genderkoolaid:

socialistexan:

Ronny D posting MPREG fics on main.

look, not to be a downer, but… why are we making omegaverse jokes about this.

this article is about how Ron DeSantis is leveraging people’s hatred for trans men to fundraise for his presidential campaign:

DeSantis has leaned heavily into the culture war issues — which have become central to his campaign — such as the repeated emails mocking the idea of men getting pregnant. Some transgender men do become pregnant. DeSantis also sent more emails mentioning “woke” than any other candidate.

I know people love “haha omegaverse” jokes but. I REALLY need people to realize that its a microagression against trans men. Pregnant men can face extreme amounts of transphobia, and are in a highly vulnerable situation, and they are being used as a symbol of wokeness by Florida’s fascist wannabe. And it makes me upset to see other trans people seeming to not take this seriously.

Like. ask yourselves why “pregnant men” immediately conjures jokes and absurdity to you, instead of real people that exist and who Ron DeSantis hates? When you see “pregnant man” and your first thoughts are omegaverse porn and “cis men getting pregnant,” you are also mocking the idea of men getting pregnant. And you do so while erasing trans men from the conversation. You make male pregnancy into an absurdist joke about cis men instead of a reality for trans men.

There doesn’t seem to be a single person in the notes of this post who has mentioned trans men. Its just jokes about heat suppressants. People acted shocked and bewildered by the idea of a pregnant man. On “the trans website.” That fucking hurts.

A pregnant trans man was very recently on the cover of a magazine & received a ton of backlash. Pregnant men are accused of child abuse & child molestation for simply being a trans father, and I’ve seen many people specifically say that trans fathers who have been/are on T will “poison” their children. Ignorance about men being pregnant can have real fatal consequences. Transphobia make it a traumatizing process. Pregnant trans men face workplace discrimination. Trans men who are pregnant are in heavy contact with the transphobic medical system which leaves them extremely vulnerable to abuse. This doesn’t even get into trans men and abortion access. There are already people who think pregnant trans men need to have their children taken away. Ron DeSantis is using them specifically to foster hatred and get money. This is serious.

I cannot feel safe around people for whom “pregnant man” is nothing but an absurdist punchline. It hurts to see other trans people erasing transmascs from the discussion, especially when this article is SPECIFICALLY about how DeSantis is emailing people to say “hey, don’t you think pregnant "men” are delusional and a threat to American society? Me too! Give me money so I can terrorize them via the government!“ This is not the first time I’ve seen people do this with pregnant men (immediately jumping to "haha pregnant cis men!! omegaverse!!” jokes without even mentioning trans men at all. Even though we are men that can and do get pregnant. In real life. And are abused for it) but its the first time I’ve seen it done in response to a very clear act of targeted anti-transmasculinity, and this. Hurts.

I don’t know how y'all think you can combat transphobia if you can’t take seriously the issue of male pregnancy. Because transphobes are clearly very interesting in using pregnant men as a weapon, and I would hope y'all would step up for them. We have to acknowledge that the “haha thats so weird and absurd and gross!!!” response to male pregnancy is transphobic and it hurts trans men a lot.

xxlovelynovaxx:

Thinking about ableism

Thinking about how ambulatory wheelchair users get accused of being fakers and people are surprised when we can walk

and yet non-ambulatory wheelchair users also face “can’t you just walk a few steps?? well, why not?!?”

It’s a perfect example of how there is no group of disabled that doesn’t experience ableism.

Invisible or visible, physical or psychiatric, fluctuating symptoms or consistent, late diagnosed or early, disabled from birth or later in life, high or low support needs… we all face ableism. The amount and type can vary, but with ableism so baked into the very foundation of our society, we all face SIGNIFICANT ableism.

Remember, the real enemy is abled hegemony.

gayshitanddadjokes:

What the fuck is this??????????

Folks: you CANNOT censor trigger tags. When you block a tag, it doesn’t block other “spellings” of it. Writing it as “r@pe” or “r4p3” means that someone who has “tw rape” as a blocked tag will still see that post because you didn’t wanna say the word rape. You are hurting people. Do not censor words, because people do not have those filtered out.

And honestly if you can’t even write the word rape to protect other people then you probably aren’t old/mature enough to be on this website.

victorian-sexstache:

navajolovesdestiel:

spacemancharisma:

chaoticharbinger:

I MAY NOT KNOW MY FLOWERS

BUT I KNOW A

BITCH

WHEN I SEE ONE

This is a marigold:

This is a peony:

And this is a bitch

libertineangel:

zennistrad:

zennistrad:

I do think that once the Internet Slapfights die out that people will recognize that AI art can actually to some pretty cool things, but on the other hand it is pretty undeniable that a lot of the people most vocally pushing for it are just… not very smart.

Like…

What “rest of the photo.” Abbey Road is a real place in London. You can physically go there. What the hell are you talking about dude.

This is also another example of why it’s extremely important to examine who is coding AI, what their biases and assumptions are, because to me this looks extremely USAmerican, like London streets just don’t really look like that.

For reference, the real view is this (or at least it was about 15 years ago when this photo was taken):

theconcealedweapon:

thechekhov:

cristalplanetheart:

glass soup

can-i-make-image-descriptions:

theroseandthebeast:

transmascmikey:

(x)

#you’re going to let the GOVERNMENT tell you who you are???? (liminal-zone)

[Image ID: Tweet from verified user Laura Jane Grace (@/ LauraJaneGrace) reading: I don’t trust anyone who things the gender they were assigned at birth is an inescapable biologicals truth. They demonstrate a complete lack of imagination and subservience to bureaucracy /End ID]