Notices by timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)

I'm making an alternative proposal where we run a bunch of liberals over with the trolley car when they bring up the trolley car meme.

And then back the trolley car up and repeat it again.

https://bsky.app/profile/shelleybwoke.bsky.social/post/3mobvkq7u2c2r

I did it. I lost a follower.

Just one.

I was trying really hard, though. I love it when it all works out. 😃

"Your life and how you live it is a sin against god."

Everything I can do to piss off and disappoint your god presents another moment of personal joy for me.

I'm largely a nonviolent person, but if encountered your god in person, I'd make one exception to that ethic, and I'd shoot that motherfucker dead in the middle of 5th Avenue.

Your child can't change who they are, as a queer person, but YOU can change your religion.

And furthermore, your child isn't your personal property. They actually get to be who they are as a person.

If you think your mythology club matters more than any of that, again, you're a horrible parent and terrible person.

If your mythology club matters more than your child's life, YOU'RE A SELFISH ASSHOLE.

There ARE no ifs, ands or buts here.

YOU'RE AND AWFUL PARENT AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED.

OK, your favorite mythology makes you feel happy and you had a sense of community that came out of your shared mythology.

That's great, FOR YOU. But at this point, you're considering shunning and emotionally abusing, perhaps even physically abusing, your child because their life might make you have to compromise your membership in a mythology club.

That's what your religion IS. It's a mythology club that happens to make you happy.

Your child SHOULD matter more.

A HELL of a lot more.

"My religious grandma asked me, 'My religion is against trans people, what do you think should be done in raising a child that is not confirming to their sex assigned at birth?'"

What I think should be done is that you realize you're prioritizing a body of mythology and its prejudices over the well being of your child. You should realize that you're being a selfish piece of shit for doing that and that using this as an excuse to harm your child makes you a fucking monster.

"The power of Christ compels you!"

Yes, his power was the power that compelled me not to believe in a christian god.

Actually, it was the power of millions of asshats who believe in his power that compelled me not to believe in a christian god but eh, close enough.

I figure, if you can't manage to keep your followers from behaving like a bunch of violence-soaked haters, you and your cosmic dad probably suck a whole lot anyway and really aren't good for very much.

There's a fairly simple principle that I've seen at work in society:

Different social groups and social systems which focus upon power-over (a.k.a. dominance) as a central organizing principle, will tend to collude with and support each other.

Dominance oriented ideations and value systems mesh well with other dominance oriented ideations and value systems.

It is a clustering effect of like-minded views.

Power speaks to power.

Jean Grey is my favorite X-Men character because she's the character most likely to erase all of humanity after hitting a particularly bad mood.

I can relate to that. You're doing good work Ms. Grey.

To a centrist, fascism is acceptable if it's not overt fascism. They want deniable plausibility. They want clean, sterile state violence.

The gay neighbors with two kids who attend their church are fine. As long as they don't overtly break too many rules around white gender conformity and cause a PROBLEM in your circles.

Centrists want a little bit of oppression and state violence, as a treat.

Just enough to keep those unruly minorities and queers in line... To keep you feeling safe and to allow you to feel like your kids won't be groomed by cross-dressing weirdos or threatened by brown people on the way to the bus stop.

But not so much oppression that unseemly *visible* violence happens in front of you. There are people to take care of these things out of view, where you don't have to see such things.

This is about the patriarchal belief that female and male are immutable halves of humanity who belong in a very specific social structure and that anything that violates that structure is a threat to society as a whole.

THAT is what this is about, in its deepest roots.

The bottom line:

The issue of trans girls and women in sports is not really about safety or fairness. It's actually about cis people's prejudice surrounding sexist gender stereotypes and trans girls and women.

It's about an intractable belief that "men and women are just different," existing as two almost separate species that are forever separated by specific bodies of behaviors and potentialities.

When I think of the bizarrely convoluted and uncomfortable things so many ostensibly heterosexual men put themselves through just to avoid the perception of being gay, it seems that it might be easier to throw in the towel on the whole enterprise, and just have sex with men anyway, because it involves so much effort and inconvenience to avoid accusations of being gay.

Just get it over with. Your life will be so much more relaxed afterward.

Is McTurdle dead? Probably not.

Is he lying somewhere in rehab, insensate or permanently checked out in la la land? Probably.

The proper way to address him from here on out will be, "Senator Houseplant..."

Reason #25,496 as to why the Democrats deserve to have their asses handed to them in the election.

I've been saying this over and over again: if you abandon your core constituents, you deserve to lose. And trans people are hardly the only core constituents that Dems have done this to. We're one of many.

If you shit on the people who vote for you, you don't deserve their support.

Behold, the world's single most ugliest pair of IEMs/earphones to have sprung forth from a designer's damaged psyche:

The Acoustune HS1677SS.

Because shoving random engine parts into one's ears makes for comfy thoughts.

I'm going to rob a Five Guys with a radioactive french fry and a whoopee cushion full of pudding.

#subtoot

I might also threaten them with a bag of lettuce if things get really out of hand.