a huge group of ppl on a path of titans (co-op dinosaur survival game) server led a peaceful migration in honor of sam neill instead of killing and eating each other. gaming is beautiful
My honest take regarding the "devastatingly beautiful" lines in fanfic that are clearly not great is that, often, you can tell when a writer is experimenting with a writing device they find beautiful but that they haven't found their footing with. That's fine. Admirable, even.
I just knoww this man was a spitfire academic with a bit of an ego, publicly insulting a colleague at a conference and very boldly stating "the goldilocks zone is for idiots" in his dissertation, like??
The biological part isn’t a social construct. The way societies classify, organize, interpret, and attach meaning to biological variation is. Those categories are historically contingent, socially mediated, and have changed over time. They aren’t derived from nature alone.
A feminist politic that does not see how trans women are raised othered and targeted with violence specifically as a mechanism to uphold the patriarchy as an example of what men must never succumb to is incomplete, and fails to wholly understand patriarchal violence
I've reached a point where now my response to non-tma ppl is this:
"Just because how ur body is/was perceived or treated determined your self-concept and negotiating of social relations doesn't mean this is true for many trans women."