The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don’t want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.
They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.
Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone’s self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.
This is going to sound ridiculous but if you find yourself in an altercation with someone you KNOW you’re going to have to describe later- like you’re being assaulted, threatened, mugged, whatever, and you’re not trained in giving descriptions, try and think of ways to insult their appearance before they fully leave your field of sight.
As someone who is horrific with faces and receives bad descriptions pretty often, most of yall are bad at it, and you focus on the wrong things and forget the rest. I personally find insulting people (silently in my head, even when I don’t mean it or I feel bad about it or I would never ever say it out loud) is a good way to retain details.
Like, IDEALLY I want to retain “Caucasian Male, average build, mid to late 50’s, balding brunet with large forehead wearing a backwards snapback hat, mirrored sunglasses, Hawaiian print muscle tank, gym shorts, adidas slide sandals, white socks, large silver chain necklace, large tribal-print tattoos on both forearms”, but stress has a way of fucking with your head and images are difficult to retain so “Y2K mid life crisis gym bro Bill Murray” has a way of sticking longer
And even if I forget him completely in the next five minutes, I’ll probably be able to pick him out of a crowd again in a couple hours
A real good formula for this, as well as with viscerally insulting a bitch, is to combine “visually unique and well-known comparison figure”, “fashion judgement”, and an optional third aspect I like to call “a wildcard pull based on vibes”
Some examples, inspired by various unpleasant people I have met:
Toxic floral butch lesbian Thomas Edison
Beaker the muppet’s less-charismatic brother
An alt-right Bill Nye without the science facts
Like if a redheaded Gwyneth Paltrow fucked a burkinstock sandal
An upcycled and vegan-friendly white Mr. T
Dollar store Doug Jones dressed like slappy the dummy from Goosebumps
Leather fetish Hank Hill cosplaying Colonel Sanders
A swagless East Van Eminem
Like if white dreadlocks came to life and joined a Mumford and Sons cover band that played exclusively in small independent Craft Breweries
heartbreaking: well intentioned person who needs detailed instructions to function is giving extremely detailed instructions to person who gets overwhelmed with large volumes of information
The whole “protect the children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term investment”
sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says “im here! im frightened! don’t come close or ill bite you” has instead ilicited a reaction of “oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it”
so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who’s been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.
it’s a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it’s own life.
Remember: an animal that is growling (or rattling in this case) likely does not want to hurt you. That’s their “fuck off” warning, not their kill engine revving up.
the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It’s almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there’s this kind of dead sun that’s collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you’re fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name “black hole”, and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object
