They did it for you. I’m Indigenous Canadian and it’s a human game that’s been played for thousands of years.
They call you a problem, treat you as problem, deal with you as a problem … and then ask why you’re a problem.
If you think about it objectively tho … you were never the problem … they were … they are.
I think the OP are allies not trans folks. But you’re spot on.
I love it. It’s threatening in a very subtle way, but not concrete enough to get you into legal trouble. I give it a 10/10 in protest banners.
What problems can’t be solved with trans BattleMechs?
Edit: Credit to artist Samwitch11
Good ol’ GRF-1N never lets me down.
I bought Starscream a drink at the bar that night. Hope you’re doing ok buddy ❤️
Overheating after an alpha strike?
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“Intereting point about my identity. However, you’re within 3 hexes and I’ve got so many lasers.”
The HBK-4P Discoback is undoubtedly a hit when starting up the party in the club and when vaporizing transphobes
People say “lol”, but they don’t mean it.
People say “lol” and they often mean “I forcefully exhaled a little bit.”
When I saw this meme, I literally did a vocal “aah-ah-ha-ha-haa”.
I’m going to identify as more of a problem than I already do if they come for anyone trans. I already live in a country where trans people are pretty rare though but I’ll just protect the ideal if there’s no actual trans people to protect. (Aside from myself and I’m really not comfortable taking that identity for myself with the amount sexual fluidity that I have though I do recognize having some.)
That is pretty awesome.
dang, that was huge box
That’s what he said?
I’m problematic.
When I was 17, on Halloween, I dressed up as Aladdin.
I did not darken my skin.
But still, it feels weird in hindsight.
I think it’s fine to dress up as characters of other ethnicities. But just don’t do blackface. If no-one “gets” your costume because you didn’t do blackface, then it’s a shit costume, but at least you weren’t being racist. If people get it and you aren’t wearing black-face, what’s the problem?
I dressed up blackface once… I was eight or nine, and the whole family was dressing up as the star trek voyager crew, since that was airing at the time and we were huge trekkies. I got to be the coolest of the characters - Tuvok. I got to dress in black clothes with yellow shoulders, a spatula as a phaser and the tv-remote for a tricoder, and my dad put band-aids on my ears and darkened me with some shoe polish. I felt awesome. I was so cool. I got to do all the lines and be all vulcan and logical. Later, I understood it might’ve not been the most tasteful…
Bro.
When I was about that age, in Finland, and we were in the Mayday fair, my dad bought me a literal black face, as in a rubber mask that covered your face and was EXTREMELY racist, with like the worst 19th century racist drawing of a generic sub-Saharan African you could think of. The whole 9 yards. No. 900 yards.
I found the mask like a few years ago while we were cleaning out grandmas house and man, the shame I felt. shudder
Damn.
Your post reminded me of being 10 when 9/11 happened. The amount of racist hate that I saw on a daily basis is absolutely disgusting to me. All that fuckin’ nationalism really turned a lot of people into monsters. Even me.
Shit, I remember a friend of mine who was suspended for calling a Muslim girl a “sand n*”. All my dumbass 12 year old friends, including me, going on about freedom of speech. Fuck. I fucking hate Amerikkka, bro.
Well this was like at most 2-4 years earlier than that, so around the same time.
I’m not even American. I’m Finnish. I don’t think you’d understand how prevalent racism here is. Like even the stereotypical hippie girls, you know? Like it’s a sort of somewhat casual racism, but it’s very deep in the society.
My therapist who’s British originally told me how he was in a sauna one day and the discussion turned to something political and that the people just threw out the n-word so casually. And this was like just this year, uh, last year I mean.
Yeah the “sand n” word is used her as well, pfff.
Like genuinely I’ve gotten into a lot of trouble for calling people out for those things. Which is like… honestly. I get looked down on for saying that we shouldn’t use racial slurs? Like genuinely, you’ll get more disgusted looks in Finland by saying “you shouldn’t use the n-word” then you would by saying the n-word. Perhaps it’s different in the capital area and the younger gens? I fucking hope it is.
Not from the sound of it
I was always disappointed that the cultural appropriation includes disallowing dressing as other cultures. Why would it be so wrong to play someone else for a moment? It’s just some innocent fun, so why prohibit it?
Sounds racist if you want a group of people to (not) do something because of their race.
Exactly
It’s saying “Stick to your own kind”, but in a different context.
I believe the concept of cultural appropriation divides more than it unites and it would be a net positive to get rid of it
Why was it weird?
You’d have to ask Bo Burnham.
Who? What?
That special was very impactful to me. Reminded me why I was always a big fan of his too.
The saddest part is they know damn well we’re not gonna be a problem at all.
Then we have to prove them wrong
