jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

@Tetra This is just one of any number of possible analogies. The point is that gender is extremely complicated and arbitrary, and our society is pretty poorly equipped to make any serious sense of it. We built it, but the ways it actually works are still pretty unexplored in the popular consciousness because we're all expected to just take on faith that it's a simple immutable binary thing.

Most cis people are like undergrads using spectroscopes that have most of the grating blocked out, and can only identify the spectra of hydrogen and helium. They already get confused enough when they see light sources that include neither hydrogen nor helium, or both of them at once - put them in front of a neon tube, and they'll basically just panic.

everyone, even people who call themselves cis, has a different gender. Society tells us that the only important parts of gender are the brightnesses of two specific regions of the spectrum, and also asserts that one region must be bright and the other dim. For some people, this is indeed true, but for many, those assumptions are false, and the brightest parts of their spectrum are nowhere near the two conventional bands.

"gender is a spectrum" is a common thing told to cis folks who are just learning about how being trans works for the first time. Most of them interpret that as "it's a sliding scale from male to female" but that's a gross oversimplification. I really like the analogy that it's more like an optical emission spectrum of a charged gas, which has hundreds of different energy level transitions and high-order effects that produce a complex system of different colors.

tbh the death penalty is a relic, its cheaper and more ethical to imprison people, and even if you *are* a retribution over rehabilitation type, i think everyone can agree that getting someone to realise their own guilt is far more punishment than anything that can be inflicted from without.

anyone who can unequivocally be called deserving of the death penalty gets off easily, and edge cases have too high a risk of human error in sentencing.

it costs zero dollars to use they/them by default and zero cents to upgrade on discovery of preferred pronouns

In Swedish,
a "dragoon" is a "dragon"
and a "dragon" is a "drake"
and a "drake" is an "andhane"
and "and" is "och"
and "och" is a Gaelic expression of regret and...
I regret my lacking knowledge of more languages, so the word-association chain must now end.

:drake_disapproval_face: making good music

:drake_approval_face: being a disgusting creep

Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

#anarchism #quote #bot

This summer I hung out with a friends cat, she demands attention.

imagine how mad all the TERFs must be at glinner right about now for fucking up their racket this colossally

@CyclopsCaveman Abraham look out! the assasination is coming! Oh fuck he has airpods in listening to the stream he can't hear us

NICE

i hear jesus of nazareth wants in on the hbomberguy stream

wow i cant believe that they Jesus Christ, The Son Of God to go on bomberguy and say trans rights

maybe the real donkey kong 64 was the friends hbomberguy made along the way

do they let Eugen say fuck yet

cat ✨ i'm a kitty cat

*Shark voice* Politicians are tools, not friends!