Alright, lets do weird crap... FOR SCIENCE

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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
animate-mush
poetavaquero

dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat

so who’s on first?

you-say-that-so-often

That’s right 👍🏻

four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat

that’s strange

you-say-that-so-often

No, he’s on second.

four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat

Well how’s he on second if he’s on first?

you-say-that-so-often

No no no, House is on third. Second base is Strange.

supreme-leader-stoat

Well this whole darn thing is strange but what I’m asking is who’s on first?

cplus902

Naturally.

supreme-leader-stoat

Who?

screwtornadowarningsimsouthern

Naturally.

supreme-leader-stoat

So Naturally is the first baseman?

screwtornadowarningsimsouthern

No. The first baseman is Who.

supreme-leader-stoat

Well I don’t know that so how’s about you tell me?

screwtornadowarningsimsouthern

House is on Third.

supreme-leader-stoat

I’m not asking you about third base I’m asking you about first base.

screwtornadowarningsimsouthern

Who’s on first!

supreme-leader-stoat

This is horrible

screwtornadowarningsimsouthern

Dr Horrible is the pitcher, not first base

supreme-leader-stoat

That’s not what I’m asking about! No!

wrenchinator-central

Dr No is in the outfield, but let’s not worry about them right now.

mierac

*applauds wildly*

fuckyeahasexual
what-even-is-thiss

A lot of people genuinely think that being transgender is a sexual fetish and that’s why they think it’s inappropriate for us to be around children or for children to learn about us or for children to transition. It’s similar to why they don’t want gay people around their children.

Basic logic doesn’t matter to them. If this was just a sex thing I wouldn’t commit to it this hard. My day to day existence as myself isn’t any more inherently sexual than the day to day life of a cishet man. Same goes for trans women, non binary people, and gnc cis ppl that choose to physically transition.

We all know this. A lot of bigots will also claim to know this. But this was the official explanation of and the public’s general understanding of trans people for decades. That we have a sexual fetish we’re going way too far with. There’s still older trans people who self-identify that way because leaning into these misconceptions was the only way they were able to get healthcare back in the day. These ideas are deeply engrained into society and don’t vanish overnight.

This is what a lot of people think about when they see us. Sex. It’s all about the sex part to them. Our day to day existence is inherently involving other people in our fetish to them. And yeah. Transitioning can lead to better satisfaction with your sex life. But that’s mostly because it leads to better satisfaction with every part of your life. But again. Basic logic doesn’t matter to bigots. But learning this explained a lot to me about why they react to us the way they do. It is a dislike of things they don’t understand, yes, but it’s also decades of everyone assuming that we’re just publicizing a fetish we have and making it everyone else’s business.

what-even-is-thiss

You’re not gonna easily convince bigots. Bigotry is based on emotional reaction and peoples emotional reactions aren’t easily changed.

However, knowing what the general public is thinking just under the surface can be useful when getting information out there. That’s why trans women are women, trans men are men, non binary people are non binary has become a rallying cry and repeated mantra for the trans rights movement in recent years. We’ve been fighting inch by inch to change the narrative. I’m not a woman pretending to be a man for my own twisted sexual satisfaction. I am a man. When I’m cooking, when I’m on the bus, when I’m pissing, when I’m hanging out with my cousins. Every second of my life I’m not a woman. Not just when I’m thinking about sex.

And changing the narrative has been working. Slowly. Just the fact that many young people today don’t know about the existence of this stupid take that used to be the standard explanation is a win. The fact that official psychiatric boards recommend we be allowed to transition is a win.

But the people making laws restricting our rights are still thinking about this even if they say they’re not. We need to keep this as a stupid braindead take. Anyone who thinks this needs to be seen as an idiot. It cannot become a mainstream talking point again.

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And yes the collective cultural memory of this braindead take are what TERFs are thinking about when they claim that trans women shouldn’t be allowed in women’s spaces. This is generally where people’s fear of trans women comes from a lot of the time. There’s other equally stupid things as well but once you know about this a lot of the stupid things that people say about trans people and especially trans women start to make sense.

It’s also partially why concerned parents in recent years have been concerned about trans men influencing their daughters. Any trans person can be considered a confused oppressed little woman who doesn’t know what’s best for her or a dangerous overly sexual man recruiting others to his twisted fetish depending on the situation. That’s the fun part about subverting gender expectations. Literally any gender stereotype that sounds the worst depending on the situation can be applied to you.

makingqueerhistory
makingqueerhistory

[Image Description: Circular black button with the words “Transsexual Menace Chicago” in the center. “Transsexual” is in white color, “Menace” in red, and “Chicago” in white.]

