#man that is a good feature

[luckyladylily]

Lets talk about bisexual lesbians. Or, more specifically, the use of the term bi-lesbian. Can a bi woman be a lesbian? My answer is yes for many, many reasons, but this is perhaps the most important.

The question is asked, why can't lesbians have this one thing?

Now most people don't catch this, but there are actually two different questions there combined into one, and different people will read that differently. The questions and their respective answers:

Can we have something of our own only for us? Yes, you can. I am not sure you are going to have a lot of luck creating some hard division for that term to rest on, but if you think conceptually it is very important then that's fine.

Can that thing be the word lesbian? No, it cannot be the word lesbian.

The reason is quite simple. For a good amount of wlw history the term lesbian did not refer to only women who exclusively loved women. It was widely used by women loving women in general. This particular argument is constructed to make it seem as if exclusively women loving women created this term for themselves and then others invaded it, but historically the opposite occurred. The term was inclusive, and only by deliberate and malicious efforts was the term made exclusive. I wont get into the details of the history, but you might know them as bisexual exclusionist radical feminists. In other contexts you may know the closely related and heavily overlapping group, terfs.

These are the same people who came up with the idea of the gold star lesbian, which can be summed up as the idea that lesbians can be permanently tainted by having had contact with maleness. Have you ever kissed a man? You are permanently damaged goods and an inferior lesbian. They also came up with the idea of political lesbianism, which is that women can and should choose to be lesbians, and if you do not then you are a bad person and bad feminist. There is much, much more we could name, but we would be here all day.

Every negative stereotype of bi women was fully endorsed and used by these women as justification for this ousting of bi women, including things like the idea that bi women are dangerous perverts, that bi women are to be blamed for lesbians being attacked by men, that bi women are not actually real at all and they are either confused lesbians or malicious straight women.

Policing the use of lesbian by bi women started as an act of exclusionism and has continued to be so. Time has not dulled that truth. You can't have your cake and eat it too; you are either a bi exclusionist, or you support bi women using the term lesbian.

I used bi women as the center of my explanation here, but this applies to most if not all of the many instances of using the term lesbian outside of the exclusionist meaning. Even if a particular use is not covered under this pattern, lesbian was never an exclusive term in the way rad fems would have you believe. It is not meaningfully possible to create an exclusionary meaning for lesbian in the same way it is not meaningfully possible to create an exclusionary meaning of the word 'woman' as terfs and conservatives constantly try to do.

That all said, it is understandable that people don't know the details of this issue. The confusing of this issue was and is deliberate. You are not a bad person if you were not already on board with this, and if it takes you some time to think it over then good. You shouldn't be flipping your opinions on a dime because of a single post anyway.

This is not an ultimatum that demands you fall in line. Treat it as a single point of data to bring into your wider consideration. Maybe its the last one you need, maybe its a starting point. But please do think on it.

#I'm locking down this post for reblogs #man that is a good feature #I am not interested in this post reaching rad fem territory and having to deal with bigots in my inbox #but feel free to comment #can't promise I will respond though #also please don't harass people #like don't go tracking down the person who made the lesbian flag and give her shit #I disagree with her but that doesn't mean she is a bad person #and even if she was just leave it alone

[secondgenerationparrothead]

tumblr gave me a free blaze post so yall are gonna see my dog cause i love him so much

and because it's a blazed post

#astro #hes my good old man #my pets #featuring sunny the guinea pig hes terrified of

[gravesyart]

sorry my first dunmeshi post is so out of left field but i was rotating some ideas about how izutsumi would be in a timeline where she was adopted early on by senshi (inspired heavily by @dunmestuffy’s art!) and thought others might enjoy it

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #izutsumi #(izutsumi) #gravesyart #kitty kitty cat cat ….. #oh god do i have to tag this as spoilers for the anime only crowd. lmk if i do #also my reason for never dunmeshposting till now is that. im not good at capturing their distinguishing facial features/body shapes/etc #and itd drive me crazy to post a wildly inaccurate looking laios or whatever. like a real generic shutterstock white man laios

