You can say the desire to be pretty is submission to patriarchal norms. Okay. But it's worth adding that patriarchy pathologizes this in cis and trans women (e.g., "autogynephilia"). Women who know their own value, as it were, are treated as "jezebels" who sexually manipulate men for their own ends.Also, female beauty was considered important even in the egalitarian and women-dominated societies we know of such as Minoan Crete.So eh. Let people do what they want.

Texas has a really cheap and easy way of disenfranchising millions of voters and it's called having no automatic or online voter registration and requiring everything be done by paper, by mail, and by hand.

It's also notable that Trump's core of support are non-college educated white men who nonetheless make a lot of money by virtue of exclusive trades or inherited generational wealth. Because "no college" is useless as a class indicator. But these men deeply resent economic competition and cultural changes being driven by educated women, especially Black women.

@gwynnion Not to mention not to brutally suffer from gender dysphoria.I know its intensity varies, but for some of us it's just hell in itself.

Young women and queer people are being systematically infantilized and stripped of autonomy by older, white, conservative people who have already stolen the opportunity to own homes, start families, and all the other traditional markers of adulthood. But they're happy to put little kids to work in factories.The explicit message being handed down by the powerful is none of us have value except to produce more (white) children and profit for our incompetent, aging overlords.

@gwynnion Anyway, once I might be able to earn enough money on my own I'll definitely leave this place and go to more civilized countries (like Scandinavia) because fuck this shitty place (Germany).

@Kalshann @gwynnion That's basically what those pricks want.

"Why are we medicalizing children?!" cries the TERF in between complaining about how they're being silenced while published by major media.I dunno. Why do we treat childhood cancer and diabetes? Why do we treat childhood depression? Why do we take exception to parents abusing their kids in every other way except this?You know what would have happened if I got gender affirming care as an adolescent? I'd be happier and healthier and blissfully anonymous.The horror, the horror.

Fascism conceives of us all as belonging to them via a chain of custody: children are their parents' property, women are their father or husband's property, employees are their boss's property, and citizens are the property of the ruling class, which is old, white, wealthy, and male. We are all expected to obey, conform, produce, and reproduce for their benefit until the day we die. We have no lives or identities separate from their desires because we do not own ourselves the way they own us.

"Infant mortality got worse after Roe reversal."No shit. As much as Republicans demonize third trimester abortions, for example, those only really occur because of severe fetal abnormalities in an otherwise wanted pregnancy. Republicans are forcing people to give birth to dead babies or babies that cannot possibly live. Maternal mortality has also gone way up as a consequence. And all of this was known and deliberate.https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/10/23/infant-mortality-rate-dobbs-decision-abortion-bans/

There's always some fascist grifter waiting in the wings to tell them this is all "woke" bullshit, women owe them, queer people are "freaks," and everybody should just do what they're told.

Do people understand how anxious trans people are these days? Like, my personal advocacy has had to change from "please understand trans people like me" to "please stop helping Nazis who want to murder us, why do you keep doing that?"

The moral panic being pushed by anti-trans activists in the Guardian, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and now by the Trump campaign is fascist propaganda and always has been, and it connects deeply to other white supremacist obsessions like immigration, mass surveillance, police power, economic caste systems, and controlling women and women's reproductive ability.For liberals to stand back and let them do it with minimal push back is tantamount to complicity.

@gwynnion For context, recall that UN's predecessor, the League of the Nations, also failed due to Russia invading a neighbour.

America was founded on the belief only white male landowners matter, especially the wealthy, and everyone else is irrelevant or enslaved. You still see that mindset everywhere. It's very popular on the right.Every time America inches toward dismantling that system, the ruling class revolts and promotes an insurrection among lower class white men in the guise of "populism."And nowadays, with oligarchical control, they dial up the misery until everyone is at each other's throats.

I'm generally of the view you should defend a maximalist position on, e.g., abortion or trans rights, because otherwise you're throwing a bunch of people under the bus in order to secure a partial victory that is going to be vulnerable from day one because you've already conceded it's negotiable.

@gwynnion tbh, this sounded like a post I'd see on bimbo tumblr, before I scrolled up for the context

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