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Just say that we are men at this point. I don't want this wishy washy bullshit about socialisation and power dynamics. You, a cis person, have more power over me than I have over you, and you know this.

Not every intersex person with a vagina was AFAB. I feel like people should maybe comprehend that. Ive seen a lot of hate for people saying "You can have a vagina and be transfem" and regardless of how you feel about afab transfem stuff it doesnt matter because you do not have to have been AFAB to have a vagina.

When I was a kid almost every other kid I knew had parents who were divorced. That wasn't confusing, sad or scary to me, it was just the normal way that people do things. As far as I was concerned, at seven years old, was that adults get married twice. First they marry someone they have their (first) kids with, and then after a while when the kids are older, they get divorced and marry someone who they are actually happy and in love with. That made perfect sense to me.

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

Historian Emma Southon has touched on this in her books A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and A Rome of One's Own, and her newest book Not Built in a Day is specifically about slavery in the Roman Empire. I want to read it, I just need time to brace myself emotionally.

Our language is treated as a joke. Our inclusion is treated as a joke. Why are all alternatives to 'ladies and gentlemen' humorous? What if I wanted to feel included in a formal context? I am still nonbinary during serious conversations. Being nonbinary isn't less serious than being a binary man or woman.

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

i love older pokemon games and stardew valley but i can't play either of them because they both force you to pick a gender to play as. if i want to not be misgendered i have to mod the game‚ which pretty much locks me out of multiplayer. it honestly feels like a metaphor

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.