I think the funniest thing in Trek (okay ignore that I say this on multiple posts I know) is the fact that like every other episode is “amazing this planet is exactly like Earth, what are the odds” “astronomical” couple episodes later you get “amazing the cultural development on this planet is just like Earth, what are the odds” “statistically speaking it shouldn’t be happening”
This was in the TOS writer’s bible as “Hodgkin’s Law of Parallel Planetary Development,” the in-universe principle that planets tend to develop in similar ways across the galaxy, explicitly so that they could reuse existing movie and television sets and costumes. (And so they could use aliens to tell stories about humans)
The preponderance of evidence is that most trending calling posts on Tumblr alleging sexual misconduct by trans women are fabricated by the same relatively small group of bad-faith actors, and that these bullshit callout posts outnumber the legit ones by a considerable margin.
If you think you can tell the legit callout posts and the bullshit ones apart just by looking at them, you’re almost certainly wrong.
Like most mechanisms of social control which are based on ostracism, callout posts tend to be most effective against people who are already in a position of vulnerability, and concomitantly, tend to have no significant long-term effect when deployed against people in positions of power or authority.
What all this adds up to is that even leaving the moral dimension of the act aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, reblogging that callout post accusing a random trans woman you’ve never heard of of being a dogfucker or what-have-you is an action which, in a worst-case scenario, will contribute to ruining an innocent person’s life, and in a best-case scenario, is likely to accomplish nothing whatsoever.
Folks often justify reblogging callout posts without performing due diligence under the rubric of “better safe than sorry”, but any realistic assessment of the likely outcomes will tell you that the true “better safe than sorry” course of action is to keep your damn mouth shut!
“But I thought we were supposed to always believe allegations of sexual misconduct” well, the thing is, “false allegations of sexual misconduct are rare” and “false allegations of sexual misconduct disproportionately target specific visible minorities” are both true statements. There’s no algorithm for being a good person – you really do have to think this shit through every single time it comes up.
i’m going to spare you all from having to read the repulsive garbage matt walsh spewed to garner this reply, but god damn if this isn’t a precision orbital strike
I hate how bot comments on ao3 are making more and more writers disable their comments and lock their works so that only people with registered accounts can access their works (because while some of these bots are from registered accounts and therefore locking your fics won’t guarantee that you will be safe from them, a lot of them are commenting as guest users so locking fics helps a little), because there are so many genuine readers who read and comment on fics without having their own registered accounts.
these bots are not only annoying and harmful (if you fell for their lies and gave them money, an access to your personal informations), they’re also keeping artists and art from genuine audiences and destroying the community artists built with their audiences.
this is a post to say fuck you every bot out there.
I think every lesbian who says she wouldn’t date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin
it all boils down to “penis steals women’s purity” and there’s literally no non-shitty way to believe that. being gay doesn’t give you a get out of jail free card for being sexist
