petty-revenge-stories:

This happened several years ago, but it still makes me smile.

Many hospitals here in the US have students that follow the doctors like puppies, taking notes, ignoring the well-being of the patients, and intruding on privacy.  It’s humiliating to us patients.

Keep reading

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intersex-ionality:

allois-transy:

intersex-ionality:

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:

goodpositivitylgbt:

No, no, you’re right there. Femme isn’t for NB people. Feminine is.

I just don’t want to get tangled in this particular brand of discourse, especially as my say in it is negligible.

MH

……femme has literally always been a word that lesbian and bisexual woman SPECIFICALLY shared with men and nb folks? It’s historically been one of the major pieces of terminology that gender non-conforming people of many varieties had access to?

Where the fuck is this idea that only women can use femme coming from, my god????

It’s coming from the same place as any other term cis lesbians want to cut out from everyone else in this community: overcompensation for past trauma and extreme exposure to normalized radfem rhetoric.

It’s not entirely the fault of young lesbians who rely on this website for their social outreach. They are just parroting hateful information they’ve been told by sources they think are reliable. Literally they do not know any better.

It’s still bullshit.

And the “sources” of this stuff are all toxic assholes who absolutely should feel bad for rewriting everyone’s history in a way that benefits them and robs everyone else of our contributions and destroys any semblance of solidarity.

But hey, I’m just a gross greedy pansexual, so what would I know.

It’s also a very American-centric discussion. I’ve mentioned before, but femme / en femme has historically been used in many places in Europe more to refer to gender non-conforming, non-binary and transfemme people due to it being, you know, a loan word (having origins in Latin) meaning “as a woman” or “like a woman”. Just look at the femminiello,  in Neapolitan culture

Same with butch. The terminology has been used in Polari referring to ALL masculine-presenting people (yes, usually referring to masc-women, but not always, sometimes it referred to straight-passing men) since the mid-late 1800s.

Also, because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet in this conversation: femme is a term that is hugely important to communities of color. 

As an intersection of gender, presentation, and race, femme absolutely includes straight women, queer men, and any trans or nonbinary person for whom the label is useful.

Trying to claim it’s lesbian-only is both generally racist, and has specific extra servings of antiblackness.

Sorry this wasn’t in my original comment. I needed to gather some sources for this one, on account of my not being Black and the use of “femme” in this context being especially common in Black culture(s). 

As Mod Holmes is white, though, I really don’t feel comfortable letting this continue unremarked upon.

https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/an-act-of-knowing-moving-towards-a-black-femme-politic/

http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/01/201312musings-from-a-queercrip-femme-man-of-color/

http://www.qwearfashion.com/home/14-femmes-of-color-whose-style-we-adore

http://wearyourvoicemag.com/identities/race/know-keep-white-girl-kyrie-irving-hatred-black-women

http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/07/rollersets-realness-black-womanhood-defined-drag-performance/

http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/09/defining-your-gender-as-a-black-queer-femme-is-revolutionary-dont-take-that-away/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/27/whatfemmelookslike_n_5890738.html

I’m a femme of color. 

I am not a woman, and demanding I identify as one just so I can continue to express my identity in the way that is most useful to me- a way that denotes where I fall in a sexist society without necessarily conflating myself with womanhood- is a mess and a half.

Femme is for anyone who has been injured by the sexist concept of femininity, both because it was forced on them, and because it was denied to them. It is a reclamation effort that can and should be used by anyone who needs it. 

That includes lesbians, in fact one of the most obvious ways to be victimized by the toxic concept of femininity is to be a lesbian.

It also includes trans women. 

It includes women of color. Men of color. People of color.

It includes GNC and queer men.

It includes people whose experience with white, COGAP society is one of forced hyperfemininity. It includes people whose experience is one of forced hypermasculinity.

It includes anyone against whom “feminine” and “womanly” have been used as a weapon, and who have looked at that weapon and said, “not today, asshole” and stolen it back.

So yeah, it absolutely includes nonbinary people.

roskii:

jack-snorrison:

gay-lawyers:

highkey hope one of the LGBT-confirmed characters ends up being Soldier 76 because like, can you image the white straight cis male outrage. It’d be incredible. The tears would water my crops. The salt would season my food. The harsh winters would ease as Mr.everyman protagman is seized by the gay agenda.

Probable? Who knows. Petty? You fucking know it.

The prophecy has been fulfilled.

This is 3 years old too

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beachdeath:

gayknight:

nitrosplicer:

angelescoffee:

nitrosplicer:

Reading wiki entries for historical trans men…

Dr. James Barry, Albert Cashier, Charley Parkhurst, Billy Tipton, and Dr. Alan Hart could have each written “I am a man and want to be recognized across history as such” and transphobes would still be like… “wow what misunderstood butch heroes… lesbian icons!!!!”

interesting how they… didn’t all write that. across history women have disguised themselves as men in order to escape misogyny cus u couldn’t get anywhere much in life (much less become successful doctors) as women. and anyways, of course a woman constrained by sexism would prefer to be given the privileges of a man. i can’t confirm these women were lesbians, but you cannot confirm they were transmen either. 

