how and why is there discourse about whether or not certain queer identities exist/if people should be allowed(???) to use them. why is "people know their own identity better than you ever could, and they're the only one who get a say on what they are" such a tough concept to grasp
i think if you find yourself offended by the label someone uses (especially if they're a stranger) or think it invalidates your own, it's a good idea to look inside yourself and question why that may be. more often than not, it's a result of insecurity or uncertainty of your own identity (or many other things, but i won't make a whole list here). whatever reason it is, until you resolve it, you shouldn't take it out on people for having an identity you don't understand
many have said it before but it's worth saying over and over. infighting only helps our oppressors. conservatives don't care if you're a cis gay or a xenogender aegosexual aplatonic lesbian, they hate all of us either way. trying to fit in by going for people who are easier targets for them isn't gonna help you, it'll just alienate you from your own community, and you're never gonna please them. the momentary rush you get from hearing you're not like "one of /those/ gay people" is not worth it and is gonna do more harm in the long run, i assure you
also, it is important to me to say this, but having some less than nice kneejerk reaction caused by confusion about an identity you don't understand doesn't mean you're a bad person or anything. as long as you aren't mean to that person, and you take a second to think smth along the lines of "wait a minute, this isn't any of my business" after having said reaction, you're good 👍 a lot of reflexive reactions we have to things are ingrained into us simply by. well. living in a society 🤡 and you're not terrible for having those thoughts. it's your actions that matter, and your second thought (the "wait, why did i just think that?") is more defining of your actual character and morals than your reflex. i know that having thoughts like this, even tho they're unwanted, can very easily make one spiral, so it's important to me that whoever needs to hear this knows this doesn't make you a bad person 🙏 you're good, keep taking actions to be good, accept other people even if you don't understand them, and you're on the right track :)
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i'm so sick of my fellow iranians being cringe as fuck on social media and simping for the state of israel out of some insane the enemy of my enemy is my friend mentality like i know this is crazy but you can hate the iranian government without deciding to go full monarchist and act like israelis are liberators of literally anything or anyone
like i'm sorry if the best you can envision for iran is trading one authoritarian for the son of the previous authoritarian (who was literally overthrown bc he was an authoritarian puppet of the united states) solely bc of his name then you hate the iranian people more than i can image
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oooh people online love to act so morally superior about not using the proshipper label when in most cases that’s probably what they are bc all proship means is ship and let ship NO MATTER what kind of ship it is, no exceptions. like i don’t know how to tell u this but “i don’t care what u ship” is in fact a proship stance
hate to break it to u but most proshippers are adult with jobs or adults in general. of course there are people on both sides who take things too seriously and are permanently online and there are adults who are antis for some reason but i digress. just because you think shipping isn’t a valid hobby doesn’t mean we don’t have jobs or lives <3
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"jil why is tom too gentle and nice isn't he always rude or something"
yeah but he isn't rude to ME.... 💔💔 maybe to you but not to me 🤧🤧🤧.......
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Oh BOY I get to take tomorrow off work so I can go down to my local police station and file a hit-and-run accident report because some a-hole decided it was cool to start backing out of their parking space riiiight at the same moment in time when I’d also backed out and then! drive off as if nothing had happened 😀👍🏻 and MAN it’s just sooo neat that this happened only three days after I registered & titled the car after only having it for a month 😀😀 like wow what a silly goofy coincidence 😀😀😀
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