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Would fucking love if trans femmes and trans women stopped saying men are all evil. Would love if we stopped literally echoing terf rhetoric. Would love if trans women and trans femmes not only didn't echo this, but spoke up in favor of trans mascs and trans men. Would love if popular queer rhetoric didn't outright say that masculinity is evil and that transandrophobia doesn't exist and that trans women are The Most Oppressed Class. Would love if leftist discourse advocated for equality again instead of inverting the pyramid. Would love if we stopped pretending there is a form of exclusion that is #woke. Would love if these people acknowledged that there is no way to meaningfully exclude allocishet men from queer spaces, because you WILL be forcing (1) trans men and mascs (2) non binary people (3) non passing trans women and femmes into either outing themselves or not being allowed in spaces they belong in - not to mention intersex people and butch women who are also affected by this rhetoric. Would love if we understood that cis queer men aren't somehow not oppressed. Would love if we understood that transphobia and misogyny and homophobia and the patriarchy affect all of us negatively, including the most privileged groups, and that excluding men from your activism is a fantastic way to inspire further bigotry from men (as well as anyone who like, loves a man). I'm sick of seeing trans women post that they hate men, I'm sick of seeing trans men apologize for their existence. I didn't betray a sacred femininity by transitioning, and you don't shed dirty masculinity by taking estrogen. Masculinity isn't evil and femininity isn't good - they both just EXIST. A true dismantling of the patriarchy would involve loving men, both in the sense of the act of loving men and in the sense of encouraging men to love.

Trans inclusive radical feminism isn't going to save you.

Seriously I'm so sick of only seeing trans mascs and trans men speak out about this. Transandrophobia is defined by erasure, and it sucks to see members of our community not only contribute but actively encourage this rhetoric and behavior. And seeing my trans femme friends like this content or say similar things! It is so fucking hurtful.

This connects to how TME and TMA are transphobic terms. You cannot create a separation between trans women and other trans people without being transphobic. You cannot equate masculinity with evil without being transphobic. Not mention intersexist.

I wish I could say this rhetoric was perpetrated by cis people only but I keep seeing trans women doing this in particular. And even though I know there are trans women who don't participate in this, I never see them taking a stand AGAINST it. So it creates this incredibly isolating experience. Please. Just. If you talk about trans issues, explain that TME is transphobic. Talk about transandrophobia and trans masculine erasure. Say that masculinity can be beautiful and freeing. Explain that men being ontologically evil is a transphobic concept. Talk about it just talk about just talk about it just talk about it

"why are you talking about trans women in particular" because you're supposed to be part of my community! You're not supposed to be the enemy and yet you're either supporting it actively (the common use of TME/TMA and the common "I hate men" rhetoric) or passively (never speaking about trans men's issues). I expect cis people to be transphobic, and I'm hurt when trans people are. I'm trying to call you people in, not out.

Also, this was triggered by a specific video by a trans woman who actually said men are evil, using those words. The video had tens of thousands of likes, including a trans femme friend of mine. Forgive me if that made me upset.

people are literally so boring a male character will kill 10000 people and steal candy from babies and theyll be like omg thats my king! but a female character is rude once and theyre like i hope she dies violently

reblog to support female characters violently killing people

People always treat 'the right to a fair trial' as like a special privilege you grant to people who deserve it (because they didn't do a bad crime crime) and something you should rescind to people who don't deserve it (because they did do a bad crime), and not see it as a diagnostic tool for checking whether or not they *did* actually do a bad crime.

As if the worse the accusation, the *less* discerning you need to be about whether it's true or not

Related: I want to see a Phoenix Wright style game where a couple of your clients actually are guilty, but it's still your job to defend them. The purpose of the defence is to make sure the police and prosecution are doing their jobs - you're not protecting "that murderer" from justice, you're protecting justice itself from sloppy evidence standards and the presumption of guilt.

can we reintroduce “disturbing” back into the popular lexicon in place of most uses of “traumatizing”

“This experience puts me in a worse mental state and my well-being will be compromised…”

• Annoyance: "...not really, I just don't like it and will sort it out as soon as I can." ("It was raining and while I'm wearing a good raincoat I got some water droplets on my glasses.")

Olivia Jaimes’ Nancy continues to amaze and delight.

This really might be the finest 4th wall joke ever pulled off.

eagle: so what do you think about stigmata

prometheus: you know we're in a pre-christian myth, right? like that word doesn't exist yet. your dumb joke is anachronistic.

eagle: stigma talons in your flesh

And yet he couldn't see the punchline coming.

Eagle: I can do jokes. it's all in the de-livery.

I love 'hero living long enough to become the villain', but oughhhh, 'villain living long enough to become the hero' is life altering. Also not just ending in some goddamn sacrifice. They've gotta legit LIVE with those actions. And holy fuck, if they end up caring for someone they previously traumatized and now have to bear being the thing that haunts their nightmares for years? OH, THE ANGST, TAKE ME NOW!!!

