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[–] [email protected] 96 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Me, still referring to X as twitter: Am I transphobic?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

I am.

I always give Swasticar drivers extra space- especially the ones in a Wankepazer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't a phobia explicitly an IRrational fear/hate? I feel like being afraid of the harmful influence and thus hating Xitter is completely rational.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The medical definition of a phobia, yes.

But transphobes aren’t generally medically phobic of trans people. They’re just assholes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd say they have an irrational hate towards trans people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

That’s true.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

You should refer to it as Shitter. Same thing, different pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Deadnaming Twitter is praxis and actively supporting trans people, given its owners hostility towards them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'll stop deadnaming Twitter when Musk stops deadnaming his daughter Vivian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Nope

It’s twitter until Musk acknowledges his trans daughter’s rights.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'll just tell conservatives that I don't believe that a Gulf can just go from Mexican to American, I'm sorry. If it wants to use the American restrooms, I'm going to have to check its territorial waters.

... even as a sarcastic metaphor, I feel a little dirty saying that

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Considering that their chromosomes contain more triplets than orchestral sheet music, I think you’d probably lose them after the first sentence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

This insult goes hard. Thank you lmao

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

She was always of Mexican heritage, and she was only promoting Mexican heritage. I didn’t know she was American until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn American, and now she wants to be known as American. So I don’t know, is she Mexican or is she American?” the former president said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

hey pug congratulations on getting +100 upvotes from me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

My hard work is paying off 🙏

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I will never stop deadnaming.

It alway was and always will be the Gulf of Oil Spills

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So, I think originally, they went from: The Gulf of We Gave Ourselves Permission to Destroy the environment Unchecked, but it was too exclusive, so in order to be more diverse, they chanced it to, The Gulf of We Gave Ourselves Permission to Destroy EVERYTHING Unchecked.

Now, they could have stopped here, but because of their penchant for wasting everyone’s time and money by doing things that do nothing, they knew they needed to spend more time being ineffectively inept.

So it was then that it was decided to change it to The Gulf of We Don’t Give a Shit and by the Way, Mexico Never Paid for our Border Wall, so This is What They Get! Fuck Your Feelings Lib- only they realized that aside from the “fuck your feelings” bit, these options would be too confusing for their base to understand- and would also prove difficult to say with a slack-jaw.

Sooooo, they finally decided to shorten it to something that would encompass the ideology of all of these names combined:

The Gulf of America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The gulf of Brandon lmao

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Pfft, I don't remember anyone's name anyway. Everyone is equally unimportant to my pudding brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

See that's the best people when you're early in transition. No [deadname] wait sorry [name], just a good sincere "who are you people and why do i feel like i recognize you"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pro tip: It's ok to forget trans folks' names as long as you don't deadname then \o

Oh no someone forgot my name, asked me what it was and then used it.

  • no trans person ever

Edit: I tend to use the same name for everybody: you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

And you're still less transphobic than most conservatives

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We should totally start calling it the trans-gulf.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I do like that "Mexico" and "America" follow the Latin convention for gendered nouns and that the name changed genders in the switch. We should thank them for not deadnaming her (the gulf). Watch their expressions as the rationalization strains to address the cognitive dissonance.

Before anyone points out that "Mexico" comes from Nahuatl roots, you can miss me with that. It's clearly a latinized word via Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No one is going to call it that except in the same way "freedom fries" was used. People unfamiliar with the actual name might eventually use "gulf of America" if the maps continue to show it, but right now most of us know the original name and will use it out of habit, if nothing else

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Lots of people used freedom fries. Most importantly, though, I distinctly remember it appearing on our school lunch menus. I lived in a very blue-tinged purple town at the time.

Which means, I suspect, that schools will be forced to use the new name.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Lots of people use freedom fries

Really? I haven't heard that outside of a joke since like 2007. Good point about schools though :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I meant to say "used". Slight typo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Yeah but calling trans people by their proper names doesn't scream "FUCK MEXICANS" in quite the same way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

This is smoke and mirrors to distract us from the huge ~~tax cut~~ money transfer scheme to billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Quite the opposite, they want to call it the gulf of America because they want to glorify their own viewpoints and debase others

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Hey, yeah, in fact, I identify as The Gulf of America and I've trademarked it. I'm going to sue your entire country in the ground, mister.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I still think he should have gone all the way and just called it Trump Gulf.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't ever remember talking about the body of water except for oil spills maybe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm, I've thought of this whole thing as incredibly stupid, but maybe oil spills in the "Gulf of America" would be treated more seriously by Americans? Like, there might accidentally be a positive to this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

That would be nice but I'm not holding my breath either.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what are 'both arguments'? I only see one in the post

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

what u mean?

two arguments are respect to geographical locations and respect to transgender people identities. So gulf of america is trans now. You see what I did there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

So is the Trans-Atlantic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

you think respecting trans people is silly? or the gulf of Mexico being "trans" is silly?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Your wording is inarticulate and bad. You should feel bad about it.

HOWEVER, you are right that it's a silly argument, the people who hate pronouns don't hate the effort they have to make to call someone by a prefered combinations of sounds to more accurately represent their identity, those people hate using "preferred pronouns" because they hate people who don't conform to some imagined sense of societal authority and isolated standards of "normalcy" and would completely overhaul their own language if it meant preserving their own status-quo perceptions of a stable and immutable society.

Combine that with the very basic, childlike emotional tantrum that is a segment of society that sees a marginalized group getting special treatment and literally feeling jealous that they're not also getting special treatment for "doing nothing" and you have our current situation where the wealthy, donor-class has taken over American society and robbed our treasuries and coffers to make themselves richer and more powerful and successfully distracted our stupidest and most petty segment of society into thinking the problem is other struggling people.