see even if the real regret rate of transition were less than that of a tattoo wtf are we even comparing here. you get an ugly tattoo you save up some money and you get it covered up or you save up more money and you get it lasered off. you regret cross sex hormomes too bad your endocrine system is fucked now. your bones are hollow. you regret getting part of your body cut off too bad it's in medical waste now. and you better dilate or pray to god your phallus doesn't necrose and fall off for the rest of your life. apples and oranges man come on. id rather one million people have a shitty tattoo they regret than even 10 people who wish they could have part of their body back.

artist dude: Women are so insane and incomprehensible and mysterious...their ways are fascinating to me A regular human being and every time I write about them I delve into an alien world, fascinating and frightening

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I think by including racially diverse characters with ethnic names in a children's book, JKR was trying to prevent y'all from becoming the kind of adults who make casually racist jokes and point and laugh at real life people's names when they come from a different cultural background than you. Somehow, y'all managed to become those adults anyway while accusing her of the racism you all now openly practice with no remorse. Here is a white male openly mocking a real-life black woman's name and calling the name her black parents gave her "racist". Incredible.

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Also a major difference between "Cho Chang" and "Ching Chong" is that it's fucking not that.

Stop using HP's quirky character names to hide the fact that you want to make fun of someone's real name.

they are literally simply making fun of a black womans name. they think theyre being so subversive but that is a real person and theyre just making fun of a name typically associated with specific racial or ethnic groups. how do they not grasp that??

same thing they said about luigi mangione's name. they might as well be the comically racist characters in some stupid comedy that refer to any asian character as "lee" or "chang" and make a joke about how they all have the same name and look the same.

it also feels like its another example of precisely american (or generally native-english-speakers') ignorance. you dont think about how "brad" and "jack" and "april" are stereotypical white-people english names in precisely the same way. its just that every other country seems to be aware that the names most common in their country are their normal names, but to everyone else "THAT stereotypical name from THAT country". the italians are aware that luigi is just another name in their country, but for you americans its THAT italian guy name.

theyre the default. so it never occurred to them to say "omg KYLE JEFFERSON ahaha lol jk rowling naming an american character ass name!😂" bc your english names are just normal names!

it also has not been lost on my that i havent yet seen anyone do this to people (and their names) that they perceive as "just as white" as themselves. they do it to a black woman, to an italian man, to a chinese woman..... how many have you seen of these going "omg this german actors name is reinhard berger?! jk rowling naming characters ass name😂" . obv it could have happened and i just havent seen it, just feel like theres a pattern there. especially since the twitter OP's name is Nikolaj, a name that is also rather "stereotypically" slavic or often scandinavia.

The longer I spend on social media the more I realize that 99% of internet "activism" is just a massive game of telephone.

Literally the whole Cho Chang thing started in 2013 when a woman called Rachel Rostad went viral for her slam poem "To J.K. Rowling, from Cho Chang". In the poem, Rostad assumes the voice of Cho Chang to angrily challenge the fetishization and sidelining of Asian women in fiction. Like most slam poetry, it's deeply personal, metaphorical, and emotional. Rostad describes Cho Chang as "fucking worthless", a "tragic fetish", and "subordinate, submissive, subplot". These are statements suited to the expressive and provocative tone of slam poetry and are clearly not intended as nuanced literary or political analysis.

And even if they had been intended as nuanced literary or political analysis, why would you automatically accept them as fact without question or critique?

Never mind. Tumblr did. Tumblr absorbed the anger but forgot the context. So now everyone now goes around with the vague but powerful conviction that J.K. Rowling is a hateful b*tch for naming Cho Chang Cho Chang without any memory for where that criticism came from: an extremely superficial reading of a poem about wide-reaching tropes in media from opera to Charlie's Angels to online porn that is ultimately, movingly, as much an interrogation of the author's own internalized racism as about the treatment of Asian women in fiction in general. A poem Tumblr took so literally they completely overlooked its actual message.

That's how the game of social media telephone works. Everyone has heard something about something about something about someone who is unbelievably, undeniably, irredeemably racist (or sexist or homophobic or transphobic) and you (who are in your 30s and have a slightly longer memory) can trace the whole thing back to an ambiguous comment someone left on a video or a inaccurately reported statement that was taken out of context, but absolutely no one will listen to you when you ask how they know what they know because, hey, people wouldn't be so angry if there wasn't a damn good reason, would they?

re: that last reblog, i think it's important to note for those unaware, that rachel rostad is not chinese, does not speak any dialect of chinese, has no connection to china or to chinese diaspora, has never lived in china, and was thoroughly mocked on weibo etc at the time for her taking umbrage at the very suggestion that "cho" can be a chinese given name (i remember seeing a LOT of edits of wong cho lam (etc) being told off by rachel for having a "fake name" lol). tumblr was deep in it's yfip-era psychosis and was willing to overlook these small unimportant details to ensure their daily dogpile could still go ahead as planned, before a nice afternoon signal boosting the arkh project fundraiser.

one of the lesser-discussed demonstrations of how aggressively males hate women is male drivers who spend long journeys driving dangerously to attempt to intimidate women drivers/cause crashes. We're on the motorway now, and there's a man who's spent the past 20 minutes cutting back and forth really close to try to overtake us or tailgate if we end up in front.

i think there was a study that showed that cars in 'girl colours' were more likely to be targets of agression and dangerous driving from men.

Im starting to really understand why some women call masculinity a death cult.

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Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died in Texas.

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

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Being a woman is wild because what do you mean me having the right to vote is a debate theme?

My abortion was really one the most hated kind of abortion. I wasn't underage. I wasn't raped. I wasn't in medical need.

I got pregnant not through some fluke or 1 in a 100 contraceptive failure. I got pregnant because I was knowingly and willfully having unprotected sex. Out of wedlock too if that matters.

It was my own fault, I was being irresponsible because I knew I could always get an abortion if I got pregnant. My abortion was as close as it comes to 'using abortion as a contraceptive' as anti-choicers love to say.

I didn't abort it because my health was in danger or because I didn't have the ability to care for it or whatever else. I did it purely because I didn't want a child. I wanted sex and I didn't want to deal with any consequences from it.

There's no moral here. I don't feel bad about it whatsoever. I suffered no karmic consequences or punishment from god. My life is amazing. I want to rub this in the face of every conservative and anti-choicer. I did the terrible thing. I had an abortion for the most selfish of reasons and literally nothing happened. Suck it.

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yeah but i cant say that without being called a nazifascist or my memories of attempted conversion therapy triggering me 😐

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I find it very upsetting that GNC people, mainly lesbians and gay men, spent so long teaching everyone that women can be “masculine” and men can be “feminine”…only for gender havers to swoop in and undo all that progress with their sexist “actually if a woman isn’t perfectly performing femininity or if a man isn’t perfectly performing masculinity you need to ask THEIR pronouns!! Clothes = gender!!!” Bullshit and throwing fits whenever people recognise their sex instead of stereotyping them based on their clothes. They’ve set us back so far and they’re so giddy about it.

idk who needs to hear this but if you need to walk on eggshells around that person and you cannot have a normal and honest conversation w them, they are not your soulmate. sorry