TDT 4: What the $#@! is a "womxn", anyways?

[HumanSanity]

See above. Just binge watched season 3 of The Good Place. That was pretty fun.

Go grocery shopping. Pay rent.

I'll avoid participating in car traffic - aka straight pride parades. But I do that anyways.

Where the hell did you find season 3 available???? Hulu and Netflix don't have it afaik and NBC made it impossible to watch it on their website. I rewatched seasons 1 and 2 a few months ago and was trying to find season 3, but it wasn't available legally anywhere.

A friend had DVR recorded it and not deleted it yet (I know, crazy...) and I borrowed their password.

Sorry, no magic solutions from me!

[Hediacrana]

How do you celebrate pride month?

Attending a pride event in another town, and watch Rent with my family.

[Cekoviu]

Where the hell did you find season 3 available???? Hulu and Netflix don't have it afaik and NBC made it impossible to watch it on their website. I rewatched seasons 1 and 2 a few months ago and was trying to find season 3, but it wasn't available legally anywhere.

A friend had DVR recorded it and not deleted it yet (I know, crazy...) and I borrowed their password.

Sorry, no magic solutions from me!

Damn, that's lucky af.

[First American Empire]

As if they haven’t already. I saw Xbox controllers in trans flag colors today, among a shit ton of other things. Not to be a doomer but they’ve already commodified the collective struggle of the LGBT community.

Tbf, the controllers looked nice though.

Microsoft is actually really good on LGBT stuff. They've had antidiscrimination protections for sexual orientation since the 1980s, and their insurance pays for all their employees' (and family members') trans-related health care. Including as much hair removal as you want.

[First American Empire]

By the way, new poll is up.

Heliogabalus unironically did nothing wrong.

Elagabalus/Heliogabalus divorced their first wife to marry a Vestal Virgin, then dumped her and executed another man in order to marry his wife, and finally got bored of her and remarried his Vestal Virgin ex-wife. This all happened in a span of two years. (The Vestal Virgins were called that for a reason, they had a religious duty to remain chaste and they would be buried alive if they broke their vows. This presumably happened to Elagabalus' wife after Elagabalus died.)

They also stole all of the sacred artifacts of the Gods from their temples and put them in the temple of the minor sun god Elagabalus was named after, who they then tried to make head of the Roman pantheon. The sex scandals were perfectly understandable given that a horny trans teenager was given absolute power over a global superpower. The murder and blaspheming against the Gods? Not so much.

[Auzkhia]

I went to Philly Pride today, some people really liked my nonbinary flag cape.

[The Rich Port]

I went to Philly Pride today, some people really liked my nonbinary flag cape.

Nonbinary Girl UNDERGROUUUUUUND

She will not stop until her binary will be found, Nonbinary Underground

[Auzkhia]

I went to Philly Pride today, some people really liked my nonbinary flag cape.

Nonbinary Man UNDERGROUUUUUUND

He will not stop until his binary will be found, Nonbinary Underground

Is that a song? Cos I'm not masc

But I knew most people would have the trans flag already, and of course saw plenty of bi and pan flags too.

[The Rich Port]

Nonbinary Man UNDERGROUUUUUUND

He will not stop until his binary will be found, Nonbinary Underground

Is that a song? Cos I'm not masc

But I knew most people would have the trans flag already, and of course saw plenty of bi and pan flags too.

XD oh sorry, I went full "male is the default"

yeah, it's a Sonic Underground reference, it's the TV show theme, sorry, my mind went immediately there XD

[Auzkhia]

Is that a song? Cos I'm not masc

But I knew most people would have the trans flag already, and of course saw plenty of bi and pan flags too.

XD oh sorry, I went full "male is the default"

yeah, it's a Sonic Underground reference, it's the TV show theme, sorry, my mind went immediately there XD

Yeah, that's fair, I assumed it was from a theme song. Though I know some people that are nonbinary that have a binary alignment, but that's just gender, baby, it's very complex, beautiful too.

But yeah, this pride in Philadelphia made good use of being the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which kicked off the LGBTQ rights movement in the US.

