Pirate Booties and Uranium

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

You guys know how often people try to split the trans part from the man part? Was thinking about how annoying it is in a different way. When I see other trans guys start to pass a bit and get deeply guilty about women walking quickly away, or moving to a different seat on the bus, or not wanting to work with them, the comments are always full of other dudes listing what they do to accommodate or seem friendlier or smaller. And my jaw is on the fucking floor. Because then I remember that most men and mascs on Tumblr are somewhat androgynous five-foot-zip white boys. And this isn't a shot, I love y'all, but it's relevant. Because my first thought when a lady does those things, is: okay racist bitch, I get it. Because for most dudes on this site, transition is the first time they've had multiple instances of women moving away dramatically or purse clutching or pulling out a taser/knife/pepper spray even though you live in the same building or on the same block. I grew up with these things, with women and sometimes men assuming the worst about me simply because I possess both melanin and a resting bitch face. Even when I was a girl in ankle length skirts, and now still when I'm an adult man. Now, back to the division. Because what you hear in most ostensibly progressive online spaces is that, well, you're a man, so it's actually very fine and alright for people in general, women, all trans people, to treat you with suspicion. However, this same behavior is not acceptable in leftist spaces, supposedly, if the recipient is trans or a person of color. That's a clear cut no, of course. Unacceptable bigotry. And honestly it pisses me off to have to see even other trans men/mascs on here posting that they totally understand why people treat them awfully now because men are just terrible in general supposedly , and then right after that post about how supposedly they're against racial profiling and/or how silly the idea of trans people being a threat in bathrooms is. I would just like people to pick one and stick with it. I don't get to cleave myself into parts that fit neatly on either side of an oppression pissing contest. I'm just a guy, trying to live as one whole person. Pissed off and fed up.

My hoes care about me.

it must feel good as hell when you’re a horse and you take a big bite out of an apple like ttshoke

your command over onomatopoeia is unmatched bestie

It's scary to be transgender in the world right now but if you're transgender I love you and we have to stick together and keep fighting and keep living and keep loving

"Where were transmascs during Stonewall?" Across the street throwing lit mattresses at cops and chanting "gay rights, gay rights, gay rights!" from the windows of the Women's House of Detention, asshole.

"The House of D [was] 500 feet from the Stonewall Inn," Ryan says. "On the first night of the riots, people incarcerated in the prison could actually see what was happening out their windows, and they started a riot all their own, setting fire to their belongings and throwing them down to the streets below while chanting 'Gay rights! Gay rights! Gay rights!' "By the '50s and '60s, Ryan estimates, "around 75% of the people incarcerated in the House of D are queer in some way." In the 1960s, the prison began marking gay prisoners with a "D" for "degenerate," and placing them into solitary confinement because they were considered a "danger to other women." [...] The first waywardism laws in New York State start in the 1880s and they only apply to girls and women, originally ones who are arrested for prostitution and then expanded greatly in the late 1800s to women who might become prostitutes. And that's where they really get into danger, right? Because suddenly the charge of prostitution has nothing to do with sex work or exchanging sex for money. Instead, a wayward girl is anyone who was thought to be improperly feminine to the point where she has an invitation to prostitution. She's either too sexual or she's too masculine and unable to get any other kind of job. So of course she's going to end up being a prostitute.

The full book by Hugh Ryan is available to read on the Internet Archive