Purple Starling

"purple" and its the entire blue spectrum

If uppercase letters are capital letters then what the FUCK are lowercase letters

Literally lower case, fortunately!

BUT WHAT WERE THEY CALLED TO DISTINGUISH THEM FROM CAPITALS PRIOR TO THE CASE

ooh ok I know this one, the technical terms for upper and lower case letters are majuscule and minuscule, which goes all the way back to when they were essentially two different latin alphabets that were not combined together in written text in the way we do now. there's actually no specific opposite term to capital that applies to minuscule letters.

however... since capital comes from the latin caput meaning head because capitals are used at the head of a sentence or page, if we wanted to have an opposite term for lower case letters we could take it from the latin word for body, corpus. therefore, something like "corpusal letters" maybe?

The u in caput was replaced with an i so... Corpisal.

“The Pyramid Guy from the opening credits literally has no significance to the show and never will. He’s just a generic image made to look mythological or spooky like most things in the intro.”

same energy

how dare you draw yourself as a funny online character and make yourself fat 😡 as we all know you have to draw your personas looking exactly like how you do in real life

you can make your persona skinny as cardboard and nobody bats an eye but god forbid you draw yourself as a purple cat furry and give yourself a big fat tummy

this person is just retweeting shit like this and it's like why should i care if some skinny twink in real life wants to draw themselves a silly online character with big fat tits and thighs that looks nothing like them. literally level 1 chronically online discourse

i, for one, do not care if someone has a fat fetish or whatever because i work almost 40 hours a week

Twitter users: *participate in Thin Defaultism*

The same twitter users: "I'm actually a good fat ally. You're the fatphobic one for making your persona bigger than you are instead of smaller."

That fucking DIY wheelchair post is going around again, and none of the people reblogging it are reblogging a version that talks about the risks of using homemade mobility aids that don't fit you properly - such as that they can make your pain worse or cause pressure sores that lead to terrible infections.

I did see a couple of additions about how cool and punk it is. I don't know, is getting sepsis punk?

you're absolutely right but arguably getting sepsis from the mobility aid you cobbled together, the one that's both the only thing thing letting you actually live life to the fullest extent possible and the thing that will kill you is the kind of thing that sounds like a really poetic way to go out

Oh, you can just fuck off entirely.

It's not "poetic". You're just dead.

You are, moreover, dead in an incredibly painful, awful way.

Do you understand what infected bed sores and sepsis do to a person? Do you really? Do you understand how much pain they would be in? Do you understand how hard it would be to be their loved ones watching them the hospital as their organs shut down?

Do you understand how painful it'd be to be in a chair that's causing spinal damage for hours and hours every day?

Disabled people and their pain do not exist to be a poetic metaphor for your consumption. It's just suffering.

"Dangerous information is being spread without any of the necessary information on how to do it safely and it's going to cause a bunch of disabled people pain." "Yeah but if they die isn't that kinda poetic?" literally asinine reply from that person sorry you had to deal with that OP

Oh most definitely. Oppositional sexism cannot handle multigender manwomen. Because oppostional sexism operates on the idea that men and women are opposite, and antithetical to one another. "If women experience one thing, men must experience the other" is an ideology that falls apart if someone is both.

Everytime someone treats organs as inherently good or inherently bad I want to throw someone off the cliff. And it makes me even more mad when I see trans people doing it.

“Vagina good and pure . Penis dangerous and evil.” You should be sent to the torture pit.

The appendix is inherently evil and it makes me uncomfortable to be around people who haven’t had it removed. <- this is what yall sound like to me. Yall are just saying absurd statements.

The appendix being inherently evil is somehow more reasonable (not to say it IS reasonable, just closer to being reasonable than penis) because the risk/return ratio isn't very good. Usually more enjoyable shitting vs the risk of it just exploding is... A wrinkle evolution didn't iron out. Penises don't explode and kill you.

Sorry that's not the point I just find it funny that somehow the absurd example used to illustrate the absurdity of bioessentialists is ever so slightly more grounded and less absurd than the actual bioessentialist take is.

"Masculinity is rewarded" have you ever spoken to a transmasc or a butch or a tomboy or any masculine woman/person perceived as a woman. Have you ever spoken to a gnc transfem.

"Have you ever talked to x, y, z/***person perceived as a woman***"

Femininity IS punished, being perceived as a woman is punished, gender non congruence is punished. Ask a cis man if 'masculinity is punished' and unless they are a fucking MRA they will tell you ofc not. Cis men are rewarded for presenting masc. Stealth trans men disappear. Stealth trans women are victims of misogyny. For masculinity in general to be punished, the world we live in would be systematically misandristic. On the contrary we live in a misogynistic world. I love when trans discourse loops back around to terf/mra rhetoric.

It's almost like... conforming to your assigned gender is what's rewarded 🤔

Im not denying that misogyny is far more present in society but the statement "Masculinity is rewarded" is generally used to invalidate the oppression of transmascs and masculine women which is pretty fucking cringe! And that's who we're talking about, not cis men, of course masculinity is rewarded when it's a cis man, but it sure as hell ain't rewarded when it's literally Anyone Else

"femininity is punished" and "masculinity is rewarded" are not the same sentence and I think most of the people disagreeing with you OP, are people who think they are the same.

In the context of patriarchy, femininity is seen as below masculinity, that much is true. But they are also expected for women and men respectively to conform to, and not conforming is also punished.

