is anyone else on this hill or is it just me and sisyphus and kate bush?

the sentence "it's impossible to misgender someone using gender neutral pronouns" is very thinly veiled transphobia btw

refusing to use someone's pronouns once you know what they are is misgendering. it doesn't matter what pronouns you replace them with.

if a trans woman tells you she uses she/her pronouns, and you knowingly use they/them instead without correcting yourself, that is still misgendering.

if a nonbinary person tells you it uses he/it pronouns, and you knowingly use they/them instead without correcting yourself, that is still misgendering.

this is not a debate, this is a fact, it is misgendering

Saying it's okay to call another human being "it" is the most Terminally Online shitass take I have ever seen, and I've been here since 2011.

It is not transphobic to refuse to dehumanize someone. End of story. Insisting on "it" is damaging to both the people who have to say the pronoun AND the recipient.

There's no reclaiming something that simply invalidates a person's humanity entirely.

The last of the classically trained tumblrinas

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The reviews are IN

hope Elon makes twitter so completely obnoxious and inhospitable that it crashes and burns. I hope orgs/municipalities/support teams etc etc stop using it as their primary mode of communicating with the public. I hope to never see a state senators opinion on gay tv shows in helvetica neue ever again. Hope its terrible and everyone loses money and websites around the world stop thinking rounded edges of blue and white is the pinnacle of design. Hope there's suffering and embarrassment and crying and so on. Praying for this every day join me

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we shouldn’t trust historians to teach us history because they are people with biases. instead we should learn from instagram influencers, who would never lie to us.

The strange thing about growing up in conservative Christianity and then leaving it behind is that there are a lot of secular/progressive spaces that engage in similar thinking while sincerely believing their ideas are counter to conservative ones. So I thought I would just make a list of things I was taught within conservative Christianity, the stuff that was either the core of our beliefs, or the social dynamics that we created. Some of the language I use is specifically either scriptural, or Christian-speak.

This list isn’t to say “stop thinking this way.” This is actually intended to simply be informative because sometimes social justice spaces assume, “we are crafting our ideals in opposition to conservative ideals therefore whatever we think surely must be the opposite of whatever they think,” without ever seeming to know that their language and ideals look and sound the same.

So, let’s begin:

Sin-leveling: x is bad, and y is bad, and all bad things deserve an equal reaction

Sin-leveling part 2: because all things are equally bad, there’s nothing wrong with inverting the consequences. Hurting others becomes acceptable (because it’s no different than doing something distasteful), doing something distasteful is unforgivable (because it’s no different than doing something harmful)

Avoid all appearance of evil: if I assume that your behavior looks wrong, then you are wrong, even if further context would say otherwise. You should avoid doing anything that others would see as wrong because you are not allowed the benefit of the doubt or to defend yourself.

Sin by association: x company contracted with y company. Y company engages in something sinful, which means x company approves of said sinful thing which means if you purchase from x company, you are condoning, supporting, and have actually committed the sin.

Think only on what is good: or as the pastor of my old church liked to call it, “garbage in, garbage out.” Whatever ideas, thoughts, words, arguments, stories, pictures, books, movies, songs, friends, love you put in your head will create the desire to become that. If you want to be good, you must avoid any bad thought because you will “slip” into wanting it and then be unable to stop yourself from being it. (For example, type into google “is secular music” and click on the autocomplete of “a sin”)

Language as an in-group test: if you do not describe your life, experiences, and beliefs with the exact same vocabulary and in-group speak, you are either not really one of us, or you’re someone who hasn’t thought through their ideas as deeply as I have.

By any means necessary: Also known in the ex-Evangelical world as “lying for Jesus.” If my words create the necessary beliefs and actions in others, then it doesn’t matter if I am exaggerating, saying half-truths, or using manipulative language, because I’m saving others and helping them do what’s right.

Touch not God’s anointed: any critiques of those our community trusts, critiques of those we’ve deemed “the good ones,” are actually people trying to sow discord and disunity to destroy our community and their voice should be silenced because they must be lying.

Judge not lest ye be judged: A scripture that we throw at people when someone says our leadership is abusive, a scripture we cry is being taken out of context when we want to harshly critique someone ourselves. 

There’s more, lots more, but this post is already fairly long. Once again, though, this isn’t intended to be combative. I just want people to know the actual social dynamics that a lot of us grew up with in conservative Christianity communities, so they know when sometimes they’re sharing those social dynamics, not countering them.

I don’t engage with the replies to my post but one thing I’ve seen people say a few times is to push back a bit on my ending paragraph, where I say that I’m not telling people to stop thinking this way. Some people will reblog with “yeah but you *should*” or “well *I’m* telling you to stop!” I wanted to mention why it is that I wrote it that way.

A list full of behaviors and perspectives that are written to say “don’t do this” is exactly part of the problem. It turns it into issues of ‘purging’ harmful beliefs, of trying to purify yourself away from doing or thinking bad things just because some post on the internet told you it was bad.

The reason I am not telling you to stop thinking this way is because I’m telling you to think about what you think about. Here is a series of things I was taught as an Evangelical Christian—do you agree with them? Do you think these are moral? There are certain points people will take issue with me on—sin by association is a big one—and I actually think that’s good. Maybe there are aspects that you think are correct ways to operate within the world.

I was being truthful—I wrote this because I *have* seen people who will use language like this or wield ideologies like these while claiming that they are different. That their leftism is radical in the face of a broader conservative society, without understanding that conservative Christianity *also* thinks they’re radical in a broader *liberal* society, using the exact same tools.

I don’t want people to read this post as another list of Bad Things to Stop Doing. I want people to read it and envision the kinds of community it *builds*—and whether they want that community or not. Because maybe you do. Or maybe you don’t. But it’s better to think about that.

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soul fish

Completely average guy in completely average neighborhood adopts strange irradiated dog possessed by the soul of a 14 year old girl

Someone requested a doodle of “some of the Dominion’s anti-human propaganda” but tbh this is too real outside of star trek. this is probably plastered over the entire Citadel in Mass Effect

I love that this cautionary pamphlet didn’t know how many nipples humans have and thus just added a bunch of ‘em