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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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spacelazarwolf

Because of my eating disorder, my hair is falling out. I think about the horror of going bald—a permanent loss of vitality. I think about how it would destroy the feeble androgyny that is my only comfort in this body. I think about my grandmother, bald from cancer, and what that did to her. And I hear my proudly misandrist-identifying cisfemale friends making fun of bald men as if it were a shortcoming or decision of the men themselves. Bald men make them think of television pedophiles. Bald men remind them of self-indulgent authors and desperate improvisers. I see men on the train losing their hair, their youth, their options, and I feel for them. It’s not funny. It’s a dysmorphic nightmare for anyone. I don’t bother mentioning that I find the jokes unnecessary and insensitive. I know what the girls will say.

natashafromfallout

trans ppl shouldn’t have to out ourselves to not be on the receiving end of “all men are evil and dangerous and i have a right to lash out at them bc they’re my oppressors uwu.” and if ur wondering “then how am i supposed to know who’s my oppressor” consider this: individual human beings u randomly encounter on the street or in the grocery store aren’t ur oppressor. also if ur constantly analyzing the identity of everyone u come into contact with to decide whether or not u can treat them like shit bc u consider them an oppressor, u were probably gonna treat them like shit anyway.

But I know I am not straight, or cis, or a boy. I am nothing so simple as that. I am a girl who has been through a lot of shit and who has grown into symbiosis with her boy suit. But what else I know is that my point is my fucking point. Do I even want to convince someone who will only listen to me when they’re told by the rules that they have to see me as a girl?

Do I have to out myself to be treated like a person worth listening to? To stop my cis classmates laughing at someone who’s reckoned with the boundaries and the dimensions of masculinity and femininity in ways they never had to? With the life I’ve been living for all the years I’ve been living it—do I need their permission to speak?

https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42

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everyone, please, please read the whole essay (if/when you have time, energy, focus, etc)

it covers so much. has the perfect mix of story and argument. connects things so well

every person, and especially every progressive, should read it. and read it again a week later.

it says things that i’ve spent years wanting to yell at people. it says things that have changed me.

and it’s a really fucking good piece of writing


[cw for the essay: sexual assault (description, brief); transphobia (lots); liberal feminism (lots)]

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cryptotheism

Imo one of the most effective parts of conservative propaganda is training people to think that the left is trying to infect you with a mind virus, and that you must be automatically and loudly defensive of everything you currently believe.

In my own experience, I have found it to be enormously successful to start conversations off from "eh that's just what [maligned sociopolitical group I'm a part of] says, whether you agree or not is up to you."

cryptotheism

Also conservative media trains it's audience to think that if you misgender a trans person once even on accident we are gonna call you a shithead rapist and try to get you to thrown in jail or whatever. I've found a lot of success with shit like "Hey if you don't know the right words, it's okay. We're just talking. I can't expect you to know exactly how to talk about me if you've never talked to a trans person before."

constantron

It made a huge difference in conversations for me to point out that saying words is hard and sometimes I even misgender myself by accident. The important part is to catch it and train the right pronouns into yourself so it becomes easy. The relief on people's faces was tangible.

ponyboyfaceshopping
foreverial

Shout out to sexy bald twinks. Genuinely one of the hottest types of people alive. Proposal for new community term for them: Dolphin

foreverial

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POV you are in the gender neutral restroom at a club in downtown LA realizing alcohol mixes poorly with your medication gripping the sink staring in the mirror and these two come in and give you hand sanitizer from their purses and rub your shoulders

foreverial

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so do some bald twinks, it’s 2024

ninefoldrin
virgo-dicks

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Yeah my name is Tim, short for OpTIMus Prime

helianthus-hellion

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[id: tags saying "wait wait i wanna know where they plan on using their full name, why'd you cut it off"]

answer: THEIR WEDDING.

thepleasuregoblin

I can't describe to you the emotion I would feel if I was hanging out with my friend Tim and he was like "hey we've been friends for a while now I want to show you something," and he hands me his driver's license, upon which I read "Optimus Prime Jones"

ninefoldrin

Coming out to your friends, loved ones, and new spouse's friends/loved ones as "Optimus Prime" at your wedding would be the funniest, most amazing thing ever. Like, there will definitely be friends and family that don't know holy shit I hope Optimus Prime did that (I really want this one to be true)