My taste is amazing and my opinions are beyond reproach.

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

A little bit for Monica, she's my wife

A little bit for Erica, for her strife

My books all go to Rita, cause she reads

My greenhouse goes to Tina, she plants trees

The furniture is Sandra's, on my lawn

Jewelry for Mary, she can pawn

Ashes go to Jessica, that's my plan

this is what I mean about how right now in the united states (won't speak for elsewhere but feel free to lmk in the notes if you'd like) a lot of us trans adults who are able to access transition care can only do so at the direct expense of trans minors. this clinic would not have opened if they held the line and offered equal access to healthcare to trans minors.

"Martin announced the direct-care clinic, calling it “one of the first times a public health department has ever taken that step.” But when Cabán pushed back, pointing out that trans youth are the ones most under attack right now—noting that there are “almost no providers” left for youth the entire city—Martin indicated the clinic would not serve youth, citing the need to “strike a balance” between providing care and avoiding “clawbacks from the federal government.” This morning, EITM can directly confirm that the age cutoff is 19—matching the Trump administration’s executive order threshold, not the standard legal age of adulthood in New York."

a lot of the structural transphobia we are experiencing is hitting minors even worse. their care gets banned first. if you want a preview of what access to healthcare will look like for us trans adults in 2 years, look at what access looks like for legal minors right now.

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.

and this was the response from tumblr support:

someone At Tumblr @support looked at this, presumably read it in full, and decided that it's fine but maybe they should put a content label ??? content warning for bigotry ???

I recommend all comic fans to read this 2014 article by Janelle Asselin about the oversexualization of women in regards to a cover of DC's Teen Titans (2014) #1 drawn by Kenneth Rocafort. I use the word women here but the subjects of the cover in question are girls, they are underaged teenagers. Janelle Asselin is known for her work as an editor on Batman, Birds of Prey v2, Gotham City Sirens and Red Robin, as well as creation of the "Hire This Woman" initiative as a writer for ComicsAlliance, spotlighting up-and-coming comics creatives.

The backlash to this article was so severe that Asselin received rape threats, death threats, called slurs, and received misogyny sentiment so vitriolic that the almost 2 decade long running CBR forums had to be shut down, wiped clean of all history, and rebooted.

The article itself is... not particularly intense. It's a straightforward critique, and Asselin goes for a meaningful but pointed tone while making her point in a factual way, perhaps because she could predict what the response would be. She says is that DC needs to take a second look at their demographic and maybe, just maybe, don't sexualize teenagers! She even praises Rocafort for his art.

Former Teen Titans artist Brett Booth accused Asselin for having a hidden agenda behind her criticism as she had left DC, and calling her out for being "sexist to men."

Janelle Asselin later worked as an editor for Rosy Press, which published "Fresh Romance," an anthology of romance comics. She later left the comics industry as a whole in 2016, the same year she came out as a lesbian. In 2017, she explained in an interview the reason she'd left DC in 2011, after she, along with many other women, reported editor Eddie Berganza for sexual harassment and sexual assault (making multiple unwanted advances like kissing), and no significant action was taken until 2017 when Buzzfeed made these allegations public and Berganza was fired.

Rocafort was later a part of the alt-right Comicsgate movement. Brett Booth has a long running history of discriminatory comments but continues to work as a comic artist, notably on several X-Men comics in recent years.

My main motivation for writing this post is for people to understand that misogyny in the superhero fandom is not in our rearview mirror. It is present and prevalent to this day in artwork, writing, as well as the comic industry and culture as a whole.

Links for further reading:

Janelle Asselin's website

Let's Talk About How Some Men Talk to Women In Comics by Janelle Asselin (archived Tumblr post where Asselin discusses firsthand the backlash she received)

Fake Geek Guys: A Message to Men About Sexual Harassment by Andy Khouri (documenting the misogynistic backlash Asselin faced over her article)

The Comics Giant Behind Wonder Woman Is Accused Of Promoting An Editor After Women Accused Him Of Sexual Harassment by Jessica Testa, Tyler Kingkade, Jay Edidin (this is the 2017 article only after which DC fired Berganza)

- "the term is gendered" (it's not, and feminine equivalents were sometimes created specifically for the purpose)

- "they didn't actually do things as knights" (who didn't? The Hatchet women fought the Moors. A few other Orders had women as masters of arms. Both martial and formal examples)

...and a few other reasons that come down to "I don't like imagining my manly men in steel had women in their ranks, girls have cooties".

And the reason I say this is because recently, Wikipedia updated their page on "Knight", specifically adding a section about women with the title of knighthood, and what function they performed. And I know: "Wikipedia is not an academic source"--but every academic institution will accept the sources and articles used to back up wikipages, which confirm what has been said.

I saw this and needed to answer.

The gendered versions of 'knight' come from Romance languages, and literally just change the word to fit the gender of the subject (within a binary). So it isn't like English, where a female knight has always been a 'Dame', but, using Spain as an example, the word for Knight in Spanish is 'Cabellero'. This is the default masculine.

The feminine word for Knight? 'Cabellera'.

Similarly in French: "Chevalier" becomes "Chevaliére".

In Italian, "Cavaliere" becomes "Cavaliera".

Outside of Romance languages, "knight" is just a title for a social rank, so even the English Dame is by default a knight by rank, but may not have the title (although not impossible).

Just a note about translations and ... well, patriarchal bullshit.

When you say "Hatchet women fought the Moors" I was like "hey, that seems to be part of my local history, how have I never heard about it?", and when I googled it ... I actually have heard about it, it's the Orden del Hacha from Catalonia (Orde de l'Atxa in the original Catalan). But ... there's something odd going on. Why the fuck in English they have translated like "Order or the hatchet"? You know, in Spanish and Catalan there's no really a difference between "Axe" and "Hatchet": There's a single word for them, "Hacha/Atxa". But in English, there's a difference. A Hatchet is a hand axe, pretty much the smallest one you can think of:

So It's pretty remarkable that whoever translated the name of the order to english first decided to use "Hatchet" and not "Axe". I'm pretty sure if this was a order of men warriors the name would have been pretty different. Specially when THIS was their coat of arms:

expensive horses that love

to die aren’t they