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #wen qing #jiang cheng #Truly Massive disclaimer here: I am a Jiang Cheng enjoyer. I like his character. I enjoy that he is very flawed and volatile. #This episode of the audio drama has a lot of great breakdown scenes featuring JC - and they all deserve a feature. #But underlying this comic is a small meta comment of 'ah man I have too many comics of JC just wailing sadly' #My goal is to draw 6-8 comics per episode - I sometimes have to truncate and cut good scenes out. #Especially when a large majority is just different flavours of trauma and toxic relationships to your self-worth. #I would also like to make a note here that just because you lose the ability to do something that is very tied to your core identity- #-does not mean your life is over. It will feel like the end of the world. It will send you into a spiral of grief. It will hurt so badly. #Sometimes we do not realize how tied up our identities can be in certain things until we are cut loose. #You don't lose yourself. I promise the pain will fade in time. I promise you will find other things to tether you. I promise you will be ok #Life moves forwards. Time moves forwards. You move forwards. #Ego death just means an opportunity for ego rebirth. You are never committed to being the same person forever. #To wrap this around to JC: Yeah I love the twist with the core transfer but man I would have loved to see JC accept the loss. #Obviously it happens for a reason (story) but I can have my AUs. I can have these 'what-ifs'. #described in alt text #I'm trying it out! *please* give me feedback - I want to eventually Add image ID to all of these comics one day

[heyitsrink]

The Mirror Scene™ . . .

"But this, Fitz, this is how I have always seen you. And how you have never have seen yourself"

#the ROMANCE #realm of the elderlings #rote #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #fitz and the fool #fitzloved #fool's errand #the tawny man trilogy #when prophet met catalyst #this prompt was the winner of the poll I put up over the weekend #tysm for the inspiration I had such a good time making this comic spread #fan comic #fan art #featuring somewhat refreshed character designs #specifically LG being more angular

[fure-dcmk]

Hattori Heiji wardrobe part 4

[part 3] [part 5]

#from going to digital change to overhauling style change #heiji outfit #hattori heiji #dcmk #dcmk fanart #my art #detective conan #heiji hattori #kinda funny how detective koshien Special is called 3 days with heiji hattori #like so what? we previously got 2 arc covering at least 3 days with heiji youre not special #(actually yes you are detective koshien my beloved) #damn it im going off topic #featuring heiji's new black phone ^o^ #personal fav is heiji's desperate situation. that shade of green looks good on him #giving halloween party case an entire spread is prob an overkill but he keeps taking shits off one by one jfsdkjk #3 at once as a treat for the bandaged man punchline

[ryuniiis]

Hello Kitty 🎀❤️

#shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fandom #sonic #hello kitty #plushie #art #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #shadow fanart #shadow #bow featured because of my friend who told me it would fit the previous design but I didn't add it... #the dilemma with backgrounds I Always have man.... #PINK LOOKS GOOD ON HIM ‼️

[cobaltfluff]

so i started playing persona 4

where are the QoL features

#persona series #art tag #ACK I FORGOR TO COLOUR THE BITS BEHIND HAIR nvm #i have no idea how to tag this!! #i fear what original p3 might have been like #i feel like a fake gamer man #like how did you guys do that #i feel like i would have given up if it was the first one i played #i am too stupid!! #im glad i have played through 5 and 3re #i am somewhat used to the flow of the game and the ability names #otherwise i would be STRUGGLING for my LIFE i tell you #like to be fair i dont think it's a huge world #BUT LIKE PLEASE IM LOST IN MY OWN HOUSE #also these protags are basically my OCs at this point #i borrow their canon personalities #and reshape them into something i like more hehehehe #edit: im crying im getting lowkey flamed on tweeter dot com #i just meant it as in joker spent a lot of time in tokyo!! one year changes a man!! #I KNOW inaba is small!! but QoL additions are always good!! #i get the appeal!! that you use your brain!! #you spend enough time to know the place!! but it's called QoL features not NECESSARY features!! #im cryin the boys ate just bantering #you can even read it as yu being like LOL you're a city boy now huh?? hahaha #now i really am fighting for my life and mental

[monarchamos]

heyyy chuuya lovers

I made a compilation of every. single. scene. of Chuuya. spanning from season one to season 5, including dead apple and the ova. also its in dub.

so like. if anyone wants

{BSD but it's only Chuuya}

Update! After a bout of boredom, i have created

{BSD Wan! but it's only Chuuya}

#the way most of the scenes are just from fifteen is so funny #chuuya's screentime ratio is always so funny to me #like this man is in 25 out of the 61 episodes and in the movie #he has 1 hour and 12 minutes out of 1 day 1 hour and 54 minutes of the entirety of BSD #yet hes featured in like all of the marketing #sounds like someone is a little favorite #bsd chuuya #nakahara chuuya #chuuya nakahara #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #also dont judge me for using dub okay i like dub and also the bsd english dub is one of the few actually good english dubs for anime #i spent two days on this crying sobbing #yes i am the same person who compiled the subbed bsd stageplays into google drive but no these are not the same drive accounts #soukoku #skk #...technically

[turrondeluxe]

#man.....tumblr truly has the worst features on it's app ever........... #i just want to zoom at one pic and it sends me to other five different posts in one second #good lord. #sorry im mad about this what even was the reason. #i cant even read silly comics posted here because of that >:[ #fer talks

[vashstash]

Pros of living with Simmons: Simmons Cons of living with Simmons: Also Simmons

#rvb #red vs blue #grimmons #richard simmons #dexter grif #rvb simmons #rvb grif #if you didn't laugh #good #don't let the man suffer alone #things like this turn the grimmons slowburn into dry aging #in more ways than one #i think my lettering is slowly improving #i wanted to try a different coloring strategy #man i'm rusty #still as cringe as ever though at least this tracks #clip studio's comic features fuck so hard though #can't wait to learn mor abt it!

