Hi! I am Cammy. I am an androgyne from the Midwest. :] My preferred pronouns are hu/hume/hus/huself.
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It asks that CeCe serve her time in a women’s prison rather than a men’s facility, where she is currently set to serve her time.
THE MEELO ONE KILLED ME
DON’T LISTEN TO KYOSHI OH MY GOD
DON’T LISTEN TO KYOSHI
I love Kyoshi.
(Source: kyoshiscommentary)
Can I just say something.
Did you notice how Korra didn’t stop, not even for a minute? She was attacking him non-stop, and even when Tarrlok was clearly down, she kept. Going. At him. He was hanging onto that cane to keep from falling (quite a distance, too), and what does Korra do? She doesn’t give a single fuck. She crushes the cane, the floor, every fucking thing that kept him safe. Tarrlok falls, and she jumps and breaks the floor AGAIN, as if once wasn’t enough to express how much she actually intends to hurt that guy.
Korra didn’t stop to give a “do you give up now?” speech, she didn’t even think about that. All she knew was that this guy had arrested her friends, her Team Avatar, and she was so fucking pissed.
People, if Tarrlok hadn’t stop her with his bloodbending, she would’ve burned his face.
Would she regret that later? Probably. But at that moment, rage was everything that she knew. She was possessed by this incredible anger, and Tarrlok would have been so, so screwed.
Korra’s angry side is quite horrifying.
Kyoshi must be very proud.
I like this side of her better. Suits her more than being a privileged nutjob, like she tends to be sometimes.
I can be discriminated against on a consistent and daily basis and be sure any concerns I voice will be met with derision and conscious, willful ignorance.
I can feel comfortable in the knowledge that the majority of the depictions of my culture will be either hyper-sexualized, violent, or both.
I will not be able to find “nude” skin-colored products in my shade unless I search very hard AND am willing to pay more for them.
I can be sure that, if I am ever assaulted; brutalized; raped; or attacked, the police will most likely believe I am the perpetrator instead of the victim - especially if my attacker is white.
If I am a woman of color, I can be sure that I will never go a day in my life without being reminded of how far away from the western ideal of The Innate Beauty of The White Woman - and that I will NEVER measure up.
B.) I can be sure my children will never measure up, either.
If I am a gentleman of color, I can be sure that I will have to answer questions about my penis size and sexual stamina and face social stigma regarding my sexual performance and preferences.
I can be sure that if I am interviewing for a job, no matter my qualifications, it is likely a white interviewee will be offered the position instead of me.
I understand, inherently, that I am to tread lightly around powerful white people. I know that “rocking the boat” could cost me my job, my family, my freedom, and even my life.
I am well aware many white people who hear my thoughts on racism and discrimination will believe I am overzealous, histrionic, too sensitive, and/or “bat shit crazy.”
I can be sure that, in my lifetime, this will not change.
Feel free to add your own! OMG so privileged! No wonder everybody wishes they were a person of color!
12. I have to spend a shitton of money buying clothes that actually fit my proportions because they aren’t made for my shape.
13. I have to spend a shitton of money buying makeup to fit my skin tone since the low cost makeups only come in various shades of vanilla and that one dark tone that matches no one.
14. If I say I am mixed-race, but I don’t look a certain way, I will be derisively told that I cannot possibly be mixed race.
15. When I am in serious pain and go to get medication, I will be given only the weakest, barely stronger than OTC medications or nothing at all because it will be assumed that I am trying to get drugs.
16. When I need mental health care and express an abusive history, I will be immediately assumed to be lying.
17. I will be more susceptible to certain incorrect diagnoses based on heavy doctor bias.
18. If I have other marginalizations, I will consistently be pressured to choose between the two.
19. I can be harassed, in public, on the street, beg for help, and still not receive any.
20. I am under stress and upset to maintain or end friendships with people who do not respect me as a black person because ‘they do not see race’
21. It’s not exciting to tell white people my worries about me dating them or them adopting POC children because they will personally always insert *their* feelings and opinions about it, completely ignoring the fact that *they* themselves rarely date POCs nor do they know how difficult it is to rear a POC child in an all-white environment.
22. My life experiences are immediately dismissed once white people find a POC who supports their racist views.
23. making a space to support and celebrate being a black person is usually under attack as ‘racist’ because white people aren’t included in something for once
24. In feminist spaces, there is little discussion on how race and skin tone affects a young POC girl’s sense of identity and confidence. Even less if the child has a disability as well.
25. I should be greatful there’s that one lipstick shade that actually suits my skintone
26. Finding jeans that is suited to a black body is difficult
27. It’s fun being the only black person in every event I go to. Really. Ugh.
28. It’s even more *awesome* being unable to react when white people spout extremely racist and insensitive things. Of course, if I do react, I am an awful person who keeps shouting at people or im overly sensitive
29. Its great to remind people Africa is not a country even though you’ve told them countless times the country in Africa you were born in
30. your culture as an immigrant poc is seen as interchangeable with another bc you “vaguely look alike” and/or “is that country in the same area?”
