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@babyssal

devin, they/them, 23

hes like the shithead General Manager of the entire country

also the dude got 300k from a gofundme and the UAW is gonna make sure he keeps his job so like, more ppl should do this. or I guess more white men with union jobs should do this

When I was in high school we did an english unit on Octavia Butler and the teacher told us hey btw. You should call her "Butler" in your essays. Sometimes students call female writers by their first names unconsciously, but that's not acceptable. If you wouldnt call them William or Ernest you shouldn't call her Octavia.

And I was like cool whatever I was gonna call her Butler anyways. But that moment has stuck with me for my whole life because once you start seeing ppl calling women by their first names where men would be called by their last names you literally never stop seeing it.

Fifteen year old me, deeply in denial: Im sure all girls wanna look like that

That:

admonishing teacher: and would you still behave this way if the earth cracked open to reveal an unyielding tract of slavering organs ?

naughty child: i would unveil my terrible opus

moral: the child's opus is too hideous to behold

like i really don't think that there's any identity that will protect you from misogyny forever and ever. like. fuck. it's misogyny (and transmisogyny) when cishet football men are called "girls" as an insult. it's misogyny when people use "girlies" as a shorthand for "dumb person i don't like." it's misogyny when a man posts a photo of his embroidery project on instagram and all the comments are hateful. it's misogyny that distance swimming isn't a major sport. it's misogyny that women make less than men across all ethnic groups. it's misogyny that people call biology "female dominated" when 47% of biology professors are women. it's misogyny that a women's L size t shirt is smaller than a men's L size t shirt.

if a trans man gets called a "bitch" that's misogynist because "bitch" is a misogynist slur. if a cis man gets called a "bitch" that's misogynist because "bitch" is a misogynist slur. it's misogyny in both circumstances. it doesn't mean that either of them isn't a man.

if someone calls a straight man the f slur, that's still homophobia. like you understand that right?

and it still doesn't make him gay!

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