#blanchard

Maria Gutierrez Blanchard (Spanish, 1881 - 1932)      

The Basket Maker, 1924                    

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

tme people stop making up lies about trans women.

trans women who fuck gay men call themselves straight you ding dongs, just like cis women who fuck gay men

this is just woke HSTS ?!!

not to write a huge indirect text wall but. i feel like a lot of ppl on here, mb particularly around the rf side of things, have a not-so-good understanding of blanchard and baileys work and what it means. and honestly i think it's fair to say that much of it was far from perfect (some of their experimental "methods" deserve special derision, and they were definitely influenced by their own strong sexist biases) but i still personally believe there are some useful conclusions to be drawn. namely that autosexual orientations can be entirely the result of nature and not nurture; that they do cause genuine pain and dysphoria; that in a world without systemic forces of oppression - like misogyny, patriarchal gender norms, and homophobia - they would be divorced from much of what ppl (rightfully!) can find disgusting abt them. there shouldn't be a moral weight attached to this form of sexuality, even though it's true that many ppl who have it do objectionable, sometimes evil things. but male homosexuality isnt rejected because pederasts exist (even if some, like NAMBLA, were v loud abt it).

i can't say i have much of substance to add to discourse here. but i do wish that this set of experiences was treated with a little more empathy between those in different subsets of it. as an example, i'm a homosexual male...or at very least this is true wrt my natal sex and upbringing and still arguably is with how i date, have intimacy, etc, but whatever. so it gives me the ick a little when i see some ftm trans ppl idealizing that experience and life, viewing it through rose-tinted glasses, thinking that this pasture which i hate living in has greener grass (and yes i am aware that i have male privilege, and why someone would want it, i just think that should be considered separately from the aforementioned view of a specifically homosexual male experience). but despite that, i can deeply relate to the feeling of irrationally coveting a life and experience that i know i cant rlly imagine or understand, that i will always remain apart from. because i desperately want, without any good reason, to be a heterosexual woman. it'd be harrowing, difficult, traumatic in ways i simply cannot rlly comprehend, but dysphoria isnt and cannot be affected by this.