Perisex cis men are punished when they are feminine or don't perform masculinity. Masculinity is rewarded in them, because they are the gender identity with privilege in patriarchal society

Perisex cis women are punished for both. Women are expected to perform femininity, but because they are also the social class below (peri-cis) men, they are punished for it by misogyny. But they are also punished for masculinity due to it being nonconforming. You're seen as leaving your assigned place and that is not rewarded. For cis women, there is a small window that is rewarded, that is feminine, but with the smallest sliver of "masculinity" (really it's neutral trait androgyny) and a bashing of the hyperfeminine. No-makeup makeup or light makeup, "boyish" girl clothes, and one slightly masculine hobby is the rewarded window, and it usually is most rewarded when the woman in question brings down other women, or if she doesn't do it herself, part of her "reward" is people comparing her favorably to other women.

In this case, femininity is both enforced and punished. That's one of the many ways misogyny operates - femininity is seen as lesser, has many negative traits like vanity, jealousy, and cattiness assigned to it among other things, but it is also simultaneously enforced, and you're punished if you aren't feminine as well.

Trans men are punished for masculinity because they are trans. The right sees them as women, so they're leaving their assigned gender role. Pseudo-leftists want them to be less masculine because they find themselves uncomfortable with masculinity. It is punished because of transphobia. Trans men are punished for femininity as well. If you're feminine, then your identity as a man is invalidated by everyone because if you were really a man, you would "act like one" and "make an effort." This is again transphobia. Add in the same things cis women go through when people assume they are cis women

Trans women are punished for masculinity even when they are not performing it, by virtue of being AMAB. When they are, it is the same as with trans men - they "must be faking" if they don't "put in the effort to look like a real woman." Trans women are punished for femininity as well, because of transphobia. They are leaving their assigned role.

Neutral trait androgyny is only rewarded in small doses. Being entirely ambiguous is punished because it is confusing to people. Mixed trait androgyny is punished even more because it is even more confusing.

Nonbinary people cannot fit in either of the boxes and so they are punished no matter what

Intersex people are forced into one of the boxes, in some of the most invasive ways, which is punishment itself for not fitting. But they never fully fit, so they are punished for the traits they have or don't have that don't fit. If they try to leave the assigned box, not only is it difficult, but they are also punished no matter what they do.

Masculinity is rewarded in peri-cis men, and those assumed as such, and NOT rewarded in others BECAUSE of its higher standing above femininity. It is *exclusive* in patriarchy, and if the "wrong" people attempt to be masculine, they aren't rewarded for disrespecting the exclusivity. They are punished for trying to sit in the King's throne. They are also punished when they go back down to their lower class standing because their class itself is punishment.

Begging everyone else to learn oppression and privilege are not a perfectly binary this-that, oppostional thing. You need to kill oppositional sexism in your mind. "All women are oppressed for being women" actually doesn't mean "all men are privileged for being men." "Masculinity isn't always rewarded when the wrong people perform it" doesn't actually mean "femininity isn't punished!"

I think some people also need to learn that generally, in oppressive systems, moving UP is made difficult or impossible, but moving DOWN isn't. When men perform femininity or realize they're actually women, they can be moved DOWN in social class, because they failed or refused to perform the required gender roles. When women perform masculinity or realize they're actually men, they are NOT granted access to the societal class of "man." They cannot move UP. Oppression relies on keeping people down - letting people move up is more dangerous for the system than letting people move down

Which brings me to the last thing too: the social class of "man" and the gender of "man" are not the same. The social class of "man" is for perisex cisgender men who perform masculinity to the minimum expected degree. They may be punished in some ways for not performing it enough, but generally aren't stripped of their social class entirely until they become too feminine or are intersex. The social class of "woman" is also not the same as the gender. "Woman" as a social class is for majority cis women, sometimes transfems who pass very well and transmascs + transneutrals that look like women so they can pretend they're women. Women who are too masculine or too visibly intersex are also kicked out.

Which leaves a lot of people in this secret third class: freaks. Intersex people, trans people who are visibly trans, nonbinary people, trans men who aren't stealth, and gender nonconforming people of all genders and modalities, and other degendered minorities who do not belong in either social class.

37 people were illegally detained in Bellingham, Washington for the ‘crime’ of speaking Spanish. This is so fucking inhumane and cruel

⬆️ racial unity now is matching funds for the detainees and their families. please help if you can.

it's shameful how long i had to look to find an article covering this story that gives more information besides saying "37 undocumented workers were arrested wednesday." cascadia news and the AP were the only sources i found that include any journalism whatsoever beyond the police report.

Hey, this is local for me. It would mean a lot if you could help out even a little bit.

This is the SAVE act, it will ban mail based and online voter registration. It will encourage voter purges and require either a birth certificate or a passport to be presented in order to be registered. The act will be voted on in the house any day now.

This is just straight up voter suppression, this is a deconstruction of democracy. This is vile. By passing this act it will be incredibly easy to suppress the registration of people of color, and trans people among other examples; it will be barely an inconvenience.

Contact your local representative and tell them how you won’t stand up to injustice, to blatant discrimination and censorship. History has its eyes on you

been trying to draw on my new tablet for hours and have come to the conclusion that i hate ibispaint

ibispaint use to be so fun and easy to use when i was like 12 and using my finger to draw on my phone screen. i was popping out like 30 drawings a week using this shit. yet now anytime my hand briefly touches the screen it’s like im being launched 30000 miles across the canvas and all the brushes are butt ugly

crying theres like 1 good brush and i dont even like it and i gotta fucking watch an ad to use it

Is sketchbook free on ur tablet or not?

Sally just became a big sister to her baby brother Mohammed. Their mother Laila @laylaayman-blog2 has been fundraising trying to support their family through the awful conditions in Gaza, but it is hard for her to keep promoting her cause while taking care of a newborn, and donations have slowed as a result. She needs our help to share her campaign!

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