Listen to sex workers, except for the ones who criticize prostitution and the sex trade and openly describe the trauma caused by their exploitation - they just weren't a right fit for the job.
Listen to the biologists, psychologists, and neurologists, except for the ones who publish credible studies against the idea of brain sex and remark that, actually, a person cannot change their sex - there still exists alternative facts.
Listen to gay and lesbian people, except for the ones who refuse to have sex with trans people, dislike being amorphously referred to as "queer" or find it retraumatizing, and argue that sexual orientation pertains to sex and not gender identity - they're just genital fetishists and sexual predators.
Listen to trans people and gender dysphoric people, except for the ones who don't believe that identifying as something really makes someone something, that sex can't be changed, and that pronoun use determines identity - they have internalized transphobia.
Listen to women, except for the ones who don't believe that "woman" is just a social category and that oppression and discrimination on the axis of biological sex exists - they're just terfs and similar to Nazis.
Listen to intersex people, except for the ones who prefer the term "person with a disorder of sex development", are bothered by dyadic trans people co-opting terminology such as AFAB/AMAB, and speak out against trans surgeries and HRT being done to kids - they're just extremists.
Listen to gender nonconforming people, except for the ones who maintain that their style, nonconforming mannerisms, and/or same-sex attraction does not mean they're not their sex. They're just eggs, they'll turn into trans people soon.
Listen to Latino people, except for the ones who speak out against "Latinx" being coined as a term and a reflection of Euro-American colonialism - they're just traditionalists.
Listen to black people, except for the ones who take issue with "blacklivesmatter" being consistently refocused to "black trans lives matter", consider the argument that female sex-segregated spaces are akin to Jim Crow Laws as racist, and point out that trans murder rates - in which most of these murdered people are people of color - are being used by mostly white trans-identifying male people in arguments for self-serving intentions. They're just transphobic.
Listen to Native people, except for the ones who indicate that "two spirit" doesn't mean what white trans people think it means and worry about Euro-American colonialism further appropriating their culture and language - they're just a minority and are behind the times.
Listen to Jewish people, except the ones who continuously stress that comparing the disagreement with gender ideology to Naziism and genocide is deeply disrespectful, often anti-semitic, and minimizes the experiences of victims of genocide and their families. They're probably not even Jewish.
Listen to Marxists and feminists, except for the ones who point out that female people are treated as a reproductive and sexual resource based upon sex. They're transphobic.
Listen to intersectional feminists, except for the ones who point out that intersectionality that isn't female-focused isn't feminism. They're just terfs.
Don't listen to desisters/detransitioners, except for the ones who maintain the narrative that receiving SRS or HRT did no harm to them or that they're desisting due to 'gender affirming care' working for them. The rest were just cis people in denial of their own gender identity.
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people that for me would be the most poetic/hot to kill the c3 big bads:
ludinus: caleb (has been hunting that mf down for years for being part of the system that allowed trent to do what he did to empire kids, he deserves to fuck that wizard up)
liliana: keyleth (she watched the love of her life that she lost several years back be captured by liliana in a plot using her as bait to be used as a lens and put through constant excruciating pain, I want her to obliterate that bitch)
otohan: Imogen/orym (both of them had their significant other killed by her hands, just set them loose on her please)
what I want to say with this is, sometimes vengeance is the answer
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I know it was a simulacrum, and that he was insisting that he'd come out on top of the conflict because he got good information on the Hells' capabilities, but.....I can't help but think it's consistent with Ludinus' characterization to walk into lava rather than face the idea that some random walking corpse counterspelled him
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Friends at the Table is currently gearing up to return to the Divine Cycle, which has effectively been an entire series built around self response around a self-critical inquiry. COUNTER/Weight opened with the argument that the giant mechs of fiction (and the technological and institutional inventions of humans) could have been built to look like anything, but were "made to look like us." Twilight Mirage scoffed at that, saying instead that when we thought we were "building mirrors," we were actually "setting fires," making things that were not only fundamentally unlike us, but also things that would outrun us, moving independently and far beyond our grasp. PARTIZAN counters back that it is naive to think we could ever build a culture that escapes our own gravitational pull, positing that we may be be unable to invent any form (cultural, technological, or otherwise) which lets us escape our worst tendancies and biases. What the hell is PALISADE, the next season in this long series, going to say back? Good question. Hopefully I'll know soon!
-Austin Walker
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not a huge fan of the yj cartoon, i'm confused whether that's a new version of yj from the comics, or that's just a whole new different yj
It's a whole different young justice - I think people get confused bc of the name of the show but the main team in young justice don't actually call themselves young justice they're just referred to as "the team" - I have made it no secret that I do really love the cartoon it's an elseworld story and they make that very clear from the start that while these characters share names with their comic book counterparts they are telling their own stories and i really enjoy the story they're telling
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Guys...did I miss something? Why Is Ashton saying he Is going to be anti-gods now? I love his character so much but I can't for the life of me make sense of his logic. If he doesn't like them bc they are The Authority ok legit but then why did he not hate them since the start of the campaign? Why now? Is It Just because of the new info on his nature?
More confusion under cut (I don't want to spread negativity I just don't get It)
Edit: I got Amazing answers in the comments! If you are curious I suggest you take a look. Now everything is more clear for me. This post was about Ep 72, (before the shard explosion).
Were they not "lowkey-waiting-to-be-picked" neutral? Why does he think the Dawnfather hates him specifically? Like, Bro, an Angel of the Dawnfather (not he himself) saw you attacking his fucking temple, what were they supposed to do, fucking hug you? And he also assumes That bc Dawnfather (notorious bitch) supposedly hates him, then all of the gods don't like him??? What the fuck Is up with That?
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