Via Purifico
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Ah I heard about that area. That is really shitty nonetheless that shouldn't happen at all.
Sidebar this is so good makes me want to replay Xenogears
https://soundcloud.com/xavierdang/crisis-xenogears-remix
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LGBThread |OT4| We're (still) Here! We're (still) Queer!
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Ah I heard about that area. That is really shitty nonetheless that shouldn't happen at all.
Sidebar this is so good makes me want to replay Xenogears
https://soundcloud.com/xavierdang/crisis-xenogears-remix
Blood Diamonds
Banned
What the fuck? That's horrible, thankfully they weren't hurt.
Is it (generally) better further south/east or is it bad in all of southern Mexico?
So, I have an opinion on this, and it pretty closely mirrors moderation policy, so let me explain it.The Oppression Olympics are in full swing right now.
No one cares if you think someone else's organs or what they do with them is gross. We do care if you run around saying it, because that is hurtful to people who are going to see your posts. Saying you think vaginas are disgusting isn't okay. Saying you think gay sex is disgusting isn't okay. People see these things and it taps into often decades of shaming they've suffered at the hands of others. We'd like our users to be kinder than that. We all have opinions that it probably makes more sense not to express openly, particularly in big open public venues. And that's what GAF is. It feels like a tiny room of friends sometimes, but it never is. It's a stage, and thousands of people are listening to you, and you're causing some of them pain. All it takes is moderating your language a little bit.
And, if we can't get people to be kinder voluntarily, you're welcome to look into the "women shaving" thread to see the other tool we have to minimize the hurt inflicted on our members. It involves a lot of gray.
TheAbsolution
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He's a recurring character in Royal Pains and I love it when he appears in new episodes.
He's so cute.
That's messed up. Stay safe, you and your friends.
Captain Europe
Member
Does Austria have some sort of civil partnership at least?
Thank you, that's a big step in the right direction.
Things are bad over here, we're doomedYikes, I didn't now things were so bad over there
I'm safe, but this is one of the reasons why I won't come out while I'm here
I'm not sure, but it seems that Yucatan is generally better, not sure about other states around.
Escape Goat
Member
No, I think you are. Winkwink
The cat's out of the bag now.
Captain Europe
Member
Do you study or work?
is it bad I burst out laughing while reading this?
I don't know how to react, maybe that guy (or girl) is really convinced to be a plant after all
Captain Europe
Member
Can you register a guy as your partner legally? Britain had that for a while and they recently legalised same-sex marriage, took long enough lol.
And no problem =)
I read a while ago that they don't recognize the marriage here.
Don't know if you can register a partner, I think when I talked with my mum a few days ago she said something about how it's not possible to register a partner of the same sex yet but I don't know if she is just confusing registering and marrying.
Embarrassing how I am completely out of the loop when it comes to law stuff in the country that I live in. >_>
MisterGrey3000
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lol, it totally is.
Anytime you see something like that on tumblr it's a parody of what the anti-PC brigade thinks transgender people (who are nothing like people who claim to be "otherkin") do on the site.
:/
Alright. I gotta say I hesitated at first, but yeah the tantrum at the end should have told me something was up
Captain Europe
Member
It seems to allow registered partnerships, it's a babystep in the right direction at least.
Interesting bit:
Hopefully it passes.
Aw, really? I thought it was just straight up making fun of otherkin people.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Yeah, I've read some shit on there from the anti-PC people saying that Transgender issues aren't real or important and it pisses me off, but the reaction gif that was in the plantkin post made me laugh so much :l
I live in Rio but I'm originally from Bogota, Colombia. Bogota is very cold and that might reflect on its people, we are much more conservative with public displays of affection. Rio is the complete opposite, people here french kiss in public like is nothing, it took me a while to get used to it D:
Although its rare because Brazil still has a machismo culture, I've also seen a few gay couples kissing in public. Holding hands is much, much more common, in Ipanema beach is a completely common sight, even outside the gay part of the beach.
Captain Europe
Member
Well, hang in there and when you're ready to look for a job, look for one in a more liberal place. =)
It seems to allow registered partnerships, it's a babystep in the right direction at least.
Interesting bit:
Hopefully it passes.
"Die Grünen" are a great political party here but they are a small party in comparison to the big conservative ones.
It could still go through though... hopefully.
I heard about Rio, yeah. They are really open about their sexuality from what I've seen in documentaries.
I've not once seen a guy (besides myself with my past boyfriends) holding hands with another guy in my city. It's really sad. :/
There are some lesbian couples that walk often through the shopping streets here but as always, it's okay because it fits the hetero male gaze.
MisterGrey3000
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The anti-pc people that have come about on tumblr often exhibit all of the common stereotypes that are attributed to young straight cis white men and their understanding of minority problems.
I'm so glad that it's easy to avoid those guys if you don't follow overzealous young people (who's hearts are in the right place of course) who dedicate their blogs to social issues.
I believe it's also making fun of otherkin people as well.
Then again given the number of people on Tumblr claiming to have multiple personalities in one body, each representing a different type of otherkin... maybe I am wrong!
