There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

#11401

I knew it. He's a white male full of toxic male privilege! I'LL BET YOU THE MEDIA WON'T CALL THIS TERRORISM.

#11402

Why oh why isn't this show about ME?!?

Why This Trans Woman Can't Identify With 'The Handmaid's Tale'

For most women, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is terrifying and heart-wrenching. The show’s portrayal of a world that is dehumanizing, spiteful, and disgustingly violent toward womanhood feels only a few steps removed from today’s reality. Yet unlike most women, I have found it hard to actually identify into a world where I, as a transgender woman, would already be dead.

The Handmaid’s Tale is set in Gilead, a near-future society where the political fallout of a worldwide infertility crisis and nuclear war led to a nonspecified religious sect gaining political control of America. In this society, fertile women are both venerated and subjugated. They become "handmaids" — a farmed resource, banned from reading and free movement, and subjected to ritualized rape and abuse. Any nonfertile women seen in the show are either torturing the handmaids or serve as housekeepers, as wives, or in other stereotypically domestic roles.

Under the new religious regime, people showing LGBT tendencies, such as having same-sex relationships, are immediately killed as “gender traitors” or sent to a nuclear wasteland to work until they die from radiation poisoning. The only exceptions are the handmaids, whose fertility is precious, and therefore they are protected from the death penalty. Yet this doesn’t stop them from being punished in horrific ways.

It’s not shocking that trans people aren’t represented in this world. Unlike many of our cisgender queer counterparts, transgender people who have started transitioning may find it very hard to go back into the closet to protect ourselves. We are sometimes very visibly transgender due to old-fashioned gender stereotypes that a society like Gilead heavily leans into. We trans people would quickly be branded “gender traitors.”

Even the fertility that protects other queer women in The Handmaid’s Tale may be out of reach for transgender people. Many trans people, especially trans women like myself, become sterile when they take hormones or have gender-confirmation surgery. Even more horrifying, in many countries around the world like Greece and Finland, trans people have to prove they are sterile before they can even change their gender markers. France only just outlawed this practice as inhumane last year.

With all this in mind, it becomes hard for me to identify within the world of The Handmaid’s Tale. How can I feel June’s terror at her situation when I know I would never face it myself? I can sympathize but not empathize with so many of the show's stories. This feeling of being left out can sometimes hurt, especially given the cultural significance that The Handmaid’s Tale has come to represent for a lot of women under the Trump administration.

That’s not to say that I demand trans representation in The Handmaid’s Tale like I do from other TV shows. The Handmaid’s Tale represents an important conversation we need to have about women’s place in the world. With Donald Trump’s attacks on women’s health organizations like Planned Parenthood, women’s reproductive health is very much at stake. It’s a crucial fight that I as a woman without a uterus don’t have the right to suppress. While I am a woman and will always fight for inclusion in women’s spaces, there are battles that cis women face that trans women don’t, and there are battles that cis women don’t face that trans women do. Yet we are all still women. We (should) all stand together to fight for and with each other.

The trans community’s exclusion from the futuristic narrative of The Handmaid’s Tale is understandable. It just becomes emblematic of the daily fears that I face. Every time I hear about the trans military ban, the Department of Education rescinding protections for trans students, a transgender bathroom bill being voted on, or another conservative rally screaming out, “There are only two genders!” I'm reminded that I and trans people like me would likely be the first ones to die if Gilead ever comes to pass.

Yet maybe The Handmaid’s Tale should address this. The series often presents flashbacks showing how Gilead came to be. Perhaps a trans person’s struggles could appear there. Or back in the future world of Gilead, what if a character identified as transgender in this world? How would they hide or suppress it? Or what if there was a “passing” infertile trans woman who desperately had to hide her trans identity from the government? Or a trans man still able to carry babies forced to be a handmaid despite being a man? Adding trans people to the narrative could complicate the story in new and interesting ways that draw attention to not only the oppression of all trans people, but all genders (#ImAvailableforaWritersRoomJob).

I’m preparing to binge every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale. The show’s lack of transgender characters, whether intentional or unintentional, brings up a lot of questions about what the future may hold for the trans community in a dystopian world. Even if a real Gilead comes to pass — and I don't make it through the first act — I still want to know how it ends. I'm just saddened that I may not get to join the fight.

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/201 ... ssion=true

#11403

John D wrote: ↑ Any real and pragmatic solution will be appreciated.... but we already have 200 million guns in the country.... so they are not gonna go away any time soon.

I don't suppose there's anything that can be done about the 200 million guns already out there and I'm not suggesting peoples 2nd amendment rights be taken away but surely there has to be some kind of serious back ground check and licensing brought in now.
I imagine from what is now being revealed about the shooter that whatever motives he had the one common denominator will once again be mental health and he'll most probably have been on some kind of depressive/anxiety medication. (Joe Rogan I think has touched on this before)

Coming from a country that doesn't have this 'love in' with guns I find it all just so sad. Yes we have problems with knives and we have gun crime and we've had serial shooters before but nothing on this scale. We do have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world and even our coppers don't carry guns as a norm. Personally, I'm glad we've gone down that route.

#11404

SM1957 wrote: ↑
Hunt wrote: ↑ Finally, a film Nicolas Cage doesn't overact in.
if he played a corpse, he would overact.

https://tobis.de/fileadmin/Tobis/News/P ... acting.gif

#11405

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑ Any real and pragmatic solution will be appreciated.... but we already have 200 million guns in the country.... so they are not gonna go away any time soon.
I don't suppose there's anything that can be done about the 200 million guns already out there and I'm not suggesting peoples 2nd amendment rights be taken away but surely there has to be some kind of serious back ground check and licensing brought in now.
I imagine from what is now being revealed about the shooter that whatever motives he had the one common denominator will once again be mental health and he'll most probably have been on some kind of depressive/anxiety medication. (Joe Rogan I think has touched on this before)

Coming from a country that doesn't have this 'love in' with guns I find it all just so sad. Yes we have problems with knives and we have gun crime and we've had serial shooters before but nothing on this scale. We do have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world and even our coppers don't carry guns as a norm. Personally, I'm glad we've gone down that route.

