"oh Please Everyone Has Gay Thoughts Sometimes" So What I'm Hearing Is That Heteronormativity Is So Ingrained

"oh please everyone has gay thoughts sometimes" so what i'm hearing is that heteronormativity is so ingrained that a significant percentage of the population regularly experiences bisexual attraction? but dismisses it as something that all straight people experience? this is so concerning are you guys okay

The idea that the real problem in society is women/feminists not coddling men's feelings enough has always been ridiculous, but it's downright insulting in this deadly era of cis men committing mass shootings basically every other week. Every time you're screaming and crying and throwing up that uwu women are too mean to men and don't sympathize with their struggles uwu NoT ALL meN uwu, there's some cis man looking at his personal arsenal and planning a mass shooting in his bedroom because he's entitled enough to think his hurt feelings justify mass murder.

We need kink at pride because “kink” isn’t just kink. “Kink” is:

That boy wearing jeans that are too tight

Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them

Having a beard and wearing a skirt

Wearing any kind of choker

Literally anything else they decide goes against the “norm”, and it can be literally anything. That is why we need kink at pride.

Matt Walsh is just openly talking about killing trans people and our doctors and trump is campaigning on jailing us and banning transition and no cis people seem to give a shit

imagine if there was a magic potion that made you feel hot and love your body and the only downside is that a vocal minority of the population has decided that feeling hot and loving your body makes you essentially the same as a child predator (this same group doesn't actually have any problems with actual child abuse though). this is a thought experiment with no real life applications

"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae