in many ways the strategist is the eunuch vizier of the modern era, replacing schemes with genuine incompetence
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in many ways the strategist is the eunuch vizier of the modern era, replacing schemes with genuine incompetence
imo if the Dems are so desperate for a centrist white dude to run, Andy Beshear makes a way better candidate than Newsom
the more that I think about it, the more that I want to be a centrist strategist. you can just lose and lose and lose and still have a well-paying job picking which minority group senators should start spitting on in public
I met my first Crybaby Opinion Piece subject the other week! While taking the train in New Jersey I met a white woman from Brooklyn who talked about how “psychotic” NYC was and how sketchy my city was (“my friends wouldn’t pick me up here and to get back on a train”) and then asked me for directions
liberals are too busy saying things like “well, I would pull the brake lever” as if the trolley problem is about solving it efficiently
does the centrist strategist cadre have immense amounts of blackmail on the Dems? because they’ve lost just about every notable election in the past decade and yet still have so much sway
between the guy who dated a teenager and Cuomo, centrists are having a rough time keeping the whole “leftists are the actual misogynists” thing going, huh
the right: we want to use the trans sports debate as a way to begin legislating trans people out of public life again newsom: I agree with republicans on trans women in sports libs: how fucking DARE you evil “women” insinuate our boy could be transphobic. our handsome little man
2007 is ancient history! stop bullying the poor widdle three letter orgs :(
something about how those not about to be hung see the gallows as an opportunity to get attention
as a trans woman and a lesbian, I have never felt less a part of the queer community than in the past few weeks of online discourse and that sucks
i hope gaylors are doing okay
sometimes I think about being told that actually, the fact that so many transphobic policies are explicitly targeting trans women is a privilege because trans men get ignored
So how many anonymous attempts to take down trans women, famous and otherwise, in the last month do we have at this point? Enough that it’s reasonable to suggest something dangerous is happening?
I said back in 2020 that as anti-trans sentiment mounted on the Right, the center and the Left would feel a sense of permission to begin treating us worse and worse, and it has fallen out predictably.
the problem with “existential threat to democracy and our freedoms” as an electoral strategy is that eventually you have to do something to defend said democracy and freedoms or people stop voting for you
every time I think I’m out, Squarespace’s AI-assisted website development suite pulls me back in
breaking through the cement flooring of my basement to find a locked trunk, which I dust off to reveal the insignia: BetterHelp
libs right now are really going “if you aren’t getting behind the obvious front runner, Ghost of a Confederate Soldier, then you’re more interested in purity tests than beating Trump”
I think he breaks into a slight jog once
anyways it’s hard for me to see bisexual people on podcasts taking shots at lesbians as anything but appeals to conservative audiences and none of the defenses of these people have convinced me otherwise
the too-online bisexuals dating the opposite gender found a woke way of telling lesbians they just haven’t met the right man yet
“I’m holding space for if Renee Rapp finds a husband” oh, you’re a lesbophobe?????
a Parasite take I only ever see from people who haven’t experienced poverty
libs on bluesky
are we still doing “it’s biphobic to be a lesbian and talk about lesbianism” discourse jesus
what could trans women have to say about the nature of living under patriarchy
why would we ask trans women about this at all
for some people feminism is when women, or the right kind of trans person (anyone besides trans women, who are male-socialized) do things
every post about “transandrophobia” this app shows me is like, someone quoting a trans woman saying something reasonable and saying “can you believe this feminazi???” it’s veryyyy 2013 pre-GamerGate anti feminism but woke flavored now
it’s to the point where someone saying trans women are “male-socialized” just marks them as deeply unserious
the modern American state surveillance systems as we now know them mainly cut their teeth on three groups of people: Black activists, communists, and Puerto Rican independentistas (all of whom shared a great deal of overlap)
lmao it’s really funny watching Hakeem Jeffries do and say the things libs on this app swear the democrats aren’t doing and saying
as always, libs ask things of marginalized people that they’d never tolerate being asked of themselves
you avoided my question. since trans women’s rights are a “purity test,” which of YOUR rights are you willing to sacrifice in the election to get a Democrat in office?
it’s weird how it’s always the rights of more marginalized people that are “purity tests” for libs. probably doesn’t mean anything
that old “you can tell when an atheist used to be Christian” thing also works with astrology
which of your rights are you willing to sacrifice in this primary, since we’re avoiding “purity tests”?
