So obviously furries exist but the Tories and the British media trying to whip up a culture war frenzy about “Kids in schools identifying as cats” runs into one major problem…
Kids fucking love to wind adults up, especially those in positions of perceived authority.
Imagine sitting in class, knowing if you say something funny that it could end up on national news because your head teacher is a frothing culture war bigot.
Imagine all the other kids going along with it and backing them up.
“Rainbow Capitalism” does not in any way signal whether corporations actually care about or help queer & trans people and only serves to generate positive PR and/or free advertising from “outraged bigots.”
And
Corporations openly displaying symbols of pride and queer/trans community serves as modest barometer on the social acceptance of queer & trans people, and business after business pulling back it’s pride merch/symbolism because of right-wing backlash is not good and potentially a sign of even worse to come.
One single republican decided to base his vote on a reasonable evaluation of available data and it quite possibly improved thousands of lives. I hope maybe in my lifetime I’ll see an America where that isn’t shocking for a politician to do, and maybe one in which people’s entire well being doesn’t come down to just one extra guy having a shred of decency.
something very charming about “I don’t really know what’s going on here but I don’t think it’s my problem” as a response to the anti-trans hysteria
when i was a freshman in college i wanted to dress up for halloween because i thought surely college students would have the spirit. so i elected to put a whole entire Skull Kid from legend of zelda majora’s mask cosplay together and wear that fucking ensemble to college on halloween.
i step on campus and realize immediately that not one other person is dressed up. not so much as a cat ear headband. so imagine this fucking dude sitting in a class of otherwise normally dressed people looking like this. that was me. this was my 9/11
I am on my knees begging, begging people to remember disabled people in the LGBTQ+ community this month. Please don’t leave us to die.
COVID never ended and it made many people immunocompromised. Wear a mask at Pride events (and other places too). Yes, even if it makes you uncomfy or doesn’t match your outfit.
Some anti-trans laws are specifically targeting mentally disabled people, arguing that we’re not capable of making decisions about our own bodies and thus should not be allowed to medically transition. Include us in discussions about trans legislation.
Disabled people already face high discrimination in work and housing, and it’s worse for those who are LGBTQ+. Stand up for your disabled and LGBTQ+ peers.
Some disabled people with caretakers can’t come out because the people they depend on aren’t safe. Support closeted LGBTQ+ people.
The insurance companies that always find a reason not to cover gender-affirming surgery are the same ones that always find a reason not to cover medication or therapy or mobility aids. Have some solidarity with disabled people who have to fight against the same greedy pigs you do.
It breaks my heart seeing so-called leftists throwing their disabled siblings to the wolves. You like to say that you’d punch a Nazi, throw bricks at police cars, fight tooth and nail for the rights of LGBTQ+ people… But the moment it concerns disabled LGBTQ+ people, you drop your support like a rock. Your hypocrisy is disgusting, and it’s going to kill many people in the LGBTQ+ community this Pride month unless you take a moment to realize that, whether you like it or not, some of us are disabled and we don’t deserve to die for that.
…And have nothing to do with it. If you were trying to build a scam that would both harm the people it was supposed to be helping, and also leave you in possession of personal data on them that could be sold to other bad actors even after you’d been caught and shut down… this would just perfectly fit the bill.
Don’t get caught by this. Spread the word: either physically or in other real life consequences, this scam could be deadly.
Hot take ig but kids in high school shouldn’t have to work either. They should be spending their evenings doing homework and extra-curriculars and fucking around.
There definitely shouldn’t be entire industries reliant on their low-wage labor. Why are there many kids being scheduled for a 6 hour shift after a 7 hour school day when they’ve got learning and their future and their childhood to worry about?
Any industry built on poverty wage child labor should perish, and that’s most fast food and grocery and retail so I guess the economy’s tanked 🤷. Should’ve thought about that before deciding to make the essential work into jobs for children and the underclass.
This is what regressive policies look like
and most red states are capitulating to the capitalists by lower age for children to work at dangerous jobs. right @7thgenscot
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
