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Me telling people my adoptive family is very abusive and violent at age 12: Haha, yeah, sure. Ok. You seem to be very introverted, let's work on that, huh?
Me telling people my adoptive family was very abusive and violent at age 35: Oh, that's awful! You went through so much! Why didn't anyone do anything?
@Sapphicgiraffic @caymanwent counterpoint: humans contain no holes and your intestines are actually an interface with the outside world. i was taught this in medschool and i shit u not it is 100% accurate
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
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.