I do think that if we are not capable of saying “this thing, which is largely or entirely targeting trans women specifically” we will never solve these issues
i think, for me, one of the funniest examples of transmisogyny is people taking DUI by Estelle Allen as earnestly pro-drunk driving
I love the anti-woke mob-run casino in LAD:IW so much
it must rule to be a centrist. just saying whatever
threads is saying Trump, the billionaire, is a Maoist because the Wall Street Journal said so
and yet years later you can still get pilloried for suggesting that trans women face any unique discrimination in queer/trans communities
this article from Them, for example, uses “trans people” in its headline and yet every example is of policies targeting or discussions about trans women specifically. this isn’t intentional/malicious, I don’t think, but it IS telling of editorial priorities
transmisogynists have a really fun way of using “trans people” to mean things like “a list of trans artists/musicians/writers that somehow entirely excludes trans women” or “this is something specifically targeting trans women that we’re universalizing for some reason”
in the tumblr days of yore I remember getting into it with some trans dude who said female characters gave him gender dysphoria and so he didn’t think anything should have them and got very mad when I suggested that was misogynist
i just think that ASAB/AGAB language in intracommunity trans conversations is only ever used to implicitly or explicitly place trans women proximal to men and masculinity
I post a lot about (trans)misogyny in queer communities but I should note that it’s part of a larger upswing in misogyny across the political spectrum. the tiktok comments section on any woman’s post is generating a dozen heretofore never-before-seen ways of being misogynistic
my roommates dog gets anxious without noise, so I put on a nice house playlist for her. tomorrow ive got a jungle mix to show her
also if you go so far as to call kids “crotch goblins” or anything similar we need to put you and those like you in an undersea vault
“kids are loud at restaurants” okay but: it’s all new to them. theyve never experienced fusion cuisine before. also you’re 35 and should be able to regulate your emotions better than them
the thing about r/childfree and similar places online that I find really amusing is that it is largely adults in their 30s holding one-sided beefs against small children they don’t know. imagine having anger in your heart for a five-year-old you’ll never see again lmao
bluesky libs fascinate me
the Misogynist Mamdani Bros (née Bernie Bros) don’t care about women like us sane center Democrats do. That’s why we’re asking you to donate $5 to Andrew Cuomo
endlessly fascinated by people who are like. “I’m a transgressive gender punk. I’m a woke ximbo.” and also self-describe as “biologically female.” like it’s just indicative, to me, of being more conservative on gender than you realize
is there anything more to the “clanker” memes than “it’s fun to say a socially-acceptable ‘slur’” that I’m missing? because it mostly just seems like role-playing racism towards robots
as a corollary to this: you need to engage with texts (in a broad cross-genre sense) that are complicated and confronting and challenging. it’s good for you
the loudest “you don’t need to read theory to do leftism” people aren’t reading theory but also aren’t doing any leftism in my experience
ultimately choice feminism infantilizes women, but self-infantilization is very trendy right now (“just a girl” etc)
it’s unsurprising that Jimmy Fallon had that creep Gutfeld on, as Fallon has always been the most craven and obsequious of the late night men
a lot of libs are still mentally in 2016, still very bitter about Clinton, and that bitterness really defines their politics. it’s why they love that Contrapoints “endlessly critiquing power” dig so much
sometimes I think about the wide gulf in average reception between saying a cis woman is “tgirl coded” and saying a cis man has “tboy swag” and it bums me out
late night host monologue: new study shows that chronic marijuana usage can cause erectile dysfunction. they’re calling it getting crotchlocked
I think if you’re outside of a community making broad pronouncements about what is to be done about that community (especially if you’re in a privileged position comparatively) you gotta expect some pushback/critique. if you don’t want that, might I suggest not saying it?
