sfreedram:

gatheringbones:

I don’t have the book anymore because I slipped it into the locker of my depressed mormon lesbian coworker on the last day of my retail job but it was that kate bornstein book about 101 reasons not to kill yourself and she had a whole section on how every gay and lesbian in history was betraying their assigned gender so utterly that they automatically became trans people and it’s one of those brilliant batshit things trans women say so often that drives the right people bugfuck nuts and I wish I had the full quote

“The next chapter of gender activism was written by the early gay rights activists. They tackled the law of gender that says loud and clear, ‘Real men love women, real women love men.’ 'No we don’t!’ cried the homosexuals.

And these pioneers transgressed a deeply rooted rule of gender. Lesbians and gays transgressed gender. Lesbians and gays are transgender. And they needed to band themselves together under some flag.

But it’s a terrifying thing to say, 'Hey, I’m a man who loves men, so maybe I’m not a real man!’

And it’s a terrifying thing to say, "I’m a woman who loves women, and so what if I’m not a real woman?”

People were even meaner about that kind of talk back in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than they are today. It was difficult enough to say the lesbian and gay stuff, and in most areas of the world, it still is. No one was ready to hear not-man, not-woman, So they called themselves lesbian women and gay men, and they said things like, 'We’re just like you.“

They named themselves after the system that had oppressed them for such a long time. By the simple act of naming themselves women and men, it seems, in Minnie Bruce Pratt’s words, that their imaginations were in thrall to the institutions that oppressed them.”

Kate Bornstein, Hello Cruel World.

littlemisspipebomb:

hotvampireadjacent:

https://twitter.com/birdtickler/status/1552657242909904897?s=21&t=q4JEDIALmV-cAjcoEOypdw

ALT

ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn’t realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.

captaincrusher:

captaincrusher:

Data is always like “I wish I had emotions” [He said emotionally].

Longing for personal development and constantly trying to experience new things to understand yourself and your environment and having the desire to become more like the people around you because being different can be painful while also acknowledging that you are comfortable with being unique is AN EMOTIONAL JOURNEY. YOU GOT EMOTIONS BABE THEY’RE RIGHT THERE.

1rakus:

an angel would fuck a streetlamp and it would be nothing. it would be like a dog thoughtlessly rutting against a couch: pure instinctual pleasure chasing with something that may elicit but not share in your libido. but if an angel fucked a cell tower then viable offspring could very well result

inabasket:

gonna open a plus size store and the slogan’s gonna be “fat people clothes at skinny people prices”

beardedmrbean:

liriostigre:

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room