I disagree vehemently with what you’re saying here:

If you think you’re going to change beauty standards more quickly by being personally critical and judgemental, history begs to differ. Beauty standards change on a macro level due to all sorts of factors, technological advances being one of the major reasons. Wars, political leadership, the entertainment industry and…

I think it’s a mistake to judge and criticize the people who are pressured into misogynistic beauty standards rather than the system which pressures them. On a macro level, sure, criticize those beauty standards. But on an individual level? Let people do them sans judgment.

Yeah. I think the distinction of queer used as a noun vs. as an adjective is an important one.

I identify as queer, as do many friends of mine. There’s some debate about the use of the term, but, at least in my experience, it’s pretty marginal.

Critics are usually older and worried that it involves the appropriation of a slur and creates more ambiguous definitions of sexuality. Proponents argue that it provides…

Oppression Olympics sucks, that’s for sure. It’s not a compassionate, useful, or helpful way of addressing issues.

Have you ever stopped to consider that these people present male in their everyday lives out of necessity? My roommate is trans and uses they/them pronouns but when they go to work they present masculine and are addressed with he/him. If they didn’t do so they’d lose their job, 100%, so they begrudgingly deal with…

Just call people whatever they prefer when you’re speaking to them.

Do you really think we’re not having nuanced convos about sexism in the Trump administration? That’s cool, thanks for reading!

Three thoughts, which are all able to co-exist quite nicely in my head:

the fucking relief i feel when watching explicitly queer content that is not made for straight people...

ROBBING A BANK AND BEING CAUGHT IS NOT ANALOGOUS TO BEING AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT, YOU FUCKER. Why don’t you take a one way flight to northern Iraq (without any cash and only the clothes on your back), or to an impoverished area of Cuba, or to the murder capital of Mexico or Columbia, or to one of the five countries…

But remember, anyone who advocates for free healthcare is “unrealistic” and as bad as Nazis.

I’m a type 1 diabetic here in the states. Currently i’m on Medicaid. With the two types of insulin I need, test strips, lancets and needle tips the cost is about $1k a month if I had no insurance for the out of pocket cost.

I started to realize it was absolute crap a few years ago as our employer sponsored healthcare kept eroding (and I worked for a multi billion dollar global company), but when I moved home and got my pinko commie socialized medicine again, I was floored at the difference. I almost wept when my health card came in the…

And... in case anyone is confused about why we will ultimately need single-payer health care in this country, here it is! Employers, who currently hold the gatekeeper’s position for health insurance for folks under 65, WILL DISCRIMINATE against the potentially less-well as soon as they have the opportunity. The…