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Is it transphobic of me to say that I wouldn't want to have sex with a trans woman? I'm a lesbian and I have had crushes on trans women before but penises genuinely just make me feel so repulsed. Before I was sure I was a lesbian and I was questioning whether or not I was bisexual I ended up dating this guy and we tried to have sex and Injust absolutely could not do it. He was super nice and tried to make me feel as comfortable as possible and everything but literally just because he had a penis I could not go through with it. I guess if she had already gotten bottom surgery I'd probably be okay with it, but also I don't know much about mtf bottom surgery and it feels very gross to say that I'd never have sex with a trans woman unless she had bottom surgery because I also know that some trans people just don't want to get bottom surgery. It's not for everyone. And I don't feel any bad feelings towards trans women or trans people in general for being trans it's just that penises just like genuinely disgust me.
hi anon,
as someone who's pretty uninterested in penetrative sex myself, I don't think there's anything wrong about knowing what kinds of sex you are or aren't interested in. I don't particularly want a penis in any of my available holes, right?
having said that, I do think you are, at very least, overthinking this to a degree that is... I'm gonna say at the very least it's a bit yucky, how much focus you're putting on trans women's imagined genitalia. no one is making you have sex with trans women, let's just take a metric chill pill and stop sweating about the hypothetical presence of a penis.
multiple identities being a symptom of DID doesn’t mean you need DID to have multiple identities
While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.
Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)
make your brand look low quality in one easy step
something interesting about willy wonka experience scam is that some were tricked by ai art. goofballs loved to say ai 'art' will make EVERYONE professional artists but when you see an add with ai art your brain already thinks 'this is a fake company'. it already signals 'cheap'
what scoundrel techgoofs never seem to understand is that most successful art that buds like is not entirely about technique it is about taste, and you cannot fake taste. the ai art my look 'technically' proficient, but it also evokes 'scam' 'cheap' and 'things i block on twitter'
art is usually about EVOKING something, and skill of HOW to evoke these feelings is predicated on empathy, which these goofs often lack. will be interesting to see companies realize how much selling out human artists cheapens their brand on a VISCERAL level, where the true marketing lies
“By the usual measures, Biden should be cruising to reëlection. Violent crime has dropped to nearly a fifty-year low, unemployment is below four per cent, and in January the S. & P. 500 and the Dow hit record highs. More Americans than ever have health insurance, and the country is producing more energy than at any previous moment in its history. His opponent, who is facing ninety-one criminal counts, has suggested that if he is elected he will fire as many as fifty thousand civil servants and replace them with loyalists, deputize the National Guard as a mass-deportation force, and root out what he calls “the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.””
— Joe Biden’s Last Campaign