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Public Service Announcement
I follow everyone that I follow for a reason. However, none of those reasons are strong enough to convince me to keep following people who insist on hypocrisy and bigotry. So I’m just going to state this outright for the record right the fuck now so I don’t have to worry about it ever again.
If I see a post or reblog on my dash in which someone is touting equality and being a fucking bigot while doing so, I will unfollow that user immediately, no questions, no anything. Just gone.
If you are saying that white people need to stop being racist, but black people are perfectly fine -
If you are saying that Cis people are putting Trans people down, but Trans people can do no wrong -
If you are saying that women are oppressed but men have it so fucking easy -
If you EVER FUCKING say ‘I don’t care about another missing white girl’ -
HEY GUESS WHAT. BIGOTRY HAS NEVER BEEN EXCLUSIVELY CISGENDER, MALE, STRAIGHT, OR WHITE. IT HAS NEVER EXCLUSIVELY BEEN THE REALM OF THE GOOD-LOOKING OR THE ABLE-BODIED.
I am SO tired of everyone pretending it is.
IF YOU’RE GOING TO TOUT EQUALITY TOUT EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE, NOT JUST WHICHEVER MINORITY YOU FEEL LIKE BACKING TODAY.
Just so everyone knows where I stand.
/unpopular opinions go
/yolo
Maybe I will just… have a fight with my mother and be the mature, rational one who isn’t being defensive when it should be the other way around.
I think I am having an anxiety attack.
Maybe I will just never actually try to communicate my actual feelings with my mother.
Good plan best plan?
Post reblogged from No light. with 2,250 notes
If trans* people tell you something you’ve done is transphobic -
If people of color tell you something you’ve done is racist -
If women tell you something you’ve done is sexist -
If queer people tell you something you’ve done is homophobic -
If disabled people tell you something you’ve done is ableist -
If any oppressed group tells you that something you’ve done is oppressive -
- then you fucking. Don’t. Do. It. Again.
Good message, but I have a question.
If a Cis* person tells you that you’ve done something Cisphobic-
If a man tells you that you’ve done something sexist-
If a Caucasian tells you that you’ve done something racist-
If a heterosexual tells you that you’ve done something heterophobic-
If a non-disabled person tells you that you’re discriminating against them because they’ve never had the chance to know how you feel-
What then?
When you’re advocating for one group, what happens to the other? What happens to a cisgender person who slips up a couple of times, but tries really hard, and is told they’re not allowed to call themselves an ally? What happens to the man who is raped and is told that obviously he could have fought the woman off, or is attacked by a radical feminist for an offhanded comment? What happens to a Caucasian person who is told constantly that she is racist, but is told that being called ‘cracker’ and ‘toothpaste’ and other derogatory terms is acceptable because of something that she never did, that she has no control over? What happens to the straight man who is told he’s ‘just being silly’ and that ‘everyone is a little bit gay, you should just try it’?
If you’re going to advocate, advocate for everyone.
Otherwise it’s just hypocrisy.
Transphobia has a counterpoint in Cisphobia.
Sexism comes from all genders.
Racism has never been the exclusive domain of the ‘White’.
Homophobia happens as often in heterosexuals as Heterophobia does in homosexuals.
The disabled are picked on, but a lot of people with ‘disabilities’ use them for their advantage.
I mean. I’m transgender, male, and gay, and was raised to be cis female and straight, so at least you can’t really say that I’m spewing Cis Priveledged Male bigotry or whatever.
Idk guys.
Just some food for thought.
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Post reblogged from kanjou seigen with 31 notes
Holding Down and Terrorizing a Crying, Pleading Boy Is Not a “Prank,” Mitt
from Paul Constant at The Stranger:
Dan posted on this earlier this morning, but Republicans are trying to dismiss it as a “boys will be boys” kind of thing, and it’s not true. This is important. I want you to read this passage at the beginning of the Washington Post story:
John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another.
That’s more than a kick-me sign surreptitiously clapped onto some nerd’s back. That’s assault. Here’s Romney’s apology:
“Back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that,” Romney said in a live radio interview with Fox News Channel personality Brian Kilmeade. Romney added: “I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school, and some might have gone too far, and for that I apologize.”
He claims to not remember the incident. Let me repeat that: He claims not to remember the incident where he held down a boy who was crying and screaming for help as he cut the boy’s hair with a pair of scissors. It’s obviously a scene that burned itself in the memories of at least five other participants, but Romney calls it a “prank” and says he doesn’t remember it.
