i am a female homosexual. i only like females. its not just the penis im unattracted to. i do not care how long a male person has been on estrogen, i do not care about what surgeries theyve gotten, i do not care about how long they have been living as a woman. i wish them health and happiness but they cannot be a female homosexual and thats that. i no longer make compromises with anybody because all that will do is get my boundaries pushed around. i do not tolerate this level of disrespect anymore.
Yes, of course it is okay to be soft, gentle, quiet. But isn’t that what the world has always been telling us?
So here’s to the lesbians who are loud, unafraid, tough, masculine, who wear the word dyke like a badge they fought to have back, who are butch, here’s to the lesbians who don’t shave, who get confused for men, who have to endure people talking about “masculine privilege” as if what they’re really talking about isn’t actually a disadvantage, here’s to the lesbians who actually are angry & man-hating and are tired of being reduced to a stereotype, here’s to the lesbians who are unheard.
i love speaking with people who are more intelligent in a certain field than i am, like it’s just great to sit back and listen to somebody educate you on shit they’re passionate about
For me, this is only enjoyable when it’s women, men are so fucking rude and condescending almost every single time. Women will be so passionate about educating amd sharing their passion while men just want to assert some kind of superiority over you, it feels disgusting
This time of year often involves leaving the cozy sanctuary of your linguistics department where everyone knows what a wug is and spending quality time with your non-linguist friends and family. Who, bless ‘em, are often a little bit confused about linguistics. So I’ve compiled a list of common questions and some resources to help you answer them. And if you end up needing a break, check out the linguistmas tag and my extensive archive of linguist humour, or contribute to the linguistics baked goods or handcrafts files.
the real lie about who gives kids presents at christmas isn’t that they’re from santa (bc everyone over the age of 10 knows that), it’s that they’re from mum ‘and dad’ because 90% of fathers see taking an interest in their kids’ likes and hobbies, let alone actually planning and shopping for things that are ‘from’ them, as something they can opt out of (and nobody talks about it!!!!!!!)
Oh that’s funny. I had a baby in November, so Christmas shopping has been on the bottom of my priority list. For the first time in our relationship, I have no ideas on what to get my husband’s parents, so guess what
His parents aren’t getting Christmas gifts this year 😂
If you ask a white teenager, you might get the answer, “Four hundred years ago.” But that’s not the answer. Four hundred years ago was 1615, when the Jamestown colony had only existed for eight years and chattel slavery was just beginning.
Others might say, “When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, of course.” But that’s not right either. That only freed slaves in Confederate territory seized by the Union. The Union slave states—Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and the then-in-formation West Virginia—were exempt and allowed to keep their slaves, along with Tennessee, which had more or less been returned to the Union, and Union-loyal areas of Louisiana (including New Orleans) and coastal Virginia. Because it was unenforceable in most of the Confederate states, only about 1-2% of slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
“Well, then,” they might say, “it was definitely when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed.” And still, they would be wrong. While that pivotal law did free the vast majority of America’s slaves, the text of the law is this: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.“
So when did slavery end in America? The answer is, “Never.”
As discussed in the PBS documentary Slavery By Another Name (available in full by clicking the link), as the federal government withdrew funding and support for Reconstruction, the South began a system of leasing prisoners—allowed by law to be used as slaves—to the plantations to replace their free labor. Those affected by this system were treated even worse than those held in bondage under slavery before the Civil War, as slaves were an expensive investment—the $800 average cost of a slave in 1860 is roughly $21,000 in today’s dollars—but leased prisoners were replaced by the prison if killed and payment continued as scheduled, deincentivizing what little humane treatment was afforded slaves.
It was so profitable and in such high demand that, within ten years of its implementation, the stereotype of black people in America had changed. Prior to the Civil War, the stereotype of black people was that we were inherently docile, servile, and loyal. This only makes sense, because if we were viewed as inherently violent and thieving and criminal like we are today, why would they have trusted us with their livelihoods, their crops, and their children? (Side note: this is also where the stereotype of black people loving watermelon came from—the idea that if we were just given a cool slice of watermelon on a hot day, we would work forever). But once they were no longer allowed to own us outright and had to lease us from prisons, police and judges did everything in their power to make sure they had a robust source of free labor. Black people were arrested on false or trumped-up charges, and within ten years, the recorded arrest and conviction rate for black people had skyrocketed so much that the stereotype was entirely inverted from what it had been previously.
The prison system may have stopped leasing prisoners to plantations, but they still lease prison labor to corporations and local governments. Prisoners—primarily black, of course, because we are targeted—are forced to fight wildfires, manufacture consumer goods, and even make goat cheese for Whole Foods. Our economy was built on slave labor, and it still runs on it to a disconcerting extent. And to make that work, black and Latino neighborhoods are targeted by law enforcement and manipulated through things like school closings and schools being unfathomably underfunded to ensure an ever-growing population of prisoners, an ever-growing population of slaves.
So the next time someone asks you when slavery ended in America, tell them the truth. Tell them, “Never.”
Read this because it’s so fucking important to know.
Men who are comfortable watching girls be choked and verbally abused in porn but can’t even handle hearing about child birth or periods are the absolute worst
Imagine if gay men walked the streets with axes and baseball bats during the AIDS crisis.
Just imagine them trying to do that among the cheers of “no tears for queers.” During the celebrations that god had sent a “gay cancer” to wipe out gay men. While an apathetic government did nothing for the epidemic because no one thought it could affect straight people. While many doctors wouldn’t even treat an AIDS patient. While Princess Di shaking hands with an AIDS patient without gloves was considered shocking and radical. While lesbians were in solidarity and some of the only people who would help.
This is what a group of people fighting for their lives against a society who hates what they are, thinks they should be denied medical treatment and thinks they deserve to die looks like:
An entire generation of gay men was practically wiped out by deliberate apathy and malice, but some kid with an undercut on tumblr today will say they were privileged.
This isn’t ancient history, kids. This was in the 80′s even going into the 90′s. We only just started learning about AIDS prevention when I was in school in the 90′s because, oops, turns out straight people can get it too. And at that point it was completely decoupled from gay issues when being discussed.
But sure, a bunch of straight men marching at gay events with weapons and threatening lesbians with physical harm for not being attracted to them are similar I guess.
We gotta give some credit to these 90% white straight men for successfully infiltrating feminism, lgbt and turning them inside out. I never thought it was possible, but here we are
Dunno if they got the mad skill to gaslight or we became so soft and inattentive that we didn’t notice it until it was too late
The privileged will do anything to maintain the status quo. It’s so unfair they don’t get to be special too!
Trans ppl aren’t privileged Karen not when ppl like y’all are alive and believe this bullshit
White men and straight people are privileged, Brad. That’s what most of these people are. Take a real close look at those guys at the dyke march wielding baseball bats. Do they look like a vulnerable group?
Take a good look at typical transactivism. Does this look like a group that lacks privilege? That is fighting for rights? Or do they look like a bunch of fascists trying to control actual vulnerable groups?
This is what’s colonizing the gay community and calling itself “queer” all while saying gay people gross bigots, demanding lesbians sleep with male people and attempting to erase women’s ability to protest for and describe ourselves.
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