31. people will continually stop you on the streets demanding to know where you’re from. no no. where you’re REALLY from.
32. you will be ridiculed and seen as ‘stupid’ because you have an accent even though an accent has no bearing on comprehension.
33. you will be told that racist and offensive stereotypes of your culture are called HONORING YOUR CULTURE
34. if you are an immigrant POC, your intelligence and schooling will be called into question despite america having the worst education system in the first world.
35. white people will doubt you existence and belittle you because you don’t act like a stereotype (i.e. YOU’RE NOT A REALLLLLLL [POC] PERSON)
36. I will be treated like a representative of my race (or PoC in general) all the time. Anything I do or do not do will be held against not only me but PoC if it does not measure up to standards.
37. Along with that (above) I will also be forced to be willing to provide free education for everyone regardless of if I have the time/energy to do so. If I refuse to, I will be seen extremely negatively, completely ignoring that I have no obligation to educate people and that the issues I’m asked about have already been written extensively about and a quick google search would give answers pretty quickly.
38. If I succeed in anything I will be subject to a lot of criticism and extensive scrutiny because I “can’t possibly be that good”. I will be suspected of having cheated, or of being successful due to my race and little else.
39. Whatever I do will always receive less attention and credit than a white person.
40. If I protest, I will be told I am imagining it and that if I work harder I will see the results.
41. I can be sure there will only be stereotypes- and very little else- representation of PoC in media.
42. I did not know how to properly take care of my hair until I was able to research it online.
43. If I was raised by an abusive white parent, and then cut ties with them, I’ll be demonized by the majority of my family members.
44. I get accused for automatically hating my “white side” if I ever open up about the abuse I went through with my white family.
45. I’m told I “sound white,” usually made as a compliment.
46. I am accused of being “lazy” and “not working hard enough” if I have difficulties at work or school because of my depression, anxiety, or ADHD.
47. Whatever abusive relationship or situation I’m into will be completely ignored and unacknowledged, as if nothing could be wrong. If I show signs of suffering from abuse, I’m assumed to be “crazy.”
48. If black-mixed, I will hear, “You’re pretty for a black girl!” and “You’re not THAT black!” Usually made as compliments.
49. I can enter into the dating scene assured that I will face fetishization, exotification, dehumanization, and risks of abusive relationships with white people. And if I say I’m very hesitant on dating white people because of all this and emphasize that they need to really earn my trust before I can even give them a chance, I’m told that I am “limiting my chances for true love.”
50. If I act assertive, I’m stereotyped as the invulnerable “angry black bitch.” If I show any vulnerability, I’m seen as “whiny” and “lazy” and told I “need to get my act together.”
(sorry if I repeated some)
51. If I am a queer of color, I face the threat of violence at a much higher rate than my white counterparts, but nobody will talk about it.
52. If I am a trans woman of color, I face the threat of murder at an extremely higher rate than my white counterparts.
53. If I am a trans woman of color, my experiences, life, and possible death will be appropriated by white trans women to further the myth of threats they do not face.
So if it gets lost in menstruation, was it a victim of manslaughter?
So if it’s using my body without consent, I can destroy it out of self defense?
Oh wait.. I already can. Okay then! =P
By definition, a “checkmate” is a singular move which ends the game. This many checkmates? They’re either fucking shitty chess players or they don’t understand the game.
It’s just a catchy phrase. Prolly don’t even know what it’s from or what it means.
Anti-choicers are the bad players that think they put you in checkmate, but they are always wrong and the game continues. They could at least use ‘check’…
(Source: checkmateprochoicers)
I actually think the mindset of “all trans people have always been the gender they are,” which I see everywhere on here, is actively damaging to the trans community.
I have two big reasons behind this:
Reason One: it turns the whole discourse into “who’s more trans than anyone else” instead of “how can we help each other as trans people.” Let’s face it: if you think that every trans person has knowing they weren’t the gender they were assigned as among their earliest memories, you’re kidding yourself, hard. Sure, plenty of them do, but gender is a weird-ass thing and can sneak up on you. I know tons of trans folks who happily identified as cis for years until puberty, or a mental breakdown, or something else entirely snuck up on them completely unawares and made them realize, “hey, this body doesn’t really feel right after all.” I know my girlfriend identifies as a “boy who grew up to be a woman,” and while I can say that I never felt any kind of strong identification as female beyond a defensive thing when boys said they were better than girls (I often conceptualize it as being like loyalty to a political party or sports team), it feels highly disingenuous of me to classify myself as nonbinary earlier than summer 2010. The sad thing is, the Harry Benjamin attitude of having early-childhood evidence of being trans is so entrenched both within and outside the trans community that it’s used as a wedge to try to invalidate people. My poor girlfriend is currently being emotionally blackmailed by her parents, who are wishing she would detransition because she “never liked girly things as a kid” and was into James Bond and video games and other “boy” stuff. And it’s all too common for trans people who didn’t figure out they were trans until adolescence or later to receive the “special snowflake” label, sometimes even from other trans people. Fuck that shit.
