I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!

You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.

Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”

fma Brotherhood was like this is the most epic anime ever made. look at these strong female characters girlbossing. genocides can be fixed with reforming the state! you can even fix disabilities used as a divine punishment if you try hard enough :))) <3

i think some bhood fans don't get my satire but idk what i expected from their media literacy since they are after all the fans of this tone deaf show

I think I did miss the sarcasm on my first read-through, but I am thoroughly fascinated by your interpretation of FMAB.

First off, it's representation of women is some of the best in anime, if not all of pop culture. Female engineers, women in the military, mothers who are depicted as strong and capable, and a woman who can't have kids and is not looked down on for it are just some of the female cast, and they all have *gasp* individual personalities. Compare that to Marvel, whose female characters range from overpowered and cocky to sexy badass. Riza, for example, can be emotionally vulnerable and even have a man be the center of her motivation without her ever being portrayed as inferior or emotional for caring about someone.

It also does a great job of breaking down the effects a genocide can have on larger society and the people it happened too, in addition to the steps it takes for reparations and to rebuild and restructure exploitative systems to prevent it from happening again. We see the ravaged communities of Ishvalans, and rampant xenophobia among the Amestrian population. It's also really fucking bold of you to suggest that this is a bad depiction of genocide considering the author herself based it off of the genocide of her OWN PEOPLE, the native Ainu people in Hokkaido. I think out of anyone, a person who is a generation or two removed from a genocide would be the right person to speculate on how systemic reparations could be made.

As far as disability representation goes... there are a lot of disabled characters in FMAB and the majority of them did not recieve their disabilities via divine punishment nor did they "cure" them. I'm generally not a fan of the "disability as punishment" trope but it's worth noting that for Ed the entire journey was about his brother. Automail was an inconvenience, but getting his limbs back was not his main goal and even then he still has his automail leg.

Aside from the whole "soul binding" thing, failed human transmutation could have been swapped for any real life accident caused by kids making a bad decision and the impact would have been the same. It's more of a "dumb kids fuck up and spend years fixing their mistake" story rather than a "the gods have enacted their wrath and we must atone for our sins" story. The boys grow and learn, and IMPORTANTLY they learn that death is a part of life and not something to be fixed, but something that makes life worth living in the first place.

Sorry I misunderstood your sarcasm! What was that about media literacy again?

some excellent points that have been made:

i feel like people dont think im serious when i say "death to America" but like my ultimate dream is for the USA to no longer exist like of course i dont respect politicians or cops or the law i dont want a "better America" i quite literally do not want the entity known as the United States of America to outlive me

me in five years when i still don’t have my life together:

It's been 5 years.

the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.

Reblog this loby when they least expect it.

do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

I suppose? You can just replace that with what kind of bender tribe you'd be, or if you're a Jedi or a Sith.

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

I'll do you one better, identify with your choice of lightsaber color and form you'd use~!

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

ok but power rangers are dope as hell and also are FREE to watch on youtube so tag yrself im light blue

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

you know that phenomenon where vaccines are so effective that people forget how scary the original disease was? I think Americans are like this about government

they are also like this about vaccines

People can’t handle ways of living that are different from theirs. They can’t even handle the thought that people who aren’t daily shower takers live among them and they haven’t even noticed.

You think it’s obvious? It’s not. There’s people around you with completely different ways of achieving their daily tasks than you and you can’t tell by looking at them or smelling them or listening to them. Perfectly respectable normal people all around you live in ways you think are gross but are in reality no more gross or dangerous than how you live your life.

There’s multiple ways to achieve health, happiness, and cleanliness. Attempting to force others to achieve these things in the exact same way you do only leads to the formation of a conformist society where people live in fear of buying the wrong color of tea towel. My grandmother grew up in a world like that. She’s still stressed about what other people think of her tea towels. I do not wish that upon anyone.

boring example but like there was a trend that washing your hair every day was somehow bad. so i followed it and washed only every other day even though it was clearly really bad for my greasy skin and hair type. Finally a dermatologist had to tell me to wash my hair every day bc my scalp yeast had gotten out of control and I had developed scalp eczema/seborrheic dermatitis.

fellow lesbians is it t*rfy and r*dfem propaganda to not be attracted to men?

this really is a perfect microcosm of how ppl will water down ‘radfem/terf ideals’ to just being about men and misandry (rather than trans women and transmisogny) and use that as a bludgeon against lesbians for (god forbid) not caring about men or wanting men interacting with them (‘men DNI’ is specifically common amongst lesbian nsfw blogs). like it becomes very clear the people saying shit like this care more about men’s feelings much more than they do the safety and boundaries of trans women and lesbians

there is a certain subsect of edgelord american leftist who will laugh off and dismiss any criticism of vladimir putin and the present-day russian government as some kind of new red scare brought on by latent cold war paranoia and i just want to know what it’s like to be that brain-poisoned, i really do

putin could be standing over the body of yet another high profile dissident and be like “he ran into my knife, he ran into my knife TEN TIMES” and all of anna khachiyan’s reply guys would still show up to be like “actually, ordering the assassination of political agitators is only bad when the united states does it. i am very smart” with some cryptofash 4chan meme attached and somehow that’s accepted as part of the normal political discourse on the left

at this point the only meaningful distinction between tankies and the alt-right is that at least neo-nazis are ideologically honest about their respect for authoritarianism. like sry but if you’re a stalinist who uses the cold war to deflect critique of the present day, FAR RIGHT russian leadership, you’re just a fascist who’s too chickenshit to admit you’re a fascist because if you lose your job at urban outfitters where else will you hit on underage girls

hate how almost every portrayal of a lesbian on mainstream tv is like literally just a straight woman who dates women. the writers clearly don’t care to take Any considerations into lesbian/lgbt culture or what our lives/dating is rly like. like even apart from them all being pretty feminine conventionally attractive white women in their thirties, they are literally always the straightest women you could possibly imagine. what’s the opposite of dykery. The utter dykelessness of these women

Can someone pls reply w that comic of the women watching TV that makes sense here, I can’t find it

Nina Nijsten (2009)

i feel like game piracy is sometimes viewed as this massive disruption to the game industry and not just “a small group of people who weren’t going to buy a game anyways now have it on their computer.” when companies report “losses” due to piracy that’s fake. that’s a fake number because no money was actually ever exchanged and companies cannot possibly know how many people actually pirated their game. piracy does not work like this

Who told you to love your country. Knock that off