my 23-year-old moot: mommy put her cigarette out on me today 😵💫
the 16-year-old on my timeline: if you fantasize about premarital sex that's basically rape 😬😬😬
There is an enormous difference between older Zoomers (96-05) and younger Zoomers (06-10) that basically completely seperates the two entirely- old Zoomers grew up on a precensored Internet, Newgrounds, flash etc, while young zoomers grew up on a fully censored web.
Every trans girl has two genders:
- Woman
- Her actual gender that is complex and informed by a lifetime of alienation and abuse and attempts at making masculinity work for her but that she can't publicly express because people will use it to invalidate her womanhood.
this was mostly light-hearted by the way. it's normal for teens to go thru a moralistic phase, most of them grow out of it
I just wish they'd stop doing transphobic dogpiles about it :/
ultimately the blame rests on social media fueling absolutism and conflict
@Sinister_Sophia
thinking about the possiblity that she purposefully choose to let the world believe she was a cis man in the end because she knew her sacrifice wouldn't have as much impact as a trans woman............
@Newposter2
"she mentioned hiring prostitutes from brothels in her unfiltered autobiography about her real, messy, human life and it ruined it for me"
ppl only wanting to consume safe content where the subjects are morally and ethically perfect is so legitimately dangerous and worrying
@saltimbanqu3tt3
my point was not "children should have unwanted sexual content shoved in their faces" I don't see how you could get that out of what I said. do you think I'm a pedo?
step back and try to think what my point ACTUALLY was
@ndsnas
I'm not someone capable of much hope for the world
but idk
it feels like this Palestine situation is the tipping point we've all been waiting for
@PolygonalShivs
someone mentioned the other day how the 3DS was the last major console major devs could make reasonable mid-budget games for
the 4K Ultra, fully voice acted era of gaming is simply not sustainable and it's gonna take a crash for them to admit it
@Ranting_Trans
it's so wild that an anime with a character that looks like that and a scene like that one is one of the best mainstream anime in terms of queer rep 🤭
need more media that gets silly with it, cïs ppl usually treat gender so deathly seriously
@saltimbanqu3tt3
correct. the context of course being that the latter have spent the past three days sending death threats and transphobia to trans women because an adult trans woman posted a pic on her own Twitter of her engaging in a kink they don't like
what do you object to here?
@Interrobang_2
20th century: *has computers*
ppl: what if I'm trapped in a simulation? 😰
15th century: *has stained glass*
ppl: what if I'm made of glass? 😰
I'll bet there were cavemen who were worried they were made of rocks
people, please stop arguing with accounts named CunnyHitler1488 over Hbomb and James Somerton, they're not speaking in good faith and you're just giving them engagement
@thomas_violence
also I can tell you for a fact at least seven of the kids in that photo were violently homophobic
early 2000s school was NOT chill if you were queer, things are MUCH better now
@TamaraINassar
notice how it's "US Embassy staff" and not just "Americans"
targeting the responsible government and not just all citizens
more than we can say for Israel
@jackiedotnet
maybe this is why it's so much easier for me to keep caring about the pandemic, still wear masks in crowds, still test - I've been living in lockdown for over thirty years, it's always been my normal
@JAlexBenham
puberty hit and I started turning into a man and I was like "nope, don't like this"
I'll never be able to describe to anyone who's not transfeminine the devastation of voice deepening
@Picklemaddierix
probably not intentionally or maliciously but you KNOW he's going to say something wildly out of pocket like "I love working with her because she has both a man's perspective and a woman's perspective in one" or something
@Jack_River_13
@Sinister_Sophia
it just means we have to work harder to make the world the kind of place where no one would ever have to make that sort of calculation
@vera_tenacious
I mean, not to say "I told you so" but a lot of us have been talking about this non-stop for four+ years and most people react with hostility, calling us alarmists and hypochondriacs
your government failed you but many of us tried to warn you and you attacked us
@whstancil
EARNINGS TRIPLE?!!
there's no way that's not just because of CEOs and billionaires, I don't know ANYONE who's making substantially more money now than, well, ever really
minimum wage hasn't risen, companies are greedier than ever
the idea that ppl are doing better is perverse!
@bloomfilters
along the same lines, for a lot of ppl it means admitting THEY were abused
"that can't be abuse, because my parents did that, and they're not abusers"
@HardDriveMag
this joke is no longer funny, hasn't been for a decade, and it's actively contributing to ppl staying with Windows and enduring invasions of privacy
enough!
