I am sooooo tired of seeing "actually this post is about women not trans men" slapped on to feminist posts and then when that is questioned or challenged, the response is "this is for women specifically because of the societal expectations placed on them."

I'm going to hold your hand as I say this to you. Those same expectations are placed on trans men. Trans men are also expected to be mothers and wives. Trans men also face misogyny and are harmed by it, in the same ways cisgender women are.

It reads like a lot of people think of trans men as Cis Dudes With Pussies when the vast majority of trans men are living (or have lived) many of the same experiences as cis women, and should be included in these conversations.

For example, if the conversation is about how young girls are brought up to believe the must be wives and mothers — many (most, even) trans men grew up with those same expectations! It is equally liberating for young trans men to realize they don't have to be mothers and wives as it is for cis women, with the only difference potentially being an additional gender affirming layer.

I think it's funny how they try to be "inclusive" by excluding trans men from a conversation that actively affects them. Trans men, assuming they haven't transitioned medically, still have a female body and are treated as such by MANY people, and regardless of medical transition, GREW UP in that body.

I think in OPs post, describing the general view of trans men as "Cis Dudes with Pussies" is actually quite generous. Maybe I am just pessimistic, but at least where I live, trans men are considered as "hysterical women." This also applies to other trans groups but in reference to what their sex was at birth. Trans men are absolutely affected by feminist issues, on the very principle that most misogynists are also transphobic and don't see trans men as men. Not only are trans men denied their identity as a man, but they are then also denied from female spaces.

When the law (and the average person) determines you to be female, you are 100% affected by sexist legislations, worldviews, attitudes, and expectations.

Trans men don't get a "pass" from misogyny just because they identify as male. Unfortunately, they are affected by it too, and they need to be involved in these conversations that concern them too.

"What if we find a way to keep fetuses alive outside the womb" that already exists, it's called the NICU and it took decades of advancements in medical science and technology. it takes an entire team equipped with state of the art technology to keep a fetus alive outside the womb. because it cannot perform basic life-supporting functions like breathing on its own. this isn't an anti-NICU post tbc. I'm actually considering the nicu as an option after going back to school because I really like fetuses and babies, I think they're neat. but the fact remains that it takes an entire team of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and more to keep a micropreemie alive. and most abortions occur even before the point that it becomes possible at all. "viable" doesn't mean ready to be born. it means it is possible to keep it alive thanks to medical science developed by the same "abortionists" whose executions you're always calling for.

also, it's not an "after birth abortion" when they "let" micropreemies die, it's fucking hospice care.

absolutely. and to add onto this, i was a nicu baby, and i was a late term abortion. when i was still in the womb i was dying inside my mother, so they had to induce her extremely prematurely to save our lives. there was a very high chance of me dying because they took me outside of the womb before they knew if i could survive on my own, but the chances of me and my mother dying if i stayed inside her were 100%.

the procedure to remove me is medically and legally a late term abortion. i was aborted, and it saved my life. if they hadn’t aborted me, my mother and i would both be dead, my siblings would have been left with a dead mother, and i would have never even gotten a chance to live a single day. and now, people are being denied this procedure and dying because it’s literally an abortion!! mothers and their babies are being killed because their doctors are not allowed to perform life-saving abortions.

on the same note, my sister was recently denied an abortion. which is to say, cleaning out the already dead fetus after she had a miscarriage from a wanted pregnancy. they refused treatment unless the DEAD fetus was actively killing her, because the procedure to remove it is medically and legally an abortion. they basically said to her “come back when you’re dying of an infection or sepsis or something, until then you just have to bleed out.” my sister could have died from this, people HAVE died from being denied abortions after having a miscarriage. if she was one of these people, my sister would have been dead, my mother would have to live the rest of her life without her daughter, and my nephew would have had to live the rest of his life without a mother.

sick and tired of people saying to me “yeah, but that’s different. you can’t really call those procedures an abortion, they’re not really an abortion.” yes it is. it’s an abortion. any removal of a fetus and/or baby from the womb before they’re sure it can survive outside of it is an abortion. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be being told that, sorry! we can’t do that! you’ll have to come back when you’re already dead. i was aborted, my mother had an abortion when she was pregnant with me, my sister needed an abortion after she had a miscarriage. all of these things are ABORTIONS! and now mothers and babies are being killed, murdered by these anti-abortionist fuckers and the laws they put in place to “save and protect poor, innocent lives!”

She's being so big and brave.

The long awaited sequel.

It turns out the True Riddle was "How do you build a child's confidence?"

