I took 2d4 psychic damage from this post

That some secure attachment you’ve got there

It would be a shame if someone … ruptured it

The War on Christmas is real and I am enlisting on the anti-Christmas side

If not for the distance I would be there now, arms wrapped around you from behind, guiding your hands

Maybe you just need a girl to come over and cook with you

Okay so I have a bit of cooking experience and I’m pretty sure getting into the frying pan is not how you do it

In a shocking turn of events, people who have been told their entire lives that wanting sex even a little makes them worthless and people who are taught that their only value to society is as sex objects (if even that) outwardly express different attitudes toward sex.

Our chili cheese flavored heroes

Personally I am anti-circumcision for the sole reason that it leaves more material available for vaginoplasty /s

tbh I’ve noticed a decent chunk of this is bi girls with some …… very weird internalized hangups about their sexuality, sometimes more than a bit of denial too

“utter boredom induced by no longer being a relevant world power” oh fuck are Americans going to become even more insufferable in 10 years?

But it is definitely worth saying explicitly why.

So I suppose it’s fair to say that those particular prefixes should be avoided in new gender-related terminology unless you actually want to explicitly reference cisgender/transgender, and that “cissexual” is the wrong term to adopt in this context for that exact reason regardless of the intent.

It’s worth acknowledging that those contractions are so common nowadays that it’s impossible to use either of those prefixes in relation to gender without implicitly referencing the words they come from (“cisgender” and “transgender”).

I would interpret “cis” and “trans” in common usage as contractions of “cisgender” and “transgender” without necessarily having any relation to the linguistic prefixes they come from, so your statement would read “calling someone cissexual is calling them cisgender” which felt nonsensical.

HOWEVER,

Okay so I will say that statements like this confused me for a while and I think there’s something worth discussing here.

I wouldn’t have known until I tied on a pair by accident but flared jeans (and other types of pants) emphasize my legs in a really great way that I wasn’t expecting.

And you don’t even need to look at American involvement in other places to see that (although the picture gets worse if you do). Genocide and slavery were both key to its founding and have both continued to the present in some form.

Same goes for public transit, infrastructure generally, education, …

It’s pretty grim here

Like … much of the rest of the world has been doing this for quite a while. Perhaps they know something about it that we don’t? Maybe?????

As another example of this, despite a lot of interest in universal healthcare on the American left, I’ve seen very little interest in like, actually learning what does and does not work elsewhere.

I’m actually kind of getting a perverse sense of joy in watching it all crumble, even if I’m sort of directly in the crosshairs along at least one axis

Grosdoriane on X: "This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh" / X This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Evergreen tweet

There’s this thing I’ve noticed with Americans (derogatory) where a lot of us sort of bought into the propaganda we were fed growing up and now the thin veneer of respectability the state managed to maintain at home is crumbling and their reaction is like “wow things used to be better here”

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tbh I’m more confused that you saw that very obvious vaguepost and assumed what it was about rather than thinking “hmm maybe there’s some context here I don’t have”

It’s always “straight and bi trans girls this” or “lesbian trans girls that (oh and also bi girls do it too sometimes)”

Where’s the discourse calling bi trans girls capital P Problematic without it being by association with straightness or lesbianness?

Personally I think it’s biphobic that bi trans women haven’t been uniquely blamed for anything yet

I guess following the logic further you get into questions like “should <insert health care system> cover e.g. hair removal and BA for cis women” to which I’m inclined to say yes but I’m having trouble putting together an argument for it that I think other people would find convincing.

Also just to note this isn’t something I’m taking a firm position on, it’s something I’ve been wrestling with for a while.