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andros_rex

@ andros_rex @lemmy.world

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1mo ago

Kansas Republicans add bathroom ban to anti-trans proposal, shuffle bills to avoid public hearings
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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago
In the tape released by the campaign of Brad Carson, the Democratic candidate, Coburn says a campaign worker from Coalgate told him that "lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?"
— Fox News link / Archived alternative](https://archive.ph/P2Lri)
The propaganda is evergreen. There was a commercial I remember ages ago (I think Mormon funded(?)) that was just a creepy guy walking into the bathroom after a little girl in opposition to like gay marriage.
Pretty sure it was an argument against the ERA even.

1mo ago

Erika Kirk Under Fire As Husband's Pal Leaks Audio Of Her 'Giggling' About 'Event Of The Century' After His Death

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

That is just the classic Phyllis Schafly playbook - making a career out of telling women they shouldn’t have careers.

1mo ago

there i fixed it

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

CYRANO: Ah no! young blade! That was a trifle short! You might have said at least a hundred things By varying the tone. . .like this, suppose,. . .

Aggressive: 'Sir, if I had such a nose I'd amputate it!'

Friendly: 'When you sup It must annoy you, dipping in your cup; You need a drinking-bowl of special shape!'

Descriptive: ''Tis a rock!. . .a peak!. . .a cape! -- A cape, forsooth! 'Tis a peninsular!'

Curious: 'How serves that oblong capsular? For scissor-sheath? Or pot to hold your ink?'

Gracious: 'You love the little birds, I think? I see you've managed with a fond research To find their tiny claws a roomy perch!'

Truculent: 'When you smoke your pipe. . .suppose That the tobacco-smoke spouts from your nose-- Do not the neighbors, as the fumes rise higher, Cry terror-struck: "The chimney is afire"?'

Considerate: 'Take care,. . .your head bowed low By such a weight. . .lest head o'er heels you go!'

Tender: 'Pray get a small umbrella made, Lest its bright color in the sun should fade!'

Pedantic: 'That beast Aristophanes Names Hippocamelelephantoles Must have possessed just such a solid lump Of flesh and bone, beneath his forehead's bump!'

Cavalier: 'The last fashion, friend, that hook? To hang your hat on? 'Tis a useful crook!'

Emphatic: 'No wind, O majestic nose, Can give THEE cold!--save when the mistral blows!'

Dramatic: 'When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!'

Admiring: 'Sign for a perfumery!'

Lyric: 'Is this a conch?. . .a Triton you?'

Simple: 'When is the monument on view?'

Rustic: 'That thing a nose? Marry-come-up! 'Tis a dwarf pumpkin, or a prize turnip!'

Military: 'Point against cavalry!'

Practical: 'Put it in a lottery! Assuredly 'twould be the biggest prize!' Or. . .parodying Pyramus' sighs. . . 'Behold the nose that mars the harmony Of its master's phiz! blushing its treachery!'

--Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said, Had you of wit or letters the least jot: But, O most lamentable man!--of wit You never had an atom, and of letters You have three letters only!--they spell Ass! And--had you had the necessary wit, To serve me all the pleasantries I quote Before this noble audience. . .e'en so, You would not have been let to utter one-- Nay, not the half or quarter of such jest! I take them from myself all in good part, But not from any other man that breathes!

1mo ago

Kansas Republicans add bathroom ban to anti-trans proposal, shuffle bills to avoid public hearings

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

It’s also been a great way for them to dismantle women’s rights, while proclaiming themselves as “feminists” or “protecting women.”

Being able to ban trans medical care sets a precedent for intervention in medical care, which makes it easier for them to attack abortion and other reproductive health care rights. (Contraception is definitely on the list)

These bathroom bills invite the policing of gender expression. There’s multiple cases of cis women being harassed and chased out bathrooms for being butch, which also serves the purpose of discouraging visibly queer people from being in public. This is also what the conservatives want; think about how much they hate women with dyed hair and undercuts.

This also puts a giant wrench in feminist activist spaces, because you have a bunch of people who’s have redefined “women’s rights” and “feminism” to be inherently in opposition to trans people. There are “feminists” posting Matt Walsh. I have a strong suspicion that at least some of this is paid trolling - that the success of early 2010s internet feminism (#metoo) threatened some powerful people.

1mo ago

Kansas Republicans add bathroom ban to anti-trans proposal, shuffle bills to avoid public hearings

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

The answer the UK settled on was to ban trans men from essentially all single sex public restrooms.

