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If being trans masc was actually some brilliant hack to gain access to all the privileges and violence of patriarchy, there would actually be trans mascs in positions of power and celebrity

Which, as you may fucking notice, there are fucking not

New rule before you can comment on the privilege trans mascs have, you have to name three famous trans mascs who aren't Elliot Page

(Who, by the way, has been in drastically fewer things since he came out as trans while filming The Umbrella Academy in 2020, only one of which is live action/actually has him appearing on screen. He literally went from averaging 3-4 roles each year to 1.5 (x). Just look at allllllll that privilege)

I'll wait.

If trans men are wielding soooooo much power and privilege - if trans men are more or less positionally equivalent to cis men - why has only a single trans man ever openly held elected office in the US at the state level or higher??? vs. over a dozen trans women and three or four nonbinary people, for that matter! (x, x)

Where is the systemic privilege we're accused of holding? Where are we rewarded for becoming men? Where is our masculinity rewarded? Where are we enacting all this societal and legislative power over women, whether cis or trans?

It's not there because we don't fucking have it, and I genuinely do not know how so many people seem to have become convinced that we do, in contrast to literally every piece of evidence and common sense in actual reality

You see a medical-looking neat little spray bottle on the table. The label says "wound spray". I tell you not to touch that. For some reason you spray some on yourself anyway and scream as a horrible smell fills the room and the chemical reaction of some unknown substance burns your skin right off. You scream and ask what the hell was that.

It's a wound spray, obviously. You spray some on your skin on the desired area, to instantly create a wound.

As a certified Twisted Understander I think the reason it works so, SO well as a subversion of a disney movie is because on the one hand, yeah, with enough creativity you can reimagine Jafar as a misunderstood antihero, but you don't even have to reimagine anything in order to be sold on the idea of Aladdin being an unreliable narrator who's actually a scumbag. That guy steals shit and causes mayhem in the process but justifies it because he's poor, but like how well-off are the people that he fucks over? He's not even upset at the fact that there's poverty and suffering, he's just upset that HE'S poor. Then when he gets lamp, he uses it to lie about being a prince so he can get with a girl he just met.

If I had only seen the movie, and someone said "hey, what if Jafar was actually the misunderstood hero all along and was just scapegoated by everyone else?" I would be like okay, sure, and Cruella wants a coat made out of puppies because dalmatians killed her mom. Movie Jafar is a villain, I guess you COULD reimagine the character and make him a good guy, but then you'd end up with a completely different story. Get outta here.

But in that same scenario, if they said "hey, what if Aladdin was actually a selfish and entitled asshole actively making things worse for everyone else, and was also a sex pest, and the movie is just his own fabricated retelling of the events where he paints himself as a sympathetic outcast?" I would believe that in a heartbeat. In that case you could tell me that Aladdin is the one painting Jafar as an evil scheming old man and I would be like actually that makes a lot of sense.

Obviously there's still a lot of reimagining done like Jafar's backstory and the reveal at the end that the Princess is actually his daughter but that makes sense if we think about how at the end it's revealed that Aladdin is the salesman from the start of the movie and he's the one telling that story!!! Aladdin wouldn't know shit about Jafar's past or what his relationship with the Princess was actually like, he would have to make a lot of stuff up about him, so in the context of the movie being Aladdin's fabricated retelling, you can come up with literally anything for Jafar because what we see in the movie is just a cartoonishly evil version of him.

Again. If I had just seen the movie and you told me that Jafar is actually Jasmine's real father and his pregnant wife was taken by the sultan which is why his daughter became the princess, I would be like okay that's a reach and you are making shit up, BUT with the added context of Aladdin being the one making us think that Jafar is an evil creepy old man because Aladdin is an unreliable narrator and this is just him trying to make himself look like a hero, I'm like okay, you are still reaching but that absolutely sounds plausible, he might as well be Jasmine's real father because how would we know that from Aladdin's retelling

As the saying goes, the difference between having nothing and having a billion dollars is a billion dollars.

The difference between having a million dollars and having a billion dollars is also a billion dollars.

That million is 0.1% of the billion dollars; it's a literal rounding error.

If you're at work in a retail or hospitality environment and you see a sex worker with a client... no you didn't.

If your boss asks you if you think that person's a sex worker, you tell them you do not believe that. You don't report their presence to anyone. You don't joke about it with a coworker. You don't eavesdrop or bother them.

We're working the same as you are. Leave us alone!

Some examples of situations where you might need to keep your mouth shut about a potential sex worker:

I do not care what kind of retail or hospitality setting you work in. If you see a sex worker, no you didn't!

if the cops get involved, you know who gets punished? not any of the clients, only the sex worker. not a pimp, not the hotel manager, only the worker; and the cops are liable to sexually assault them as well.

if you have any qualms about sex work, you can start by improving workers' rights as a whole. demilitarizing police. increasing comprehensive sex ed for all ages. battling misogyny in the workplace. under the boot of capitalism, we all suffer - the most vulnerable, such as sex workers, suffer worst. leave them be.

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

The negative 1600. That’s the fucking Bronze Age.

Humans have always loved watching birds do nifty bird things.

Doudou gets in trouble for saying “AWAWA”

I think it’s very weird that when one country is criticized y’all tend to be like “oh well my country we would never —” uhh YES in your country too, that’s how states work? Y’all talking about people living in China or the US not knowing their history because the bad parts aren’t taught well in school: sure!!! But I know many people from Belgium who know next-to-nothing about the genocide in the Congo, from the Netherlands who say all their colonies were only trading posts, from Thailand who say that the indigenous people in their country have been and are treated fine only they don’t make an effort to be Thai, from Portugal who will tell you about what an amazingly positive force they were in their... territories, from Czechia who will tell you their country holds no responsibility for treatment of the Roma—but also it was and is justified; all were taught these things in school.

My point isn’t “other countries do this too so it doesn’t matter!!” No! My point is that every single state commits and covers up atrocities in some way. There is no ethical state.

American liberals especially seem to have a tendancy to think that there is a Good and Perfect state and we must only find it and imitate it and then our problems will be fixed. But trust me: it doesn’t exist, (and it’s certainly not in Europe??). We must create our own systems, and have the courage to change those, too, when we see their flaws.

A "salad" of radishes on the side would make this dish perfect.

You could add mozzarella pearls to the radish salad. Soften the pepperiness of radishes a little.

Do they sell mozzarella balls that small?

Yeah, they're sold as mozzarella pearls. The idea is that you can throw them into a salad, instead of shredding a normal sized mozzarella ball.

Some stores have mozzarella in a tube shape and it's firmer. You can slice pieces and put them on pizza and they keep the shape better.

Yup, balls and bricks are what I'm familiar with.

But yeah, more spheres for the sphere menu! xD

could have mochi for dessert

At the Tumblr Ball Pit Diner

You can't just hide this in the notes @theadveragecanadian! xD

repatriating the artifacts in the british museum except i give them to whichever country has historically been the greatest enemy of the country of origin. there's not enough hate in the world

comic that appeared to me as I was waking up from a dream

Edit: this got more attention then I thought lol if you wanna redraw this just reblog this with your redraw to credit me or put my @ (idk how tumblr works ngl)

the people who need to unlearn misogyny isn't trans men btw

it's people saying "binder wearing afabs" and calling all tmen "whiny bitches"

that's who need to unlearn it