re: Star wars
Baby Yoda theory: Yoda actually ages backwards, as evidenced by his immature behaviour stealing Luke's food and going through his belongings in Empire Strikes Back
Even better: it was at one point going to be localized as s Sonic game.
Starring Sonic's sister.
But gamers rose up and protested, saving us, for once, from Sega's poor decision-making.
The Story of Texas in one sentence
A bunch of white dudes moved to Mexico, then got pissed when Mexico's laws changed forbidding them from owning slaves, so, rather than moving back from whence they came, they stole a good chunk of Mexico and later decided to join the US, where they'd later get pissed about the US doing the same thing.
Anyone want to talk about #Omaha the #CatDancer
3) even beyond the not-yet-TERFy radical-feminist origins of these politics, TERFs have an ongoing, successful campaign of infiltration into lesbian and queer spaces. I'm genuinely scarred by this as it occurred on Tumblr. those TERFs who are holding down the idea that lesbian sexuality is morally pure still inherit the general crypto-Catholic, heterosexually-sourced, conservative revulsion of sexual and gender-variance, particularly in its transmisogyny- and [F-slur] stigma-constrained forms, or the whole population of sex workers.
lots of online queer folks have fairly TERF-adjacent worldviews. there's no getting around this. it's worth noting, too, that TERF politics are standard-issue bigotry filtered through feminist language, and it takes active work to detect bigotry that doesn't affect you; the fact that feminist-101 concepts are weaponized against gay men by gay and trans people for whom [F-slur] stigma is not a personal experience is unsurprising.
a potentially 🌶️ political thought
@Kat another good example of this shit is what i see the 'zero waste' movement increasingly becoming
my disabled, diabetic ass is never going to go 'zero waste'. not unless i have an autoclave and someone invents a way for me to check my blood sugar without any testing strips etc. but 'going zero waste' is What You Do If You Care About The Environment! fuck nuance! fuck the lives of disabled people who might not be able to just compost everything!
relevant to that: gay men are considered "frivolous, unserious." so camp jokes are consistently stripped of any "serious" or "challenging" content they encode. this is still homophobic when gay people do it
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.