It Is My Hope And Dream That Everyone On Tumblr Can Go Outside And Visit A Gay Bar Or Go To A Queer Event

it is my hope and dream that everyone on tumblr can go outside and visit a gay bar or go to a queer event and see that our community is very beautiful and very diverse and that half the internet discourse isn’t real

So much of what society treats as a joke is just mocking disability. Their idea of lazy is a disabled person trying to survive, whether that be living with their parents as an adult or using pre prepared food. Cringe culture is based entirely around mocking neurodivergent people and their interests. Symptoms and characteristics of disability such as urgency issues, drooling, tremors, tics, strabismus and speech impediments are used as cheap punchlines.

In children’s tv shows disabled characters such as those with speech impediments are treated as a joke, with symptoms of disability being portrayed as synonymous to stupid.

This idea is being taught from a young age in the media and it’s engrained into our language and culture. This goes beyond jokes, it contributes to the alienation of people with disabilities.

Once you start noticing these things you realise how constant and normalised it is.

Reducing an entire person to a punchline is wrong. Using a disability symptom as an insult is wrong. It’s disturbing how normalised it is to not treat people with basic decency and respect.

this is such a crazy common experience that you'd think eventually transphobic cis lesbians would buzz off about this. I guess not

Whenever I think about that new trending song (can't remember the artist but it's like "standing face to face with I told you so!")

I'm reminded of how I IDed as a transmasc/butch lesbian and I felt super happy and connected and stuff, but was driven away from the community by cis lesbians, and how now, no matter how much I miss and love and connect to the lesbian label, I'll never feel safe or welcome in those spaces again, so I stay away to protect myself lol.

They insisted I was "just a man" or a "confused trans man" or something bc I take T. I am agender.

It also sucks bc my parter is transmasc nonbinary and feels the same, but after watching what happened to me, doesn't want to bother with the community, either.

tranny dyke, boydyke and bulldyke are the roof over my head. let me, perhaps, add to the table: 'transsexual dyke' if nobody has already

the following words and phrases are magical, ethereal, and family to me: transsexual male, trans male, genderqueer ftm, trans fag, testo butch, tranny boy, ftm butch, tranny dyke, boydyke, bulldyke, boydyke, trans gay & tboy.

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In case you didn't know, Emily Gwen — the creator of the 'sunset' lesbian flag — is mspec lesbian exclusionary. This isn't a call to stop using the flag; I hate flag discourse, and believe that if you like and feel represented by a flag, you should use it. However, I felt it necessary to make this post, so I did.