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so anyway i’m glad the kids are rediscovering that, but let’s not pretend like the TERFs using their unwillingness to date trans lesbians as a way to exclude them from lesbian networks of support is in any way a unanimous or necessary consequence of queer activism of old

it’s a new development spurned by the increased acceptance and normalization of gay dating in the ’10s, mirroring the similar (but much older) deployment of romance by heterosexuals with the aim of controlling acceptable forms of gender expression, especially among women

the trend of using romance as an exclusionary policy to gatekeep who does and does not receive community belonging or social support was both precedented, predicted, and opposed

the slippage that queer “romance” is somehow equivalent to straight “romance” or that it even makes sense to refer to the former as “romance” at all is part of the reason why queers opposed gay marriage

let’s just scroll the dial all the way back to that time where if you didn’t date and eventually marry a man you would be viewed as an old spinster and have zero social safety net

lesbians have been figuring aromanticism as inherently political for like half a century

i’m in a fire emblem fan server and all the comments are things like “the pokémon fandom is terrible they were all clamouring for BDSP and now they’re all trashing it” and then i’m in a pokémon fan server and it’s just like 98% not even talking about the new games and the remaining 2% “BDSP looks cool i’m excited for it”

the pokémon fandom is fine and chill, it’s the pokémon fans who are too good for fandom who are all assholes

getting arbitrarily frustrated over people saying “the pokémon fandom” and not “pokémon fans”

sometimes… you just really need a lisp……

not me though, couldn’t be me

sOMEtimes…… people have bad opinions

you can’t but laugh 🐍

“critical theory is teaching our kids that America is evil!!” friend, Nietzsche dispensed with the idea of evil over a century ago

there’s a whole world of content out there

i simply think that academics would get a lot more done if they could simply overcome the 1‐centimetre barrier of the browser address bar

this isn’t anti‐intellectual it’s just anti‐academy

i was going to say “peer‐reviewed journal” but actually peer‐review is good so long as your peers aren’t academics

i probably won’t even mind on account of being a 🔳

if i ever publish a paper in an academic journal you’re allowed to ban me from mastodon

there are a few symbols on my Caps+Option keyboard that i frequently use but i forget about a lot of them