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bats full of shame

@shamebats / shamebats.tumblr.com

He/him. MtB (male to bat) 🏳️‍⚧️... [18+]
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If you're here for the trans tiktoks, I'm using the tag #tiktoks for all tiktoks and #trans experiences for all posts of people sharing trans experiences in any format.

I may not necessarily fully agree with everything every trans person says, me re-blogging or posting something doesn't mean I do, but I try not to share anything bigoted against certain types of trans people or other minorities. If I miss something, feel free to let me know.

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Plain text: Pride, incidentally, goes on to warn good Christian women never to dress up in lingerie to excite their husbands because "when women exchange their natural function of childbearing and motherliness for that which is 'against nature' [that is, trying to behave sexually like a man], the men tend to abandon the natural sexual use of the women and turn to homosexuality. When men stop seeing women as mothers, sex loses its sacredness. Sex becomes 'recreational, and therefore the drive begins to find new kicks." In other words, that lacy black negligee just might make your husband gay.

(This is a quote from the book "I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult", the author is not endorsing the idea, just explaining).

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sometimes I feel like some queer people just reinvented more binary norms to ascribe to. yk? like. I see conversations fairly often where someone’s like “I feel this way and I say I’m (x) gender” and then there’s a whole comment section about “that experience you described isn’t (x) gender, it’s (y) gender by definition” and like. I feel like we lost the plot

the point of creating new labels isn’t actually creating new boxes to fit people in, the *point* is to make someone more comfortable. If someone’s feels like they have multiple genders at once, but they want to call themselves nonbinary instead of bigender because that's what makes them happiest, that’s the whole point of creating new labels in the first place. At its core, the queer movement is supposed to encompass do what makes you feel good. So, do what makes you feel good.

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redstonedust

fascinated by the nurse who did my mental health assessment who was apparently so allergic to the concept of they/them pronouns that they unprompted decided i'm a she/he instead. it's so bizzare it kind of loops back around to based tbh. i'll take it.

[Image IDs: three sections of text: "He describes her pace as very slow;" "He takes her medications on her own accord" Suicidal Ideation: She sometimes has thoughts of ending his life" /end]

Me when my medical practitioner is a time traveller from 1732

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shamebats

An explanation for some of those people, some of them have legitimately probably been fearmonger by their parents and doctors to think that way. Now, by no means is that an excuse for their behavior, but for some, it is an explanation.

Absolutely, every trans person who was socialized in a transphobic, fatphobic, misogynistic, racist, intersexist etc. society will end up having internalized many of these ideas. We've all had to unlearn them to some extent.

If your inner critic sounds like a rabid TERF, that's a sign to examine those thoughts critically before you go online and parrot transphobic beliefs, hurting your own community in the process.

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cryptotheism

being a hater and being a troll are different but idk how to articulate the difference

Trolling inherently involves another person. A troll is trying to waste your time and/or generate a reaction. It is entirely cynical.

Hating can be done in private, even monasticslly. But hating at a person is an invitation to banter. The goal is to hit that perfect funny/cutting/true sweet spot, and it's fun if the target of your hating can return with an equally funny/cutting/true comeback.

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Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

this is my aesthetic:

Tips if u wanna start a tumblr blog:

  1. Have an email
  2. Make a tumblr account with said email
  3. Be annoying on main
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shamebats

I evicted a huge spider before my cat was finished staring at it & now he's looking up at the spot where it used to be & crying. Someone cancel me please

sorry i dropped my gif . yeah youve been cancelled. yeah its career-ending. sorry

thanks, I really needed this

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I evicted a huge spider before my cat was finished staring at it & now he's looking up at the spot where it used to be & crying. Someone cancel me please

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