sometimes life's a bitch and then you keep living

ok was someone going to tell me that there is a real actual dinosaur named "pantydraco" or did I have to just stumble across that myself?

tumblr user Anonymous has been saying some very rude things to various bloggers for many years now

i see why "CANCELLED!" doesn't sit right with people given the (justified!) criticism taylor's gotten for hanging out with conservatives in travis' circle, but i think part of why it struck a chord with me is because i've thought a lot about this seemingly-obligatory public shaming every famous woman goes through. sabrina got hers a few months ago (and before that in 2020 because of the joshua basset drama), rachel zegler got it for her absolutely harmless comments about a disney movie, britney spears got it in the 2000s for breaking down after years of abuse, ariana grande got it for being a homewrecker (while the guy who left his wife for her got maybe 1/1000th of the backlash that she did), janet jackson got it in the 2000s for having an accidental wardrobe malfunction in public, yoko ono got it for being married to john lennon when the beatles broke up- i could sit here all day listing examples. and taylor's spoken before about how famous women going through their first "cancellation" reach out to her for advice on how to deal with it. and even when the women really did do something wrong, the public backlash often goes way, WAY beyond what's actually warranted for the "crime" in question. i think in that context the song works; taylor's been through the wringer of public shaming before, she will be again, she knows the drill. she wasn't the first and god knows she won't be the last.

I'M STARTING WITH THE MAN IN THE MIRROR I'M ASKING HIM TO CHANGE HIS WAYS!!!!!

no we're not bullying autistic people. we're just making fun of people who are bad at reading social cues or are too enthusiastic about their interests or act a little weird. maybe even stereotyping them as threats

girlfriend keeps a kyubey plushie just to beat up when she's angry so sometimes i'm running down the list of questions to ask to help her figure out what would make her feel better and "do you want to hurt kyubey" is often one of them

"What if there was a system that could give you HRT but it had weird, arbitrary rules so you pretty much had to cheat to make it through" is of course a trans fiction premise that's popular entirely because it hits the 'haha fun puzzle to solve' part of the brain, with no social commentary behind it whatsoever.

you should start fights on behalf of transfems. argue with the annoying people in their notes. call them out. make them explain themselves. waste their time! whatever. dont make transfems do it themselves