being treated 'like a man' is different from, and worse than, being treated *as* a man, and that difference is perhaps nowhere more keenly expressed than in relationships between cis women and transmisogyny-exempt 'woman aligned' people, on the one hand, and the nonbinary, transmisogyny-constrained partners whom they treat 'like a man' on the other;
unless it is more starkly articulated in the relationships between cis women and transmisogyny-exempt 'woman aligned' parents and their nonbinary, transmisogyny-constrained children.
it is inaccurate to say that cis feminism 'struggles with' this dynamic; on the contrary, cis feminism is broadly employed as the ideological justification for mis-treating someone 'like a man'.
@melissasage "AOL has no reasonably explainable reason for keeping AIM running when you're not online, but its a part of this trend of apps that don't close unless you take the effort to kill them."
@melissasage Before November 5, 2000: https://everything2.com/title/Close+doesn%2527t+mean+minimize
To celebrate the 10th birthday of #VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh has published the source code on GitHub http://distractionware.com/blog/2020/01/vvvvvv-is-now-open-source/
My I introduce you to a website that let's you listen to the radio music played in every country in most decades. Yes even Antarctica. It's cool
@Rob_T_Firefly The Burger King Kid's Club
My friend is a med student about to graduate doing research on barriers to gender-affirming healthcare access for trans folks in the US.
Please share and participate if you can!
@shoofle @melissasage that's a Florida avocado
@avi actually kill comes from dutch! and murder also i think comes from dutch, by way of "mudder". the murderkill river's name is entirely unrelated to violence!
@shoofle It must have been named by the writers of Demolition Man
PSA, sexual assault
Lumb @ monsterpit.net is back.
They have a known history of manipulating and sexually assaulting people who they've met online. They have a long pinned post up claiming that the accusations against them were all made up. They're a dangerous person and I wouldn't trust a single word they say.
Please block them.
Staten Island has multiple locations with the word "kill" in their name, to enhance the nightmarish quality of visiting the borough.
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.