Opinion that is likely to get me crucified by randos:
I am even less convinced than I ever was that “butch is for lesbians only because bi women are safer” looking at the particular brand of hate Emma González is getting from the right.
Are they calling her a gross bisexual? No, they’re calling her shit like “skinhead lesbian” and “brown bald lesbian girl.”
If you are visibly gnc, bisexuality does not protect you. “Lesbian” is the thing you did wrong, so “lesbian,” used as an insult, is close enough.
The people who hate you read you as “butch dyke” not as “ugly lib but I can’t pierce the infinitely charged Bi Shield. CURSES, FOILED AGAIN!”
not to be over dramatic but this is literally The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen In My Life
this is like “aesthetic attraction is valid” tumblr started reading some judith butler but fell asleep within the first few paragraphs and then picked up their phone and started typing in their sleep
“butch women shouldn’t be in women spaces” let’s play another round of “Who Said It, A Conservative Homophobe/Politician, Or An Amateur Queer Theorist?”
We’re just straight-up saying that feminine cis men are more women than women now. No unfortunate-but-accidental implications or clumsy-but-well-meaning handling of trans issues. Just “these actual men who love being dudes deserve women’s spaces more than you do because you look and act like women wrong”.
What’ll it take to prove to them that blatant misogyny isn’t a great foundation for women’s spaces?
homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.
Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis
The Alan Turing statue on my campus
always reblog 🙂
Friendly reminder the “drugs” they put Alan Turing on was synthetic estrogen, under the name Stilboestrol.
This is completely true in spirit, but false in a highly technical sense, and that technicality sheds light on important things in U.S. law.
Alabama state code requires teachers to teach not that being gay is illegal, but to teach “that homosexual conduct is a criminal offense under the laws of the state.” That matters because it’s actually half correct: Alabama is one of the 17 states that still has a state law against sodomy on the books. This does not encompass all of what would could be called “homosexual conduct,” but is a law clearly primarily aimed at gay people. Plus, another shockingly broad subsection of Alabama law which bans “deviate sexual intercourse” would probably be interpreted so as to arrest people for other forms of same-sex sexual interaction.
No state can actually enforce these laws because of Lawrence v. Texas, but it is technically true that “homosexual conduct is a criminal offense under the laws of the state”; this is why the Alabama law on education can claim to require teachers teach this “in a factual manner.” The purpose of the law is to terrify gay people into the closet, but it’s actually made worse by the fact that the teaching isn’t techncially wrong, and has previously been entirely correct, within our lifetimes!
Also worthy of note: laws requiring sex education teachers to either portray same-sex attraction as harmful and/or illegal or not to acknowledge it all are known as a “no promo homo” laws, and Arizona, Louisiana, Mississipi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas also currently have them on the books.
Queer residents were further vexed by the refusal of probation
officers and halfway house supervisors to approve home plans that
included same-sex female partnerships. Claire, who knew better than to
disclose that she planned to live with the female partner that she had
grown quite close to while incarcerated, was devastated when a fellow
resident revealed their relationship to a halfway house staff member.
Claire later shared with me that she cycled into a depressive episode
that lasted for weeks, after hearing the house monitor declare, “the
time for y’all to be touchin’, ticklin’, and gigglin’ is over. Now is
when you get serious about who you want to be.”
Indeed, none of the women I met at the halfway house could cite positive
past relationships with men, yet all were encouraged to pursue reentry
plans that involved men. In fact, residents shared that house staff and
probation officers often encouraged plans that involved a male partner,
whether or not he was economically secure, but discouraged plans that
included a criminally uninvolved, economically secure female partner.
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