I ENDED UP DRAWING A COMIC ABOUT THIS STUPID FUCKING ASK IM CRYING

an extremely short story about two knights who were made for each other

I guess it wasn’t just a one knight stand, then…

shipping characters who are just friends in canon is more than okay but what’s annoying is when people take screenshots of them touching and say “friends don’t do that!”. i hate to break it to you but friends do hug and hold hands and cuddle. saying ‘friends don’t do that’ is reenforcing the idea that physical touch is reserved for lovers

“There is nothing platonic about this” Nah I can write an essay over how platonic that is.

"They are in love" Sit and watch me writing a book saga about how they love each other platonicaly because this type of love. Is. Not. Less. LOVE!

who else remembers the entire Doctor Who crew dancing to 500 miles with David Tennant because it’s the purest thing you’ll see today

Bats! This is a very self indulgent post for me and it’s an excuse to draw bats lol. Close ups and some facts below 👇

was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"

which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.

Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted

also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful

and what have white people contributed exactly?

please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries

people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons

some sources to get you started:

but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!

maybe show us some damn respect

I'd like to give a few examples.

🧪The man known as the father of chemistry (or alchemy, our teacher said both are used for him), Jabir ibn Hayyan. He wrote a book named Kitab al-Kimya, "kimya" means chemistry, and the word chemistry originated from that as well. He invented aqua regia, he had the first chemistry lab, discovered the methods of refining and crystallizing nitric acid, hydrogen chloride and sulfuric acid, and discovered diethyl ether, citric acid, acetic acid and tartaric acid. He developed the "retort" and literally introduced the concept of "base" to chemistry.

📐The father/ founder of algebra, Al-Khwarizmi. He wrote a book called Al-Jabr and the word "algebra" comes from "jabr". He presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications. He introduced the methods of "reduction" and "balancing". The word "algorithm" literally comes from his name. He also produced the first table of tangents.

📐Biruni, who proposed that the radius be accepted as a unit in trigonometric functions and added secant, cosecant and cotangent functions to it. He made many contributions to astronomy that are too detailed for me to write here because this is long enough already, but for medicine, he managed to make a woman give birth by C section. He wrote Kitabu's Saydane which describes the benefits of around 3000 plants and how they are used.

🩺The father of early polymeric medicine, Ibn Sina. His books, The Law of Medicine and The Book of Healing were taught as the basic works in medical science in various European universities until the mid-17th century. He discovered that the eye was made up of six sections and that the retina was important for vision, performed cataract surgery. He performed kidney surgery, diagnosed diabetes by analyzing urine, identified tumors, and worked on diseases such as facial paralysis, ulcers, and jaundice. He used "anesthesia" in surgeries, invented instruments such as forceps and scalpels to remove catheters and tumors. He was the first physician in history to mention the existence of microbes, at a time when there was no microscope. He made contributions to so many fields: astronomy, physics, chemistry, psychology (he suggested treating patients with music).

🩺Al-Zahrawi wrote Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices. The surgery chapter of this work became the standard textbook in Europe for the next five hundred years. He pioneered the use of catgut for internal stitches, and his surgical instruments are still used today to treat people. He did so much work in surgery that I can't write them all here. The first clinical description of an operative procedure for hydrocephalus was given by him, he clearly described the evacuation of superficial intracranial fluid in hydrocephalic children. He was also the first physician to identify the hereditary nature of haemophilia and describe an abdominal pregnancy, a subtype of ectopic pregnancy that in those days was a fatal affliction, and was first to discover the root cause of paralysis.

✈️Abbas ibn Firnas devised a means of manufacturing colorless glass, invented various planispheres, made corrective lenses, devised an apparatus consisting of a chain of objects that could be used to simulate the motions of the planets and stars, designed a water clock, and a prototype for a kind of metronome. He also attempted to FLY, and he did fly a respectable distance but forgot to add a tail to his wings and didn't stick the landing.

Women also became scholars in the Islamic society. An example would be Maryam al-Ijliyya, who was an astronomer and an astrolabe maker, who measured the altitude of celestial bodies with the astrolabes she made. Another example would be Fatima al-Fihri, who founded the oldest university in the world, the University of Qarawiyyin.

Baghdad was the dream place anyone in academia now would want to go, it was a peaceful place of inclusivity and research. So many scholars advanced so many fields of study. Ibn al-Haytham invented camera obscura (and pinhole camera), Ibn al-Nafis was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of blood, father of robotics Ismail al-Jazari invented the elephant clock and his list of contributions to engineering are so long that I can't write them here...

These are just a few examples, of course. I hope this encourages people to do research on this topic more. I even added some emojis to make this more fun to read.💁🏻‍♀️

Vaccination in the form of inoculation was introduced to the anglosphere and from there into published scientific literature by an enslaved African man named Onesimus in the 1700s.

I wanted to find a source from someone who was a bit politically engaged with the topic, here’s a sort of starter (although they do assume you have heard of Onesimus.)

girl we blanchin !!!!