These kind of laws really exist to be a covert way of banning trans existence in public; there have been trans women in the UK who have sued because they have essentially no ability to use changing rooms or piss at work, because the law doesn’t require employers to provide single stall/all gender restrooms.

1mo ago

Kansas Republicans add bathroom ban to anti-trans proposal, shuffle bills to avoid public hearings

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

It’s just kind of annoying that he is probably the most famous trans man, that he’s the example that always gets brought up in this conversation, but that he literally supports bathroom bans for non-op trans women.

Imagine if the only trans women that people knew about was Blair White but a porn star.

I feel like I can speak ex cathedra for all trans men in asking allies to use men like Jamison Green instead. He’s the kind of man that represents the best of us, and I think all men would benefit from reading him.

1mo ago

Kansas Republicans add bathroom ban to anti-trans proposal, shuffle bills to avoid public hearings

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Buck Angel is a loser and a jerk. Like, Can we pick a better example than a guy whose claim to fame is porn and hating non-binary people? I could give you 5 reasons he sucks, and someone else could jump in to give you five more.

Jamison Green is a personal hero of mine, and a much better representation of the community.

This is the guy the Right wants in bathrooms.

1mo ago

The party of free thinkers

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

My mind went ALEC/Heritage Foundation more than staffers.

1mo ago

How do you know that the women in your porn are consenting?

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Gay for pay shit is often fucked up too. There you go. I think it’s actually harmful as shit that a lot of queer boys grow up with no access to actual sex ed and learn how to do things from porn.

What proportion is there of straight porn to gay porn?

1mo ago

How do you know that the women in your porn are consenting?

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Porn does not equal masturbation. And talking about masturbation in a beginning of the year ice breaker activity is not appropriate anyway.

I don’t understand the conflation here. I had said nothing about masturbation, which is healthy and fine. It’s problematic however, that 15 year olds are exposed to hard core BDSM shit with no explanation that while yes, some women do like it if you hit or choke them, those are not part and parcel of normal sex and should be carefully negotiated.

There’s been a huge uptick in kids choking each other, because they see it in porn. Choking is something that a lot of actual BDSM dungeons ban because it is that unsafe.

1mo ago

How do you know that the women in your porn are consenting?

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I think one of the things with “no ethical consumption under capitalism” is that no one “needs” real people porn. Erotica and drawn images are amply available, there’s no need for another human being to be potentially harmed.

1mo ago

How do you know that the women in your porn are consenting?

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Isn’t social shaming “action”?

Maybe when someone posts that “blacked” meme, of Piper Perri surrounded by five men, point out 1) that the image is racist as shit, and 2) that Piper Perri’s boyfriend killed her baby, and that comments joking about this are common on her videos and discussions about her?

My first year teaching, we played “hangman” and the kids came up with their own words (I was stupid to allow this). One of them chose “Pornhub.” Maybe talking about jerking it should be something that isn’t so normalized that kids feel comfortable doing that?

You could also report porn that is suspicious in provenance? Ask your bros, if they bring up a porn star what they think about this issues?

Advocating for social change in the way we talk about these things isn’t “virtue signaling.”

1mo ago

Bad Bunyy plans to don a dress during his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show...

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I get him confused with “bhad babby” or however you spell it - the “catch me outside” girl who got sent to sexual abuse and torture camp on Dr Phil

1mo ago

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Viola Liuzzo

Killed by the Klan, but the government helped justify it. Did the same kind of shit they are doing to Renee Good.

ICE is just formally state sponsored Klan. The Venn diagram of cops and Klan approaches a circle at certain points of US history.

1mo ago

If you watch videos with Hannah Hays in them, you are a disgusting human being

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Well, her manager seems to have gotten everything taken down, including her Rogan interview, but this Reddit thread can give you a taste.

1mo ago

If you watch videos with Hannah Hays in them, you are a disgusting human being

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

You can find absolutely fucked up reddit threads where her intellectual disability is considered a plus.

There needs to be some sort of legal intervention.

1mo ago

If you watch videos with Hannah Hays in them, you are a disgusting human being

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andros_rex @lemmy.world 1mo ago

She’s relatively famous.

I think her name needs to be out there, because there needs to be an investigation into her manager. Someone needs to be stepping in to protect her. Maybe start reporting her videos on whatever sites.