Notices by Woolfhound (woolfhound@woof.group)

@ryanhoulihan It's like running into racist gay people. You're lucky enough to be queer and question things, and you've learned nothing?

@ryanhoulihan 2nd, I try to never be that sort of unreliable ally. I probably fail sometimes. But I'm by apalled by gay people who ask "what does trans have to do with us?" I mean, how do you form a queer identity and not figure that out? How do you not see those connections? Are people just sleepwalking through life? I don't know.

@ryanhoulihan this was very thoughtful and right on point and yes! I support you! Two thoughts, no advice.

@ryanhoulihan First, this really reminded me of being a young queer guy in the 80s and being frustrated by straight people who made supportive noises but didn't speak up when it mattered. Even in a very progressive place then (Boston) it was rage inducing. One mark coming out in the middle of AIDS left on me was feeling like one could never fully trust the straights because they'd always have their safe place to run to. Not saying this was good or fair but after enough funerals, oh well.

@ryanhoulihan @DopeGhoti I admit that singular they felt awkward to me when it became common, but I am old, si tha5s my problem. actually complaining about it is the 21st century version of “gay used to mean happy, dammit,” and omg who wants to be that person?

@ryanhoulihan @DopeGhoti I like to point out that in German the pronoun “sie” can mean she, they, or you, and literally no German speaker is confused by this, so are English speakers just dumb?

So today the Texas Senate passed a bill that would allow the governor to overturn elections in counties with more than 1 million residents. There are 6 such counties. 45% of Texans live in those counties, and 4 of the counties regularly vote Democratic. TX GOP isn’t even pretending to care about democracy; they know it works against them.