I’m recently rewatching bleach and Japan has issues. I don’t remember leorio ever doing perverted stuff, but I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s been a while since I saw it though

Hisoka???

Fucking billionaires.

I’m shocked they aren’t kicking her over, pepper spraying her, and then dumping a magazine into her and the person helping her and anybody that comes to defend her.

Oh wait, that isn’t the USA.

I’m pretty sure free donuts is like kk’s thing to get you to like them.

I… Don’t know if that’s better.

That’s just demonstrably false

Fun fact about the term “Jerry can”:

British gas cans in ww2 sucked and everybody knew it. German cans stacked neatly and so British soldiers would steal them, and eventually reverse engineered and produced them. A slang for Germans at the time was a “Jerry”, thus, making the stolen German gas cans and their design, “Jerry cans”.

Despite what you just said, not letting the kid express themselves and have a safe space to do it is literally child abuse.

Having to pitch the option and make a safe space for a child to express themselves as gay or fem or masc or whatever gender is literally the job of the parent. If you take that away and force the child to hide themselves from you, you’re stunting them.

Most children, as long as you allow them the space, generally have a pretty good idea of what they are and want. Also keep in mind, a lot of sexuality and gender and expression is not permanent and they can change at any time. Especially puberty blockers, those are LITERALLY designed to be non-destructive since the wrong puberty can be destructive and all blockers do is temporarily pause that. As soon as you take the kid off blockers, they’ll go through puberty like normal. It happens literally all the time and it’s fine. Puberty blockers were designed for precocious puberty -meaning a kid starts getting puberty WAYYY earlier than they should, making their life difficult for a number of social, medical, other reasons.

The more you push on kids to not express themselves or be “different”, the less they’re likely to feel safe to do so and find themselves and basically end up a self hating, closeted asshole. Let people explore and experiment safely. As a parent, it’s literally your job to provide a safe, healthy environment for your child to grow and learn about themselves and the world. Shutting down exploration of self always causes often irreparable psychological and physical damage…And that extends to whether they like boys, girls, a mix, nobody, something in-between, or even if they change their minds over and over - or, in the case of gender, how they see themselves and how they want to express that, that’s okay!

Unlike you, we aren’t saying to make the decision about who they are for the kid, but to allow them space and safety to explore it on their own, without shame or prejudice, in a way that isn’t going to hurt them, to the best of our abilities.

Because of far right politics and far right disinformation everywhere, though, that freedom to seek peace, self acceptance, and true happiness in life is hampered and confused and, sadly, emotionally charged. So, even as parents, we must do the best we can to provide for our children in the best ways we can, and not oppress them unless it’s dangerous for them.

Let kids be silly, let them explore in safety, let kids be kids. Don’t tell them who they are, let them figure that out for themselves.

Ahhh, I always wondered who watches the super high views, super shitty clickbait garbage. Turns out it’s the same people who play the f2p-but-it’s-all-microtransactions games.

Depressing.

Oooooooo spicy

Not a ridiculous claim if you have the discussion and learn.

Why are you even here talking to me? To disagree? Can’t stand by and be disagreed with? Gotta start some shit on the internet because your life is too good?

Nah. It’s because this is a discussion that you have an interest in. Don’t act all shy and disconnected, when your words and your stance say otherwise.

I didn’t ask you for anything. You came here and disagreed on your own free will. Now ain’t that curious.

I don’t disagree with you. I just don’t have the energy or care to deeply discuss the nuances of this specific topic. Everybody knows Japan is super messed up and super racist. I’m deleting my above comment because just thinking about discussing Japan’s racism and other really messed up societal issues gives me a headache. And then all of the people here, English as second language or not, who don’t understand nuance, sarcasm, or are looking for a target to be mad at, this specific subject-bundle just isn’t worth it to me - bro that just ain’t me right now, sorry. I’m out. Have fun. 🤝

I like your attitude.

But seriously, you make valid points, and I tend to agree: culture is largely moving in the right direction. However, a lot of that is surface progress.

Structurally and who is in power and their level of influence remains largely the same or even worse. We are ALSO having a massive setback in society (more of what I’m talking about in all of this, moreso than trans issues, alone) as the rich and powerful assert their dominance over us all, in our faces and behind the scenes.

I’m by no means black pilled, I don’t think. I just prefer to see the problems to be solved, unfortunately that’s who I am and has always been who I am. Despite that, bizarrely, I do remain an optimist and see good outcomes. Maybe that’s why it all hurts so much to see happening.