Interesting how… I didn’t argue that women haven’t disguised themselves throughout history. I mentioned specific instances of historical trans men for whom there is evidence to conclude they identified as men and not women. I said nothing against lesbians in my post either, only about transphobes.

Anyways: 

Dr. James Barry had a close relationship with Lord Charles Somerset and was subsequently accused of buggery, which led to a court trial and investigation as homosexuality was illegal. He could have revealed that he was female at any time during the trial to escape condemnation, but he did not. Upon his death, Barry left strict instructions that his body was not to be undressed and he was to be buried in his bedsheets. 

Albert Cashier could not read or write, but lived as a man for 53 years, even after fighting in the uniform of a Union soldier, he maintained his male dress and presentation until he slipped and fell, breaking his hip. 

The indomitable stagecoach driver Charlie Parkhurst lived as a man from the time he was 12, and after retiring, maintained his identity as a man until his death.

Also it’s interesting that you said that I could not undeniably prove any of these men were trans: Alan L Hart was undeniably trans, as he sought out medical transition and pyschotherapy for his gender dysphoria, referred to himself as “one of the fellows,” legally changed his name, lived as a man from a young age, and continued to do so until his death, so yeah, you really can’t say “oh he’s a lesbian,” can you?

while billy tipton might’ve initially identified as a lesbian, he later transitioned to presenting male full-time. he told his future female partners that he was a man and that his body was the result of a serious car accident. he went on to adopt children, and was known as a “good father”. at the age of 74, he refused to be seen by a doctor when he contracted emphysema, which caused his death. neither his later female partners or his children or friends seemed to know he was trans until he was forcefully outed at death

i’d also like to add

little ax broadnax, a gospel singer who performed in multiple quartets over the years with his older brother. while still living with his family, he was recorded in the US census as male. he was outed publicly as a trans man at death in 1992, having presented as male for over 60 years

#when albert cashier had dementia and was in an institution he used to take clothespins and try to make his skirts into pants #regardless of the trouble it caused his caretakers #being a man was so integral to him that even when his memory was shot he clung to his identity with both hands and refused to let it go #our history isn’t big but it’s vital and it’s present and it’s not going anywhere

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zephiraz:

poisonnightmares:

https://www.instagram.com/theresafractale/

@blackmoonbabe

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rockintwink:

ruby-white-rabbit:

I can both hear this image, and feel it hitting me in the face

pi-TONK

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tthumbelina:

everyone knows abt mom holy fuck but this part of the comic radiates a powerful energy

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broadwaytheanimatedseries:

intersexgaysatanofficial:

Remember a few years ago how some autistic kid (like 14 years old) was like “Link is mute like me!” and NTs were obsessed with ‘disproving’ their headcanon and using technical definitions of outdated terms and saying that he couldn’t have mutism and that the headcanons were just “SJW bullshit”

and now in the latest Zelda, we get it confirmed that Link does indeed have selective mutism due to trauma and anxiety

because I will never fucking forget

Originally posted by b99nbc

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runcibility:

slatestarscratchpad:

The chemical name for vitamin C is “ascorbic acid”. I always used to wonder about this one. Is being ascorbic like being acerbic? Is it like being ascetic? Absorbent? Some combination of all of them?

Today I learned that scorbi is just a Latinish way of writing scurvy. So a-scorbi-c acid is “no-scurvy acid”.

Eat this orange. It’s full of FuckScurvium.

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chasers17:

maxinbc:

puff-to-tuff:

royal-zach:

so in psychology class we got to learn why foot fetishes are so prevelant! basically your brain stores the structural information for your body generally in the correct order (i.e. the info for your ears is stored next to the info for the head, which is stored next to the neck, etc.) BUT. The info for the feet is stored right next to the info for the genitalia and so sometimes these two sections of information can overlap and make you wanna lick some toes

thanks, i hate it

Normally when y’all post this kinda shit it’s blatantly incorrect, but I’m angry to say that this one is absolutely factual

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kingofdoma:

theirin-myheart:

You’re not a real gamer unless you’ve wasted countless hours of your life purposefully walking in the wrong direction to make sure you’re not missing any content

I’ll stop doing when they stop putting chests full of mid-tier armor in the opposite direction of the clearly marked endgoal

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holdyourghost:

rosewater1997:

Are you there god It’s me your bastard child 

(Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan)

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hexglyphs:

me, a young, still closeted gay person listening to cecil palmer talk about his attraction to men casually and without fear in literally the first episode of the night vale podcasts:

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cathugging:

cat brains are so small but they fit so much bastard into them

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reallyfunnyshortjokes:

Now I’m in hot water with the Japanese mafia.

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