ballroom bitch

This is enough. Ajit Pai has already succeded MULTIPLE TIMES and you can expect the full removal of net neutrality on APRIL 23RD OF THIS YEAR. We can still contact our senators, we can still fight as hrd as we can, but even though 23 states are suposedly suing for the repeal of this, we need to help it along.

In case people forgot what Net Neutrality is: it is a series of laws that ensure everyone free and fair access to the internet. Without them, you will be charged for the sites you use on top of an already high internet bill. This means creators like us cannot post and be seen. Thia means that smaller schools will havebto switch to out of date text books. This means that starter IT projects that could make our lives better will die because noone can support an online presence that noone can afford to see.

And the list goes on and on and on. I have frienda who have to make their livings through commissions and working online because of multiple health issues. I have friends trying to publish books, post art, post voice acting snippets that will not be seen without these laws.

literally, nothing exclusionists do, and nothing you say to an exclusionist, will ever matter. nothing will ever get a response beyond “nuh uh!” they’ll phrase it different ways every time: “aces are cishet. cishets are cishet. they just wanna be oppressed so bad. they’re literally not oppressed in any way. they don’t experience homophobia or transphobia. they benefit from homophobia and transphobia. they are lying. that never happened. 

“you can’t use their tumblr posts as proof. you can’t use studies about them as proof. you can’t use every real-life org including them as proof. you can’t use our community’s own oral history as proof. you can’t use our community’s own written historical documents as proof. 

“lmao i’m not a terf, i’m literally an nb lesbian. lmao i’m not quoting terf rhetoric, i’m literally an nb lesbian. lmao i’m not consistently attacking trans women inclusionists, i’m literally an nb lesbian. lmao our movement isn’t full of terfs, we literally called out a terf once. lmao how dare you show me a blocklist of hundreds of terf exclusionists to call out, I’m literally an nb lesbian.

aces as a group experience 30% more harassment, 221% more sexual assault, 100% more intimate partner violence, and 277% more stalking than straight people.

aces are as likely to be suicidal as gay or bi people, and twice as likely as straight people

aces do, in fact, get sent to conversion therapy specifically for being ace. have to leave schools and jobs specifically for being ace. lose housing because they are ace. get rejected by their families for being ace. get sexually assaulted specifically for being ace, not for “being women” or “declining sex.” 

aces, as a group, consistently experience ALL types of sexual assault and abuse at higher rates than their gay and lesbian peers. only bisexuals consistently experience these things at a higher rate as a group, than aces.

trans people who are also asexual are 25% more likely to have attempted suicide than hetero trans people. (Gay, lesbian, OR bi trans people: 10% more likely than het trans people. LESS likely than ace trans people.) 

Ace trans people are also 50% more likely than het, gay, lesbian, OR bi trans people to have been homeless. And about 33% more likely to have been evicted for being trans.  (Same study: A higher percentage of trans aces are harassed at work than of trans LGBQ people. A much higher percentage of trans aces have had to quit school because of harassment, than of trans LGBQ people. A higher percentage of trans aces have experienced family rejection, than of trans LGBQ people. A higher percentage of trans aces lack health insurance, than of trans LGBQ people.) 

“The first study that gave empirical data about asexuals was published in 1983 by Paula Nurius, concerning the relationship between sexual orientation and mental health.… Results showed that asexuals were more likely to have low self-esteem and more likely to be depressed than members of other sexual orientations”. 

In 2015, Russia took away the rights of asexual, binary trans people, and many groups of nonbinary trans people, to have driver’s licenses. Thanks to the fact that every diagnostic manual for mental illness in the world still considers “lack of sexual desire” to be a mental illness.

And an ace-inclusive Russian LGBTI+ youth site, the only one in that country, was shut down a few years ago thanks to a 2013 law against “propaganda causing minors to form non-traditional sexual predispositions.”

aces were being studied, as well as being trashed as not-actually-oppressed by the mainstream gay community, almost 50 years ago.

ace invisibility and its effects were already being written about in academia almost 20 years ago.

lesbian and gay publications were casually referencing asexuals almost 50 years ago

mainstream publications were casually referencing asexuals as part of the LGBT+ community 40+ years ago

lots of gen x bisexuals considered aces part of the bi community, before there was a strong separate ace community, because they experienced equal attraction across genders (even though it was an equal lack of attraction in their case) and thousands of aces on Tumblr have shared their present-day experiences (in the notes on this link) with initially thinking they must be bi for the same reason

exclusionists have consistently singled out trans converts to Judaism for personal harassment, and going so far as to doxx one and try to get the rabbi to not let them and their family convert

exclusionists consistently both suicide-bait and defend suicide-baiting

exclusionists have faked screenshots to claim that a (non-ace, non-aro, inclusionist) transfem sexual abuse survivor was boasting publicly about sexually abusing children

Maruti Bitamin on Tumblr and Instagram

Iceland’s Tinna Odinsdottir was raped at a gymnastics competiton 

Former USA Gymnast Vanessa Atler Says She Developed an Eating Disorder Under Valeri Liukin: ‘I’m Still Messed Up’

