racism again (this stuff is my job, don't expect me to slow down), referencing events
like okay i think i have this out of my system for the moment but uh like
no. no you don't get to enjoy being white. that's not how it works. the entire CONCEPT of being white was created as a superiority thing. WE did this. not anybody else. White people are the ones who decided that white meant "the domineering ethnicities." I mean, that's how races get homogenized and "turned white." that's the criteria.
you can't reform the police because the system isn't broken, its actually working at peak efficiency. you're just now realizing its intended purpose.
how to insult a trans person without being a transphobic fartnozzle about it
oh! you mean like [insert BreadTuber here]? i love [their] work!
how to insult a trans person without being a transphobic fartnozzle about it
why don't you go read PubMed or something
how to insult a trans person without being a transphobic fartnozzle about it
pssst your roots are showing, do you want people to think you're a natural greenhead or not?
iiii waaaaant more tattoos: a discreet and/or discrete little trans-istor on my hip; wildflowers from home (the unkillable ones like dandelions, clover, thistles — *maybe* phlox and/or violets if I’m feeling delicate) growing up around one ankle; even just the tired old trans pun “on ne naît pas femme” on a banner …
anyway this is part of why it is a HUGE deal that gay people, and aspects of our personal lives that cishets share openly, are considered inappropriate for children and for public spaces where children are present.
it is a defining nature of our oppression, like that of ableism, that gay people arise in every setting from every background and are largely raised by people who do not share our oppression. and parents have a frightening amount of control over their children.
while it is almost never true of any period in history or in any place that *adults* are truly ignorant of gay people, it is *often* true that for a substantial portion of our childhoods, gay children's only exposure to gay people is threats and dire warnings.
the illusion for gay adults that there are no gay people in the past is relatively incomplete. by contrast, the illusion that there are no gay people, in the past or now, is relatively complete for gay children.
openly gay teachers are life-or-death.
Jerome K Jerome on FOSS
“There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can “overhaul” it, or you can ride it. On the whole, I am not sure that a man who takes his pleasure overhauling does not have the best of the bargain. He is independent of the weather and the wind; the state of the roads troubles him not. Give him a screw-hammer, a bundle of rags, an oil-can, and something to sit down upon, and he is happy for the day....”
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