Dabbling in Dissent

furries and fog is a good aesthetic

garfimbo:

garfimbo:

*standing on stage at a comedy club* death to america am I right ladies and gentlemen

*points at someone in the crowd* THIS GUY knows what I’m talking about

sinthomosexual:

I can’t recall who said it on twitter unfortunately….but in the aftermath of all of the various state-level anti-trans bills being introduced months ago, there was a good thread going around advising and warning people that if they’re going to be really going in with trans people and helping fight for trans rights during this massive conservative cultural backlash, they’re going to have to learn to deal with being falsely accused of being a pedo or pedo supporter due to reactionary stereotypes and talking points about how we groom and threaten children. (particularly so for trans women.) And that might have some real effects on their lives even as cis allies, or otherwise people who don’t normally get painted as sex offenders inherently

And that’s absolutely true btw; no less so than literally right fucking now, when there’s so much right wing militia and police violence against trans-supportive protestors who showed up in reaction to the recent Wi Spa debacle in L.A. All of which was kicked off by a hoax / false accusation of a trans woman ‘exposing’ herself in an aroused state to girls and women in an LGBT-friendly spa, one in which nudity is not only common, but actually obligate to some degree in most areas. (also I’m sorry, but ‘she had a semi the whole time too!!’ should immediately get people to toss the entire premise of that story being even potentially true-as-stated right in the garbage.)

all I can think, especially after this year’s wave of ultra-conservative discourse around Pride, is that we’re probably increasingly on a crash course for disaster in terms of how a good amount of people in our own “communities” can be expected to deal with this, especially to protect themselves from association. particularly among certain increasingly reactionary pockets of baby gays and transes of all ages (skewing young/Gen Z, but still all ages) on social media. being able to rise to the occasion on this one and meaningfully challenge this and not just immediately sink into its logic is going to be a big problem for many of these folks.

because so many people like this have spent the past few years online and offline increasingly primed by their peers to default to using “pedo” as a go-to accusation for people who do so much as write fanfiction with an age gap between consenting adult characters, or who show up to Pride wearing an O-ring. I don’t really trust that people living in one big fantasy of constant sexual victimization by “degenerate perverts” in every ‘public’ space, online or offline, that they happen to find themselves in are going to be super trustworthy on this. and I don’t know how much I feel that these sorts are just “loud numerical minorities” and not something to worry about, especially after this past year

I feel like any nuanced understanding of the actual social danger here on the parts of so many reactionary and culturally assimilated queers is heavily compromised by a social culture where people think it’s fine and normal to sling around words like ‘pedo’ in reference to absolute non-issues based purely on their culturally unexamined homophobic, transphobic, and transmisogynistic disgust responses. and that really fucking sucks and doesn’t make me feel very hopeful about any of this, as things are surely only going to get worse and more volatile and divisive from here… “lol”

bazs:

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michaelnothing:

vc-allthetime:

if you’re on tumblr and over the age of 24 it means the mental illness won

afloweroutofstone:

jedi-consular:

afloweroutofstone:

I’d like to propose the Acronym Nonsense in Government Emergency Reduction Act (ANGER) of 2016 to propose banning sentences with more than four government acronyms in them.

In response, I propose the Support the Proliferation of Idiotic Testaments to Excess Act (SPITE), which would ban sentences with less than four government acronyms in them.

I’m proposing enactment of the Stop Using Clever Kiddings to Make Your Dreadful Ideas Come off as Knowledgeable (SUCK MY DICK) Act as an amendment.

tostones with spicy mango chutney is so fucking good

i am exhaused and manic ama