puerto rican self-determination actually
quick, to the escape harch
incuriosity is such a loser trait
I find people who comment things like “why can’t they say Avengers or something popular” on videos of actors talking about their favorite movies so deeply pathetic
I highly recommend newly out trans women read lots of feminist theory, especially works written by Black, brown, and/or working class women who are masculinized by a white supremacist cishetero patriarchy in much the same way as trans women are
If I were Netflix I’d put like, Bird Box under LGBTQ+ Voices or w/e, see what happens
democratic analyst whose ideas haven’t won an election in 20 years: if democrats want to get serious, they need to drop the transgender thing and get behind Newsom/Bush 2028, and also make alimony payments ILLEGAL
sometimes the MTA says a station is accessible because it has an elevator, and sometimes it says that because there’s a door wired to an alarm that allows you to bypass the turnstiles once you get up the stairs
we NEED to curtail our libraries (useless) so we can pay the NYPD overtime to unhelpfully stand around watching AI Sydney Sweeney JOI YouTube Shorts without headphones on their phones in the subway stations while a wheelchair user waits for someone to help them get their chair up the stairs
the mantis-like alien sitting across the negotiation table looks at you, its compound eyes making unmistakable direct eye contact. the translator says “The One On Glass Towers has learned an earth greeting to honor you.” The insectoid mouth says, “Crank that Soulja Boy.”
that’s how most forms of bigotry work tbh
trans people who were AFAB and leverage some conservative idea of being “biologically female” against trans women confuse the hell out of me
non-Puerto Ricans on the mainland wanting to impose statehood on PR is no less colonial than the current state of affairs self-determination for Puerto Rico yesterday
this is basically how the myth of trans women being “male socialized” began tbh. just pure vibes
In many ways the New Jersey Parking Enforcement is the Silver Surfer to the street sweeper’s Galactus
if you dealt with the NYPD regularly, you’d want them to deal with alligator men too
sometimes, for some people, a transmedicalist can be a trans woman you disagree with online
The original Erebus was a fireship meant to be lit on fire and sailed at enemy ships, so perhaps the invocation of the personification of darkness was meant to invoke the darkness of smoke? The Terror fits in with names of her sister ships and also was heavily armed and frequently saw battle.
STOP! Are you about to call a trans woman who fled her home state due to its anti-trans legislation privileged for advocating for medical transition and medically transitioning trans people while transitioning on Medicaid? Have you considered getting a life?
lmao okay you’re putting a ton of words in my mouth and clearly aren’t arguing in good faith, I’m done
sorry, you’re accusing me of being a transmed for saying that the material conditions of medically transitioning trans people are fundamentally different and may need to be prioritized in a time where access to trans healthcare (literally lifesaving btw) is under threat?
? I am on Medicaid and medically transitioning. what are you talking about
listen, sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my brain! 😭
(I know you talk about this in the thread but I think it needs to be said again and again until it sinks in 💕)
I agree, but also we need to be able to accept that the material conditions and needs of medically transitioning trans people are fundamentally different and may need to be prioritized at times
if they compromise with fascists on trans rights they’ll compromise with fascists on anything. if they compromise with fascists to harm trans women they will compromise with fascists to harm any marginalized women
remember: Buttigieg et al think trans rights can be deprioritized to win votes
in every other case of marginalized women being forcibly masculinized, we recognize it as a function of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy punishing women outside of its narrow archetype of white femininity, but trans women are the exception?
I do find it interesting that we must police trans women for supposedly being “male-socialized,” but we don’t need to worry about everyone else having been socialized in a transmisogynistic environment
simply by taking transfeminism very seriously I have made enemies across the political spectrum, which is fun
watching a documentary ostensibly about Marion Stokes and her archive but largely seems to be about other (mostly white) people’s beef with her
do you consider marginalized people as people or just political bargaining chips?
the casual degendering of trans women you don’t like is sooooo typical of liberal transmisogyny
transmisogyny is the icing on the cake lmao