Reason Two: it assumes that trans people have always had availability to information about other trans people from a very young age. For one, it’s extremely classist to assume that everyone has the technology to access information about trans people from a young age, and transness is a really taboo issue for a lot of people so a lot of trans people don’t hear about gender variance from their parents and friends when they’re growing up. With me, I did have inklings about being gender-weird when I was a kid, but because information about nonbinary people has really only come about in a big way in the last half-decade, I instead had this lingering fear of being FTM, since I knew I wasn’t a cis girl but I didn’t know there was any other choice, so I was terrified of knowing that one day I’d have to resign myself to transitioning to male, since I didn’t want to be a boy, either! For as long as I can remember I had this obsessive interest in anything related to transgender issues, as I would devour any magazine article or web page that even remotely discussed it. (Not to say cis people can’t have a fervent interest in trans issues, but in my case it definitely went beyond an interest to a fixation.) But I had no idea why this was the case with me until I finally came across Genderfork in late 2009 and learned that some people didn’t identify as either male or female, and suddenly everything made sense—so with nonbinary people especially, it’s really unfair to expect them to know their identities as small children when information is scarce.
Really, it shouldn’t matter when, how or even why (even if someone *gasp!* claims they chose to be trans—THAT DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO INVALIDATE THEM) someone came to the conclusion that they’re transgender. All that should matter is that they do, in fact, identify as transgender. Period.
lol
never gonna have a boyfriend because he was murdered by abortion~!!!!
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This bothers me beyond reason. Here’s the deal with pro-forced-maternity (I refuse to call them pro-life because they aren’t. Really, they aren’t at all)
What if those fetuses had been born, like you demand, and then grown up to be gay? You wouldn’t be lobbying so hard for their right to life then. You would call them perverts, you would call them queers. You would tell them God hates them and that they should die of AIDS.
So, no, don’t fucking tell me my soul mate is gone when you think that gay relationships can’t work and that I’m deserving of death. Don’t you fucking dare call yourself “pro-life” when all you can think of is “saving” the unborn who have no connection to you in any way to push your political views forward.
And now let’s talk about race a little bit, you Republican pro-forced-maternity people …
If that fetus is born and it’s black you’re no longer lobbying for it’s right to life either. Your whole damn party sees it as a leech on the economy who will grow up into a “thug” And when that innocent, unarmed black child is gunned down on the streets of his own home you will call his killer a hero.
If that fetus is born Latino or Hispanic you will call her an anchor baby. You will say that she is keeping her illegal immigrant parents here to steal your jobs and take advantage of our healthcare and welfare. And when she grows up you will accuse her of stealing your jobs as well.
That’s the thing with the pro-forced-maternity crowd that I hate, I loathe. Minorities aren’t people to you. They’re political tools and liabilities. The only time, the only time, you’re interested in saving the lives of minorities is if they’re unborn. Fuck off. Go do something useful and save someone already here and in true need of help.
Go fuck yourself with something hard and sand-papery.
(Sorry for the rant. I just hate seeing pro-forced-maternity stuff on my dash.)
(Source: checkmateprochoicers)
Anonymous asked: You mentioned in a previous posts that under no circumstance is it okay for a ftm to use/reclaim the T word. I understand ftms benefit from male privilege but aren't they also mistreated by the cis community as well? Do these thing not correlate. I don't quite understand and I feel you could best explain it. Pardon my ignorance.
The T-word was never a word used on trans* men. It is very specifically a transmisogynistic word directly tied to the fetishization of trans* women. Porn (that very often completely disrespected trans* womens’ identities) often used this word. (Other words include ‘she-male’ and ‘trap’.) It’s a word used to fetishize us and deem us as less than human. There is so much more to this word than just mistreatment from cis people.
Trans* men do not have a word like this and it is appropriation to reclaim it as it is a word very important to the history of trans* women and the violence and fetishism we (especially concerning trans* WoC) still face today. The DFAB and male privileges enjoyed by trans* men protect them from this for the most part.
Also, just because someone may use that word on a trans* man doesn’t mean they have the right to reclaim it. The history behind words is crucial.
One thing I will never understand is the fact that this picture is considered beautiful and/or breathtaking because of the color of his eyes, when in fact, this is caused by Ocular Albinism or Nettleship-Falls albinism. It’s a disease. What shocks me is that ailments like these (blue eyes on a black child) is considered attractive, just because they are unusual, and mostly because they are WHITE features. We need to understand that this boy, and many others like him need not carry these genes to be considered unique or extraordinary. They are beautiful without those peircing blue eyes, and with their normal dark brown eyes. Stop brainwashing these children into thinking that they need WHITE features to be considered beautiful. What kind of sick, backward thinking is that?
Agreed, I see so much of this with children of color and people of color. If they’re a little lighter than their peers or have different colored eyes, they’re deemed as more beautiful.
It´s unusual, that´s why it´s considered special. It´s not about being “white”. You can understand whatever you want -.-
No, it’s about looking more white. I think I would know when my culture worships light colored eyes and fair skin.
it’s considered “unusual” because according to society, black people shouldn’t have these features. why? because they’re white features.
so yes, it’s about looking more white
(Source: malformalady)
