#And to speak specifically

[she-is-ovarit]

"The LGB community", "The LGBTQ community", "The gay community", "the queer community", etc...

These phrases are used among conservatives, radical feminists, and trans activists/gender ideologists, and just broader culture alike.

Portraying the homosexual and bisexual population as one "community" is disingenuous, in my opinion. There isn't one, overarching community.

"The woman community"

"The poor community"

"The elder community"

Etc.

It doesn't make much sense, and acts to both politicize and stereotype ("you're all the same"). This choice of words isn't just normalized for homosexual and bisexual populations, but also for people of color, tribal/Indigenous groups, and disabled populations. i.e, "the black community", "the Indigenous community", "the disabled community", "the deaf community", "the autistic community", and so on. It also portrays social cohesion under whatever may be the current mainstream culture or belief systems within these groups, which might not be true but instead driven by broader culture or more privileged individuals.

Lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people are a population or a group, with several communities. Lesbian biker communities, communities of gay musicians, etc.

When we refer to marginalized/oppressed groups as the "XYZ community" and use the word "community" as an umbrella term, as stated above this effectively associates mainstream cultural norms and ideologies existing within these populations as cohesive, accepted by all, and in many ways being what defines them. This is (in part!) why, for example, being unsupportive of BDSM turns into others accusing someone of being homophobic, because they associate the leather and BDSM community with the LGB population, since this community or culture is what is currently mainstream among gay and bisexual people. Participating in BDSM, leather, and queer theory are not what defines being lesbian, gay, or bisexual. These things are subcultures or subcommunities which have gone mainstream, and what is mainstream is often pushed by and/or is what benefits the most privileged within a population.

My pitch is that it is beneficial to replace "community" with "population", "group", "people", etc., to make distinguishments between "broader gay culture" and the actual people, and to adopt framing that understands that there exists several communities within specific groups instead of just implying there exists one community true for everybody.

#And to speak specifically #What you see at Pride is not representative of the entire LGB population #LGB #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBT community #queer community #queer theory #people of color #disability #disabled people #autistic people #neurodivergent #Lesbian #gay #bisexual #pride #gay pride #lgbt pride #status quo #mainstream media #communities

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[falseficus]

everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -

enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.

and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends

#debated making the cause of death in the happy country also MALNUTRITION. MALNUTRITION. might have been a better specific image but these #better illustrate my point #the frog speaks #writing

[jplupine]

So apparently some people new to Tumblr think a repost and a reblog are the same thing, so when they see creators asking for people to not repost, they're thinking the creators are saying to not reblog 😭

Y'all, a repost is when you copy/download the work and create a new post using the work making it seem as if it's yours. A reblog is you using a site provided feature to share the creator's post directly from the creator so that it's still credited to them and they still get all of the traction/notes from the work.

Please, reblog fics/art/etc. that you enjoy! Reblogging is not reposting! Creatives need support too, and reblogging is a way to do that!

#When Wolf Speaks #text post #orange #minors dni #unless the creator specifically states 'do not REBLOG' then they're not saying don't reblog when they say don't repost

[dogmotif]

if you're not obsessed with anything weird and niche please try harder. stop going outside for a while. consider getting weirder about the things you already like

#have i mentioned to you guys that ive got back into robot wars. really full force #and its not that niche really but its confined to a specific group of fans. and its very autistic #will speaks

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

#star trek #Vulcans #Humans #not based on a specific thing #but I used to know this annoying couple that were ‘family friends’ #who would show up to potluck dinners and the like and would either bring nothing or bring something really just. out of left field? #like a bag of frozen chicken to a bbq #and then proceed to make sure they are first even if it was stated to let kids go first #would take HUGE amounts before anyone else got a chance to get a plate #and then make off with the leftovers again even if they were already claimed for #and it wasn’t a food insecurity thing trust me I would never speak bad about a person getting food if that was even a remote chance #the adults who raised us knew them really well and we’d been to their house a ton of times #they were just dicks #and yeah. they’d occasionally insult the food. while eating the MAJORITY of it. #it was so weird at their home they would go out of their way to get the healthiest options possible #you know the really bland tasteless expensive stuff that apparently was healthier #but then if they were visiting our house they would. eat all our unhealthy snacks. #that always pissed me off so much as a kid because we actually had a food insecurity thing going on #and also a variety of other reasons that are a bit too depressing to bring up on this post #but anyways we’d hardly ever get to have nice snacks #and this couple would just take them all??? even after we’d tell them repeatedly that it was ours and those snacks weren’t gonna be #replaced #hated that couple #if you’re wondering why they were ‘family friends’ it’s because the couple who raised us #(it feels weird to type it out like that but apparently legal guardians doesn’t fit since they never finished petitioning 💀) #liked having them around because it made them look like ‘such great Christian’s’ being nice to the people #that no one else wanted to be friends with #I always thought that was a really weird and fucked up reason to be friends with someone #this got long sorry 😭

