"op im shaking what the fuck does this mean" type comments are on the rise again because the particle beams stopped emanating from the marvelous contraption i built in my garage
OF COURSE i'm trying to fix it but there's like a thing stuck in the wires all twitching around and it looks gross i don't want to put my hand in there
Just so like... it's clear... anyone who censors words that contain "man" or "men" to anything like "xxn" that's TERF shit.
Any reference to women/womanhood that solely revolves around having a uterus or "womb" is TERF shit.
Any sentence where the OP says they support people being "trans identified" with quotes around ""transwomen"" or ""transmen"" is TERF shit.
I'm seeing a lot of you baby Tumblr gays out there not knowing what these specific TERF dogwhistles look like.
"Wombxxn" is an incredibly dumb way of spelling "woman" that treats the word "man" like a slur and also reduces women to their ability to give birth.
"Trans identified" is their way of saying "this person calls themselves trans, but I don't believe they are."
Saying "People should be allowed to identify however they wish, but we still need to protect women/children" IS TERF SHIT.
Learn to identify this garbage, because not all TERFs are going to spell out their intolerance for you. Some of them are going to try and seem reasonable and polite and normal, and it's fucking dangerous to our community.
Also unpack any internalized transphobia and your transmedicalism, because both those things will have you quickly siding with TERFs and bigots.
It’s such a gift when people offer tumblr literacy like this. I’ve got some additions to offer. I’ve come to understand over the past 11 years, that any reference to the following words in a tumblr username is like at least a 80% chance of imminent terfiness: womb, vulva, ovary, vagina, clit, (and of course rad & radical, too.)
Obviously this isn’t a 1 for 1 thing, but any references to genitalia and gonads like that is a terf fave 🙄
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it a million times more, the terf hold on tumblr feminism is bad bad bad. There’s like a 50% chance it’s a terf if just the word “feminism” is in a u/n and I say that as someone whose personal has it in mine but who hates terfs with a fiery passion I can barely contain.
I’ve got some old post floating somewhere out there where I was bemoaning how it felt like for a bit I had to do like an hour of research before I could reblog any seemingly astute feminist post because there was a whole “stopped clock is right twice a day” thing going on where they would write a (narrowly) good feminist take that would get crazy notes, but turn out to be crypto terf shit. It’s extra exhausting bc they were like “mwahahaha she admitted we’re astute” on the post as if it wasn’t a case of said stopped clock.
Anyway, as always, fuck off terfs.
anyways reminder that scars of any kind are morally neutral and not bad or harmful to show. if that shit is healed and not a literal open wound it is not fucking bad. it is not okay to shame or trigger warning a normal fucking part of someone’s body, including and especially when it’s a sign of physical or mental illness.
look every single time I make posts like this someone comes on my post like “not self harm scars though! those are triggering!” and fucking. think about what you’re implying for just one second here. you’re saying that if anyone has ever even once hit a mental point where they harmed themself in a way that left a lasting mark they can never show their body uncensored again. this is okay to you? you think this is fucking okay?
also, to expand on this: do not assume you know what are and aren't self harm scars. i have 'traditional self harm scar' looking scars that are not self harm, just that i have a cat and scar easily. i have scars that do not look like self harm scars that very much are. you do not have the right to go up to someone and ask "hey, what are you scars from so i can decide if i can censor your body?", nor the right to assume the origin of someone's scars in order to censor their body. In general, no one's scars or any other part of their body is your business
HEY THIS IS A BANGER FUCKING LINE.
Spectral Bat (Vampyrum spectrum)
Spectral bats are one of an estimated 18 bat species known to be monogamous, and one of two known species in which the male provides parental care. In fact, males often sleep with their wings wrapped around their mate and offspring.
image description: headshot of a very soft looking bat with a large chin
image source: Merlin Tuttle
I don't know what I was expecting when I looked up manatee anatomy the other day, but it was not that manatees have like. . . Fully-fledged hand bones.
ALT(They're incapable of individual finger movement but still, according to someone on Reddit that had a male manatee fall in love with her, THEY HAVE A VERY STRONG GRIP.)
ableists are like “elton john has a cane now oh no how sad” as if it doesn’t make him even cooler and sexier and better than all of you. piss off
Do you KNOW how much flamboyance you can contain in one cane? SO MUCH. Maybe he’ll be responsible for creating more cane fashion than ever previously imagined
(via @princepestilence )
Maybe it’s because I just watched a Rock Hudson doc, but it’s really hitting me hard again to think how lucky we are to see queer elders age.
ALSO search “Elton John cane” and behold the probably 40 some odd years he’s used them. They may have been more fashion before but they’re more function now and that’s still cool 🤷♀️
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every single mcu property is like "that's the villain The Puppy Kicker! he wants everyone on earth to have clean drinking water, but also he kicks puppies so he must be stopped. we have no plans to fix the water thing btw"
