In all serious, can someone explain to me what being "hospitalized for exhaustion" means? I mean for true, not all metaphorically for drugs.

Well, I think trans people (i mean, that's even weird. All people.) should exist as they do wherever, whenever, however. Everyone's body is their body. Period. And all should be celebrated. To that end, very few of my female partners had "soft skin." I have never been with a dude, so I'm not sure what "male…

Hey Tara. First, I just want to say thank you for putting your lived experience out there. I hear it, and like I said to Kyosuke, I want to just shut and hear what is being said about your experience.

Exactly. Because you can be down and can do the work and still get derailed by your relative privilege. Which can be super relative and slight. And that doesn't make anyone the great Satan. Former slave, well-off white lady. He gets to vote (for all the good it did him). She doesn't get to vote, but still gets…

I actually don't think feminism needs to be inclusive. That's why Kitchen Table Press was founded. That's why this should make everyone's skin crawl. I feel like "inclusion" becomes tantamount to ignoring real problems so no one has to feel bad. Feminism isn't a feeling, it is an action.

And Frederick Douglass was cool with the vote being denied to all women. People are complicated. Oppression is complicated. Privilege is complicated. History is complicated. Feminism is still a bit more than "yay equality and I can get naked and express myself!"

I'm sorry, is feminism merely about "expressing yourself?" And what, precisely, has Miley done to express that she is interested in equality? Women being able to fuck who and wherever and with whatever wasn't the only goal of feminism. Anyone can say they are a feminist, and I'm sorry, they don't get a cookie for…

Can I just say that I wish more people would actually talk about the fact that their racist grandparents exist? I think so many people act as though racism stopped in 1865 and all those brown people just had the clear path to success and have rejected it or only received it through the damn affirmative action.

This actually makes me deeply, deeply sad.

Is it just because I'm old, or was this totally unthinkable in 1989-93 when I was in college? I just would. not. have. done. that. I would have been too freaked out. But maybe that's a good negro thing?

PAH HA HA HAAAAAA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA HAAR HAAA.

You know what? I just read your post again and what I now hear you saying is that you don't want to engage in what I'm saying because it doesn't reflect you. This isn't really what you or any or your posts are about and you feel I'm erasing you.

Kyosuke, its totally disingenuous to post on the internet and then say it is for GT regulars. Your audience is broader than that, whether you intended it to be or not.

I acknowledged over and over again how trans folks, including MAAB, are schooled, boxed, beaten down and threatened. If I haven't done that before, or loudly enough, I do. It is horrible, it is constant, and it is pain.

Totally fascinating.

Just revisiting this and with regard to your first point, I absolutely understand how this is a different privilege relative to trans women. I get the intersectionality, actually, and the statement that I "misunderstand intersectionality in a fundamental way" is precisely the tone that raised my hackles in an earlier…

Just to be clear, I posted the cotton ceiling article because I find it super messed up that anyone would think that being homosexual (not homogender, but homosexual) in their desires is, by DEFAULT, transphobic. Of course there are ciswomen dating transwomen. OF COURSE. My issue is that there could be anything…

Just an example to the post I wrote earlier, Jezebel posted this today as said from Michelle Duggar:

Bailey, just so we are on the same page and I understand your language, what is a transgendered female? Gender is not sex and sex is not gender, so I'm not sure what those terms are and how they are being put together here. Being female is not something that can be entered into or left.

is this a pinterest ad? like how did this even come up?