Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Ok here’s my ultimate headcanon about Cardassian society: They are not born as “girls” and “boys”. Instead, they choose their gender sometime at young teen age according to personal characteristics, like, men tend to be more sly and manipulative (most likely become soldiers or politicians) and women are more straight-forward (they usually become scientists, doctors, engineers). And since they literally look the same (including tits, which can be seen on Garak time to time and can well be imagined under military uniform), women proudly mark themselves with blue paint. In relationship, men flirt and throw hints but it’s women who choose whether to do anything or not (Dukat didn’t actually force his, uh, feelings onto Bajorian ladies but he organised situations where they just couldn’t not fall for him; Ziyal was push-y not only due to her youth and half-Bajorian heritage but also because of somewhat Cardassian female socialisation; the scientist chik and O'Brien). Surnames passed from a birthgiver (whoever they may be), the slyiest man is the manliest man, Garak is an omnisexual genderfluid baby
I dont like it when white people say they have gender envy of poc it feels weird
you don’t experience gender the same way we do you never will, and it feels icky when you claim men in traditional garbs are ‘gnc asf’ when you don’t have any understanding of how that specific culture expresses and relates to gender identity.
de-mascunilizing and babyfying asian men, being extremely racist toward black and brown men who perform anywhere outside what you think they should look like.
To white people we are consumables before we are people and that goes down even to our gender and expression of such.
if youre white you can rb but dont talk to me even if youre trans. yes being trans doesn’t make you any less white or any less guilty of partaking in stuff like this
I hope you don’t mind me adding your tags @jewblog, but this is very much true too to someone such as myself.
I will never be the same gender as a white man because I’m black, and white people who aren’t culturally tied anywhere don’t understand how their idea of gender was never made with us poc in mind.
Their 'default’ includes whiteness and everyone who doesn’t fit that whiteness is quickly removed from any space they try to exist in.
Then when those excluded communities build themselves up suddenly white people want to be included too.
If you’ve ever spoken to a Tagalog speaker, they may have trouble with pronouns in English. My parents came over as professionals that are fluent in English. They speak English 70% of the time. They’ve lived in the US for nearly 50 years and they still fuck up pronouns.
This is because there is no “he” or “she”. There’s just siya which encompasses both (all) genders.
Oh, man, I really want that “Grammatically Sound: Singular They Since 1300″ shirt.
I’m not NB, I’m cis-bi, but I’m also an editor who is really annoyed whenever people try to say the singular they is not grammatically correct and man do I relate to that t-shirt.
this made me cry, so i have to share it. i can’t tell you how much of this feels like it was about my childhood.
“Some nights, always alone, I go out in stolen makeup and women’s clothes with an ID I found in a lost wallet. I never feel more male than on these nights”
this has been fucking me up for a minute
there is too much that i want to quote here and not enough to convince you that this will be one of, if not the, most important pieces you will read this year.
“I hate that the only effective response I can give to “boys are shit” is “well I’m not a boy.” I feel like I am selling out the boy in baseball pajamas that sat with me on the bed while I tried to figure out which one I was supposed to be, and the boys who I have met and loved from inside my boy suit—who believed they were talking to a boy. I feel like I am burning the history of the naked body that sits on the floor of my shower. The body that went to prom in a boxy tuxedo and coveted the gowns.”
Everybody should mandatorily have to read this article before they claim to be an ally to trans women.
Describing gender as a spectrum implies that there are people whose gender cannot correctly be displayed in digital media because it falls outside the RGB colour gamut.
