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in your car the radio up

#in your car the radio up

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https://twitter.com/MRPERFECTIYFlNE/status/1784794950552449455

Love community notes.

at least everyone is dragging this idiot lol

#that misconception wouldn’t be so common if they didn’t keep telling us that themselves

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My biggest issue with the word "queer" isn't its history as a homophobic slur, or its etymological roots of meaning "weird". It's just that like a lot of "umbrella terms" it is used and defined in such a broad manner that it is functionally meaningless.

It's supposed to be a label applied to people who are not normal, but as far as I can tell, the people who use this word think that "normal" is being a character from a 1950s sitcom. The vast majority of people do not live like this, so the vast majority of people are not normal. Which means that not being normal is normal. Seriously, has anyone in the "queer movement" ever provided a stable definition of what they think "normal" even is?

The whole "queer" movement loves vague language. Normally I can figure out based on context what they meant to say. But I don't think I should have to do that. Effective communication should involve precise language. The only reason to keep people guessing as to what you really meant is if you don't want people to understand what it is you are trying to say. And the only reason to want that is if you don't actually have anything of substance to say, or what you are trying to say is something that you know would be rejected by people if you communicated it in such a manner that they could actually understand you.

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"(justified) paranoia" paranoia is by definition unjustified

When we see a terf we block and don’t engage. In theory that’s great - leaves them without an audience, saves us from accidentally helping them recruit.

In practice things are less than optimal. You see some feminism 101 take like “bitch is a slur” and your hackles go up. Go on OP’s blog and there’s a bunch of posts about women’s rights. That could be a red flag - I don’t have all day to vet this person. Better not reblog, just to be safe.

What is the effect on the tumblr ecosystem? Feminist posts with any teeth at all can never go viral in this atmosphere! Any discussion of surrogacy more nuanced than “it is an individual choice” will get no engagement; only the most milquetoast sentiments can prevail.

I don’t have a solution. I just want to point out that the atmosphere of (justified) paranoia has set feminism on this website back 20 years.

#hey op you should unpack that paranoia you mentioned #where did you learn it #who is it serving #and might they be benefiting from keeping you paranoid instead of engaged

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#holy shit jk rowling hit em with the opabinia special

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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What's up with TRAs not being able to ever articulate well? I always only get a response like, "go fuck yourself you cockroach" or "kill yourself you terf" for not even saying anything bad, like, "go eugenics" or "kill all trans people". Not even "trans women aren't women".

I'm *never* aggressive towards these people yet they always succeed at making me feel like I'm a murderer and treat me as such.

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jedi fallen order mod that replaces bd1 with a furby

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"sir you need a special license to drive a forklift"

"no it's ok, i saw a motorcycle accident when i was younger. forklift driving and motorcycle crashes are both nonstandard vehicular experiences, so we get to treat them the same way. if you took the same weirdly specific driver's ed course at the same place i did you would know that, fascist"

this is not the dunk you think it is

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this is not the dunk you think it is

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That’s crazy, cause one of the most religious things about radfems is how you ‘people’ can’t keep your hands off teen girls.

maybe wait until the heat surrounding the guy who said being a pedo is a queer kink calms down a bit before trying this kind of bait

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this is how straight guys end up as t4t "lesbians" btw

one of the most religious things about gendies is how much time they spend trying to convince each other they believe something because they obviously can't actually get themselves to believe it

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been trying since yesterday to find some way of charitably reading eric's post but you have to meet him more than halfway on just about everything before you get somewhere outside the realm of "gay people are deviants and abuse victims"

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Have you ever heard of “Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus”?

no but i guess i was right to think it sounds like chuck tingle

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anti-detrans ppl will be like "if you, as a teenager, got involved with a community constantly telling you that you'll kill yourself by the age of 30 unless you medically transition, you're a gullible fucking moron for letting that convince you to transition. also we CANNOT allow detransitioners to share their stories because they might influence some people not to transition" and not see any contradiction between those two sentiments

#and if you try to improve healthcare to make sure only the ‘true’ trans people get seen in the first place #you’re literally trying to kill children

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#is he suggesting people have already died from the report #also yes please answer those questions #all ears