I wanna get a shark now, lol.
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(I made a similar one years ago, before the whole Blahaj thing⌠but couldnât find it, so it had to be redoneâŚ)
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I have a dog like that.
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This avant-garde trans wrestling group is the antidote to toxic masculinity
The standing room only spectacles are making the latent and self-loathing homoeroticism of WWE wrestling overt.
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This is how it was for me. While I can look back and find examples of my gender nonconformity as a child, my childhood was happy and it wasnât until puberty that dysphoria kicked in
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Happy Cake Day!
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In case itâs of interest
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Aww, if that had been sent out last year, I was still in New Jersey and could have participated. Oh well. Iâm still glad theyâre doing that.
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If thereâs an IKEA near you, they ought to have them.
I was at our local one earlier this week, and while I have zero need for a third one, I did pick up this handsome critter to keep the shorks company. 
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Hmmmm⌠not sure what I think of this essay⌠Anyone familiar with this writer? seems like there is some problematic elements of this essay to my way of thinkingâŚ
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Iâm not familiar with the author, or really anyone mentioned beyond recognizing a couple of names. But my thoughts are:
Sometimes cancelling someone is the appropriate move. Just⌠be sure. Itâs easy to accuse, to bring up old positions the person no longer even holds, or to assign guilt by association, or to misinterpret. And itâs hard to put the outrage genie back in the bottle.
I donât think the âcancel culture = too much ideological purity for our own goodâ thing is entirely a fair assessment.
I also donât think that this relates all that well to the question of radical change vs. trying to exist within the system we have.
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I have no idea who the writer is. And I couldnât make it through the entire essay.
The discomfort is immediate, made especially sharp by my genuine admiration for so much of her work. As a trans person, watching a thinker I respect go down the gender-critical path creates a conflict far more personal than simple ideological opposition. It forces a very real question: should I now distrust everything she says?
Yes, you should absolutely now distrust everything she says. Distrust is not the same thing as dismiss or reject. But there is nothing wrong with distrusting everything that someone says when that person has an abhorrent position on one issue. It increases the likelihood that they have abhorrent positions on other issues and makes everything the person says suspect. Whatâs the phrase some on the right love? Trust but verify? In this case, I would flip that. Distrust, but verify.
The crushing irony is that this spiral â this psychological coercion â is exactly what Power describes in her 2019 essay. Her argument is that parts of the left, in a desperate bid to feel morally âgood,â require an enemy. They must constantly manufacture a âbad otherâ
In my experience, there is never a need for anyone on the left to manufacture a âbad otherâ. There are plenty already out there. Thereâs no need to make one.
This psychological reflex points to something more complicated than simple left dysfunction. Political discourse â across movements, not just âthe leftâ â has increasingly focused on boundary maintenance over transformation. The pattern appears everywhere: environmental movements split between green capitalism and degrowth, racial justice efforts divide over reform versus abolition, labour struggles fracture between union negotiations and calls for worker ownership. In each case, it manifests as an obsession with drawing and policing the lines of discourse.
This person is overthinking it. To me, that entire article is just an exercise in overthinking a simple situation. Someone you previously respected has expressed an abhorrent view. It happens. People suck. Now, everything that person says needs to be scrutinized that much more closely. Thatâs it. Thatâs all you have to do.
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âI like my doctorate like I like my coffee. Covered in bees!â
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