message to cis allies: buying your trans friend lunch will do much more good for the trans community than debating transphobes who will not change their minds publicaly on social media and making all your trans followers see how much people hate them over and over again
if you base your trans allyship more on fighting with idiots than supporting and loving the trans community you may want to rethink things a little. bc i tend to get sick of when my cis friends want to talk more about how many people hate me than anything else about my transness.
they need to stop casting timothee chalamet in franchise films he just needs to be luca guadagnino and wes anderson’s little pet actor they pass back and forth like a child of divorce heading to his other parent’s house on the weekends
Obsessing with making sure that everyone you interact with online is “good” and shares in all your beliefs and ideals, that you only have “good” hobbies and interests, that you condemn anything and everything even slightly dubious both internally and externally, that you stay away from all “bad” things in case they taint you, and similar behaviors are actually seriously unhealthy and may be a sign that you’re developing or living with moral scrupulosity OCD or a similar condition.
I’m saying this as someone with OCD. It’s not healthy to see everyone around you as corrupt filth and a threat to your own morals. That’s an extremely dangerous mindset to have and to encourage in other people and if you’re falling into those kinds of cycles, please get help from someone.
Actually no, as the trans op, I am going to say that you can’t actually go on my post and say this shit. Moral purity and OCD are entirely different from warning people that a person is a violent bigot and that their bigotry puts the things they say, about gender especially, in a completely different light. Hope this helps!
How To Validate A Child’s Work Without Swearing and Saying “Lil Dude That’s Fuckin Sick”
[ID] A full color drawing of Taako, sitting at a desk with a laptop open in front of him, googling the above text post. He is an elf with tan skin and long blond hair in a braid, wearing a white shirt and a pink wizard hat with flowers around the brim. He’s frowning and holding a hand up to his chin in thought. There are two books on the desk next to him, one labeled ‘Idiot’s Guide to Parenting’ and the other labeled ‘Caleb Cleveland.’ There’s a large speech bubble showing the laptop screen, and he’s using Fantasy Google. [end ID]
Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.
1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.
2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.
3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT. To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.
4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!
5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.
All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.
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