[Hediacrana]

Fuck the Vatican.

[Cekoviu]

Fuck the Vatican.

Nah, I'd rather let them sexually starve. They don't deserve the satisfaction.

[Necroghastia]

Fuck the Vatican.

Vatican: Doctors should ‘intervene’ on intersex children

But of course, that's not annihilating nature. Nope.

[The New California Republic]

Fuck the Vatican.

‘Efforts to go beyond the difference, such as the ideas of “intersex” or “transgender”, lead to a masculinity or feminity that is ambiguous,’

So basically this part of the statement demonstrates that the Vatican's motivation is their own insecurity.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Fuck the Vatican.

Vatican: Doctors should ‘intervene’ on intersex children

But of course, that's not annihilating nature. Nope.

The times this has happened have caused a lot of damage for the intersex child.

[Andsed]

Fuck the Vatican.

Not surprising. Religion has always opposed the LGBT+ community for ignorant bullshit. Which is why I pretty much ignore any religious figurehead when they start talking about the LGBT+ community

[Hediacrana]

Fuck the Vatican.

Not surprising. Religion has always opposed the LGBT+ community for ignorant bullshit. Which is why I pretty much ignore any religious figurehead when they start talking about the LGBT+ community

That's really too simplistic; there's a ton of religious LGBTQ+ folks (including me and several others in this thread) and there are also loads of affirming denominations, including rather large ones such as the UCC and ELCA in the States.

You are right that this is not suprising coming from the Vatican, though.

[Gormwood]

Fuck the Vatican.

Priests prefer boys after all, can't have children identifying as girls.

[HumanSanity]

Fuck the Vatican.

Priests prefer boys after all, can't have children identifying as girls.

Things I'm really over: homophobia disguised as protecting children. Even as a joke.

[Gormwood]

Priests prefer boys after all, can't have children identifying as girls.

Things I'm really over: homophobia disguised as protecting children. Even as a joke.

Calling out a hypocritical religious institution preying on children is now homophobia.

[Vassenor]

Priests prefer boys after all, can't have children identifying as girls.

Things I'm really over: homophobia disguised as protecting children. Even as a joke.

So what, out of interest, is the homophobia here?

Because right now all we've got is saying that the Catholic Church can get right the fuck off the moral high ground after all the child sex abuse cases the institution has covered up.

[HumanSanity]

Fuck the Vatican.

Priests prefer boys after all, can't have children identifying as girls.

(emphasis added)

Maybe I read wrong, but the idea that priests assaulting minors is directly linked to the fact that they "prefer boys" (read: are gay) is deploying the old, frustrating trope of "gay men are pedophiles".

Sexual contact with minors is wrong. This frame and explicit comparison both a) reinforces an old homophobic trope (for functionally no reason beyond making a callous joke about sexual assault) and b) misframes sexual assault as an issue of sex rather than power.

[Vassenor]

Priests prefer boys after all, can't have children identifying as girls.

(emphasis added)

Maybe I read wrong, but the idea that priests assaulting minors is directly linked to the fact that they "prefer boys" (read: are gay) is deploying the old, frustrating trope of "gay men are pedophiles".

Sexual contact with minors is wrong. This frame and explicit comparison both a) reinforces an old homophobic trope (for functionally no reason beyond making a callous joke about sexual assault) and b) misframes sexual assault as an issue of sex rather than power.

Or maybe it's just an observation of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the historic sexual abuse cases have been homosexual in nature.

[Andsed]

Not surprising. Religion has always opposed the LGBT+ community for ignorant bullshit. Which is why I pretty much ignore any religious figurehead when they start talking about the LGBT+ community

That's really too simplistic; there's a ton of religious LGBTQ+ folks (including me and several others in this thread) and there are also loads of affirming denominations, including rather large ones such as the UCC and ELCA in the States.

You are right that this is not suprising coming from the Vatican, though.

Fair enough.

[Aidonaia]

Priests will just as readily molest nuns. Most of them are probably not homosexual leaning pedophiles, they’re just psychopathic opportunists. They molest boys because they have boys, give them little girls and see what happens.