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Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there’s such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don’t
”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media
Well you see minors under 25 years old should not be allowed to get gender reassignment surgery because what if they go to the clinic but instead of giving them a normal penis the nurses mess up and give them the evil penis. That’s irreversible
The honestly surprising thing here imo is that even for *very* rich people apparently unbridled capitalism that makes them as rich as possible apparently doesn’t buy them the same satisfaction as it can in places with less inequality.
You’d think (and every second temporarily embarrassed millionaire will argue) that if you can command a private limo, public transport doesn’t matter. But apparently the systems that result in good public transport also result in amazing holidays for people so rich they wouldn’t even consider using it.
If everyone can afford a nice coffee in the morning, there’s a cute little cafe every 100 feet to serve it to them; if there’s only 100 people in town that can afford that habit they’re all going to have to hop into their swanky limos and haul their groggy asses to wherever the exclusive Coffee Club is located to get their fix.
If there’s no public transit or bike infrastructure, your swanky limo is stuck in traffic behind 120 beat up Honda Civics.
If there’s workers rights and public healthcare the barista there wants to have a nice little chat with every customer, because that’s the human default way of greeting people in the morning. If there’s not they straight up don’t have the spoons and you get the dead-eyed Gen-XMillenial Gen-Z stare while you order.
No amount of individual expenditure will buy you what living in a healthy society gives.
The difference is observable even between US states, to a lesser degree. I’ve lived in a series of cities in infamously High Taxes States, and when my roommate’s grandparents would visit they’d always be so charmed by how nice things are.
They of course live in a suburb in a Low Taxes State. And when it comes to how they think about Politics they’ve swallowed every Republican line about how you can’t trust The Government with your money. But then they visit someplace with even just, like, building codes that are taken seriously and roads that are maintained and any density at all and they have a lovely time.
But apparently that’s just for vacations. Taking normal life seriously involves putting a lot of effort into being big fish in a small and miserable pond where all the other fish are allegedly thieves and cheats who want what you have and so trying to help them is foolishness.
it’s literally so easy not to spread or participate in harassment campaigns against trans women. just don’t. try that for a while.
guy who sees an angry mob pursuing a single woman in the streets with pitchforks and torches : well I guess I just have to join them in case they’re right this time
