| person: | So what was that word you used? Trans man? |
| me: | yes |
| person: | are those ones the ones that are guys becoming girls or... ? |
| me: | the trans men are men and the trans women are women, it's pretty simple |
| person: | oh so wait which ones used to be- |
| me: | I'm sorry was I not speaking english |
TW- rape, t- word, transmisogyny, misogyny
when men open doors for me
yearning for my smileand my lover cups my hips, pulling me to her
whispering “mine”and
when my mother looked at my skirt and said “you’re not going out in that”
and my father said I was dead to him,
an embarrassment to the familyand they gave him a job instead of me,
and again, and again,and when they spoke over me, boys and beards alike,
wrote their words and theories on my skin
called me hysterical, unreliable, psychotic,and
the psychologist asked me what underwear I was wearing,
and the doctor told me to get undressed
while another refused to treat my impure body at alland strange men pulled at my crotch and my breasts, groping, reaching, tearing,
or the taxi driver said I could pay with sex
and I ran like hell
stumbling in the darkness
wishing I’d worn flatsand their fists hit my chest, and my body crumpled
they call me slut, whore, cunt
and everyone blamed me, anyway.And you, my sisters, you closed the doors to shelters
and my bruises healed aloneorganised conferences and
wrote books
while my words went unheardand you told me die tranny bitch
called yourself radicaland never once realised how much
you are like the men
you hate.
This was written by Emily Manuel.
people who have autoplay on their blog are bad enough
but people who have hidden autoplay have truly ascended from the fiery depths of hell, sent by satan himself
(via dionthesocialist)
This is exactly what TV has needed for so long! A show set in one of the most racially diverse cities in the world and yet entirely devoted to the opinions and stories of white people!
Never seen that before.
Seinfeld
Friends
Will & Grace
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Flight of the Conchords
Sex and the City
Damages
Blue Bloods
How I Met Your Mother
The King of Queens
Tru Calling
Two Broke Girls
Gossip Girl
Rescue Me
So freaking revolutionary.
Momma and I have a name for a majority of the shows on this list: White People Shows That I Don’t Get.
to be fair, the only show on this list I like, King of Queens, does have a regularly recurring Black couple, the dude of which is in probably over 3/4s of the episodes.