Basically, It Boils Down To This:

Basically, it boils down to this:

The preponderance of evidence is that most trending calling posts on Tumblr alleging sexual misconduct by trans women are fabricated by the same relatively small group of bad-faith actors, and that these bullshit callout posts outnumber the legit ones by a considerable margin.

If you think you can tell the legit callout posts and the bullshit ones apart just by looking at them, you're almost certainly wrong.

Like most mechanisms of social control which are based on ostracism, callout posts tend to be most effective against people who are already in a position of vulnerability, and concomitantly, tend to have no significant long-term effect when deployed against people in positions of power or authority.

What all this adds up to is that even leaving the moral dimension of the act aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, reblogging that callout post accusing a random trans woman you've never heard of of being a dogfucker or what-have-you is an action which, in a worst-case scenario, will contribute to ruining an innocent person's life, and in a best-case scenario, is likely to accomplish nothing whatsoever.

Folks often justify reblogging callout posts without performing due diligence under the rubric of "better safe than sorry", but any realistic assessment of the likely outcomes will tell you that the true "better safe than sorry" course of action is to keep your damn mouth shut!

Watched Saltburn, found it delightfully and unexpectedly hilarious and fun all the way through, and disagree entirely with anyone who thinks the ending monologue from Oliver was unnecessary or too blunt or whatever. The ending monologue from Oliver was absolutely, 100% necessary to complete the story told in Saltburn.

The point wasn't Oliver finally revealing to the audience how he'd planned out everything and all the events of the movie had just been carefully constructed stepping stones on the pathway to his true motivations the whole time.

The point was Oliver reframing everything that had happened as a story to himself, so that he could convince himself that all of it was a part of his true grand plan all along. That he didn't make mistakes or fumble his obsession/crush so hard that he wound up murdering the guy and his whole family and stealing their house about it. No! Of course it wasn't that! That would make Oliver look silly!

And Oliver may have been willing to put on an act of being someone pathetic and useless, but only when he could tell himself that it was only an act. That in reality, he was the one with the power, the knowledge, the control over everything.

Oliver didn't care if anyone else knew that he was the cool and clever winner of some convoluted scheme he'd masterminded from Day 1. Once Felix was gone, all that mattered to Oliver was that he convinced himself that killing Felix was the only choice he'd ever meant to make.

I want more of Obi-Wan seeing BAIL in Leia, more of Obi-Wan recognizing the friend who RAISED HER in Leia, more of Obi-Wan seeing her passion in politics and righteousness of speech and seeing how much of an Organa she's become, the Organa she CHOSE TO BE.

Have Obi-Wan maybe see how passionate she is in the Senate and his first instinct is "like Anakin" but then he listens a little more and realizes, "No. Like BAIL." Because it's a very different kind of passion, a different way of seeing the world. I want Obi-Wan to be listening to her and hear turns of phrase he's HEARD Bail use before, to realize that she's speaking in a more distinctly Alderaanian way she could only have learned from Bail and Breha. I want him to hear her say something and realize that he's heard Bail use that exact tone of voice before when HE made speeches to the Senate.

She might seem similar to Anakin at first glance, perhaps, but it doesn't take much to realize that it's not Anakin's passion she's channeling at all, but BAIL'S. And I want that to bring him peace and comfort because Anakin's passion brought him to his own doom and darkness, Anakin's passion destroyed the galaxy, but Bail Organa's passion has kept him in the light and is one of the sole barriers between the galaxy and falling into complete and utter ruin.

I do think it's worth "examining your kinks," at the very least because if you can find an underlying theme you can use it to find other, stranger kinks. Broaden your horizons

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Spring omen.