tumblr staff adjusting a dial to fine-tune exactly how much they're imitating twitter while occasionally looking back at their userbase for approval except the userbase is just booing the entire time "we hate twitter" "why do you even have that dial"

u guys know sexuality gender and the way u feel attraction can change right. u know you can put labels on and off right. nothing is solid swim a little if you like etc

Labels are descriptive, not prescriptive. Call yourself whatever you think works for you. You literally cannot be wrong. You just learn more and adjust accordingly.

sorry for not answering messages for three thousand years i have. Stew. in place of a brain. you know how it is

Consider, from the perspective of ten years ago, an ex-president saying he used to constantly fantasize about fucking men, and the reaction being "yeah, whatever, poser."

I have created the worlds shittiest cattio (a small dog crate i have jimmy rigged out the window) and it is a big hit

Congrats on re popularizing the victorian child window cage 😂

FUCK

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING 🥺✨💖😭💘✨💕

why are yall so obsessed with halloween what's the deal

I went to a bookshop and I got dizzy at the amount of books on stuff like “astrological feminism” “reclaiming womanhood through numerology” and all that shit…… One was called “cosmic fanny” or for my french speakers out there, “foufoune cosmique”. I think the fight against patriarchy is going really well

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

Ursula K Le Guin, from What Women Know

One night we had a thrilling summer storm… We hadn’t been in the house long, and it was the first time in this house we’d had to close all the windows. In the morning I smelled gas, strong, unmistakable. “I smell gas,” I said to my husband. “I don’t smell it,” he said. He had a friend come over. “Why are you having a friend come over,” I asked, “when it doesn’t matter if he can smell it or not, and none of us can fix it?” His friend didn’t smell it, either. I called the gas company. The gas company employee didn’t smell it, either. He waved his reader around and it blasted off in three places, substantial leaks behind the stove and in the basement. “Always trust a woman’s nose,” the gas company employee said.

Yes, I thought, believe us.

Then, No, I thought, I’m not a fucking witch. Believe anyone who smells gas. If someone smells gas, believe them.

– Jane Dykema, What I Don’t Tell My Students About “The Husband Stitch”

Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.

There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.

Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:

No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.

My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.

And if you had asked me, even back then, whether I would rather lose my reproductive capacity or suffer irreversible brain damage, I know that I would have chosen the former without a second's hesitation.

It is an actual fact that 99.9% of football players have some sort of brain damage, not to mention other bodily injuries.

Football is fundamentally a brutal sport that rapidly degrades cerebral function and mobility.

It shouldn’t be a sport and it definitely shouldn’t be a high school sport.

I recently talked about this with my close friends, actually. I did not really have friends growing up bc of my disabilities, indigenous background, and my parents refusal to let me go to church. I made a couple towards Junior High & Highschool and one was a boy I liked Very Much.

He wasn't popular, which was great for me bc everyone Hated Me bc my dad wasn't visibly white like them. We def had a crush on each other and hung out alot. He was the sweetest freakin guy you ever met, a real himbo.

Well. He wanted to go to college, but his family was poor. When you discuss this issue you need to bring up the fact that young people are manipulated into joining football by having help towards college funding dangled over their heads.

He joined the football team so he could try to go to college.

He never got to go to college.

I never got to go out with him.

Because of a serious injury he suffered during a match that gave him a concussion and permanent brain damage. He was 16. I never got to see him, again. I don't even know if he is alive. I think about him often with a broken heart. Heh. Ha... ha..

That's such an important fucking point.

It's not just pressured-- it's almost a fucking necessity for a lot of people.

Sports scholarships in general, but it's most egregious with football, because of the disproportionately high risk of serious, lasting injury or death and the massive amount of popular pressure.

Military involvement, as well. JROTC. Recruiting with promises of paying for college education.

All of this is seen as normal, praiseworthy.

But providing resources for trans youth to take steps to realize their identity is seen as reprehensible, with the paper-thin argument made of "what if they end up regretting it?"

Better to live to regret it, than to die of a TBI or getting blown up in a pointless fucking conflict that they never should have been pushed to take part in.

And don't get me started on military drafting.