[Image Description: Round button with pink text on black background. The button reads “absolute QUEER”.]

[Image Description: Circular yellow button with the phrase “BE NICE TO SEX WORKERS” around the rim. Also, a smiley face is located in the center.]

[Image Description: Pink lightbulb on blue background with black text. The button reads “Feminists for Transgender Liberation”]

[Image Description: Round button with black text over purple background with black and pink image of person in makeup and updo with leather jacket. The button reads “Gender Outlaw”.]

[Image Description: Round buttons with black text on pink, blue, and purple mottled pattern. The button reads “geNDERtrash”.]

These buttons and pins are from multiple institutions and include a variety of symbols related to the LGBTI community. This collection includes pins from Alison Laing, who is an activist involved in a number of trans rights organizations and events.              

midwestmothman
feminismandmedia

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LPT: Don't throw your junk mail away. Use it to to help the USPS instead!

Next time you get a credit card offer in the mail, or a junk piece of mail that includes a prepaid envelope or postcard, don't throw it away! Send the envelope back with a blank sheet of paper inside, or don't fill the postcard out, but still send it back. The company that sent it to you had to pay the USPS for postage on each one they get back. This is a way to support the USPS by doing very little, and sticking it to the annoying companies that want all of your money.

thurisazsalail

In the 90s we would send companies “hate mail” by stuffing prepaid envelopes with things like ‘blanks’ (flat heavy metal pieces), a roofing shingle) and layers of other competitors’ mail or junk news. This is because the company would have to pay more upon recieving the junk mail. It eats into them. It actually somewhat reduced our junk mail returnables, I think. 

Send that mail y’all. 

barrebard

Except please don't do this to nonprofits!!


If you do this when you get a donation request or something from a nonprofit, you'll be forcing small organizations with very little overhead to deal with the incoming mail and paying for the postage.

Credit card companies? YES. Personal loan offers? ABSOLUTELY. The chain store you've never shopped at who bought your info from a competitor? BY ALL MEANS.

But don't do this to your local "Friends of the Library" fundraiser or homeless outreach program or anything like that. You'll be draining their limited resources that would be better used elsewhere.

dragonsrequiem

Feel free to do it to groups like Salvation Army, PETA, or Susan Komen cuz fuck them.

keyla-lovely

Hey y'all. I was talking to a retired postmaster about this.

She was 100 percent for this, bit please PLEASE do not use metal pieces or roof tiles. It can jam the sorting machines and cost the office millions to replace it.

Cardstock? Other papers? Fine. They are flexible. They go through the machine without issue.

So go ahead, send the junk mail, but limit it to paper.

animate-mush
marghen

what in the name of bisexual awakening is going on here on this day

[ID. An illustration and a detail close up of two characters: a woman with unnaturally pale skin and a form-fitting Victorian ballgown crouches over Jonathan Harker, a young man with light brown skin and dark brown hair, as he reclines on a fainting couch. He has a noticeable shaving scar on his left cheek and stubble on his chin. He wears a white collared shirt with braces and a black necktie hangs loose around his neck. The woman bares her fangs above Jonathan’s exposed neck and her blonde hair flows back behind her. Jonathan looks out under his eyelashes with a look of both distress and longing. End ID.]

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utopians

criminal profiling is just astrology for cops

utopians

taking a forensics class and watching the professor explain one by one how criminal profiling, hair microscopy, and bite mark analysis are all pseudoscience responsible for ruining innocent lives, and how on top of that, fingerprint analysis, despite being significantly more reliable, is subjective and prone to contextual bias. and also bullet striation analysis has the same issues. and also bullet lead analysis doesn’t work. and also handwriting analysis has an error rate high enough to render it useless

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telltaletypist

damn i'm almost starting to think the entire criminal justice system only exists to provide the illusion of protection while justifying state violence idk

aeligsido
fuckyeahgoodomens

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Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)

Neil Gaiman: Hi, I'm Neil Gaiman. I'm wearing the first red T-shirt I've worn since 1987. Because I'm a member of the WGA. I'm on strike. I care so much for the things that I've written but I'm out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.