The idea that a trans person existing as their true self is more or less “revolutionary” than another trans person’s existence is fundamentally flawed and shitty
If you insist on telling bisexual people that “bi means two”, then don’t ever use the word “myriad” to refer to any amount other than 10,000.
Also, don’t ever use the word “quarantine” to refer to any period of time other than 40 days.
dont use the word decimated unless youre talking about something SPECIFICALLY reduced to 9/10th it’s previous size
Your indignation is valid but your facts are not.
We got a bright one here folks. A real genius.
I’m sorry, I have trouble detecting sarcasm, are you being sarcastic?
Correct. You hard missed the point of the post which is that a word’s definition can evolve beyond its etymological root.
I thought the point of the post was that people who denounce “bisexual” as meaning only two are hypocrites for using words like myriad because the definition of myriad could only refer to exactly 10,000 and they’re only being accurate when they feel like it, rather than the reason being that the definition of something can be something other than its etymological origins.
There was more than one implication to your reasoning. You can’t call other people stupid as you leave a clear possibility of misunderstanding out in the open.
It’s because bisexual in LGBT circles has pretty much always meant “can be attracted to anyone” and should continue to mean that but people try to redefine it and create unnecessary sexualities with the weak and stupid justification “bi means two” even tho bisexual doesn’t have to refer to only two genders regardless of its Latin prefix; we’ve redefined words many times that originally had a specific etymological meaning
You can write all the communist thinkpieces you want but the reality is they won’t be half as effective at convincing people to execute the rich as just showing them this
Make no mistake. Trans people, especially trans women, are the canary in the coal mine. If the United States government manages to pass legislation making it essentially illegal to be trans again, mark my words it WILL continue on up to sending us right back into McCarthyism and the “kill or imprison anything you disagree with or dislike” policies of the 1950s (not that that hasn’t already been happening under the radar, but it’s going to be More).
There really are people out there who are acting like suggesting genetic testing to “confirm the identity” of a group of people isn’t a wildly dangerous thing for a government to start doing. This is not a door that should be opened.
we’re not the canary. People already died in this mine, it’s unsafe, but those in charge keep sending us in. This government has already illegally incarcerated innocent people, made false arrests and annulled citizenship based on ethnicity, stolen children from loving parents and given them to white, straight, cisgender christians. This government has enacted and encouraged policies around identification, citizenship, proof of being who you say you are and a citizen of where you live, that are only enforced when the people enforcing them decide they don’t like your skin tone, religion, politics. This government has made every effort possible to ensure that the physically and mentally disabled and chronically ill citizens will die faster while also forcing us to thicken the wallets of those who want us gone. This government is doing its damnedest to erode religious protections except for Good Old Fashioned American Christianity, which is being granted privileges and special rights to discriminate against people who don’t fit its narrow view of morality. This government is making the richest people richer, and convincing the poorest people that it’s good for them by turning them against their best allies.
trans people, especially trans women, are not the canary. We’re not a distraction, either, in spite of what some other people are saying. We are yet another in a long list of groups threatened by an administration that pushes fascist policy after fascist policy. And if we’re going to be a metaphor, we should be the last straw.
A Parliamentarian battle flag, back after 350 years. This ultra-rare English Civil War battle standard, due to go on public display for the first time in three and a half centuries, was kept and preserved by 11 generations of the same English country family. It will be on permanent show at the National Army Museum in London as from this coming Thursday. (National Army Museum).
Cary’s own troop’s cornet was red with a creature in a barrel and the motto ‘come out you cuckold’ (Illustration 1) referring to the Earl of Essex’s notorious marital problems. The creature might be a ‘fox in a barrel’ or perhaps a stag or reindeer without his antlers.
The major’s cornet simply bore the motto ‘cuckolds we come’ (Illustration 2).
So there’s actually a 400 year old tradition of reactionary shitheads calling their opponents cucks?
Procrastination Station 