Celtyradfem

grizzabellowing:

Something really gross and manipulative TERFs do that separates them from run-of-the-mill transphobes is to pretend that they alone are representative of the true thoughts of women, particularly of lesbians.

To them, it doesn’t matter how kindly my transgender friends and I treat each other. It doesn’t matter that they’ve trusted me to know who they truly are, even while they were closeted to most of the world. It doesn’t matter that I’ve never once felt pressured to transition because of them– at least, not through any conscious effort of theirs. It doesn’t matter that I’ve spent time doing research and carefully considering the facts and ethics, and that I came to the conclusion that empathy is the best policy.

No, if TERFs are to be believed, my friends hate and/or fetishize me, and it’s my duty as a woman and a lesbian to fight them.

This rhetoric of scaremongering and line-drawing is illogical, abusive, and cruel to all parties involved.

There’s a real world outside of their dystopian fantasy bubble, where butch lesbians and trans men exist at peace with one another, where trans women are not the hideous boogeymen of conservative nightmares, and where nonbinary people live healthy, fulfilling, and kind lives. And guess what? The vast majority don’t want to hurt women or uphold gender stereotypes or what-have-you.

I don’t want to live my life in fear and hatred of people who just want to exist as they are, coping with dysphoria in whatever way they need to. And I’m just as sure they don’t want to live dreading people like me because some TERF online claimed that all lesbians think the same way deep down. Well, the truth is, we don’t.

TERFs, you don’t speak for me. This lesbian is not your pawn.

Yeah, you’re their pawn

There a lot of female and femininity fetishists in the trans community

rhiam0n:

hermione-is-not-hedwig:

lovesexandhumor:

xavea:

solarpunkarchivist:

death-limes:

coelasquid:

This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.

And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.

holy fucking jesus tits reblog to save a life

OK I actually got a full on A* for GCSE Chemistry and if I ever knew this I’ve forgotten it. Seriously reblog this.

Also don’t use bleach to clean up if your cat pees outside the littlerbox (or urine in general for that matter, species doesn’t really matter here I think). I did that in a small space and it took me a bit of coughing and wheezing and wanting to tear my eyes out before I went, “wait, fuck, I just gassed myself”.

Be aware of the chemicals you are using even if they are natural cleaners.

16 Common Product Combinations You Should Never Mix

If you don’t don’t know what chlorine gas is it’s a gas that can kill you.

Species doesn’t matter. All urine has ammonia in it and when mixed with bleach, it makes mustard gas, which is really dangerous. Life hacks are great, but it should be a general rule that you don’t use plants or chemicals outside their use that is on their label.