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i think a new rule of engagement we should have for discourse is that any time someone says "the lesbian community" "the trans community" "the queer community" or something of that ilk you just dead stop the conversation in its tracks until they have successfully explained what group of people they're trying to refer to with this. because there is no such thing as a 'community' that every lesbian, or every trans person, or every queer person automatically belongs to/participates in, and acting like there is, or that we are all otherwise on the same page about which people these 'communities' actually consist of, lets people do a whole lot of lazy generalization that doesn't hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.

...we call the queer community a community because we are choosing to band together for safety and support. it is not woke to say "actually its every man for himself! i have nothing in common with the rest of you freaks!"

ok. well is "we" in this instance Every Single Queer Person on the planet, or are you perhaps doing a bit of generalization that won't stand up to being scrutinized. dont you think there could be some benefit to attempting to establish which people have made that choice you're referring to, and whose safety they are prioritizing. because if you have to make the choice to do this, then it categorically doesn't include everyone. and if it categorically doesn't include everyone, then conversation only stands to benefit by clarifying who it does include.

Lt Surge CANCELLED after controversial FAIRY TYPE DENIALISM remarks on the JOHTO ROGAN SHOW

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

is it culturally appropriate to say “here comes the airplane” to your baby if you had twins

These places need to employ enough people that 70% is enough. Otherwise in a crisis or when someone is sick etc there won't be enough.

this website as a whole is a loooot more into assigning health and moral weight to random stuff based on spiritual value judgements than it realizes, and it also super links health with ethics and goodness of personal character. not reading the right kinds of books / not socializing enough / not having sex / not doing well in school / not working = this is unhealthy = this "rots" your brain and soul = you are a bad person and I'm allowed to insult you into changing your behavior for the general good. this isn't a thought process that's unique to tumblr dot edu at all, but I think the unique tumblr flavor of it comes from an intense feeling of aggressive insecurity; this is the nerdy subcultures website and most of us here have experienced isolation from our meatspace communities in some form so it feels really emotionally rewarding for a person to be able to say See, Compared To This Loser I Actually Have A Very Robust And Normal Social Life.

isnt it interesting how lesbians who are into media with male-dominated casts and are deeply invested in platonic or romantic/sexual relationships between male characters are really not any kind of rarity or outlier. but anyone other than lesbians or bi women being really into media with female-dominated casts and being deeply invested in platonic or romantic/sexual relationships between female characters is a rarity or an outlier. it is almost like there are some sort of structural forces that make mens' stories and feelings a matter of public interest and womens' stories and feelings an afterthought. probably not though i guess it's just an inexplicable result of completely legitimate personal taste that is above critique. oh well.

Why in fallout do so many of the women still act like being beat up by a girl is embarrassing? This is a world where women run major crime operations and fight to the death in blood sport arena matches just as often as men do.

There continues to be this weird tendency for writers to want to make both post-sexism societies and keep the tropes that come from existing in a sexist society at the same time. Bethesda is especially bad at this but they’re not the only ones.