I NEED TO LOOK MORE FEM SO I CAN LOOK MORE MASC

HUH?

I NEED TO LOOK MORE FEM SO I CAN LOOK MORE MASC

no this is literally what im talking abt

They. They forgor

"OP why are you mad that your words are being misinterpreted you're on the piss on the poor website" actually i think it's very reasonable to demand people pay attention to the words they use, the choices they make, the things they believe, and their capacity for empathy and comprehension and that it's sort of weird that you're finding humor in making excuses to just believe that there simply is no possible way to improve your actions

LGBT activists have been vocal about intersex issues for several decades, because establishing the legal right to bodily autonomy for intersex persons is basically inseparable from establishing the right of trans persons to that same legal autonomy over their own bodies. many intersex persons prefer not to be grouped together with LGBT causes; however, the vast majority of LGBT activists would agree that performing "corrective" surgery on intersex infants - to force them to adhere to a largely fictional gender binary - is pretty fucking evil.

[Image IDs: a series of tweets from #EndIntersexSurgery (@/ Pidgejen) reading: Anyways, let's start with what I thought I once knew about myself. When I was 18, I discovered I wasn't like other girls. My medical records read "male pseudo-hermaphrodite 46 XY" & other BS terminology that pathologized my healthy/beautiful intersex body.

I discovered then that I had been diagnosed with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome (PAIS); my XY body couldn't fully utilize androgens (like T) and so I developed mostly like a typical female person externally.

For me, this meant I had a somewhat "ambiguous" looking body (aka a non-binary body) and the doctors performed 3 unnecessary cosmetic surgeries to make me look more like a "normal girl"

(peanut emoji) gonadectomy
(scissors emoji) Clitorectomy
(kitchen knife emoji) vaginoplasty

Not to mention, they lied to me about All Of This and then forced me to take Premarin (a low does of estrogen made from extracting the hormone from a pregnant mare's urine (horse face emoji, crying face emoji)

Anyways, I got in touch with a new endocrinologist recently thanks to my therapist at @/ RuchMedical who suggested I see him.

He did something no other doctor had ever done. He asked me if he could see my medical records, all of them, and then took time to read of them.

He even reached out to other experts in his field when he was confused by something.

Wow, We love humility in medicine.

Anyways, he ended up suspecting something is up and that perhaps my PAIS diagnosis is wrong.

He then orders me a genetic (dna emoji) test. Thanks to covid it took almost half a year to get the results, but a month or so ago I got them back.

Turns out, I don't have PAIS. I actually have something else known as NR-5A1. Now this is big news mostly because 1. It supports my thesis that docs who deal with intersex kids don't know shit...

And 2. P/AIS intersex folks are believed to not be able to utilize androgens and wo we're often only given estrogen (never T), forcibly "feminized" with fucked up "cosmetic" surgeries, and forcibly assigned female.

Doing what they did to me was fucked up enough, but now realizing that they didn't even have the diagnosis right—and that I *can* utilize androgens—is fucking infuriated beyond belief.

We need to #EndIntersexSurgery y'all like yesterday. /End IDs]

If you truly believe women can be anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women are men.

If you truly believe women can look like anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women look like men.

If you truly believe women can do anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women transition to be men.

If you truly believe that women have the right to decide what to do with their lives and bodies, then you are going to need to accept that some women decide to be men.

Decide to be...?

What's not tracking?

Isn't it kind of harmful to say that a queer person decided to be that way? Or is that idea outdated now and I'm being dumb?

the only reason we have to rely on the idea that sexuality and gender is innate and unchanging is because the legal system in the US ties rights to things that are innate and unchanging

while for the vast majority of people, their gender or sexuality is unchanging, as most identities stabilize between age 3-5, the idea that identity (whether gender or sexuality) cannot change at all over the course of someone’s life is just simply not reality. Unfortunately, the right wing takes this fact to mean that you can successfully engage in conversion therapy - this is not true. Sexuality/gender can just change for some people over their life time. For some people it IS very much a conscious decision. 

It’s a difficult conversation to have esp in the US when all human rights rely on the foundation of an innate/unchanging status. 

Love learning this kind of dynamic assessment from new Tumblr friends. Thank you.

To further build on this, the Born This Way narrative was constructed specifically to counteract the (particularly Catholic) Church's "Choosing the Gay LifestyleTM" narrative. When (Christian) bigots said we could just choose not to be queer we responded with "but I cannot choose not to be queer. I have always been this way. Are you saying God made a mistake when He made me this way?" And it was a convincing argument for a lot of liberal religious folk and got them to be allies and that was all well and good.

