I got a surprise $172 bill that I can't afford.

Help a girl out if you can.

A cashier at CVS just asked me if I’m a professional wrestler

The right wing media ecosystem on X is going all in on attacking gay parents and adoption. They're pulling the worst tropes straight from the 80's.

And it was all so predictable after they felt they'd "won" on trans issues and needed the engagement.

Rehab has single digit success rates. Any effort to "treat" drug addicted people needs to have a "what do we do if it doesn't work?" plan.

This would be a perfect excuse for Mamdani to provide leadership and issue a demand to NYC hospitals that have withdrawn from gender care for youths.

Meanwhile, in Seattle:

Pro tip: If you want to be casually condescending to women online, you need to at least put in the effort to know what you're talking about and actually have some reading comprehension instead of immediately jumping to this patronizing shit.

Actually go back and *read* what I wrote.

The idea that a defense of trans women must also involve a defense of men is *drumroll please* blatantly transmisogynist.

I would argue that your priorities are misplaced.

Again, TERFs do not hate men. Making transmisogyny discourse be about men is the opposite of helpful.

Mansplaining misogyny to a random woman is something that should have you reevaluating your life choices and your view of yourself as a person, because currently you're being part of the problem and it's important that you understand that.

1) As a man, you are not actually qualified to judge what is and is not misogyny.

2) If you don't understand how using vagina euphemisms as insults, particularly to communicate someone is a terrible person, is misogynist, then you fundamentally do not understand what misogyny is.

I feel like it's important to emphasize that using a misogynist slur "in a gender neutral way" doesn't actually change the fact that it's a misogynist slur, similar to how a bunch of straight guys casually calling each other homophobic slurs doesn't magically make it not homophobic.

We saw you from across the bar and we really like your vibe.

Nice! My queen Anne never misses

The UK Trans Experience: you can be arbitrarily included in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with you, be included in national coverage and have dozens of articles written about you, be found innocent of everything and still have journalists follow you to different countries to call you a pervert

it is extraordinarily telling that this is all sparked when a very senior, tenured white male professor at an Ivy got mad that a woman asked him a question

"The most anti-Israel party in US history."

The state of Israel didn't exist for most of US history.

I see that Elizabeth Warren is trending so here's your annual reminder that Pocahontas was an abused, kidnapped, raped child who was murdered and she deserves more respect than for you to use her name as a punchline because you hate a white woman.

#LeaveMatoakaAlone

I’m watching a compilation of reaction videos of people watching the ending of the lost ark and the fact everyone CACKLES when the Nazis face gets melted amuses me

I feel like it's important that you understand that transmisogynists, and particularly "TERFs", DO NOT HATE MEN.

They hate *trans women*.

They treat men far, far better than they treat us.

So this isn't the "gotcha" you think it is.

Distracting myself from the horrors by learning more lore about the Laibon.

Historically, the US turns up three years late to World Wars and so needs to make up for lost time with colossal casualties from communicable diseases.

Also not a fan of the all-too-common phenomenon of people saying "I love butches!" as they gesture towards a trans man.

Hell, there are so many people who are like "I love butches!" but really mean "I like when I can project heteronormative guy expectations onto a woman."

Saw someone complain that most 'butches' promoted in F/F romance novels are basically this and basically yeah. SFF does better though.

Also, capitalism.

Unfortunately Australia is increasingly backward; the current Labor government has indicated an openness to transphobia and is refusing to intervene against one state's youth trans healthcare ban. Gender recognition is also co-ordinated on the state level so could be stripped away anytime.

Martina Navratilova won 2 Wimbledons with a trans coach. She celebrates erasing Lia Thomas’ records. Story by Cyd Zeigler • 4d • 3 min read

Beneath contempt.
www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

Pro tip: You're not going to conquer anti-trans bigotry with casual misogyny.

She used the women's changing room at work and a colleague harassed her about it. Their employer asked for the harassment to stop so the colleague took them to court, it was found that the colleague had harrassed her and she had done nothing wrong.

So obviously she lost her job and had to leave UK.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Defending the honor of "British Culture (tm)" while the UK politically and culturally doubles down on transmisogyny, racism, Islamophobia, ableism, and xenophobia is not helpful in the slightest.

I'm confused why you'd describe institutional transmisogyny that primarily traces itself back to many of the wealthiest, whitest, most privileged Brits (and wealthy white Americans) as "trailer trash".

It's especially inappropriate considering that trans people tend to live in poverty.