:(

It was a joke at the blind spot that socializing or being around attractive people like what they used for the thumbnail is what’s actually invigorating.

Well now we all know where you stand on civil rights. Thanks for your opinion.

What if the saunas were just full of <insert your least attractive type of people here>?

If you just thought of something bigoted, you should fix that about yourself.

Trans women are women, period. No ifs, ands, or buts. Anything that tries to if, and, or but is almost always warped, uneducated, and deeply, insidiously bigoted, hateful, and ignorant.

For example, when you take hrt, you are literally changing your biology. There is no “average” that defines, there is no cut and dry in science, gender is a social construct, sex is a social construct, sexuality is a social construct, ethics is defined by morality which is defined by world view which is defined by all kinds of things but most often by people’s religions, which is defined by bullshit self serving self protecting self perpetuating irrationality.

My rights to exist as I actually am are not defined by random person x’s worldview and their fucked up rhetoric. Might doesn’t make right, popular doesn’t make right, buzzwords don’t make right, cliques don’t make right, being mean doesn’t make right, billionaires don’t make right, religion doesn’t make right.

When somebody uses language to box people such as " a transfem" or “person who is socially male” or “biological male” (replace any of these with female) they are using deeply ignorant language. Sometimes trans people use it ironically, such as jokingly calling each other faggots or whatever, and I think that’s problematic too in an obviously edgy way. But like other minorities who have been slured and collared by oppressors, using these terms is an expression of frustration over being called them. I think trans people need to stop using them right now because we aren’t out of the woods, yet.

But when you hear those terms being used unironically, LISTEN. That’s people telling you who they are: bastards, oppressors, ignorant.

Don’t “they” a (trans) woman or a (trans) man. You can use gender ambiguous language for if you don’t know or if the person is literally gender ambiguous like a nonbinary person. But if that person is expressing THEIR ACTUAL GENDER (not their “identity”, because, remember, gender is a social construct and it is not based on whether or not you are sterile, or if you have breasts, what your chromosomes are (nobody fucking knows anyway), if you have a penis or vagina, how tall you are, if you have long hair or not, if you wear dresses, how wide or narrow your hips are, how big your head is, what shape your nose is, how wide or narrow your chin is, if you have facial hair or not, or even how hairy you are. Gender is gender, that’s it.)… So if that person is expressing THEIR GENDER, you can start off with that pronoun. If you’re unsure, ASK. And if they tell you, LISTEN, because that’s what their gender means, that’s who they ARE.

If people aren’t following these, call them on it. Normal people go “oh, sorry”, listen, and move on. Making mistakes is okay, we all make mistakes, even trans people - hell, the fact that some of us transition later in life IS a mistake. That means that before, we were also skullfucked by society into not knowing or understanding or repressing what really was. We are all learning together.

And if you call somebody on something and you start to smell the bullshit, well… There’s a lot of bullshit. There’s a lot of the same arguments coming up, time and again, over and over and over. It’s awful. I actively hate it and I’m tired of it, which is why I don’t speak out about it all the time. People get defensive and closed off, and right now in the world, the prevailing media and news and communication platforms and all of the money flowing to creators is ALL hyper conservative far right fascist racist billionaire money. Far right basically means Nazi. Because it is. Nazi was not alt right, it is just far right. It’s what happens when nationalism evolves into believing racism, and frustrations turn into hate turn into ignorance evolves into bigotry, and that NA-ZI becomes the platform of society. Which is where a lot of the world is moving back to. Germans have a really specific definition of what a Nazi is, and take it very seriously, but that leaves them totally blind to the behaviors and traits that lead there. A lot of Germans didn’t learn anything except Nazi = crime. But a lot of Germans, even now, are sounding the fucking alarms and panicking.

The vast majority of money and power (like 90%) in the USA is like this. That is a SCARY piece of information to know. And those in power are spreading the fundamental building blocks of their worldview in everything they touch. They don’t need to do much more, because they KNOW that as long as people keep fighting civil rights and hurting each other over it, that fight will self-perpetuate, and people will turn to Nazi rhetoric because that’s the seed that’s planted. Capitalism, race is real, language, ways to think, nationalism, who is right and wrong.

We are not in a culture war.

We are in a Cold World War.

Not against nations. Against ideas of what we all are.

We have been in this war for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

And we are losing.

“a transfem”