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20's Burrow's End episode 10 (finale)

#dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 #d20 introductions #burrow's end #burrow's end spoilers #d20 burrow's end #in which i regret putting multiple versions of the same intro card because of the burning overlay vs not #well shit. i committed to it and now i'm in for it #featuring bonus Wenabocker who just happened to have a little flash of blue in his appearance this ep (though it might have been present b4 #i KNEW the phoebe intro card would be a doozy but i also did NOT expect that battleset to be that TERRIFYING. like good GOD #very wonderful season though- i loved it a lot (even as someone who doesn't stomach a whole lot of gore/body horror often) #man what a ride....... #see y'all next season!!

[sleepynegress]

Can you explain more what you mean about Ridley Scott having old man gaze? I'm really curious lol

Back in the day... Ridley's day too, -Most mainstream big movies had that dynamic. Some leading white guy who was older than his love interest. This was that white male director's gaze. So it was standard. We didn't see it as fanfiction back then... But once it clicks into place.... The guy was a good 10 - 20 years older than his female love interest. Ridley Scott is 86 years old. 86. He is still directing the same kinds of movies with the same gaze as he did in the 80's. It's not about historical accuracy. It's about defending that gaze and that "tradition".

It's in the same realm of debate as "when will real cinema come back", a subject that is always brought up by or centered around old white male auteurs.

They act like it's about being tired of one subject dominating genre (IP and especially comic book films) but really, it's more about the increased inclusion, in both the players and the gaze steering the proceedings and audiences enjoying it. So, when Ridley is cussing about his disregard of accuracy, he's really being defensive of his gaze being so much less taken at face value, without basic interrogatives about it, these days. He's an old man yelling at a cloud. And having what used to be baseline normalcy in American film; instead inspiring knowing chuckles and eye-rolls, because of course, you cast the boring old standard of a too-old J. Phoenix and too-young V. Kirby, even when the reality (Jo was actually six years older than Napoleon) would have made that dynamic in your movie much more interesting... But upholding old cliches as "real cinema' regardless of the actual quality/watchability of the film matters more to him.

#I enjoy ridley scott's work #but he is an old white man #it does what it says on the tin #mans is stuck in the good ole days...for him and people who share certain physical features #he gets credit for alien #but remember that was written for a man #he also stretches the truth on those battles too. #I'm gonna guess he didn't include general dumas in this movie either lol #like I said 86 year old white man

[thestuffedalligator]

Heartbreaking: all the episodes of the thing I liked as a kid have been uploaded to YouTube, but the wild, wacky protagonist I liked as a kid is physically unbearable now that I’m an adult.

#this is about martin mystery #the monster design is so good! it’s creepy! and weird! and is 100% responsible for my obsession with creature features! #but goddammit every time this man opens his mouth i want to kick his stupid teeth in #java’s still great though #java’s the best

[tmagp]

Not me listening to the Mr Bonzo song on loop!

#sam sam the music man is THAT good #we knew this #tmagp 10 #mr bonzo #sam jones #I'm glad they released it because during the bit in the ep where it's featured I'm sure we were all shitting our pants #tmagp #tmagp spoilers

[worfianism]

Listen whoever decided to pair up La'an and an alternate version of Jim Kirk in a romcom style classic time travel episode actually galaxy brained. Freaking great episode.

#snw #star trek #listen i feel nervous about saying this because spirk is so popular (as it should be i too am a spirk girlie in some ways) #but damn christina chong and paul wesley had CHEMISTRY man #and la'an deserves good things and it was just so sad all of it was so sad #i hope her and jim end up as friends eventually in the proper timeline #also just what a great la'an episode #i love the la'an episodes on snw (including the gorn centric ones i know people dont like the snw gorn but i havent seen them on tos yet so #im not particularly attached to them so i just really love the la'an episodes) #and christina chong was so good man!!! #this maybe my fav snw episode to date #its competing with spock amok i think #v makes a post #i dont know why im putting my full thoughts in the tags but i guess i am #the inclusion of jim i will say is a little random unless this will be brought back in some way but the pairing was genuinely great that i #will ignore that it jim's inclusion was basically just to say that jim featured in this snw episode #also this is a huge day for james kirk girlies of which i am one