But the problem with that line of argument was that it conceded to the Church the right to define the question. The response instead should have been "so what if it is a choice? So what if I choose to be this way? How does that give you the right to discriminate against me?" By arguing that being queer is not a choice, we are implicitly saying that no one would choose to be queer if they could instead choose to be cishet. We are implicitly asking for their pity as humans who have been condemned by God to live a life that no human would willingly choose and to be allowed to live a life as close to cishet normality as possible as an act of mercy.

Which... Is not a narrative I will willingly accept. Whether I chose my queerness or not is immaterial to my right to experience the full gamut to human sexuality without fear of persecution based on irrational hatred or religious bigotry. So what if I chose this? I have the right to choose.

Penguin escapes killer whales by jumping onto a boat.

Antarctic penguins (and most other Antarctic animals for that matter) are very interesting because they lack a natural fear of humans since, of course, humans are not a natural occurrence on the continent. It is one of the few places on earth where it is completely normal for fully wild animals to be comfortable around you. In fact, most react as though humans are just especially large penguins as those are the only flightless biped native to the area.

As far as this gentoo penguin is concerned, it was saved by a float of large yellow penguins also hiding from orcas.

Penguin Diogenes

it’s ninety-nine degrees outside, four fuck-thousand percent humidity, and my husband was like, “i’m gonna go for a bike ride.” and i was like “why. no. why. don’t put us on the news like that. local fool collapses on unnecessary journey. don’t do it.” so he says he doesn’t want to “hide in the house” because the sun is shining. bruh. honeybruh. “the sun is shining” does not cover it. its hot outside. its motherfucking hot as fuck outside. our outdoor plants have been crying into their hands all week. whole cars are melting into the sewer. our fucking patio umbrella developed sentience to ask me for lemonade this morning

@robotmango, you need to work for the weather forecast - this was both hilarious and so vivid it made me stand up and get some iced tea.

this is a great idea, thank you. here goes. my audition tape for the weather channel. dearly beloved. we are gathered here today to have a fucking funeral for the outdoors. it had a good run, with all its creeks and clouds and shit. pretty great. now it’s ten-thirty at night but still ninety-two asshole-sweating degrees and humid as fuck. everything is hot and slimy, like being a “borrower” that got trapped inside a bottle of shampoo and then accidentally microwaved. you can see on my doppler radar that nothing is moving around out there because everything is probably dead. the only alive thing is the mosquito currently trying to drill a hole in my leg. no surprise that all the shitbag mosquitos are fine, since the thermostat of hell is always at the devil’s preferred temperature. this forecast has gotten away from me a little, but in conclusion fuck the sun

Yeah you say this, except there's a good chance you were chronically dehydrated as a kid. The reason you didn't think you were is because a) no one was talking about dehydration at the time, and b) the effects weren't immediately obvious.

But when my grown-up massage clients get on my table and I have to keep reapplying lotion because their skin absorbs the first layer immediately? When they have a million "knots" because their soft tissue fibers got dried out, lost their elasticity and became sticky, basically glued themselves together, and now it hurts when you move your arm like this, or your neck is always achey?

Yeah, that's chronic dehydration. That's shit that builds up over years of not drinking enough water (and/or not stretching, and/or having shitty posture, and/or not healthily processing your difficult emotions, and/or...)

Health is mostly maintenance. You have to act in "healing" ways consistently if you don't want to spend your life in a cycle of pain -> fix -> same pain again. And the younger you start, the better your results will be.

So yeah, treat the youth and yourself like beached orcas and drink that water.

Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc

you didnt put a nametag on your boyfriend and he despawned. sorry.

Discussion Questions

1. This post is in lowercase and is missing an apostrophe. Would it be as funny if it used proper capitalization and punctuation? Why or why not?
2. In order for this post's joke to land, it makes an allusion to a popular video game. What video game does it reference?
3. Using your answer from Question 2 and the relationship between the nametag and boyfriend, what is the boyfriend implied to be?

@experimentaldata

Tags that made me choke on my energy drink

Screeching

same energy

Thinking about those egg tubes

For those confused in the notes, these are mostly sold to restaurants. Egg salad and egg garnish in retaurant food needs to look attractive; ever notice how if you get a salad in a lot of these places, the pieces are always perfect slices with white on the outside and yolk in the middle? Most of a sliced egg doesn't look like that because of the shape that the egg and yolk is, so if they were just boiling and slicing eggs, they'd have to throw out more than half the egg if they wanted their slices to look nice.

These tubes are just made of normal eggs but boiled together in along tube shape. This way the whole thing looks pretty except the ends. That's more egg per egg! They also store and transport easier than separate eggs, and because they're sold precooked they save a lot of boiling and egg peeling time in the kitchen and result in a far more consistent product, cooked to perfection. Slicing up a big egg tube is much faster and produces better results than the kitchen staff having to boil and peel eggs themselves each time.

TIL about tube eggs. :)

flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn't the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community