bisexual guilt about liking cis men is weird and the people who encourage it are weirder

do u remember when the wider feminist position on gendered sport was that we should abolish it, and that women's accomplishments can be measured side by side (& indeed, neck and neck) with men's? what the fuck happened to that? (*whispering* i know what happened. it was the terf movement.)

literally no feminist ever argued for the abolishment of sex segregation in sports. do you people just think sexual dimorphism isn't real or

Not every sport selects for high testosterone. Some sports have been segregated because when they were mixed women beat men. We also know by now that "sexual dymorphism" isn't actually the main determinant factor for success in sports, money is. And the fact that women always get the short end of the stick when it comes to access to training facilities, finance, and even investigation into what training methods work best, is not a biological issue but rather a systemic social one. Hope this helps.

We absolutely did argue to end sex segregation in sports! I still argue that! It was the popular take on here for a long time! There should be a skill and segregation not a sex based one

And before you say "but then women would never win" the reason we have sex segregation in sports is because men got upset when women beat them. Which happened when they were allowed to compete directly

Not every time but that's because no one wins everytime

But this is something feminists argued for for a long time

Yeah as someone who was there I can confirm abolishing gender segregation in sports was The Feminist Stance for years and it ONLY switched when TERFs and radfems decided to take "women are weaker than men" and make it ~progressive~ so they can keep their rancid racism, transphobia, and intersexism train going. Growing up I remember arguing with my step-dad over this very topic in like 2005. If you went back to the mid-aughts and insisted to a room full of feminists that we have to keep women's sports separate because men have biological advantages over us poor weak females you'd get labeled a conservative and promptly shown the door. If they were feeling kind that day, anyway.

The idea that "gender segregated sports are good actually" is VERY NEW and you should never forget that it's a massive step backwards that goes against everything feminisim was building towards. The argument was very much "women are just as good and often BETTER than men at sports and the only reason we're kept separate is because the patriarchy knows that and wants to deny us power and acclaim we deserve" and we should really go back to that for everyone's sake. Like Katie Ledecky is so good she can't even practice around the guys because she destroys their self-confidence, we do not need separate categories for men and women. All it does it make women's sports get viewed and treated as lesser in every conceivable way so a bunch of rich, misogynistic dudes don't have to worry about their players losing motivation when a girl beats them at the only thing they're good at.

Anyway fuck TERFs, SWERFs, and radfems, I'm sick of seeing things that were like basic feminist stances(mixed gender sports, free the nipple) being rewritten for the sake of bitter neo-conservative cis perisex white women who wouldn't know an actual progressive talking point if it punched them in the fucking face.

the fact that any athlete can be subjected to "gender testing" on a whim because osmeone thinks she is too strong, too fast, just simply Too Good to be a woman is so fucking antifeminist, how can these people not see it?

all you need is one opponent crying big fragile tears because you were better than her and suddenly you are subjected to humiliating medical tests, every second of which is splashed onto the news as a scandal, and god forbid you are discovered to be intersex! you can be barred forever from sports for being born a woman The Wrong Way, and tricking everyone into thinking you are a Correct Woman. even if you are also just now discovering it. quick question do you, person reading this, know your chromosomes? are you sure? have you had them tested?

I think people who consider aromanticism as "basically straight" underestimate how noticeable absence can be to those around you.

Whether you're a kid in school with classmates who won't take "no one" as an answer to who you have a crush on or an adult whose coworkers have picked up on the fact that you've never mentioned a romantic partner; after enough time, a lack or insufficient amount of romantic interest will raise the antennae of friends, family, coworkers, etc... They will notice and they will speculate and they will ask.

It is impossible to meet the societal bar for straightness through inaction.

look, guys, this may seem ironic coming from a person with Verbose Disease, but I'm about to tell you the secret to winning social media: shutting the fuck up. you have a controversial discourse opinion? shut the fuck up and no one will know. can't participate in a boycott for various reasons? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you think or do something Problematic that has no bearing on anyone but yourself? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you haven't been keeping up on a pressing social issue? shut the fuck up and no one will know. your mind is a wonderful place where you can have all the bad takes in the world and they're all perfectly insulated from everyone and everything unless you try to excise them on a grand scale. you can take the mental L all by yourself without using a public platform as a confession booth and face zero repercussions and it'll be just fine. open up a damn diary and explain yourself there.

honestly i just think any variation of ‘i hate my partner’ humour sucks no matter who it’s coming from

Cupid missed

t-shirt that says 'touch starved' and on the back it says 'for violence'

sometimes instead of “why can’t they just be friends” i think it should be “why can’t they also be friends” because sometimes shipping feels much too much like forcing two pretty characters to kiss and be intimate without actually being interested in the dynamic the two people have. what about hanging out together. what about why they like being in each others company. what do they argue about. how do they patch things up. what do they laugh about.

best tag on this post

Nonbinary people can use they/them pronouns, or it/its, or neopronouns,

But they can also use he/him and she/her pronouns, and that doesn’t make them any less nonbinary.

Nonbinary people can present androgynously,

But they can also present masculinely or femininely, and that doesn’t make them any less nonbinary.

Nonbinary people can go on HRT and get surgeries to physically transition,

But they don’t have to, and that doesn’t make them any less nonbinary.

Nonbinary people can choose a new name/a different name from their birth name,

But they can also go by their birth name or some variation of it, and that doesn’t make them any less nonbinary.

There are no “rules” to being nonbinary. That’s kind of the whole point. Nonbinary people are nonbinary no matter how they present.

wait wait wait

so you can be nonbinary and still use binary pronouns? (and only binary pronouns?) or am I reading this wrong

yes! pronouns ≠ gender so you can use whatever pronouns feel comfy for you :)

some pride cats that I'm probably never going to actually make but I might do something else with them

the existence of a keyboard smash implies the existence of a keyboard pass

"you shouldn't support palestine because you're queer and palestine doesn't accept queer people" i'd rather support palestinians then support a genocide, homophobia is everywhere, it's not just in palestine [queer palestinians also exist] zionism will not win and it will never win and we're gonna help everyone affected by this genocide and humanitarian crisis, screw the u.s, screw israel, screw genocide, screw the military, this is about standing up for what's right. /srs

Reminder that jkr basically funds a large portion of the terf movement in the UK and promoting harry potter and actively giving her money is helping fund that movement and is actively encouraging her and her followers because they see this as support

Stop adding in the tags for ways for people to engage in this content without giving her money when i explicitly stated that promoting harry potter also helps support this movement its really shitty to see people turn around and go “okay but you can still engage and promote this content but this way because were only helping it stay relevant and not giving her money”

Since I apparently wasn’t clear enough JKR will not be deplatformed as long as Harry Potter continues to remain relevant and people are still reblogging this with tags with ways to promote the series it’s really disheartening that a fucking book series is more important than the safety of trans people

JKR claims that the number of Harry Potter fans is proof of how many people support her transphobic views. Literally, any time you post HP content, JKR considers it a statement that you're "team terf." Do what you will with this information.