conservatives: leftists can’t win on economics so resort to ~cultural marxism~ wherein they instead try to win a culture war also conservatives: feminism is the reason you’re unsatisfied in life and gender neutral bathrooms are why your boss deserves to live off your labour
My country is deeply controlled and manipulated right now. There is anti-lgbt propaganda everywhere you look, from giant banners in the streets, flyers, to adds on the internet and most tv channels.
I’m from Romania. One of the poorest countries in Europe. It is deeply christian, on the orthodox side, and the church now has control over the political and social situation. Our “politicians” are so corrupt they are making laws to make corruption legal, looking out for their friends who already got into delux prisons and hoping they won’t get there as well.
A few years ago, the church created this “union”, and they named themselves “Coaliția pentru familie”. In english it means “The Coalition for the Family”. They have created a series of rules, and these include
1. Writing in the Constitution that marriage can only be between a man and a woman (because i suppose it wasn’t clear enough in their opinion), and making it so it can never be changed.
2. Making abortion illegal. No matter whether it was from rape, incest, or if it meant the death of the mother or/and the child.
3. Making any contraceptive means illegal.
4. Stop women from going to work, making them dependable on their male counterparts/family members. And no, i’m not exaggerating that is actually what they wrote
5. Honestly there are so many more these are just at the top of my head
And, in 2016, the Coalition got approx 3 million votes.
Now, i’m not saying that they faked the votes. They (probably) didn’t. However, i know that most people probably didn’t even know what they were signing. They went in churches and made people vote. My grandmother doesn’t know how to read or write; all she knows is how to make a signature. She goes to church and i wouldn’t be surprised if they made her and people like her vote for things they really don’t understand.
Moving back to 2018. The political situation in Romania is….
Horrible.
On the 10th of August, there was a protest the diaspora organised. They came from countries all around the world back in romania to protest against the horridly corrupt government. The gov got the gendarmerie involved, and so over 450 people got into hospitals, some of them even in critical condition. And nobody is answering, moving the blame from themselves to the protesters themselves. And, amongst all this misery and conflict, in order to distract the people, they decided to have a refferendum. Against gay marriage.
The refferendum is asking whether they should change the constitution in the way the Coalition wants to or not. It costs over 45 million euros, and it’s going to be in 2 different days, 6 and 7 of october. It is very illegal. They complain that it’s not clear enough, but if that were the case it would mean that
a. Gay marriage is already legal, therefore they are depleting people from human rights
b. It’s not legal, making this whole thing absolutely useless.
This is only the beginning. There is no way we can win; the population is still deeply homophobic, racist, xenophobic, sexist, etc etc whatever you can think of, it is. But if this thing passes, then the other “laws” will have a chance too. And so, we’ll be moved back in the eighteenth century.
There is propaganda everywhere, especially in the big cities. These are just a small portion of them:
This internet add hurts a lot. 1918 is a very important year in our history, as it was the year we were able to unify Romania, and it is seen as the wish our people had for hundreds and hundreds of years, and so many people died for that dream. And now, they’re comparing this piece of shit of a refferendum with our nation’s only goal?? On the 100th anniversary????
Newspaper propaganda, where they are comparing gay people to fucking nazis
Tv add
They say “protect our kids” but to be honest with you, i feel anything but protected right now
My hands are shaking as i’m writing this. Our only hope is that people will boicot the ref, but many have been told by their priests that if they don’t go vote, they will publicly be shamed.
Here’s a link to an article that probably explains things better than i did
If anyone has more useful information, like a petition or something, please do not hesitate to add it. The only goal of this post is to bring acknowledgment to people who aren’t from romania, as it seems that nobody knows what is going on. So please, please share.
she didn’t lose her internship because “her friends” used a hashtag, she lost it because a bunch of 4chan fuckers found out she’s trans and decided to doxx her and harass her employer about the ~image~ she was sending. like this wasn’t her public face account, she wasn’t spouting racist garbage, she mistook someone in her mentions for one of the randos she gets regularly harassed by (because, yknow, if someone tweets “language” at you on twitter, 99.9% of the time they’re not actually concerned for you) and transphobes used the opportunity to fuck up her life. it’s great that hickam is behind her on this but a lot of people are sharing this and laughing at how hilarious it is that “a furry got fired for swearing”, which is the smokescreen being used to cover how this was doxxing a trans woman to ruin her potential career
Literally just take a scroll through the notes if you don’t believe me. Half of the people liking and reblogging have “rad” in their name, or have other very obvious names like “ragingvulvasaur”.
As well as TERFs you might recognize individually if you’re trans and have been on this site for longer than 5 minutes, like kittyit, rad-monika, womyn-are-rad, etc.
~Transgenderists: Policing And Erasing Wombyn’s Sexualities~
cis people are welcome to reblog this instead of reblogging more performative and empty “trans women r valid” feel-good crap while actively ignoring transmisogyny among your tumblr faves
we talk a lot about how cis lesbians dont wanna date trans girls but why dont we unpack how yall cis gays wouldnt even be caught in a mile radius near a trans dude
lets revisit this ladies
yes, let’s talk about this because i’m sick of cis gay dudes asking my boyfriend if he minds or say he’s only okay with it cause he’s bi. i’m sick of them saying shit like “i’d never be able to do that to myself” and “even if he’s a boy he has, you know…girl parts…” or whatever. not to mention the amount of gay dudes who hit on me when i was passing only to find out i’m trans and laugh it off like they were joking or, worse, react with utter disgust. cis gays are just as capable of being transphobic as cis lesbians and the fact that people are only calling out women is kind of telling. a lot of gay men won’t even entertain the possibility of dating a trans man and their “reasons” are just excuses wrapped up in transphobia and, at times, misogyny. the community gives cis gay men a lot of free passes for their bigotry and i’m sick of it. we should really talk about this.
1) An anti-LGBT parent can petition for guardianship of their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Transgender adult child under in order to force them by penalty of law back home, into an institutions, or group home etc. (RCW 11.88, full chapter on Guardianship—Appointment, Qualification, Removal of Guardians)
2) An anti-LGBT parent of an LGBT adult child with a partner can accuse that partner of “leading them astray” or “taking advantage of a vulnerable adult” and not only force their adult child back home but also make it illegal under penalty of law for their partner to ever see them again. (RCW 11.88.045 subsection 5)
Legal heterosexism is absolutely still real and still needs to be fought. A trend among parents of transgender youth with disabilities is seeking guardianship to forcefully stop their transition by saying they’re “incapable of making decisions.” (Personal conversation with ASAN staff member, 2016).
Gay liberation means disability justice now.
this post, honest to god, is what got me approval (ish) to make an official tumblr for my work
transmisogyny that attacks trans women’s bodies always works to erase the bodies of non-normative cis women’s bodies, too. there are cis women with adam’s apples. there are cis women who have signficant facial hair grow. there are cis women with hair loss and prominent brows. there are cis women with broad shoulders and small breasts. there are cis women with large adam’s apples. transmisogyny is misogyny, and transmisogynists are eager and ready to throw cis women to the wolves to fuel their hatred.
If a fascist is gay or trans it doesn’t mean they’re not a fascist, it just means they’re a fascist who’ll get stabbed in the back by their erstwhile comrades if they ever get into power
whats the point of making movies about a transgender man if u are gonna use the harmful misconception that “trans men are women dressed up as a man” and show it to cis people for two hours
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