As the New Sphynx grew, so did her love for those who were paitent, thoughtful, and kind. She began accepting a diversity of answers to her riddles, and would let a traveler pass if they could explain their reasoning without becoming rude or aggressive.

So did her hatred for the unkind, the selfish, and the self important. Even if they gave the right answer, she'd eat them anyway as not to make Her People Suffer Fools.

Its not the way her momma did it, but that doesn't stop Granny Sphynx from beaming with pride.

It turns out the True

Riddle was “How do you build

a child’s confidence?”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I don't usually post fundraising type stuff here, but Little Miss Flint, who does a lot of community fundraising work in Flint, Michigan, runs an annual school supply drive to get kids in her community outfitted with everything they need for back-to-school, from clothes to school supplies and everything.

Her storage unit was just robbed and vandalized, and they lost almost everything, right before the back-to-school rush. So they're starting from scratch, with less than two weeks to go.

Flint is one of the poorest cities in the US and a lot of these kids depend on the clothes and supplies they receive through programs like these.

I know money is super tight all around right now, but if anyone has a few extra bucks they wanna kick in, Little Miss Flint's GoFundMe is here.

I love that Jimmy Olsen is exactly the type of photographer Peter Parker pretends to be. Just bat-shit insane.

Whenever someone asks Peter how he took a picture he's like "Oh! I uh-, climmed a flagpole. Totally"

And very mortal, normal-human Jimmy is like "See, Clark, is not that weird"

I mean, look at this nutjob.

The world could be ending, lava on the streets and Jimmy would be out there photographing away. No powers, no sense of self preservation. Just khakis, a camera and a dream.

I like to imagine Peter meeting Jimmy and immediately being mortified about it.

Jimmy: –and so luckily I was able to take the picture before the building collapsed on me... Superman was super pissed at me but, photographer to photographer, it was totally worth it.

Peter: Right, no– See, this is actually my first time hearing how fucking insane that sounds. No wonder people at work look at me weird.

it is once again... binturong appreciation hour

oh, exciting! in two months' time, the Hera mission which launched in 2024 will reach Didymos to take an in-depth look at the impact the DART mission made back in 2022

the DART mission chucked a vending machine sized device at this little asteroid to see how much they could divert its course (it orbits around a bigger asteroid) as part of a mission to develop solutions to meteors coming too close to earth - a successful mission, the little asteroid was diverted 25x more than NASA had expected

so Hera will scan the asteroid and it's bigger sibling it orbits, to learn more about them both, but also to get a better look at the crater the DART made

al-grave:

Adorable science is adorable. 

IT BOOMS WHENEVER THERE IS A RAINBOW

Yes, and the red one seems to look back at the rainbow each time it happens.

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More reblogs than likes lesgo

Okay so now I feel obligated to rb without liking

My entry for Ctrl+Zine! @moonbrew-zines

"Decolonize Everything"

“When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught… then you will realize money cannot be eaten.”

Anti-colonial graffiti seen in Pensacola, Florida

"Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."

-Alanis Obomsawin, Abenaki, 1972

And, irrigation canals.

Saves 82% of water evaporation. 💧

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

I'm finding it immensely helpful to read books about AI, because my past grumblings of "it's bad for the environment" really pale in comparison to what I'm learning.

But im not finding it easier to talk about AI with the people in my life who use it. The evils are both enormous and complex. I cannot, on the spot and in casual conversation, recite the colonial and political history that led to entire towns in Chile being devastated by AI data centers. It is unseemly to bring up how many women have had miscarriages because of lack of access to drinking water worsened by data center usage in places like Uruguay. How racist surveillance of the public in South Africa has been used as training data for AI companies. How AI companies would not limit their use of drinking water even during Arizona's most severe drought in history. How this whole paragraph isn't even scratching the surface of what is evil about AI companies.

It's actually so much harder now to articulate my absolute hatred or to know how to approach these conversations.

EDIT: So far this year I've read, in order of quality/relevance:

planning to read these next:

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Ok

i have maintained ever since i WAS that suicidal fifteen year old that "your teenage years are the best years of your life" is a) the worst thing you can say to a suicidal teenager* and also b) COMPLETE fucking bullshit. your teenage years SUCK. your twenties are better but I PROMISE you, your thirties? WAY better. you know who you are and you're properly too old to give a fuck who disapproves. even though things may be fucked it's just easier to get through.

*like seriously? you see someone who wants to die and your response is 'well everything gets worse after this'? just hand them the fucking knife at that point.

—David Lynch