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no worries, i know people can come at it from really different headspaces :) parenthood is a particularly fraught subject in transfem spaces. people use the fact that a lot of transition stuff leads to infertility as a pretext to invalidate our identities - which doubly hurts because a lot of trans women deeply wish we could conceive and bear children :(

people use the fact that a lot of transition stuff leads to infertility as a pretext to invalidate our identities

that sucks. Sorry for triggering that.

i mean, i get where they're coming from. reducing the entirety of a woman's gender to her reproductive capacity is obviously an essential component of empowering women through feminism!

for a long time now, maybe as far back as janice raymond in 1979, terfs have been calling trans women who have had bottom surgery "eunuchs". to do so is, of course, utterly factually incorrect. there are plenty of people who self-id as eunuchs. eunuchs are not the same thing as trans women. eunuchs are mostly male-presenting, don't identify as women, have no desire for feminizing hrt. being a eunuch is fine, but i'm fucking obviously not one. it still really got under my skin when they did that, because i didn't know any better, because transphobes weaponize public ignorance against us, that's how they're effective. i was really afraid that no matter what i did, even if i got bottom surgery, i could never be a "real" woman - at best i'd be an incomplete man (which, again, isn't how i see eunuchs now - i was more ignorant at the time).

there's so much about transphobia that is really absurd to me. bottom surgery isn't what makes me or anyone else a woman, but for transphobes to insist that i am still some variety of man when i am in fact so committed to not being a man that i've undergone an elective penectomy seems especially perverse. don't get me wrong, it's not like having it done was all that big a deal, the stupid thing isn't just worth all the fuss people make over it, not that _important, but it took a fair amount of effort on my part to get it done and the procedure caused me considerable (in retrospect highly exaggerated) anxiety beforehand.

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at this point I almost get a kick out of posting, knowing there's a likelihood that no matter how reasonable or thoughtful I'm being, you'll reveal quite how unhinged you are in response

You don’t help yourself a lot of the time with your disingenuous baiting, LJ

how is what I say disingenuous?

On this thread?

Seriously lads can ye take it to nv’s quarantine thread and get it all out of your systems or something

Cast it as 'unhinged' as you like I am just replying to your wrong posts LJ. I would do it with anybody else but no one else's posting are as wrong as yours lol.

Gyac casting as anything out of the ordinary is also bollocks.

Will concede that I do sometimes post unfinished concepts so as to prove or refute, but I rarely do so from a position of absolute certainty, something which the honourable gentleman above possesses considerable quantities of

Lol @ unfinished concepts.

Patricia Brake, versatile British actress probably best known for playing Fletch's daughter in Porridge or as Eth opposite Ian Lavender and Jimmy Edwards in the TV revival of The Glums.

Come on. There's no way any of this — the people's names, the names of the "TV programs" — is real. Very well done parody, though.

Porridge is a gritty prison drama, it's like the UK equivalent of The Wire

I was gonna say "oh she was really good" etc, so I shall, here.

But, vg+ to you both.

ok boomer

¿Por qué no los dos?

the more they fight, the harder i ship them

what i'm saying is nobody look up either of their names on ao3. and if you do, i want you to know i had nothing to do with any of it.

LOL

99% of people naming Ireland would hate it and be hated there

xp LJ - finish what you

well no fucking wonder, Ireland already has a perfectly good name

You also need somewhere with no internet connection, given you can't read posts.

(It occurs to me that if the Watergate Apartments had instead been called the Watercress Apartments, this new scandal would've been called the Partycress Scandal)

complete list of best->worst ilx posters of alltime (ranked)

1. (your name here) [TIE]
2. me

Austin sometimes you are brutally wrong about music but you are good people and DO NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP

Definitely no way you’re anywhere near second

Second being worst or whatever if I understood that

☺ lol thank you both. besides really enjoying everyone's presence, it was not a very serious post. hence why it's here.

trying to work out the exact moment this died, and can only conclude 'this thread' in answer

Yet you still post.

I was talking about Dall-E you preposterous cretin

My post stands.

Lol

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looks like sad arshavin.jpg lol

sad arshavin who had an accident with a toxic tankie

this is in actual response to posts itt - where the hell do people use the word 'tankie' irl? is it a british university thing?

It's twitter, or anarchists but you won't find that here.

are these anarchists also just online personalities though.

i'm having trouble imagining anyone uttering the word 'tankie' in a room together.

i have uttered it IRL but I hang with anarchists so ... ?

earlier this week -- I was hanging w/my friend Jenny who was telling me that near the end of the Anarchist Bookfair, there was a table of tankies and there was some kind of drama that I wasn't entirely clear on because neither of us had gone, but her husband did and told her about this.

thank you for clarifying this, i'm glad they exist and cause drama with anarchists irl, though i think i sympathize more with the anarchists.

Tankies attended an Anarchist book fair? Oh no! xp

a table of tankies

iirc that is the correct plural noun for a group of tankies

xyzzz, apparently so! Jenny and I lamented missing the excitement.