mistralwhisper.bsky.social
Angry trans feminist hoping for positive change.
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That resonates.
By enormous coincidence the Beegees just started singing Staying Alive on the radio.
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This is a more serious thread I am linking, but I’m sharing it mostly to say, sometimes, it doesn’t have to be a GOOD reason as long as we find a better reason soon
I once chose life because my laundry was still in the machine in my building and didn’t want my underpants found by neighbors
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Wise
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There's got to be money involved somewhere. Labour is destroying itself and its hope for being elected again, it has to be for money.
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bsky.app/profile/fang...
Apparently they did.
It was the same day as Boston Pride so they converged later.
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Trump _says_ 45 so it's not that 🙄
I expect by the time they've paid for everything it'll be way way more than 90.
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This was "law enforcement" escalating violence. Not protesters! Both MSNBC reporters on site did an excellent job reporting on this and emphatically stating in no uncertain terms that the police were responsible for this! We need more reporters like them. They deserve a lot of credit!!!
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After a decade or more of video of police brutality and then being let off, what's all too sadly believable right now is that the police would cover it up. They've undermined all trust.
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Without them the patriarchy wouldn't be able to do that though.
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I was just thinking half an hour ago that I was never good at pretending to be a man.
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Oh fuck what are they doing now? Having an inquiry into why trans people weren't persecuted sooner?
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July is now Lack of Pride month
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Same
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They wanted trans people to use the bathroom of their birth sex and now cis men can use that to gain access to women's toilets (like they needed it).
They want ICE agents to wear casual clothes and hide their identities when kidnapping people so men can use that to gain access to children.
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How many weedwhackers do you need?
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We've already seen that they're untouchable, even when the horror is on video. It's not like they're going to be better if it's her word against his and some bruises.
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I think the key issue is that this guidance, and Labour's subsequent backing of it, have all of us overthinking subtle nuances of things like this.
We also know that gender criticals will be doing the same to try and guess who to attack.
We're all forced to think about what they will think.
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Wes Streeting? Why, when you even explicitly talk about his anti trans stance, would you have him on the list!
What exactly is he "pioneering"? The removal of healthcare for trans people? Why would you do this? Why put this list together at all?
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It even talks about Streeting being shit to trans people in the blurb about him!
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I've seen that used often enough. Even worse when it's lesbians policing other lesbians. My friend was told (almost at fist-point) that she couldn't call herself queer.
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Facts don't care about his FEELINGS
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Saying they were underage does at least imply that it was against the law one way or another.
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We're all going to wake up and find that the last decades have been a dream, and that in reality we were never born.
We'll all be like, "argh! What's going on! I don't even exist! How am I dreaming?"
Transphobes just say anything at all and it gets reported uncritically.
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I'm going to use the term cis supremacist a lot more
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"dispute"
Could they make it sound more like just a minor argument?
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Before, it was something awful that I wanted to stop happening to other people.
Now it's an awful thing I want to stop happening to me.
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...future. It's reiterated what I already knew, that it's terrible that anyone should have to live with this constant threat, and it's also made it more visceral for me.
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The experience was alarming but as a trans woman also affirming, if only because I was being treated like a cis woman and there was no suggestion he thought I was trans (this surprised me, I don't feel like I pass).
I'm hoping I won't lose courage and hide myself away or dress for avoidance in...
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...first time experiencing it, and it left me shaken. I don't cope well with confrontation at all, let alone the in-your-face aggression he was giving.
I've left out a lot of details for (relative) brevity,
At one point he commented on the lack of white people in another city 🚩 (I just remembered).
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...my friend earlier that she was leaving with me, so we make our excuses and leave, he's visibly annoyed 🚩
Somehow we escaped without them even asking for numbers which was a relief, but they live near us and I'm worried we'll encounter them again.
I knew men could be like this but it's my...
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...for a couple of minutes 🚩
I keep refusing, he gets increasingly aggressive 🚩 and pleading 🚩 and demanding 🚩.
Oh and before that they bought us more tequila shots neither of us asked for 🚩
There is NO WAY I'm going to be alone with this guy.
I'd already arranged with my...
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...sitting on the floor feeling my leg 🚩 and I'm a little scared to stop him, his vibe has me worried.
He starts kind of trying to get on me 🚩 but the chair doesn't allow it so he keeps sitting back down, but he's also getting right in my face demanding I come to his room before I leave 🚩, just...
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...and my friend tequila shots we didn't ask for 🚩 (actually my friend did but I'd said no).
The other guy sat having a serious discussion with my friend about a current news topic.
Bbd keeps complaining to me that it's boring and saying "blah blah blah". I say I find it interesting.
He's...
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I say I'm exhausted and have to head back down, the surgery has left me weak.
We head back to the elevator and he pushes the button for his floor 🚩, I insist I need the bar and to go soon, and manage to persuade him push the button for the bar.
We go back down and talk for a bit and they get me...
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Eventually I'm persuaded, partly because my friend has gone ahead and I don't like being separated from her.
Bbd keeps telling us "see we're nice guys" apropos of nothing 🚩
They take us up some scaffolding for a better view and he takes the opportunity to cop a feel of my bum a couple of times 🚩...
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...which makes me uncomfortable.
We have to go through a roof space full of pipes and walkways. My friend went in but I said I couldn't because the surgery had left me unable to bend and twist around the obstacles, though I'm also feeling nervous about being in a hidden space with them...
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...prostitutes 🚩 (red flag because that's why they approached us but they're still engaging).
They're living in the hotel doing building work long term, so they have roof access and offer to show us the nice sunset over the city (it was).
We go up in the elevator they have the key card for...
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...half a cider, they bring us each a pint of cider 🚩
I explain I haven't had alcohol for months due to recovery from surgery. I end up drinking it anyway.
I thought they were both into my friend but while I'm away at the toilet the bbd not only asks about me but also says they thought we were...
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...having her photo taken.
I was exhausted from a long day and we were sitting quietly.
The men came over and the bbd (big buff dude) asks me if we're sleeping.
After that he talks with my friend a lot and I sit quietly.
They ask if they can get us drinks. I say water and my friend says...
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No matter how much money I give to Picasso I can guarantee he's not going to use it to take away the rights of a minority and persecute them.
JKR however....
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Absolutely! Are they short sighted idiots or pick-mes, because that's pretty much the options.
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As shown by major pride marches banning political parties to show support for trans people.
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Yes! There are some extremely transphobic lesbians but the vast majority are really welcoming.
The attempts to divide LGBT are not going well. LGB people still remember being the targets.
Still remember the tactics.
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The way I see it, if someone doesn't like your labels so much they can just not be friends with you.
Why do they think they should get to decide what you call yourself.
A femme lesbian friend had trouble with a butch lesbian saying she was a traitor, and that another shouldn't call herself queer.
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That's the most likely alternative I've seen that actually benefits the rich. Probably not worth the effort though tbh.
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When AI starts becoming the main and extremely cheap source of labour they're not going to need the slave population they've been cultivating, so prisons would just cost them money.
We're entering uncharted territory.