Not to be atheist on main again, but like: I really do think this wing of tumblr, as a whole, is getting way too comfortable with being reflexively pro religion. I've been to mass, as a child and as an adult. I'm grateful I was not raised religiously because I can say this for certain: the things that get taught in mass are often hateful and deplorable, and it it is not uncommon for children to develop a deeply harmful relationship with those teachings.
I simply do not doubt that a great many lesbians required to attend mass during their formative years would have developed traumatic guilt and self loathing as a result.
"Oh, so now having all the adults and authority figures in your early childhood talk about how the being that runs the entire universe will torture you forever in fire if you do something bad is somehow 'traumatic'"
I mean, not every mass or Christian actually teaches that, but like... a lot of them do.
and all that without mentioning that this is lesbians, and the catholic church teaches that women are inherently lesser in the eyes of god (sure, they might avoid saying that explicitly but there is literally no other way to take eg the priesthood thing) and that homosexual desire is "intrinsically disordered". gosh i wonder why lesbians might struggle with catholic upbringings
Important tip! Sometimes we should let posts about Black people... Stay about Black people.
I understand that it's often from a place of attempted sympathy and good intent! Nonetheless.
-Viv
in my minecraft server there's a 1/5000 chance of a skeleton running across your screen at any given moment, and sometimes it really scares me
so
this picture
had me absoLUTELY fucked the fuck up for a full entire minute until i scrolled to the next one and realized it's supposed to be put on like this
and had a full ohhhhhhhhhh okay moment
but for a full sixty seconds of my life i didn't even question it i was like yeah some straps are just that freaky deaky i love that for them whoever they are
im sending my family the pictures i took at the museum of medieval torture instruments but i forgot to take pictures where my gondola plush wasnt being tortured so this is what all the pictures look like
"reblog to give a trans woman soup"
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"trans women experience misogyny because they're women"
- you are now on a blocklist
awesome
Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.
A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.
