Trash Discourse

I just finished a very wild 15 hour work day, and the last few days were similar to that, so I'm just now catching up on all the news and discourse. And uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... what the fuck? I guess that's all I have to say.

I think he's a literal nazi, but to be fair, I am notably quick to assume that about people in his demographic

No, contaminated drinking water isn't what Appalachians "voted for" A recent 60 minutes segment on McDowell County, WV has people blaming the voters again. But the story is more complicated.

I wrote about the water crisis in West Virginia and the “they’re getting what they voted for” reactions. open.substack.com/pub/appodlac...

it does seem like you can only get popular as a transmasculine theorist by disavowing and talking shit about transmasculinity for the approval of cis audiences

to be totally transparent, I would watch 14 seasons of Jodie Comer watching paint dry if she did it gay enough

I don't know if watching Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer fall in love and kiss was worth the emotional turmoil of Killing Eve, but I did endure it to continue watching that

oof, yikes

I also just learned this but to my recollection Killing Eve has an extremely sudden happy ending where it just cuts off and goes black after a happy kiss, and there's just no footage after that, so...

oh shit, is it that bad???
I loved Saltburn but that's because I love watching beautiful slutty men lie to each other and do wildly inappropriate fuck stuff. So of course, I had no notes.
but I can totally see a reality where the whole movie is "bisexual men be like (literally a serial killer)"

oh thank god, another reason to go on

These are the common talking points, & every single one is incorrect.
Trans women are not men and do not have a competitive advantage post-transition, cis women beat cis men in many types of sports, trans men ARE competitive with cis men post-transition, & you don't actually care about sports.

And yes, trans men absolutely compete with cis men and win all the time. They can and they do. It happens all the time and it would happen more if the rules didn't so often keep them from competing.

Transphobia upholds the patriarchy.
The point of the sports debate is to make women accept that they are weak, to make them give up and just be oppressed under the patriarchy. To themselves fight to be seen and categorized as inherently lesser and weaker, while thinking they are doing feminism.

First of all, Trans women are not men, studies show no competitive advantage post-transition.
And the idea that cis women can't ever compete with men is in itself false. Katie Ledecky is as fast as Michael Phelps.
Cis women routinely beat cis men in many sports, including at the olympic level.

Every single person who commented on my sports video attempting to refute the idea that trans women belong in the women's category in sports has proven to know nothing about sports. Because they're not invested in sports or fairness. They're invested in transmisogyny.

they even look kind of alike! which is why I think they probably would taste the same!

They were from LA

I was under the impression deer was a normal part of a healthy balanced diet.

clearly that ghost wanted to create more ghosts, which is why he invented neck adjustments.

a client from out of town was telling me they tried kangaroo meat, so I said "oh, does that taste like venison? I always imagined it would." they were like "what's venison?" when I explained what venison was they said "Eww, you eat deer?"
So that's uhh, how this week is going.

I'm willing to believe the guy who invented chiropracty that he learned it from a ghost, but I need people to be honest about the fact that some ghosts are stupid and don't know what they're talking about.

Which is why I don't use them (and you shouldn't either!)
(Healthy cis man levels of testosterone only, please!)

Me at the illegal steroids store

A comment explaining (incorrectly) that you can only test for testosterone levels and not for "supplemental" use.

Why are so many people confidently explaining to me that you can't test for exogenous testosterone use? (A test that exists and has been widely used since the 1980s).

ice launched an assault on Minneapolis in the middle of winter so I'm guessing their next target will be Atlanta in mid-July. that makes just as much fucking sense.

wet gymnastics

wearing my jeans in the sauna so everyone knows I'm not gay

well that's just loud gymnastics, so it counts

oh I'll concede figure skating, because that's just Ice Gymnastics

I think we can all agree that gymnastics is the only real sport.