I MUST GO DOWN TO THE SEAS AGAIN

Go to a furry convention dressed as an 18th century fur trapper. Longrifle, jawtraps, chains, fur hat, big coat made of sewn-together pelts of different polyester neons...

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

what if, and hear me out here, it didn't matter whether a transmisogynistic caricature was "intended" to depict a trans woman. what if we could acknowledge that symbols carry meanings beyond what a creator put in them, and that you cannot divorce them from the society that will read them? what if we recognized that a character exactly resembling the worst stereotypes about a group of people will cause harm to that group no matter whether the text refers to them as a member of that group? what if it didn't fucking matter whether buffalo bill is a "real transsexual" because real transsexuals routinely get accused of being buffalo bills anyways