Look, everyone does shitty things as kids, it’s true. But this kind of violence in response to nonconformity doesn’t just wash itself out of someone’s system when they turn 30. This is an issue of character. And before you excuse Romney for doing this because it’s what any rich white prep school kid would do at that time, you should note that at almost the exact same time Mitt Romney was assaulting and humiliating a student for being effeminate, George W. Bush was defending a gay classmate from his fellow Yale bullies:
It was 1965, I believe — my junior year, his sophomore. We were making our usual sarcastic commentaries on those who walked by us. A little nasty perhaps, but always with a touch of humor. On this occasion, however, someone we all believed to be gay walked by, although the word we used in those days was “queer.” Someone, I’m sorry to say, snidely used that word as he walked by.
George heard it and, most uncharacteristically, snapped: “Shut up.” Then he said, in words I can remember almost verbatim: “Why don’t you try walking in his shoes for a while and see how it feels before you make a comment like that?”
Remember, this was the 1960s — pre-Stonewall, before gay rights became a cause many of us (especially male college students) had thought much about. I remember thinking, “This guy is much deeper than I realized.”
When George W. Bush makes you look like a piece of shit, you’re doing something wrong.
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Watching American Idol season 11 and wondering if maybe when the next starting auditions happen I’ll finally have the nerve to go try out.
Any response that isn’t ‘You’re awful’ would be so much more than I would go in expecting.
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I find it insulting when people insist to a suicidal person that “they have so much to live for,” and that “they are stronger” than their suicidal impulse. As if the person in question isn’t entirely aware of those things, as if the chemical, neural imbalances or possibly external factors in them that are creating those feelings can easily be “overcome” if only they’re “strong” enough. Does that imply that they reason they’re suicidal in the first place is because they’re not strong? That they’re weak, in fact, for feeling the way that they do? It is not encouraging or helpful to say these things to a suicidal person, in my opinion. It smacks of shaming them; “oh, nothing’s really wrong, you’d be just fine if only you were strong enough. You should get on that.”
Suicidal people who are still suicidal and not dead have already proven their strength, as far as I’m concerned. And even those who commit suicide and “succeed” in the end can’t fairly be discounted as weak - everyone makes mistakes, sometimes deadly ones, and theirs wasn’t even their fault provided it was inspired by a mental illness. I’ve had plenty of people try to bring me back from the brink of a devastating depression by telling me that I’m so much stronger than it, and I can safely say that all I felt in those moments was shame, for not being strong enough to simply not feel that way. I’m not trying to speak for anyone else, but as far as I’m concerned, hearing that hurts more than it helps when you’re that low. So fuck you, I don’t need to hear that I’m stronger than my depression. I knew that already, it doesn’t change how I feel. You can’t sprinkle magic sparkle unicorn words over a chemical imbalance and make it go away. Don’t trivialize, invalidate, what I’m going through like that.
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Post reblogged from Life as Liquid with 3 notes
Posting a lot at once, but I just have nothing else to do
I just kinda want some followers so I can get some conversation going? Sorry I kinda find tagging posts with things just to gain followers weird, but like… I don’t know. LE SIGN.
Here is my story, behind a cut so it doesn’t flood tags. I ramble and make no sense sometimes, so if something is unclear or anything don’t hesitate to ask me to clarify. It talks about dysphoria so that’s just a warning for those who aren’t up to reading about that.
I haven’t told my story on this blog yet, but I can definitely relate to a lot of the things you’re posting here, especially the disassociation between face, body, and self-identity? I hope everything continues going if not well, then at least not badly for you!
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Photo reblogged from Art of Transliness with 747 notes
A little vent art I did on a spree. I’m sure a good amount of you guys can relate.
You can find me here
I simply cannot hold how incredibly accurate this feeling… will probably be in the near future.
I’ve just begun binding, and while it hurts my pride to turn to the side and still not be flat, it hurts less than turning and seeing tits jutting out. I love the feeling of it around my ribs, holding me in and reminding me exactly where my body is. It also helps me remember that I have some parts that I don’t mentally envision myself with, so I am less distraught when I do encounter them.
But the fact that I have to bind to feel comfortable, that hurts. :/
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Post reblogged from Mind in the gutter, head in the clouds with 9 notes
apparently
Im not a true trans boy because I was “too girly” when I was younger
I didnt have any of “the signs” so Im just going through a phase
according to mom
Oh, geez, this is basically exactly what’s going on with my mother right now.
I don’t know how long ago this was posted, but, uh, I certainly hope it’ll work out better for you.
:/
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