Amid #MeToo, former Soviet gymnast Tatiana Gutsu accuses fellow Olympic gold medalist of rape   (the ‘fellow gold medalist’ is owner of USAG certified gym, Vitali Scherbo)

Sexual abuse attorney ‘demands’ USOC de-certify USA Gymnastics (note the names Steve Penny, Mary Lou Retton)

Actually, just read the entire collection of IndyStar articles about this case because they are the only ones who covered every development

Katelyn Ohashi’s blog about her time at WOGA

Aly Raisman’s book

Alexandra Marinescu talking about how abusive Belu and Bitang were in her book: https://web.archive.org/web/20070311032747/http://www.gymworld.de/news/article/index0056.html

The story of Elena Mukhina: https://www.rt.com/sport/414212-elena-mukhina-life-story/

The story of Christy Henrich: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-28/sports/sp-20762_1_christy-henrich

Quotes about how abusive the Karoylis were from Emilia Eberle, Adrian Goreac, Rodica Dunca, Ecaterina Szabo, Melita Ruhn, and Geza Pozsar: http://triplefull.blogspot.com/2008/11/karolyi-scandal-quotes-by-adrian-goreac.html

Romanian gymnast that got killed by her coach: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-22/sports/sp-45677_1_romanian-gymnast

John Geddert is abusive: http://wlns.com/2018/01/16/owner-of-popular-twistars-gymnastics-club-faces-abuse-allegations/

Nassar’s enablers: http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/22046031

British Gymnastics fails to suspend abusive coach: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/14/british-gymnastics-alleged-emotional-physical-abuse

More on BG and the exploitative leadership that lets coaches get away with abuse https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/nov/12/british-gymnastics-crisis-max-whitlock-refuse-to-sign-contract

So here’s a true story: my father, sometime in the 70s was looking for his first job. He went to the local McDonalds and told the staff, [manager’s name] said I was supposed to start today. They took his word for it and started training him and by the time the manager saw him and asked who he was, people just said “oh that’s the new guy.”

Somehow this actually worked. My dad worked there for a couple of years as a cook. He even won an award plaque which he had on the wall until the day he died.

you can read more about it here, and here- this excerpt sums up what information Hum will send: 

It tells the user what sites/apps you’re going on, for how long you’re on them, and WHERE YOU ARE ON AN UPDATING MAP.

So you know if you’re in an abusive household and use sites like tumblr to escape and talk to friends, you could be cut off from that.

the evolution of the bird’s-eye view of the iced coffees

4 coffees at the beginning

1 coffee when Simon is alone

5 at the end when everyone is back together

every single line the drama teacher Ms. Albright said

“This is going to look like a real German sex club! Don’t ask me how I know that.”

“Nuh-uh, this is mine now. Imma sell it. Get my tubes tied.”

the love of my life, Abby “at my old school that would’ve been settled with a knife fight” Suso

Bram’s toothy smile when he asks Simon for some fries

when Garrett points to the nerdy freshman and invites him to the Halloween party

“You’ll freak him out, man.”

“Yeah, he’s like nine.”

Simon owns a record player because he’s a useless #aestheticgay

when Simon googles how to dress like a gay guy and a pic of Greg Berlanti comes up

“You look like a drag queen rolled around in magnetic poetry.”

in his dream sequence about being gay in college the banners outside the school say “LIBERAL UNIVERSITY”

actually that entire gaydream is my favorite thing ever (the choreography!!!!)

“We’re good parents.” “Yeah, we’re good parents.”

the entire Waffle House scene

no one in the restaurant cares

that’s just how Waffle House is

the kid who ate poison ivy bc someone told him it was weed #JustPublicSchoolThings

THE REALLY TALL KID WITH THE TRUMPET WTF ICONIC

Martin’s never-ending graphic T-shirts

Simon’s all-hoodie wardrobe? rocks my world.

when Simon is gaydreaming about Bram and Keiynan Lonsdale looks directly into the camera and says, “I can’t stop thinking about kissing you.”

“KeEp YoUr EyEs On YoUr OwN tEsT, sImOn!!!”

when Simon is gaydreaming about Cal and he just gets up from the dinner table to make out with thin air????? a big gay mood

Nick and Abby arguing about Drake while Martin talks to himself in the backseat

the look Leah gives Simon behind his back

when Leah complains that Nick didn’t even fill in the letters on his costume and she does it for him but they’re not even colored in all the way???????????????

actually every single line by Leah??? is gold???

“Is this a Make-A-Wish situation?”

LEAH’S DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHEN SIMON DRINKS THE BEER TO IMPRESS BRAM AND THEN SPITS IT UP A LITTLE YESSSS GAY MOOOOOOOOOD

the squinty-eyes Nick gives Simon when he says, “I just love all women!”

“I could never be just friends with someone that hot.” “Everyday’s a struggle.”

“Maybe it’s something you’re not seeing, right in front of your eyes.” “What am I not seeing?” “NO IDEA!!!” *changes radio station*

every time there is gay dramatic irony

the evolution of Simon’s signatures

Jacques

Love, Jacques