Ellie Oemardi

It's ultimately just "they're recruiting your kids!" over and over again forever

I mean this sincerely, is The Atlantic good for anything else? People don't directly call it a better written Daily Mail, but only ever talk about it like it's just a better written Daily Mail.

I was a very effeminate little kid and absolutely nobody tried to get me to transition, they just tried to get me to be More Manly. It's an entirely imaginary problem created from whole cloth by bigots.

I love it when cis people think we need "healthy debate".

"You see the problem is my whiny ass wasn't included / paying attention when all this shit was figured out and the science was settled YEARS ago, and that's your problem."

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure

Well of course young people have no self-conception, they're empty vessels for the society around them to pour ideology into.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

I sincerely believe that every red hat wearing MAGA needs to be rounded up and put into hard labor camps for the rest of their lives.

There is no other way to fix this than to remove from society the people that voted for and support fascism.

NFTs are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Juche

Good example of the way anti-trans hate and antisemitism continue to be intertwined in American discourse. Once more subtly, now far more overtly.

Cis people get annoyed by a trans woman once and get an opinion column in the Times. I get annoyed by trans women everyday and have zero opinion columns. This is transmisogyny.

Think about chuds constantly going "man I used to love this band but they turned woke by putting politics in their songs" and the band is literally Rage Against the Machine or Bruce Springsteen.

54% of US adults read below 6th grade level. 20%, below 5th grade level.

Think about authors having to explain that they should not *have* to have the villain stop periodically and go "what I am doing is wrong, I am doing a bad thing. I am the bad guy, here" because being able to figure that out is part of what it means to be functionally literate.

2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute Literacy Statisitics

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.

You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*

www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

realised this article does not at any point name the hormones as "estrogen" or "testosterone", instead they're mysterious "cross sex" hormones which the reader is invited to assume are something completely different and scary

the gendercrits have never understood what was obvious to us all along which was that the puberty blockers WERE the gatekeeping option - the idiots have successfully banned their own best bet for a gatekeeping strategy and now trans kids are all on self-administered E or T

I don't believe "Woke students on college campuses" would ever have been a topic beyond fringe New Right activists and Brett Weinstein type quacks would ever have heard of without an unwavering campaign by op-ed editors to make it the subject of every conversation, despite it being openly made-up.

This is a policy of genocide.

Goes well paired with 'cad'.

"Why he's a scoundrel, a cad and a bounder!"

No. It’s not. People really need to stop saying this.

Is the war helpful as a “distraction”? Yes.

Are the purpose of the war and the impact of it distractions? No.

The common thread here is normativity. If you believe that what is common is objectively normal, and that only what is normal is right, then you are doomed to keep narrowing your concept of who should be permitted to exist.

People in sci-fi novels are always naming their exploratory vessels shit like ICARUS and IXION and while I am not superstitious, I would maybe go with the USS GOT-THERE-SAFELY.

Transphobia and antisemitism are structurally very similar. The scapegoating of a tiny minority perceived as having undue cultural influence. Anyone you hate can be suspected of being one of them. Moral panic over grooming and "they're mutilating our kids", essentially a modern form of blood libel.

transphobia is a gateway to so many abhorrent beliefs

if you aren't racist or antisemitic or classists or any other number of fucked up things, if you start becoming transphobic you'll become all of them

i've never met someone who is Just Transphobic

the right's moves are utterly mysterious if you take their own word for why they do what they do, or the centrist media's, and utterly & trivially predictable if you've read even one decent leftist/feminist book about anything