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I am so glad someone enunciated it better than I could.
I couldn’t really explain satisfactorily why I didn’t like Silence of the Lambs, and most people look at me like an idiot when I talk about how much I despise what Persona 4 did to Naoto.
Much less talked about: Danganronpa and how a trans girl gets straight up trans-panic-murdered for not using the Women’s Changing Room That Kills You If You Have A Penis, then gets outed immediately thereafter and misgendered for the rest of the game. That shit makes me physically ill.
“Oh but the writers explicitly said that that character was just [AGAB] who was ‘conflicted about their gender’.”
Every time discussion of transmisogynistic caricatures in media comes up a bunch of people immediately hit the notes to proudly proclaim they were beaten at chess by a dog.
“But the movie says they’re not a trans woman” are you stupid. Are you a fucking idiot of a person.
Do you believe that the movie made in 1975, right after the gay rights movements tossed all of its trans women (and men) onto the fucking streets because they were transphobic wouldn’t have anything negative to say??? Really???????
A lot of yall like Sylvia Rivera telling people to quiet down but none of y'all internalized the fucking words coming out of her mouth.
Every time someone brings up any transmisogynistic caricature someone is proudly proclaiming that it’s not true. Are there no transmisogynistic caricatures? Do movies never say a single bad thing about trans women ever?
Have you considered that in a political climate in which trans women are decried as men deceitfully pretending to be women that maybe, just maybe, it would require you to reevaluate your views of media? Based on what real people say?
What really truly sucks about this is that I absolutely do defend people who say, like, Naoto from Persona 4 is a transphobic caricature of trans men. It’s true! Whether that was the intent has become irrelevant with time: the fact that Naoto is written the way he is and that it perfectly mirrors transphobic rhetoric about trans men being said right now. It’s unavoidable.
And like it was a really big thing for sitcoms for a long time to have episodes where the women in the show dress as men and fool cis men. The joke as intended is that men are stupid and are easily fooled by overt displays of masculinity, but beyond the intent, you’re supposed to find it funny because it’s so obvious. How could you ever make that mistake? It’s transphobic! Of course it is!
But if you talk about trans women suddenly it is like pulling teeth to get people to admit the same set ups and punch lines are transmisogynistic. Come on.
Another example is silence of the lambs. The movie Does specify (in 1 easy to miss line) that the villain is Technically not a trans woman. But that doesnt matter when the whole point of the villain is “he wants to steal women’s skin to pretend to be a woman”. That movie has the most vile transmisogynistic caricature seen on screen and a throwaway line claiming he is not trans does not magically erase the transmisogyny way.
It’s worse than that. That one line says that Bill isn’t a real trans woman *according to the standards of medical gatekeepers at the time*. If I was alive back then, they would have said the same thing about me. The line that people (not you tbc) treat as a defense of the movie’s treament of trans women still reifies transness as something diagnosable and that trans people don’t have the epistemic authority to recognize in ourselves.
tumblr is the place you go to see people give detailed philosophical takedowns of the worst takes you’ve ever heard of, but never heard anyone actually say
I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it
Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors
In the Colorful Mall track of ‘Sonic Racing CrossWorlds’, the DogStand store has food which without a freecam you wouldn’t be able to see. Here’s what’s inside, and the textures they use.
Being anti-death penalty is literally the easiest stance ever. People just say “but should the state kill THIS type of person?” and you just say “no”. Not killing people is so fucking easy actually
Failing at critical thinking by dint of being ignorant of the magical Kill Only The Bad People Who Deserve It And Nobody Else button that we have. Apparently
It goes like this:
Okay, let’s say that these people mentioned *do* deserve to die, just for the sake of argument.
Who gets to decide that they do? Who actually genuinely has the right to make the final decision, specifically?
Is it the judge? Is it the lawmakers? It can’t be you. It can’t be a case by case basis where you get input, this is being carried out by the state.
Do you trust those people to never ever get it wrong? Do you trust the state?
If you do trust them, you aren’t paying attention to literally anything that has ever happened in this or any country.
If you don’t trust them, you must shift your stance to oppose the death penalty because a circumstance where an innocent person is killed is unacceptable.
Peeling back the curtain, yeah, my personal feelings are that there *are* people who should stop being alive. I don’t think that’s a good thought for me to have, but I have it.
And I don’t trust the fucking state, or myself, or judge, or a panel of people, or ANYONE to be able to, with ZERO false positives, make that determination. No one, no one, NO ONE has the right to make that call because no one can always get it right.