@gummigremlin
but isn't it almost exclusively trans ppl who do this? you say it's a fetish thing as if cis ppl are constantly interpreting characters as trans but in my experience they don't, it's pretty much only trans ppl who headcanon characters as trans
@PolygonalShivs
I'm gonna be so irritated once the crash happens and half the devs in the world go under and tens of thousands lose their jobs and THEN tech articles will offer postmortems that are just all the criticisms we've been making for a decade 😑
@judgementshae
it's also worth noting that every disabled person knows this exact response anytime we point out that community spaces aren't accessible to us
few things get ppl as angry as simply stating that your needs are different from most ppl's and aren't being met
@2xdbreakfast
I think of it this way: ppl throughout the middle east (which is not trans-friendly) are parading around images of "Aaron" the hero, martyr of humanity
once Palestine is free, we could bring the truth to light, and this could be the spark of trans rights in the middle east
this is a program that copies floppy disks. it can bypass copy protection, but fundamentally, it's just a disk copying program: that's all it does
yet LOOK at it 🤩
@sevenftrenegade
as much as we say Twitter gives you brain worms it's hilarious to realize we've just always been like this
the ppl who go on about chemtrails today would've said the colors of stained glass give them ill humours yestercentury 🤭
@MNateShyamalan
battery indicators lie so the highest percentages drain really slowly so when you get a new device and it's 20 minutes before it drops from 100% to 99% you think "this has amazing battery life!" and gush about it online, never noticing it goes from 56% to 55% in five minutes
@TheTrueKingOfOz
wtffffffff ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
I was literally just talking about (him, I guess) with my brother earlier today while we were discussing the Nintendo Direct that's so wild!
@skitterspatial
we skipped age gap discourse during Pride so it's all pent up and it's gonna be worse now that it's arrived
personally I'm going to form a polycule with someone 15 years younger AND 15 years older than me in protest
everyone's saying "I just want Switch 2 to be a more powerful Switch" and while that would be cool in and of itself, if Nintendo becomes like Sony and Microsoft and just releases basic power upgrades instead of wacky new consoles like they used to, I'd be pretty sad about it
@ahumblecabbage
I keep looking for but can't find an old Tumblr post talking about this concept: getting so into a niche online queer space you think vanilla stuff is marginalized
it concludes with a sarcastic "let 👏 men 👏 be 👏 masculine! 👏"
@salina_cutee
@Ranting_Trans
to me, that's what counts most ☺️ ppl who aren't marginalized a certain way don't know anything about it, and that's fine. what matters is learning and doing better
@emializh
we actually do! the reason you only see those two types is because c1s people control all media outlets and those are the two types they tend to let us publish
can't market on diversity to progressives if your trans author isn't writing about transness
@Papapishu
if you had come to me and said "we're gonna train a machine learning image generation program by scraping millions of images off the internet" my IMMEDIATE response would've been "oh, you shouldn't do that, it'll get a lot of CSAM"
this is (literally) criminal negligence
@jade_fuchsia
sweetheart this is fascist rhetoric
bodily autonomy means ppl can do whatever they want with their bodies - it's not up to you or anyone else to prevent them from potentially regretting any decision, that's their decision and theirs alone
@PinkNews
you can't announce you're abandoning us in the legal realm then keep trying to get clicks off us you absolute ghouls
keep our name out of your fucking mouth 🖕
@caraesten
very notable that Finn gets doxxed right after coming out as trans
when he was a femboy nobody cared, nobody dug into his private life
this is absolutely targeted determent meant to discourage ppl from coming out as trans
@b0tster
"this was published without a committee-wide vote" they're trying to 'one bad egg' this? why is there someone who would write this on the committee in the first place!
@Sinnoware
oh wow, I never noticed it being used so often like that! thanks
and I suppose in this game it sends you this chastising in-game message when you enter it too many times?
@NAMIYONCE
I love the fan theory that Luffy's dad is actually Luffy's mom and Ivan used the Horu Horu power on her after birth
in One Piece, it's not outside the realm of possibility 🤭
@existentialli
@b0tster
corniness doesn't need criticism, why would it? what could you expect as an outcome?
person: *does thing*
you: respectfully, that's corny
person: oh okay I won't do that anymore
??????
@cal50
that's the tragic thing: even if you personally don't use social media, and just use forums and chatrooms and an old CRT computer, the very world itself at every level (social, consumer, political, military) is affected by the ubiquity of the modern internet
we can't escape it
@SKerosiini
big studios refuse to make indie-level budget games because there's an entire culture full of tech bros telling ignorant shareholders they have to use the latest Big Numbers tech blorbo or the game won't sell, and those shareholders then make demands big devs can't refuse
@thespicexqueen
I don't think someone asking for mutual aid because they don't have money to eat that day is concerned about whether their act is Revolutionary™ or not, if I'm completely honest
@libhawkish
ah yes, because currently we're completely safe and nobody's coming at us
ppl hating on femboys means we're next. next, of course, because we're not currently under attack
@cisgenderhaver
because they see all women as potential mates and nothing more, and they aren't personally attracted to septum rings (fine) thus a woman with such a piercing is taking away a potential mate from them so they angy (not fine)
I cannot BELIEVE this has become a BITTERLY controversial position on the left
consent is all that matters. the moment you decide ppl aren't allowed to do X, Y or Z because you personally dislike it is the moment you've embraced fascism
@maidensblade
*I* think a lot of the kink discourse is a due to a fundamental rejection of full bodily autonomy by most of the "left"
we're born steeped and stewing in a fascist culture and it takes a LOT to wring it all out
@qwertymodo
it doesn't matter if emulation is legal if a billion dollar company can shut you down merely by throwing a lawsuit at you that you can't possibly defend against
@ThatMetroidGuy
we know Sylux built his own copy of Samus' power suit based on stolen designs: it would not surprise me if he's made his own Metroid clones
this guy's a mad scientist genius