daggerpen:

Ashley Del Valle is a transgender woman from New York who was arrested in Georgia for indecent exposure after she allegedly showed her breasts, but then was housed in an all-male jail.

I just.

You arrest her because her top is too sheer and shows her nipples, something that is only a crime for women.

And then you jail her as a man.

Fucking fuck.

Fixed link.

Just found out you can search reddit for links to your blog. It came up when I googled grrlyman…

ghostcandle:

murtunacaptor:

bestdayeveraugustthird:

musicsoundslovelythanks:

crashwasplayingbadeverything:

swaggaraptor:

chiefkeeffanfiction:

amydentata:

At this rate, Colbert might actually be held accountable in the near future for making transphobic jokes.

Go trigger warn some shit

That’s not transphobic, though. He’s making a point that because the LGBT agenda is “barreling forward at full-speed” that the B and T of LGBT is being left behind. Everyone is focusing on the L and the G that there are people who have no idea what the B and T even stand for. He’s not being transphobic or making a slight meant to make fun of or harm the bi and trans* community. He’s making a point that no one is focusing on them because they’re focusing on the lesbian and gay community.

Mother. Fucking. This.

People really need to realize that EVERYTHING Colbert says while on camera is satire.

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the cotext of a play, novel, fiilm or other works.

He is not making a transphobic joke. He is not honestly saying that bi and trans people do not count/matter/exist. He is making humor in order to shed light on the fact that they are forgotten.

He is doing this to raise fucking awareness that there is more to LGBT than LG. He is raising a big flag that says “Hey, don’t forget about these guys. They count. They matter. Why aren’t you doing anything about them? Why aren’t they discussed?” He is not trying to say “They don’t matter.”

So please stop with the self righteous, self pity, “social justice” comments unless you know what you are talking about.

I do appreciate that Bisexual is matched with bacon. I rather enjoy bacon. 

This is why I love the Colbert Show.

Stephen Colbert is basically my hero.

Um I don’t mean to be rude but Stephen Colbert is pretty transphobic and no amount of mental gymnastics is going to change that.Satire really is only powerful as a tool of social justice when you’re satirizing those in power or oppressive stuff. Since he makes a ton of jokes using transgender people as a punchline he is kind of most definitely transphobic. Anyways I’m not very good at tumblr or making gifs but here are some of his quotes about trans people and a source. Please excuse me for posting them so awkwardly and whatever.

http://www.colbertnewshub.com/2012/04/03/april-2-2012/

 

I know some of you might think that like he apologized so it’s ok but using someones pain as a way to make another joke isn’t really an apology but whatever.

This is from his book America again where he uses a transphobic joke to make fun of gum and yeah…

I have no idea how this managed to reach 35k notes without a single person being like no actually Stephen Colbert is transphobic but yeah. I didn’t even bother to reblog everything but whatever. He has said tons more fucked up things and everyone can google it.

Tons of receipts here, also. He’s a perfect example of the liberal transmisogynist who uses trans women both as evidence of how great his social politics are and as the butt of his jokes.

slutevsies:

REALLY important, read up if you don’t know about this already

“At the same time they were cavalierly dismissing their concerns about GLBT unity and the Religious Right threat, they arrogantly demanded that transpeople work to pass gay-only rights bills…When transgender leaders would balk at those demands or point out the hypocrisy of leaving us behind, they would state they would ‘come back for us’.”

Sound familiar? While you’re on that site go ahead a READ EVERYTHING MONICA ROBERTS HAS EVER WRITTEN, PLEASE.

btw, the people who dismiss the criticisms of the rabid marriage equality movement are missing the fucking point. When you pretend that the criticisms are about gays not wanting other gays to have rights you’re ignoring the very important critiques of the racism, classism, and transphobia inherent in a movement that funnels millions into a cause that will most benefit those already at the top. Marriage equality is getting national attention and ridiculous amounts of funding while the people whose backs you built your movement on are being murdered in the streets with very little protest. Your insistence that this is making way for other issues isn’t a new lie. The mainstream gay rights movement has been telling trans people(and black people and poor people) “we’ll come back for you!” for decades. Look up trans exclusion from ENDA if you don’t believe me. Shit, open your fucking eyes. You have to be pretty willfully ignorant and full of unchecked privilege to think the only reason people could see an issue with this is for the purpose of denying you.

girljanitor:

cyberfawn:

I’m all for women’s rights and stuff but like some people take it too far idk like obviously there are things that we need to work on as a society and there’s a whole lot wrong with societies views of women and the way we are expected to act but like a 12 year old girl was shot in the face for trying to go to school in Afghanistan?? idk in America we have it pretty good I guess I feel like a lot of the time ppl are just looking for something to complain about

I would like to show you how ass-ignorant you are right now.

Remember when a 7 year old girl IN AMERICA WAS LIT ON FIRE AND SHOT BY THE POLICE FOR EXISTING???

Or when Tanya McDowell, a Black single mother sent her child to a school outside her district  in hopes of getting the child a better education, received a 5 year prison sentence?????

Remember when Joe Arpaio is too busy forcing women to give birth in CHAINS to even both to investigate OVER 400 RAPES in his jurisdiction?

Or when the number of women in poverty are at an all-time historic high RIGHT NOW?

And that women of color are TWICE as likely to be poor as white women?

Or when the Scott sisters received life sentences for stealing $11 as teens?

Or when Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 20 years for firing a warning shot from a gun she legally owned at her abuser who was threatening to kill her, 9 days after giving birth?

Or when CeCe McDonald was put into prison for DEFENDING HERSELF AGAINST A NEO-NAZI TRYING TO KILL HER?

Or when South Carolina sterilized over 7,000 people, mostly Black women?

Or when Regina McKnight, Laura Pemberton, Rachel Lowe, Martina Greywind, Michelle Marie Greenup, and countless other women have been thrown in jail for being PREGNANT?

BUT YEAH WOMEN IN AMERICA HAVE IT PRETTY GOOD, RIGHT?

SHUT UP WITH YOU WHITE SAVIOR BULLSHIT AND CLEAN UP YOUR OWN FUCKING HOUSE BEFORE YOU START FUCKING AROUND IN OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES.

So I’m waiting for the elevator and, like I often am, I’m thinking about what I’ll say or do to defend myself if I end up on the elevator with a straight white guy because that almost never goes well and then suddenly one of those pieces of heart breaking truths is revealed to me and I’m wondering what do those white men think about when waiting for the elevator? Could you imagine what we could accomplish if we(people who aren’t white men) didn’t have to spend so much of our energy on self defense?

australian-diaspora:

biyuti:

Lucy Meadows has killed herself. It is not long after her school issued a letter to notify parents that she would be presenting as herself at work.

(see this source tw: for birth name and misgendering)

there are no words

prayers for her soul and for her grieving family

Sign this petition to urge The Daily Mail to fire Richard Littlejohn, the transphobic writer who attacked Lucy Meadows in print.

our-lady-of-misandry:

misandryinhaiku:

our-lady-of-misandry:

misandryinhaiku:

privilege is in
the penis, why is that so 
hard to understand

Actually no

you just don’t understand that

you are transphobic

misandry is not

“i don’t hate males as long as

they’re wearing a dress”

Look at your life and

look at your choices because

you are a disgrace

—

The last thing we need

in the movement is your ass

saying shit like that

—

You are not only

attacking LEGIT women

who have a penis

—

But are letting off

misognistic men just ‘cause

They do not have one