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@happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social

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late 20s. he or she or they or it or whatever you fancy. trying to stay silly. pfp is a canva asset. I love canva. i'm a dog btw.

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 16h

the one thing i will say is that this is specifically a retaliation to like new wave wombyn-earthmother feminine mysticism stuff, she's not dunking on midwives here

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 16h

hi everyone in the now-muted replies. some further thoughts:

1. take it up with le guin. i'm far less eloquent
2. this was in the context of some like inside baseball transfem/transmasc discourse where did you all come from

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 17h

sorry I cant read 😭

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 17h

I think that's what she's saying here?

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

like to be clear we r definitely in agreement that everyone has some degrees of both!

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

i should reread brainwyrms

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

yeah we might just be looking at the same thing in different ways. for me it's like, I don't feel like those things are inherently gendered. i don't see a connection between spirituality and masculinity or femininity.

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

why does the feminine side of our natures have to be connected with the natural the divine the eternal though. why does that have to be gendered ar all

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

i swear i saw a take that prompted all this but i'll have to just let my poasts stand on their own merits because the whole thing is not really About One Take anyway

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

because i do also. if that makes me less of a man, unsex me now.

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

its just also like. appeal to emotion but. do you remember when you were little and EVERYONE knew there was something wrong with you and you knew you were some kind of freak but you didnt know why or how and you finally found an escape valve and you took it and things got both better and worse after

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

i don't regret transitioning.

i don't think if i was a better feminist i would.

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

i get it though it's like gender means nothing so who caarres but unfortunately i still have to dwell in this body in meatspace and when it was a woman's body i really fucking was not happy and i understand the male social role is regressive or whatever but like i'm happy

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 18h

would being a woman make me a better feminist? maybe. i still have to live my life. i still have to fill out job applications

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 19h

like it's a big complicated world out there and manhood obviously means a lot more to a lot of people than just repression and misogyny and war. i think that's fair to say i don't think that's antifeminist. i think feminism means *prioritizing* women not necessarily *existing as* women

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 19h

when i see the take re: transmasculinity that we should have known better and we had the chance to be women and manhood is such a prison and it's like. okay and womanhood isn't? and womanhood isn't?? we have moms out here taking their 11 year olds to waxing appointments

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 21h

im gonna level with you i dont think we need to hold a mayoral candidate to the same standards on palestine policy as we'd hold like a national politician to. hes gonna be in charge of whether nyc librarians get a raise next year, not how many weapons we sell to the idf

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2d

tom nichols bravely writing about politicians cursing too much the real problem with politicians today thank god for his bravery

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 1d

i dunno man i don't think "more politicians are saying bad words like tr***y" is unrelated to "more politicians are saying bad words like fuck/shit". and while im here for the record i think nichols commenting "lol, ur not my boss why do you care" from his professional account is kinda pathetic

DemtotheBone @demtothebone.bsky.social · 2d

This is an example of why Progressives cost Democrats elections. Tom gets to choose what he writes about and you rip him for not discussing something unrelated and off his topic. This is a sad but persistent habit of certain liberals. It is a losing play. Pontificate elsewhere. Dear God, indeed.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 2d

i don't mean to be hyperbolic but bluesky is the single worst My Little Pony fan forum i've ever used in my life

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 2d

one of the worst parts about bluesky is how reliable "my political enemies are fat" is at getting laughs/support

🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 2d