[tinystepsforward]

idk how many of you remember this but a few years ago tumblr ran a universally panned ad campaign for (us american) pride month that went "the gayest place on the internet".

well someone planning that campaign dropped in to ask the queer automatticians for advice on that and universally me and the other trans people involved were like "don't do it. i am so serious. don't do it. people on tumblr won't understand that it wasn't automattic who instituted the porn ban, or they will, but they'll recognize that automattic hasn't done anything, hands tied or not, to reverse it. nobody will like this. it will be a disaster." and they thanked us for our thoughts and went ahead with it anyway and then had to do retrospectives about how badly it went and were like "we just didn't know" and [gestures] yeah [edit: i think the person who rbed saying it was queerest place on the internet was right, my brain is fried, sorry! and that's... even worse lmao]

#tony muses #hello new followers. for clarity if you are expecting intense amounts of goss about tumblr specifically i am not your person #when automattic first acquired tumblr they asked queer staff who wanted to transfer over to something that was dear to a lot of us #and i specifically did not want to shit where i eat so to speak #which was the right choice. i just have other info about automattic more generally

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead? #'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had #but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value #while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour #supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events #meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism #(especially misogyny and homophobia) #especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance #in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness #for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing' #the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism

[doomingthenarrative]

happy aromantic visibility day!

#aromantic #shoutout to my BESTIE SPECIFICALLY but all aromantics yes #we see you!!!!! #saiph speaks

[agnesandhilda]

judith slaying holofernes by artemisia gentileschi c. 1620 - edited by me using online image editor

#bolo speaks #judith and holofernes #artemisia gentileschi #I clipped this instead of using the full image bc using the entire canvas made picking out specific bloodstains a nightmare

[cubedmango]

the only thing i want from the dlc

#kieran #rival kieran #florian #trainer florian #(i guess?? i wasnt rlly thinking abt which protag it is specifically) #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #the indigo disk #my art #comic #dlc tomorrow!! my predictions? THE BOY GETS A HUG!!!!!! #GAMEFREAK I AM SPEAKING DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EAR!!! KIERAN GETS AN APOLOGY AND A HUG OR ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bishy437]

#i feel like the op was speaking about him specifically #bingqiu #scum villain #luo binghe #svsss #scum villian self saving system #mine

[bobbyinthegarden]

#weirdly specific poll #books #bookblr #Bobby speaks #jonathan lethem #the silmarillion #dark academia #light academia #literature #polls #fandom polls

[vainvaiheart]

and they were rivals (and they were rivals)

#do ants have integrity #transformers earthspark #tfe bumblebee #tfe breakdown #breakbee #the breakbee is implied here but it’s still intended #I just think breakdown teasing bumblebee is funny #speaking of #anyone else think about how bumblebee might have chosen his new alt mode to specifically be able to race breakdown #anyway #no straight explanation for any of this #maccadam

[jade-kyo]

RvB fandom: haha what if RT collapses with the release of the final season

Apollo:

#rvb #jadey speaks #red vs blue #rooster teeth #the amount of posts I’ve seen over the past few months specifically being like #I bet RT will collapse once the final season drops is unreal #I’m pretty I said it myself a few times

[official-crab-posts]

hey everyone, i know this is a silly gimmick blog but i feel i need to clarify that zionists aren't welcome here. people who think the violence in gaza right now is in any way justified or proportional to october 7 and support the genocide being committed against palestinians need to get off my blog. leave.

people who use this situation as an excuse to be antisemitic also need to get the fuck out of here. it is never okay to be antisemitic and trying to use your support for palestine as a shield is pathetic. i dont want you around and i do not like you. when i find you i will block you. save us both some time and just unfollow me right now.

i just wanted to make my position clear. free palestine. 🇵🇸

#not a crab #the crab speaks #free palestine #from the river to the sea #i just wanted to make this clear after i saw a couple people followed me that i do not want following me. thanks. #also to be clear obviously this didn’t start on october 7. it’s been happening for over 70 years now #but i specifically wanted to address the claim that this is somehow a proportional response to that day #i didn’t get into the historical context in this post because it was meant to just be a quick response after i had to block some zionists #but it has gotten way more notes than i thought it would and also has led to a couple zionists bothering me so i just wanted to add this #also like dw about the zionists who show up sometimes. i just block them now. it’s not worth it to take the bait