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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
headspace-hotel
skimbly-shanks

Yall do NOT hop on a cosmetic surgery hate train during an ongoing campaign against trans Healthcare I am fucking begging

sweaterkittensahoy

My tits didn't smaller themselves, fuckos. Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

14th-st-soapbox

The sacred bond between trans people who've had plastics and cis people who have had plastics is fucking sacred and I will not tolerate anybody in the queer community trash-talking plastics no matter what it is and who is getting them and for what reason!!!

I want there to not be a line between 'costmetic' and 'necessary'. If there's a line, then insurance companies and whoever-the-fuck-else will decide everything is 'cosmetic'. That happened to me with getting my jaw rebuilt when I was A CHILD. 'oh it's cosmetic' My insurance wrangler lady and the surgeon had to write SEVERAL LETTERS to the damn insurance company detailing out just how graphically I would DIE if I did not get my face rebuilt before I was 18! If 'we won't pay for cosmetic plastics only necessary ones' wasn't a thing, that wouldn't have had to fucking happen!

So you know what? I don't want to hear the word 'cosmetic' out of anyone's mouth. it's ALL just plastics. And all plastics are still 100% the person's choice to get, I don't care what the reason is, all reasons are your business and should be honoured and that's as it should be. As Sweaterkittens said, you either believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

Signed,

A Transman who has had exclusively plastics for all FOUR major surgeries throughout his life.

again. either u believe in bodily autonomy or u don't
byebyeskylark
derinthescarletpescatarian

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

elalmadelmar

> The Jerusalem Post

> Americans

You might wanna double check that one, just saying.

derinthescarletpescatarian

NASA is an American organisation even when foreign journalists report on them

elalmadelmar

NASA is calling it 34 meters, because NASA uses the metric system.

This article is by an Israeli journalist who apparently really likes borzois, and spends half the article infodumping about them.

mossadspydolphin

I used to be in a creative writing group with the guy and I promise you this is absolutely normal for him.

faustandfurious

Quite possibly the funniest thing you could have added to this post.

el hombre que amaba a los perros
txttletale

Anonymous asked:

im having a really hard time trying to reconcile your idea of and ~this site’s~ idea of “perverts/degenerates” with my own history and notions of sexual violence? i know its really deep on a lot of levels wrt homophobia and dehumanization, i know how “perverts” on here are usually victims themselves and intensely interested in the social dynamics behind abuse, and so on like that but i feel like the ambiguous language and the openness about sexuality does tend to push the boundaries of consent in and of itself? likewise ideas about sexual fluidity pushing up against rape/conversion therapy rhetoric. i find a lot of the “theory” to be pretty straightforwardly coercive and i dont know how i can - or how anyone else has been able? - to divorce a “pervert” from someone you should keep your guard up against, someone who has a problem with boundaries, someone who makes the people around them - who did not consent to be part of this act - feel uncomfortable AND unsafe?

txttletale answered:

overwhelmingly, the people in the world who have problems with boundaries and a poor understanding of consent (&, v. importantly, the social power to make that other people’s problem) are straight men with a ‘vanilla/ordinary’ (normative) sexuality. like, a frat boy sexually harassing women on campus (which we can hopefully both agree is both a common occurence and a systemic institutional problem) is not demonstrating 'perversion’–he is displaying an extremely normalized form of sexuality that is broadly embraced by the larger social systems he’s a part of.

the point being that there’s absolutely no link between the 'perversion’ of someone’s sexual preferences and the likelihood that that person will be predatory or make people 'feel unsafe’ or 'feel uncomfortable’. there is nothing 'perverted’ about a man making an unsolicited comment about a part of a woman’s body that is societally considered attractive (e.g. “nice tits!”) but very obviously that is still going to create just as much of an unsafe environment as if he’d said, idk, “nice feet!”. you’re drawing a connection between two entirely disparate sets of behaviours, non-normative sexuality & crossing of boundaries/erosion of consent–when in fact the normative sexual paradigm in our culture is pretty profoundly coercive & dehumanizing & shaky on the importance of consent!

(and also it’s important to note that–frankly–'feeling uncomfortable’ is not a crime or a harm done. i’m sure you are asking this with good faith concern and i want to be very clear that you are never in the wrong for feeling uncomfortable. however, lots of totally harmless and innocuous things in your life will make you feel uncomfortable–building a political platform off that is going to inevitably lead you to reactionary places.)

and i’m not going to touch on your equation of sexual fluidity to 'rape or conversion therapy rhetoric’ except to say that fundamentally it is not rhetoric that creates coercive sexual situations. it is real existing material & social power imbalances that create these situations. any rhetoric that then justifies the situation is produced post-hoc based on the material conditions that created it. if there is a coercive relationship, the person with the power can use any rhetoric to justify anything they like–the problem there does not lie in the 'theory’, just as it does not lie in the 'perversion’, it lies in the material facts of the situation.

werepires
brightsunnydaysofcastamere

My main issue with Sweden winning honestly isn't even about the song, it's the fact that the professional jury consistently rewards non-offensive pop music and punishes entries that are even slightly out there. Sweden just happens to be very good at making non-offensive pop music, which is why they win the jury vote so often.

The problem with that is that it encourages countries to send in non-offensive pop music in order to appeal to the professional jury, most of which will be very mediocre and boring to watch. If the people didn't get a vote, we wouldn't see entries like Finland or Croatia, and that's bullshit! Those kinds of performances are what people watch eurovision for! Nobody wants to see a non-offensive pop music contest. We want originality! We want fun! We want the professional jury to go fuck themselves!

Anyway cha cha cha should have won and I will die on this hill

thunder-the-ranger-wolf
walks-the-ages

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rjalker

This is your chance to get money back from the evil fucking company! They have to fucking pay you now because they've been stealing your data and selling it for a profit!