Any/all pronouns. Lazy agender transfem, also asexual and panromantic(? Or maybe aromantic, basically I’m a mess but I’m trying. Possibly my best, but hopefully not)
We can spout italicised aphorisms all day, but where exactly is that getting us? I’m certainly not going to do nothing and just roll over and accept it, I’m just no longer optimistic that that will accomplish anything. Increasingly the best I can hope for is a V For Vendetta-style drag me out behind the chemical sheds and shoot me
We don’t. I know we shouldn’t give in to despair and whatever but too late, I’ve given into despair. This country is fucked, we’ve got a Labour party in charge with 5 years they’re going to spend basically gift-wrapping the country for Reform. The cunts have won, I just hope I live long enough to say “I told you so”
Wes Streeting is pro child self-harm, at least as long as those children are trans. Fucking scum
Wes Streeting is pro child self-harm
Imagine chickening out of the opportunity to punch a billionaire
I wonder if he reflexively punched Death when He showed up to collect him
We need to make FARTs - Feminism Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes - stick instead
I’d absolutely fall for this. If you show up with a suspiciously big wooden horse I’m not opening the door, if it’s a giant dog I can pet I’ll open the door and rush out to meet it
And if he does, so what? There’s nothing I can do about that so why should I worry?
Something something broken clock
Remember kids, your granny has to freeze to death this winter but we can give millions to fascists
Is that gorilla building up to a confession of sexual attraction to bananas?
But it is in a sense all of those things - you are born with a set of genitals that define your sex, as a result your gender identity is also defined at birth based on the social roles that the society you exist in prescribes. There’s arguably a conversation to be had about the entire concept of gender abolition but that’s a hypothetical that we aren’t anywhere near, for the here and now we have genders and people define what that means for themselves
Not really? That depends on the culture one is growing up in. There’s nothing inherently male or female about any clothes, they are defined as male or female based on the society and its gender ideals. At no point did I define things as strictly male or female, and happily enough the lines on what are considered gendered are blurring, the point remains that gender is socially constructed whereas sex isn’t. You aren’t male because you don’t identify as male, someone who was assigned female at birth however could decide that they want to live their lives as a male and identify that way
I typed most of it up and then thought “I should’ve just gone with the tl;dr” but decided I was already committed 😅
Whatever = gender. Like, what else would it be? You are born with a sex - typically male or female - and then society in general decides what that means for you, girls wear dresses and boys don’t, for example. That is essentially gender, the roles we play given the sex we have, but roles aren’t ingrained - a girl isn’t biologically predisposed to wear a dress, she may be biologically predisposed in general to lean towards a female gender identity that includes dresses, and she also might not, and then might also not be predisposed to lean towards that female gender identity at all and instead be transgender.
A quick and dirty tl;dr would be that sex is between your legs and gender is between your ears.
(Disclaimer: I am also a dumbass who isn’t great at putting words down, doesn’t know as much as they think they do, and also hasn’t entirely woken up yet, somebody much more capable in one or more of these areas will likely explain it much better)
The future is Dumb and I Hate It
Is there to be no browser where I can be free of AI?
It seems much more likely that he’s just trying to salvage what little he can from the wreckage of his political career, if he drops out and endorses Trump maybe he still has something but I don’t see any way Trump gives him any particular attention or favour
This is what we’ve got to look forward to for the next few years isn’t it? Nigel Farage having a fucking perpetual tantrum until he gets all his own way about everything, standards be damned. He’ll probably tantrum his way right into being PM