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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 1d

It's fucking *wild* to act like transphobic gay/bi men leave us alone on a policy level, and deeply credulous to take TERF pinkwashing at face value, given that most of the OG 2nd wave transphobes were married to men!

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 1d

Blanchard, a gay man, created a hateful medical libel that formed the basis for most modern Anglosphere transmisogyny, Wes Streeting, a gay man, is spearheading the worst wave of anti-trans reactionary policy in Europe, gay men's orgs kicked Sylvia Riviera and STAR out of their movements,

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𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖑 @mudnblood.bsky.social · 4d

How to steal Lady Élunia's look

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 4d

greer understands back as early as The Female Eunuch that faggots are treated as a kind of woman, and women as a kind of faggot.

she and her ilk just think that faggots deserve it and that women don't

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 4d

if the "beautiful boy" claims truly and honestly claims womanhood, then a cis woman is no longer taking revenge on the class of males, but exploiting a fellow sister, one who is even more abject than she is.

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 4d

young enough to not be a physical threat, effeminate enough to be a cis woman's social inferior, his beauty fleeting (so he can't grow comfortable and arrogant about it), but importantly, never bold enough to claim womanhood

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 4d

I've been reading Greer's wild old shit lately and its wild how much her view of true female desire boils down to "cis man who I can physically, socially and sexually treat in the same way that cis men treat cis women"

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 4d

On the off chance that this is some kind of bad-faith review, yeah it's actually in the text that he looks like he never grew past 16 and he 'looks scarcely grown' which is uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 5d

manhood does not mean being accountable, but it does mean always being given the grace of presumed accountability. its fine, because they already held themselves accountable, while you weren't looking

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 5d

they had Ontologically Clean hands. its not to say that they kept their hands clean, but ideologically, they deserved to be treated as if they were incapable of being dirty in any way that mattered

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · 5d

when Semmelweis tried to introduce handwashing in medical settings, doctors vindictively refused because it implied they'd ever had dirty hands in the first place.

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kris🌰 @undasura.bsky.social · Aug 22

ma'am

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proletkvlt @proletkvlt.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hi! I have no job rn so it's the ideal time to get a commission!!

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 4

Well I didn't know that! I thought I was just a perverse male manipulator...

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · Sep 1

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike.

YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother?

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.

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Penny Webster @pennywebster.bsky.social · Sep 4

That's how my egg cracked, don't knock it.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · Aug 29

sorry prof, we tried to follow the spec for "male and female androids" but ran into some issues. first, i dont think the robots know what sexual difference is. they keep treating each other as basically the same kind of entity and swapping body mods and doing other stuff. second, the officer corps treats them all like different kinds of girl. it's kinda weird to be honest. i think the robots are kind of whatever about gender and assigned sex at production but the officer corps treats them all like women anyway except also do little tricks to prove they arent real women. some kind of officer hazing ritual? i was wondering if it was a problem with the officer corps but captain was adamant that the defect was in the robots

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Aug 23

here's the secret to having a good time in science fiction and fantasy: just skip all the books written by mormons. they get a leg up in networking, workshopping and book tours, so when you pick up a book by a mormon it's statistically likely to not be as good as one by anybody else

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · Aug 15

We are to be driven out of public life altogether because we can *only* be whores - if we ever appear tonbe anything else, if we "pretend" to the womanhood of wifehood or god forbid exist as lesbians rejecting men as any kind of survival mechanism, we threaten everything.

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · Aug 15

The wife/whore binary is as essential to patriarchy as the man/woman binary and is created and maintained by the same violence. Men who are feminised become whores because they are useless as wives - the penetrated "rent boy" - and trans women are seen as an extreme case.

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · Aug 15

The flipside to reproductive exploitation is 'disposability', which trans women suffer from acutely but not exclusively.

There are various classes of women, cis or trans, often racialized, who under patriarchal regimes are regarded as fit only for sexual exploitation and not gestation.

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Else @else.social · Jul 30

Today I'm thinking about the Weimar Republic, and mech pilots, and systemic corrective rape.

It's sort of slop since I haven't bothered with an editing pass, but you get the idea, right?

> "While early iterations of the Empire's bureaucracy practiced both historicide and epistemicide as well-meaning but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to purify the nation's past and future, information from and about the late republic persists thanks to both witness testimonies and the perennial fad for hiding documents in attics, cellars, and walls. From this we can glimpse an image of the republic: a decadent, degenerate swamp, crumbling under the weight of its sins, redeemed only by inadvertently creating the perfect environment for the Empire's first seeds to germinate ..."

> "... as the war progressed, two things became obvious: first, that sending the nation's best and brightest into the breach was a losing proposition, no matter the resources laid out to arm and armor them; and second, that efforts to purge the nation of its corrupting elements provided a ready stream of disposable and weak-willed assets. The solution was obvious."

> "Most candidates culled from the camps ultimately proved unsuitable for any military use, and, worse, their presence was demonstrated to be corrupting. Not even the Empire's most loyal officers were immune, and by '43 the program had acquired a noxious reputation. Many in the military viewed it as a punishment detail, where unwanted officers could be sent to be ultimately disposed of ..."

> "... the innovation which ultimately save the program came in '46, when Commandant Aldridge proposed *inverting* the military's standard sex-based segregation: that is, instead of attempting to match the sex of trainers and candidates to prevent sexual pairings, the sets would be designed to *encourage* the development of morally coherent pairings between trainers and candidates. In '46 this was implemented with male trainers and female candidates, and the program's sudden success saw an expansion to female trainers and male candidates in '47, despite the concerns of the program's oversight committee ..."

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · Jul 24

In the interim while we figure out if Mastercard and Visa get to decide if porn gets to exist, a role I didn't think they were allowed to have but okay, it's more important than ever to share/retweet the links to your favourite creators and their content. For as long as we're able to, I guess.

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · Jul 24

That they are an ENORMOUS business which has liability across so much of the world means that if you actually start forcing them into the spotlight to explain themselves they will shrink back immediately.

They don't want to be seen! Who thinks about fucking VISA day to day? That's deliberate!

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Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · Jul 24

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 24

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 23

UK residents have lost their ability to use dating sites anonymously. Grindr, Tinder and others will all now require that users upload ID, submit to a biometric scan, or undergo other verification, to comply with the Online Safety Bill.

mashable.com/article/feel...

Dating apps to add age checks in the UK

Feeld, Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble will comply with the law.

mashable.com

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · Jul 20

Wife and whore is one of the strictest binaries of patriarchy - almost as strict as gender itself - and the sheer quantity of violence and law making directed at maintaining it should attract more attention imho.

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