I find the way these otherkins and the trans-racial/ethnic weirdoes try to piggy back on transgender politics and theory deeply problematic.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
lets not do this
Weirdoes was a bit strong but given they are typically a bunch of white people going through a phase claiming that they are Japanese or wolves (never something like a marmot or a rabbit) in a bid to seem special, appropriating transgender language and theory to try to gain legitimacy harming trans people in the process, I am not going to think too much of them especially those old enough to know better rather than troubled white kids desperately looking for something that makes them unique or different.
CornBurrito
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Always shocked to see someone who is openly racist and homophobic (and I mean openly. Not even subtle. Said shit like "gay men love to diddle boys") with positive karma on reddit.
Dude shockingly posts on r/conservative
Dude shockingly posts on r/conservative
Who are the guys in your avatar?
Giroud and Valbuena. There's a video out there of the former naked in the dressing room if you want to... research.
They are rather adorable together.
Just made a profile on Reddit and since you seem to be a bit active on there I wanted to ask you, do you know any good subreddits that are well moderated and don't allow hateful speech? Looked through a bunch of gaming related (or, well anything about cats, politics or cute guys) subreddits and they were full of sexist, homo- and/or transphobic slurs. :/
Also, lol. Someone made a "NeoGAF sucks" subreddit. Pathetic.
Captain Europe
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It's just a bunch of same minded people giving each other likes sounds like.
MisterGrey3000
Member
Yeah, I get where you're coming from (though as you've stated in your reply to RatskyWatsky, "weirdo" is a bit of a strong word)
One has to have a total lack of general social awareness or no real understanding of the transgender umbrella to think that some unproven quasi-religious concept like being an "otherkin " is actually equivalent to being a real life tangible transsexual person.
Tbh, I didn't even know about these silly otherkin people until I laid my eyes on one of those silly tumblr parodies and after learning about them they sound like every other silly new-age religious group.
:/
/r/games is a bit more strict than /r/gaming. There are plenty of cool subreddits, actually, I mostly lurk / post in:
/r/3DS
/r/iosgaming
/r/languagelearning
/r/spanish
/r/worldnews
/r/technology
/r/todayilearned
/r/mexico
/r/pyongyang (this can be funny at times
)Reddit is an everything-goes place with an incredibly low entry barrier, it's easy to find terrible posts. But they tend to get buried below the good posts because of the voting system, at least in "good" subreddits.
This blog post comes close to articulating my anger at these terrible people.
There are few things I hate more than appropriation. There's even people who claim trans identities despite being completely hetero normative in their gender presentation and relationships with no desire to ever transition. It's like these Tumblr people fetishise oppression and instead of recognising their own privileges try to claim they are something they are not for internet street cred.
/r/games is a bit more strict than /r/gaming. There are plenty of cool subreddits, actually, I mostly lurk / post in:
/r/3DS
/r/iosgaming
/r/languagelearning
/r/spanish
/r/worldnews
/r/technology
/r/todayilearned
/r/mexico
/r/pyongyang (this can be funny at times
Reddit is an everything-goes place with an incredibly low entry barrier, it's easy to find terrible posts. But they tend to get buried below the good posts because of the voting system, at least in "good" subreddits.
Already subscribed to the 3DS subreddit. Have to look through the others.
What's pyongyang though?
I found some subreddit once and it had rules against posting racist, homophobic, basically anything offensive stuff. Don't know if that is more the exception then the rule, I'm pretty new to reddit after all.
And the voting system doesn't prevent offensive stuff from being visible. Youtube has the same system and everyone knows how well that works. :/
Blood Diamonds
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I still don't know what an otherkin is and I'm scared to search it up tbh
TheAbsolution
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R/Askreddit and r/Iama are also good subreddits to check out.
I also like r/RickandMorty and r/television as well.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Giroud and Valbuena. There's a video out there of the former naked in the dressing room if you want to... research.
link
What if a person's (who is biologically male) gender identity is female but their gender expression is male? Are they not trans?
this mentality definitely isn't exclusive to tumblr tho
Who's to say they don't really feel that way though? You seem awfully quick to judge.
Seems like I'll check out r/worldnews first then.
Just searched around on my own.
r/gameofthrones seems like I could really like it since it's my favourite book/TV series too. According to the rules dumb meme posts, spoilers and offensive language get banned. Sounds promising.
r/lama is probably about Buddhism, right? Have to check that out.
CornBurrito
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I actually don't know many. But mostly because I joined some subreddits that have a really juvenile sense of humor that wouldn't fly on GAF. Like r/youdontsurf.
I like r/thathappened which makes fun of people trying to pass off clearly bullshit stories as if they actually happened. Though the humor in the comments is very meta and injokey. Though there's a helpful link in the sidebar that explains the origin of most of them.
I like r/forwardsfromgrandma which makes fun of shit often forwarded on facebook
r/photoshopbattles is fun.
That's a capital i, not a lowrcase L. And it stands for "internet ask me anything" I believe. So no. Not about Buddhism at all. Lol.
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