he who crawls the interwebs by moonlight

it's wild how quickly and easily people will pedojacket you for defending childrens rights. I've been called a pedophile for saying 'i treat sixteen year olds like adults.' I heard a podcast recently where the host got looks for saying 'i was playing in the pool with some kids' as if thats not an imminently normal place for both adults and kids to be.

The fact that children can die because their parents can refuse them life-saving medical care, even if the child desperately wants it, and even if the parent is doing it for nonsense reasons like "vaccines cause autism" or "blood transfusions are not allowed in my religion so you're just gonna have to die." Or they can be forced into unnecessary or harmful medical treatments they don't want and that can even cause catastrophic consequences for them. Or their parents can mutilate them for no reason other than "I don't want my child to have ambiguous genitals," and intersex children can be forced onto HRT that goes directly against their gender identity. The troubled teen industry, institutions, conversion, psychiatric abuse- and so much more! And these kids are just forced to suffer and die because their parents have the right to maim and kill them and they don't have bodily autonomy. They have no right to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness our founding fathers called for in the first paragraphof the DoI. Children shouldn't die because their parents refused to save their life.

thing about misogyny no one talks about is that when "good" womanhood and femininity are defined around sexual chastity and purity, and when manhood and masculinity are associated with sexual desire and sexual action, being seen as a slut/whore crosses the line into gender nonconformity and the violence directed at such people has a lot of similarities with, and in many cases is inseparable from, anti-transmasculinity - specifically how the violence is justified by this idea that as a "fallen woman," one has forfeited one's claim to being something vulnerable which is owed protection from men in some way, even out of pity - you have forced yourself into the masculinized public world while failing to be a "real man," and so have made yourself deserving of violence from "real men." its the "well if you say you are a guy, then i get to beat you up" mindset. post with examples for those curious

Couldn't help myself. King of the Hill

A while back my pharmacist saw my deadname on my profile and accidentially called it out, he corrected and deleted my deadname from the system so only my preferred name shows up now. There was a crowd of people behind me, so as he hands over the pills he apologized, in equal tone and volume as when he called my deadname and lied saying it's been a long day and he didn't mean to call out -his own- name. I quietly told him it was fine and he didn't need to do that for my sake.

Alvin ! 💥

Also, perhaps, have we considered that it's actually really bad that we treat closeted trans women (and closeted nonbinary people, and frankly cis men too) this way? Like. It's a bad thing that trans women are treated like distrustful monsters for """"being men"""" before coming out by one demographic and then are also treated like distrustful monsters after coming out for being trans by another. That's not a sign of a culture with a healthy relationship with gender in the slightest!!!

You don't owe anyone, ever, to be a "decent man". You gotta stick within the basic realms of not harming people, by the same rules as other genders, but everything beyond that is completely auxiliary.