So I oppose the death penalty even though, yeah, my gut reaction is that certain people who have severely harmed others and will do so again should be killed. But the death penalty is wrong. For even a single innocent person to die is a moral failing, an unacceptable loss. There is not and never will be a way to administer that fairly and perfectly.
You must oppose the death penalty. It is your moral duty.
I become very uncomfortable with “Just kill anyone who’s a pedophile” when there are ongoing efforts to have the act of me (a man) kissing my husband where children can see get labeled as pedophilia.
It’s not that these people want to make public displays of non-straightcis romantic feelings punishable by death. They just want them labeled as being this other thing that’s (under ‘kill all pedos’ laws) already punishable by death. Completely different.
Hey guess what!
Lethal injection protocols with three drugs (which is most of them) are designed to give the appearance of a clean medical death without suffering. The truth is:
Many states use midazolam as their first drug to “induce sedation.” Midazolam is not physically capable of maintaining unconscious deep enough to overcome agonizing pain! It also has a “ceiling effect” meaning that it literally cannot do any more after a certain point, as it bonds to GABA receptors(?) and you only have so many! Despite many doctors testifying, briefing, and submitting affidavits to this effect, the Supreme Court ruled it was okay.
Why was it okay? Well, the inmates had to demonstrate that they would definitely be tortured to death and then they have to propose in detail an alternative method of execution (what???). But they don’t have that evidence because the second drug is a paralytic that acts to ensure that the body cannot move no matter what pain it’s in. It literally only gives the appearance of a peaceful sleep without really doing anything to help the execution.
Both the second and third drug are horrendously painful.
The huge overdose of drugs introduces chemicals of the wrong pH into the bloodstream. This balances quickly but not before an extremely acidic or caustic fluid goes through the lungs. Most inmates lungs in autopsies after executions are filled with fluid and froth and show signs of struggles to breathe. Literally the drugs dissolve their lung tissue and drown them while they are conscious (because midazolam does not keep them unconscious) and paralyzed.
Placing IVs frequently goes wrong because medical professionals rarely participate, this being wildly against the Hippocratic oath. This results in drug delivery constantly going wrong, creating huge blister-like bubbles full of drugs in people’s joints or muscles.
Drug companies refuse to supply medications, meaning prisons use huge cash transactions with dubious compounding pharmacies whose names are kept secret by special state laws or just on the black market. Or they lie when they buy the drugs.
Independent reviews are nonexistent. Reviews are often prohibited by those same secrecy laws, which many states have specifically to protect the fiascos that are state executions.
There’s a reason inmates literally beg for the electric chair. At least then it only takes five minutes to die, not twenty. Not forty. Not three hours.
If I were ever sentenced to death, I would opt for firing squad. Fastest. Probably least painful. And it’s a horrible look for the correctional center. Let them live with the guilt personally.
I’m a pacifist but I am not necessarily what you would call “chill about it.”
Time to share Justice Blackmun’s dissent from Callins v. Collins (1994) again:
“From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored—indeed, I have struggled—along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor.
Rather than continue to coddle the Court’s delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.
It is virtually self-evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies. The basic question—does the system accurately and consistently determine which defendants "deserve” to die?—cannot be answered in the affirmative.
It is not simply that this Court has allowed vague aggravating circumstances to be employed, see, for example, Arave v. Creech (1993), relevant mitigating evidence to be disregarded, see, for example, Johnson v. Texas, (1993), and vital judicial review to be blocked, see, for example, Coleman v. Thompson, (1991).
The problem is that the inevitability of factual, legal, and moral error gives us a system that we know must wrongly kill some defendants, a system that fails to deliver the fair, consistent, and reliable sentences of death required by the Constitution.“
lately I have been watching Twin Peaks for the first time with the partners and yeah it’s great and everything, but the thing that tickles me most is the fact that not only do we get Don Davis in this show, but his character is an uncanny carbon copy of his role as General Hammond from Stargate and it makes me and the wife laugh every time.
“Now, Bobby, I can’t tell you about my work, on account of you might have a Goold in you.”
lately I have been watching Twin Peaks for the first time with the partners and yeah it’s great and everything, but the thing that tickles me most is the fact that not only do we get Don Davis in this show, but his character is an uncanny carbon copy of his role as General Hammond from Stargate and it makes me and the wife laugh every time.
*parents voice* believe it or not but the united states actually used to be a respectable country that i could be proud of, and this was back when i was a child and knew nothing about geopolitics and was completely ignorant to all of the atrocities the nation was committing at the time
i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven’t had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there’s somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they’re the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they’re possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can’t tell me that.
on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they’re free for all the town to pick whenever they’d like.
someone comes up behind us. It’s the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn’t Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren’t making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don’t do piracy or something ok please
