""You Cannot Piss In A Cup Or Pull A Sword From A Stone Or Anything Else In Order To Tell If You're Trans

From the river to the sea

Palestine will be free

“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else

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my dear friend just joined tumblr and i was scrolling through terf tags so that they can, yknow, have a decent time on the internet, but now ive seen dozens of terf posts and i’m annoyed.

my least favorite thing is “why do the feelings of [trans women] always come before the safety of [cis] women?” like come on bro. be imaginative.

first of all, i’ve outlined many times before that most of the terf movement comes from radical feminist ideas of what men are- dangerous, always predatory and oppressive, and sexually sick. now, most men try to stay their distance, but trans women are feminine “men” who are actively trying to reside in “women’s spaces”. so they’re seen not as a passive threat you can fear but ultimately avoid, but as an active one going out of their way to harm you. they’ll obsessively point to one or two examples of this rather than the statistics on violence against trans women

its also a movement based on comfort rather than material danger, which they ironically think is reversed.

i’ve talked before on here about how discomfort is not harm- if you are in a public space and a transgender person is minding their own business, doing the same thing a cisgender woman would do, and YOU feel unsafe- that is not this person harming you, this is you being uncomfortable sharing a public space with someone. that is not on them, especially if theyre just minding their business. your problem with someone else who is doing nothing to you is just that, your problem

someone changing into a swim suit does not affect you. if you cant coexist in public, it is your job to remove yourself from a situation where you feel uncomfortable, not to demand everyone else leaves that public space for you.

there’s also the fact that even when trans women are victims, their safety is always devalued in comparison to cis women’s feeling.

take this for example

this seems insane because if you look at the reddit screenshots, it’s a trans woman saying she was abused and assaulted and was welcomed at the shelter she stayed at for her own safety. she had a positive experience with other women who valued her presence and she found she was able to be helpful in a community of other abused women. its nauseating to read the first paragraph and there is no compassion in this person’s post

she was abused! she was beaten! and she was welcomed and loved at a SHELTER! and yet op’s post with a couple hundred notes mocked her for taking a spot [from real victims] and it’s just… insane. there’s no compassion for an abused woman so long as she’s trans, because then her victimhood pales in comparison to the same situation but it’s happening to a cis woman.

i can’t have put it better than i did here

it all comes back to the idea of “the real victim” and “the clout chaser”. one is vulnerable and infantilized but ultimately cared for, defended even if they don’t need it, while the other does not need help or defense. they’re just getting off to the idea of being a victim and are, in fact, a threat.

trans female victims are always seen as secondary victims. either it didnt happen or it matters less than a cis woman who doesnt want to share a space with her. its not about cis womens safety, it’s about their feelings over trans women’s safety.

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Being angry is okay. Screaming at people and breaking stuff isn't. Being jealous is okay. Sabotaging relationships isn't. Being anxious and insecure is okay. Seeking validation by guilt tripping and manipulating people isn't. Being sad is okay. Intentionally dragging other people down with you isn't. What I'm trying to say is that while all of your emotions are valid, you still have a responsibility to express them in a healthy way.

Do people realize that Israel is so unrestrained that it’s now launching attacks in Lebanon and Syria as well. Do people realize how little Arab people mean to these genocidal maniacs that they are now killing people in three Arab countries. Can genocide apologists pause their pure hatred for Arabs to at the very least admit this. Or are we going to pretend that Israel has a reason to be intensifying attacks in Damascus right now

Just a reminder that Free Palestine doesn't end with a ceasefire.

Gaza is in rubble and will have to be rebuilt. Gaza would still be a concentration camp where there's a lack of clean water and food allowed in. The west bank would still be filled with settlers and settler based violence.

Gaza had the mean age of 18 before this attack. People lost their everything, you don't just recover from that.

A Free Palestine ends once there is a true ceasefire. One the apartheid "state" of israel is no more.

Once Palestinians can go from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, Palestine will truly be free. Edit: Here are some learning sources

Daily click:

arab.org

Home – 2020

arab.org aims to empower every person & every organization to do Good.

Free documentary about Gaza's Fight For Freedom:

means.tv

Gaza Fights for Freedom

Gaza Fights for Freedom

The Seer’s Timeline