One of the most annoying things about trooons is their weird obsession with periods.
Good lord, the period creepiness is so fucking telling innit? Like, not only does he buy tampons "just in case" a "friend" needs one (Note he doesn't say women or female at all in this period preparedness fantasy), he has to be performative about it. "Is this a good brand?" JFC. In all my years of actually being a woman, I've maybe been asked for a period product twice? Three times, maybe? Imagine carrying around a product you DON'T need just on the off-chance a woman asks an obvious man for a tampon, and all so he could go home and post about it on Twitter with his hand down his pants.
We've moved past "if you don't give me what I want, I'll kill myself" to "it's genocide of you don't do what I say."
It really is an appeal to authority. If the law says it, they ARE it.
Other people gave great answers, but on top of those things, it's also the holy grail of their deceptive bullshit. The issue with changing just their ID gender marker is that there's still a greater source of truth out there, that they were still born male or female. Changing the birth certificate leaves zero hard evidence that they were anything other than an extremely ugly, male shaped woman (with a very peculiar genital malformation and an Adam's apple and giant hands and etc etc). That's the last shred of hard documentation blotted from the earth (depending on the state's vital record policies, not all states permit 100% rewrites and only permit amendments), so that's a big deal for them.
I think the aggressive, cross sex hormone regimen fucks with their salt levels. So they end up having salt cravings. So loving pickles (
) is part of tranny culture or some shit.
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Geranium: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and Classics hat.
I think the aggressive, cross sex hormone regimen fucks with their salt levels. So they end up having salt cravings. So loving pickles (
I think it's a mix of both, apparently Spiro actually gives you very bad salt cravings (and makes you pee more often) and they just took the pickles for their stereotype because women amirite
If an actual woman ever acted like this in front of me I'd 100% assume she was waiting for me to look away so she could stab me in the neck with a pen.
I'm confused, is it Fahrenheit or Celsius? His clothes say Fahrenheit but it's late May.
Oh my god, my fucking sides.Tony knows what's on my bingo card and he wants me to fill it. Yesterday's TikTok on Roman emperor Elagabalus (R 218-222):
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In true Tony style, his research seems to have consisted entirely of reading "7 amazing facts you never knew about the trans Roman emperor
Geranium: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and Classics hat.
The current standard work on Elagabalus in English is by Martijn Icks, titled, er, The Crimes of Elagabalus. The Daily Mail wrote a summary of the juiciest bits when it was first published by IB Taurus in 2011.
The short of it is that Elagabalus was made emperor at 14 thanks to the machinations of his grandmother, the aunt of assassinated emperor Caracalla. Elagabalus had a tendency of murdering advisors when they told him things he didn't want to hear, dinner guests and members of the public (in the modern sense). He also wanted to replace the Roman pantheon with the deity his cult worshipped — literally a rock.
Tony says that Elagabalus "grew to hate the political establishment in Rome" and "went to war with the Senate and won". This is not really accurate. Elagabalus had a habit of having senators assassinated, including one whose wife he wanted to marry. His heresy, hedonism and profligate spending alienated pretty much everyone — there's even a suggestion that his own mother and grandmother were scheming to get rid of him. Ultimately the Praetorian Guard had had enough and stabbed him to death while he hid in a toilet.
Elagabalus was more Joffrey from Game of Thrones than Stan from Life of Brian.
Funnily enough, only the front half of Icks is about Elagabalus the man, the rest is about the distortions of the historical facts that have taken place since immediately after his assassination. I’d suspect "Elagabalus was trans" might appear in any second edition.
If a core of your belief is that reality is socially constructed and words are magic, then having an authority declare your preferred reality is probably pretty important. The same with pronouns and being able to enter sex segregated spaces. They can enter a rape shelter because the state says they're a women and must be admitted, so they are really, actually women.