If you believe in any of the above bullet points, you are either a TERF or you are dangerously close to falling for TERF rhetoric, and no amount of psuedo-progressive language about “centering men” is gonna cover up the fact that you agree with JK Rowling on at least a few points in her crusade against trans people. And that is NOT a good look.

Hi I'm stealth-ish at work and people see me as a cis man but it means I literally cannot talk about my childhood at all ever, or my body, it means I cannot discuss my concerns about reproduction/childbirth when people ask me if I have or want kids, it means I have to bind all day every day or risk being outed (I would prefer not to because my ribs have some issues), it means a certain brand of asshole will default to viewing me as someone it's acceptable to make unguarded transphobic and misogynistic remarks to and I have to actively tell them to stop, it means I cannot call my endocrinologist during work hours (i.e. times their office is open) unless I go outside where no one can hear me... it's so fucking exhausting actually but I only do it because being open would be even more exhausting. I am not privileged by this situation I am hiding

The quickest solution to this is to make someone watch Gattaca and ask them the question: "Did the protagonist have the privilege when they were themselves or did they have to lie and hurt themselves to obtain it? Can someone like them intrinsically have that privilege without needing to mask/hide?" I know that no media/metaphor perfectly relates to real life, but I feel that in this case it's pretty similar. If you have to mask your transness to get at male privilege then YOU don't have a privilege. If transmen could be themselves (including being trans) and have it then yes that would be a privilege. In the current vernacular that is a 'product' which you have had to sign away part of yourself to get at. Surely if transmen have male privilege when they mask that means women could also obtain male privilege by masking. In that case if society assumed that an online creator was a guy would that mean that she would have male privilege?

being trans is awesome ill be like "hey someone was transphobic to me on reddit" and someone else will be like "then get off reddit" and im like "well theyre also transphobic to me on tumblr" and they're like "well thats because youre on tumblr" and ill say "well people are transphobic on instagram and twitter" and people are like "yeah twitter and instagram are cesspits" and its like. i think you guys are missing the point that trans people should not be forced out of any space due to violent rhetoric and threats about who we are and yet its happening all the time. and yall seem to think thats just how it is and it shouldnt be

i don’t think i’m exaggerating when i say that the average height for women in the US would increase by at least an inch if teen girls were allowed to eat as much as teen boys are

and not to bring my own clocky bitch ass into this but if cis women weren’t so consistently starved their entire lives you’d see a lot more cis women with the kind of bodies that we currently associate closely with trans women. the amount that the standards of feminine presentation are culturally defined by malnutrition is crazy

i think they should put doctor who in the public domain and let us all start taking cracks at it on youtube

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

we desperately need sex 2

i just know someone's going to mention kink. girl that's still sex 1. we had to invent BDSM cause we didn't have sex 2. tis but a pale reflection. but it's coming

kink reaches mayyybe like sex 1.3 if it hits just right

when sex 2 comes out what sorts of quality of life updates will be included to help draw in people who never really got into sex 1

more pleasurable. more intellectually stimulating. higher skill ceiling. more dynamic metagame. optionally more mental-emotional alignment between parties. less cleanup. more intuitive. more variety in sensation and activity to match diverse sensory tendencies. smoother integration with parties' coupled emotional processing. and so on

Fishing minigame.

Fishing minigame

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

How descriptive words work 101

Op radiating cinema sins energy with that list lol

OP tagging this as “reasons they stop reading a book in ch 1” yet not grasping like the most basic form of figurative language is… something

Sometimes a guy in a fanfiction has the ability to read someone's gaze with the same level of detail a wine taster can taste the wine

"He glared at him with anger in his eyes, but behind that longing and sorrow over things left unsaid, a subtle but desperate yearning for things to be different, and with just a hint of roasted nuts right at the end."

we've all heard about the male gaze in media, but we've yet to explore the equally important sommelier gaze

the only fun addition to this post

why is it so hot. why is it so hot. I am being punished.