this doesn’t just block nonbinary people it blocks anyone who doesn’t provide that personal information to google. it’s a direct punishment for trying to remain at all anonymous or private. one might ask why companies are so desperate to seek out and FILTER based on gender in the first place.
This is a great example of how white people, and white women in particular in this instance, will co-opt language around racism to defend the status quo (aka, their white favs). Princess Weekes pointed out in their video on true crime and the theater of safety (around the 17:00 mark) that white people have been throwing around the term “white woman tears” during this case to describe Amber’s testimony about her rape – the rape allegations she is making against her ex-husband who is also a powerful WHITE MAN.
These terms were created to describe how white women weaponize their white womanhood to level false accusations against innocent men of color and ethnically vulnerable populations to get them murdered; men like Leo Frank, and even boys, like Emmett Till.
Johnny Depp is a rich and powerful white man who abused his wife. It’s disgusting and disrespectful that white people are co-opting this language to defend a piece of shit abuser. It’s also disheartening, because I already know that when the sensationalism around the case dies out and it becomes clear to everyone that they were senselessly harassing a survivor of abuse, white people are going turn right back around and use this to discount people of color and our experiences white whiteness and white womanhood - never mind that it was other white people, and specifically white women, co-opting language about whiteness to defend a powerful white man.
“we were born alone & we die alone” you delivered yourself during birth? built all the roofs that have ever given you shelter? sown the wheat in your bread?? weaved the clothes on your back??? wrote all the books youve ever read and the music youve ever listened to????? who made the literal bed youre going to die in - you, all alone?
tbh italy can be a gorgeous sunny place, and we love that. but the vibe that walking in a storm and seeing a giant golden crown of thorns has is unbeatable
Online queers already posting their lukewarm takes on how the idea of a gay dude wearing a harness makes him unsafe to be around children while we are in the middle of a trans panic where our access to healthcare and public spaces is being denied on the principle that we are all "unsafe to be around children" like do you really not hear yourself
Seeing people within your own community go off about how they "totally support gay people but don't wanna see them fucking in public" based on hypothetical scenarios they invented and got mad over and acting like seeing a shirtless dude in a pup mask on a leash is akin to being assaulted while social media is composed of nothing but calls to violence over trans/gay people existing in proximity to a child and new articles everyday that frame being alive as a trans woman as inherently predatory lmao
Online queers already posting their lukewarm takes on how the idea of a gay dude wearing a harness makes him unsafe to be around children while we are in the middle of a trans panic where our access to healthcare and public spaces is being denied on the principle that we are all "unsafe to be around children" like do you really not hear yourself
Seeing people within your own community go off about how they "totally support gay people but don't wanna see them fucking in public" based on hypothetical scenarios they invented and got mad over and acting like seeing a shirtless dude in a pup mask on a leash is akin to being assaulted while social media is composed of nothing but calls to violence over trans/gay people existing in proximity to a child and new articles everyday that frame being alive as a trans woman as inherently predatory lmao
anders dragonage is such a character. he has a clinic in a sewer. he wears feathers. he’s both tainted and possessed. he occasionally glows. he’s the reason mages aren’t allowed to leave the tower for PE. he came up with a cat name before he got a cat. he’s bad at spelling. he blew up a church. he has a “controversy” section on his wikipedia page, but the controversy in question is him being way too into men for gamer dudebros in 2011 to handle, not the fact that he blew up a church. he has a wikipedia page
“What if the body, at its best, is only a longing for body? The blood racing to the heart only to be sent back out, filling the routes, the once empty channels, the miles it takes to take us toward each other. Why did I feel more myself while reaching for him, my hand midair, than I did having touched him?”
Saying the quiet part out loud. The west is demanding blood - the deaths of millions of Chinese people - in order to sustain Apple’s stock price a little longer.
every day I’m reminded that liberal ethics do not factor in material realities at all and view all political positions as essentially symbols. it’s bizarre.
“if it’s morally okay to protest to defend bodily autonomy then it’s morally okay to protest to endanger bodily autonomy”
the only way to hold that ethical framework is if bodily autonomy literally has no material impact at all. To them, bodily autonomy is a purely symbolic concept and only the protest regarding that symbol is material.
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