all these years i was so scared about installing linux for fear that it would limit what games i can play when ???????? my games work better on fucking mint zara than on win10
For people who don’t know, in preparation for the Steam Deck, Steam has been creating a compatibility layer for Linux … and it works.
As a trans man I actually want to do a little reach across the transphobia isle and talk about “the butch shortage”
Because I believe the butch shortage is a real thing. The reason I believe that is because I’m a gay man who’s into femboys and there is also a fairly gnarly Femboy shortage. But I think, if you’re really a feminist, you’ll understand me when I say that there’s a fairly obvious reason for that that has nothing to do with trans people.
I know you spend 100% of your time obsessing over us, but trans people are not actually that common, we’re common enough, but it’s like demonizing red heads or twins. Additionally if you talked to a trans man instead of just deciding what our deal is for us the way that cis men do for you, you’d know that the “lost lesbian sister” thing doesn’t bear out in practice. I like men. A lot of us like men. A lot of us also aren’t very masculine, personally for me even if we lived in a post gender society where sex traits didn’t mean anything I would still be on testosterone and cutting my boobs off because I just don’t like those body parts. My life would be easier as a cis woman, I’d make more money, I’d have an easier time dating, I wouldn’t have had to fight my family, but my body just wouldn’t be right.
The point is that if I wasn’t transitioning, I wouldn’t be butch, I’d be dead or I’d be a feminine scene girl Instagram influencer who’s boyfriend in a marginally successful screamo band who is holding her back from jumping and locking up the sharps or has joined a super goth 27 club suicide pact with her. Like you guys are not bagging me as your butch gf I’ve got long green hair and I’m paying luxury car amounts of money for a penis because I want to make a guy’s masquara run down his face while I fuck his throat so bad it makes me look stupid.
No trans guys are not your enemy, some of them are masc and like women but those guys would have transitioned in any decade, there’s evidence of them doing that going back as long as we’ve been writing things down. It’s guys like me who have an easier time pretending to be female that are running up the transition numbers in the 21st century. In the 50s I would have just killed myself as soon as I got pregnant and that would have been that because as a feminine homosexual manhood wouldn’t have been worth transitioning into at the time.
The butch shortage is actually happening because people who would be happier as butches are pretending to be feminine straight women. The same way the Femboy shortage is because all the men who want to be feminine are DL. I know this because I go onto Grindr and I see 12 men who are like “oh I like to cross dress please fuck my ass but I won’t send you a face pic” and then if I meet up with that guy I’ll find him in a frat house and he’ll meet me wearing a hoodie and basketball shorts and he’ll have a secret drawer where he keeps his lingerie. It’s like, dire out there. The men that the gods put on this earth to be makeup twinks are not becoming women, they’re becoming Brad. And so, because misogyny is reinforced with violence, I must assume that the women put on this earth to wear a pit stained wifebeater and a cut off jean shorts and cut their hair off are becoming Chelsea with perfect makeup and long bleached hair and entering undiscussed lavender marriages with Brad the would be makeup twink, when she should be dating you (well probably not you because you’re deeply unpleasant, but a lesbian who’s into butches) and he should be dating me.
Society is not convincing butch women they’re men it’s convincing them they’re trad wives. As it had been doing for centuries. This is obvious to anyone who understands how the patriarchy works.
i think what makes tumblr great now is that nobody gives a shit? Like, there is NOTHING to be gained from being on here except the pure joy of making stuff for people and with people?
If you’re on twitter or threads or reddit, and you say, “Oh, I had a terrible experience with Delta Airlines. They canceled my flight and then booked me into a hotel room with a stranger,” and you tag Delta, there’s a chance Delta Airlines itself will come and apologize. Maybe even give you some SkyMiles or something.
But if you complain about a terrible airline experience on tumblr, all you can hope for is that someone might come along and write slash fiction about two guys who get booked into the same hotel room by Delta Airlines.
You can’t gain social capital by being here. Nobody knows who you even ARE because your user name is, like, some randomly generated phrase or else an obscure reference to hockey sex books.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, of course. It’s a super toxic hellsite that eats the ashes of its former self to survive. But it beats twitter any day, and not only because twitter is owned by a raving mad white supremacist fuckchild.
