppressed class] and those are very different things

Testing something: who are your favorite canon trans women in fiction?

‘Nuclear Family Month’ is so funny as a concept. I have never seen a nuclear family worth celebrating.

The Addams

like take the transness out of the equation, reminder that cis people also get gender dysphoria. if you heard a cis woman say she saw a woman who was so ugly it made her feel bad about herself, you wouldn't worry about whether that's "valid" you'd just think she was an asshole

It happened like a few weeks ago now but the way that hbomberguy pulled out the classic transmisogyny of pedojacketing and callouts to condemn and punish Patricia Taxxon when she so much as alluded to the way he underpayed and took advantage of her to score his big, popular, successful videos is just, like, a textbook example of this. A young woman- a teenager!- is used for artistic labor, but because she's transfem, autistic, furry, the people using her can rally a mob to chase her out of public life, censor her, and people will comply. People openly acknowledged that, yes, she was underpaid, but they find that justifiable in the face of her being a disgusting degenerate dangerous sexual deviant! a community of alleged "leftists" gathered to defend a labor rights violation when the victim is a tranny. this is what transmisogyny is for.

they really don't respect the time of disabled people. your application can take up to 12 weeks. the specialist waitlist is 3 years. your assessment will be any time within the next 6 months. let us know if you cannot attend this appointment you waited 7 weeks for and we'll reschedule next year. we've decided to assess you at this time and day and you have to be available or any support you dared to apply for is not going to happen. and in between these long bouts of waiting you have to survive the everyday

I think BotW skates by a lot on that "freedom" feeling, which at this point feels to me more like a buzzword than anything. It's the kind of thing games like Fallout 3 or Skyrim used to be praised for: big open worlds that you are free to explore, but that you eventually realize only have little to find that has actual substance. The older I get, the more I value the more curated experiences and intentional game design that smaller, non-open-world games tend to offer. I definitely hold Zelda games like Twilight Princess and Wind Waker in higher regard than Breath of the Wild, because they feel like more planned, intentional experiences.

Most long term Zelda fans do agree with you FWIW. BOTW was kind of an 'escaping containment' moment for all of us. Zelda is fairly mainstream of course, but the amount of people that game brought in as the launch title was insane.