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Things are not looking good for the IDF
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Ahsoka and Barriss
Guess who finally finished this wip
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Flying type trainer Miku from Project Voltage
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Another hallmark of "just asking questions" coverage of detransition is a tendency to focus on individuals who were assigned female at birth. Similarly, proponents of "ROGD/social contagion" often claim that the supposed condition disproportionately impacts "young girls," especially those with autism or mental health issues, although the statistics and rationales they cite in support of such claims are deeply flawed. This emphasis on "girls" and "mental illness" appears to purposely play into traditionally sexist and ableist presumptions that these groups are inherently fragile, susceptible to persuasion, and incapable of making informed decisions about their own bodies and lives. After all, the "cisgender people turned transgender" trope is most effective when its imagined "victims" are constructed as "innocent" and "vulnerable."
Perhaps the most illustrative example of this tactic can be found in Abigail Shrier's 2020 book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. The book is focused squarely on protecting "our girls" from "ROGD/social contagion," relying heavily on the aforementioned traditionally sexist and ableist sentiments. Trans female/feminine people are largely absent from the book, with the exception of one chapter (featuring interviews with Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey) that depicts us as sexually obsessed "autogynephiles." Given that chapter, in concert with the book's provocative subtitle, readers may be left with the impression that it's trans female/feminine people who are responsible for this "transgender craze seducing our daughters" (emphasis mine; other anti-trans activists have argued this more explicitly). While Shrier's book never mentions "grooming," its subtext conveys deep connections between "social contagion," the "cisgender people turned transgender" trope, and imagined sexual predation.
—Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (3rd Edition), p 380-381
this passage illustrates so clearly how even the transphobia aimed specifically at afab trans people nearly always comes with the quiet implication that there are more nefarious forces behind it. in misgendering trans people who were afab, reducing them to helpless and sympathetic victims, shrier still manages to evoke the image of the transfeminine sexual predator "grooming" these victims into identifying as transgender. she never makes this connection explicitly, but the subtext of the work leaves the reader to draw that as the only obvious conclusion. when trans women name transmisogyny as the basis for many other forms of gendered oppression, this is what we mean.
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It's just so funny to me how Episode I has such overbloated production and merchandising and essentially thinned out the budget for the next two movies, but it turned out to be the least memorable movie at the end.
Like you could tell they were so excited to show off the "exotic" Queen Amidala outfits they meticulously crafted, and all the funny little futuristic race car designs they made for the podrace and its racetrack, but like film itself was critically lacking in any kind of humanising story to actually make you care about all that.
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Sword Illustrations by Ma-Ko (2018-21)
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Bernstein & Bernstein, Woodward & Woodward
(Dustin Hoffman, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and Robert Redford at the premiere of All The President’s Men, 1976)
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🌸Today's Miku figure is:🌸
Good Smile Company's Sakura Hanami Outfit ver. 1/6 (2025)
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