lapideus.bsky.social
nonbinary (they/them). aroace, bi. nd. adult.
i made this account to view video game fanart, but also, we should improve society somewhat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ffxiv: onyx dearheart @ famfrit.
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lib is short for liberal, bud.
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probably! the thing is i've watched countless self-professed "allies" berate trans folks for expecting their allyship to amount to anything beyond the occasional affirming platitude. perhaps w/ that context you can understand why the suggestion that him doing it counts for shit rankled me!
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you said he was "on the right side when it counts". that sounds like a positive assessment to me
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what difference would it make if he did say the opposite? how does it benefit anyone that he didn't? why should i view him more positively for it?
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yeah no, the labour party is absolutely institutionally transphobic and has been for a hot minute.
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please just explain to me, plainly, why you think him saying "i think she's wrong about trans people" is worth literally anything.
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i just want you to explain to me why you think i should have faith in him to be on "the right side" in any material way when he is currently on the wrong one in a very material way.
and sure, if he didn't do it someone else would. but someone else isn't. he is.
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if cashiers at chik-fil-a went on publicity tours to explain how they're definitely not homophobic i would call that out as a hollow exercise too!
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once again, the position you are taking is that personal responsibility does not exist because "someone's gonna do it anyway".
and i think that's a shit position to take. why care about anything, then?
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The internet’s platforming of diversity was actually a reflection of reality, which spawned an alt-right backlash with the intention (and result) of destroying reality for the right-wing base and replacing it with conspiracy
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I'm tired of having to coddle harry potter fans
if you have spent money on harry potter in the last five years, your money has contributed to the deaths of real trans people & the defense of their killers
that is a fact, don't celebrate a harry potter video game during pride month for fuck's sake
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"no ethical consumption/employment/whatever" doesn't mean one's actions don't have consequences. it doesn't mean "everything is equally bad so there's no reason to care about anything you do." that's a fucking copout and i reject it.
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those who choose to get involved in her show are contributing to her success (whether or not you or i think it'll inevitably bomb). they are endorsing her views, whether they want to or not. that's the reality of it.
you just don't get to do that and act like you care about trans rights.
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rowling has directly stated that she views the continued success of her work, financial and cultural, as endorsement of her transphobia. she is a dedicated anti-trans activist.
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bsky.app/profile/henr... "Gaines showed admirable grace" is a fucking all-timer of a statement lmao
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he can take the job. god knows none of us can stop him. but the consequence he faces for doing so is not being considered an ally by the people he's harming.
so fucking sad for him.
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i really don't think he's living paycheck to paycheck. but you know what? i also don't care. allyship that ends when it negatively affects you personally is not allyship.
he factually does not support us "where it counts". his mealy-mouthed equivocation does not make him an ally.
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i don't care what you "were" doing, what you *are* doing, right now, is lecturing a trans person about how unreasonable it is to judge a cis person for taking a job at the tranny mulching factory because he *says* he doesn't support trannies being mulched.
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how nice for them that not fighting is an option they have.
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i dunno, "stray bullet" implies it's accidental when reopening the gate to persecuting the other queers again is half the reason they started gunning so hard for us
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oh, i'm mad at the executives too! i can do both. and i will do both.
take "trans rights" out of your damned bio if you feel comfortable lecturing trans people for being angry at people who further the destruction of trans rights for a paycheck.
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being rude to a bigot who bullies children is not just forgivable but morally correct. conversely, apologizing for that after they spend days harassing you is the weakest shit possible
the next weakest shit is applauding that while condescending to the people she's apologizing for defending
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of course not, you're not cis. those are the people i expect to be doing the berating.
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it is good that he's doing this but man, i sure can't wait for him to launch his presidential campaign so that everyone who hasn't memory-holed him palling around with a bunch of anti-trans fascists can be berated for insufficient enthusiasm
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talking about our rights as if they're something you can "agree to disagree" on is the opposite of having our back.
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if you think he shouldn't be held culpable for that then whatever - you're wrong, but whatever. but don't tell me he has our back "where it counts" when he's done fuck all to indicate he has our back at all.
spouting affirming platitudes is not having our back.
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oh, fuck off. nick frost isn't a struggling day worker, he can afford to pass on a project helmed by the queen of transphobes.
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it would be if libs were capable of learning. unfortunately,
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allies are people who stand in defence of the oppressed, even in the face of resistance and hatred, not people who immediately apologise to a rancid, unrepentant bigot for being mean while legitimising their bigoted talking points
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sure as shit doesn't make her an ally either though
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the benefit of the doubt, even.
but i really am starting to feel like i *should* just be giving cis people doubt instead.
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i actually gave her the doubt regarding having good intentions and the capacity to improve and i STILL got scolded for saying "okay, but, like, the suggestion of segregation is transphobic, even if she doesn't mean to be transphobic"
l-fucking-mao.
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@for.shame.wtf
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the difference between someone who supports the destruction of trans rights because they hate trans people and someone who supports the destruction of trans rights for personal gain is...
nothing. there is no difference. both of these people are transphobes.
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he's not though. "where it counts" is right here and he is not on the right side.