Encourage American muslims to buy guns. I have a feeling that if US muslims started buying guns en masse, the NRA and its supporters would suddenly find that their idea of The Right To Bear Arms is a little more nuanced than they previously thought.

#11406

Shatterface wrote: ↑
SM1957 wrote: ↑
Hunt wrote: ↑ Finally, a film Nicolas Cage doesn't overact in.
if he played a corpse, he would overact.
https://tobis.de/fileadmin/Tobis/News/P ... acting.gif

I like Cage when he's asked to play a complete nutcase. Like in Kick Ass. I could completely believe he was the kind of guy who could shoot his pre-teen daughter in the chest to train her as a superhero.

#11407

Face/Off was also good casting for Cage. The plot of the movie was insane, the characters were insane, who better than Cage could fit in within the insanity?

It's when they ask him to play a normal human being that he fails, and badly.

#11408

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑
Shatterface wrote: ↑
SM1957 wrote: ↑
Hunt wrote: ↑ Finally, a film Nicolas Cage doesn't overact in.
if he played a corpse, he would overact.
https://tobis.de/fileadmin/Tobis/News/P ... acting.gif
I like Cage when he's asked to play a complete nutcase. Like in Kick Ass. I could completely believe he was the kind of guy who could shoot his pre-teen daughter in the chest to train her as a superhero.

I like that he played the role sounding like Adam West.

#11409

Shatterface wrote: ↑I like that he played the role sounding like Adam West.

Yep, that was another good touch. The character was supposed to be a Batman nerd who was so much of a dork that he ruined his daughter's childhood to play hero in real life, so it made sense for him to want to sound like the dorkiest version of Batman.

#11410

Tigzy wrote:

Encourage American muslims to buy guns. I have a feeling that if US muslims started buying guns en masse, the NRA and its supporters would suddenly find that their idea of The Right To Bear Arms is a little more nuanced than they previously thought.

The only way to stop muslims with guns is real Americans with bigger guns.

#11411

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: ↑
Thu May 17, 2018 6:41 pm
I did spread the word around to my American friends about a liver, but most just offered fava beans and a nice Chianti.

I really hope you can find a donor soon Conc.

Thanks Phil, truly much appreciated. And trust me, I never believe all that stuff they say about you on the backchannel. I always say "Hey, guys, it is possible that there is at least one French guy out there who isn't a miserable garlic-munching bastard that would be easily flushed from a trench by a couple of Girl Scouts armed with nothing more dangerous than pigtails and cookies".

#11412

Shatterface wrote: ↑ Even if I agree with him I hope the trannies tear this cunt a new cunt for being such a cunt:

He lay down in the mud with SJW pigs, and now he can fucking wallow in it.

#11413

I guess PZ is just another honest broker deluded by the MSM.

... and immigrants are just animals.

“We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.”

I don’t respect Republicans and Trump voters at all. But I do recognize their humanity and consider them to be people, at least.

Amazing mistake given the detail in the quote that he got right.

#11414

Something fishy here.

#11415

John D wrote: ↑
SM1957 wrote: ↑
Hunt wrote: ↑ Finally, a film Nicolas Cage doesn't overact in.
if he played a corpse, he would overact.
In Cage's defense, he was the star of one of my favorite movies of all time: "Raising Arizona"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/

Bingo! My exact opinion too. I've disliked his acting in everything else, but he was perfectly casted in Raising Arizona.

#11416

I thought Cage brought amazing emotional depth to City of Angels.

He crossed the street to shake hands at the opening of Wind Talkers in 2002, which I happened across while visiting LA.
That event was mostly seared into my memory by seeing Barbara Eden, whom I’d still haul from her wheelchair for a tickle.

#11417

America and Harry. You have enriched us in ways I’d never have imagined.

PRINCE Charles has stepped in to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle at the royal wedding on Saturday, but she has made the bold choice to complete part of the bridal procession alone.

In what CNN has described as a “striking feminist statement”, the US news channel reports that Ms Markle will walk down the aisle of the nave of St George’s Chapel unescorted.

#11418

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑
Fri May 18, 2018 11:40 am
I like Cage

We have found a bridge to far. You're dead to me. :snooty:

#11419

For those of us that like to see Cage dying in pain:

#11420

He does a good redneck, I really liked him in con air too, which was a fantastic movie shut up.

Looking forward to seeing who wins the Dmitrious hot potato fight.

#11421

rayshul wrote: ↑
Fri May 18, 2018 2:54 pm
He does a good redneck, I really liked him in con air too, which was a fantastic movie shut up.

#11422

Actors who are shit with money are really the best, they have to do turns in the worst fucking movies so they can pay their tax bills.

#11423

Wild at Heart.

Everybody (Dern, Dafoe, Ladd, Stanton) was hamboning so hard, Cage's lunacy came off as middlebrow.

https://imgur.com/JQZ8820.jpg

#11424

Creepy Muscato creeps on a girlfriend (he doesn't mention her gender, but he's a lesbian, yo).

Remember, he identifies as asexual, so essentially this never happened.

https://imgur.com/iBSNUOT.png

https://imgur.com/fJvohf6.png

#11425

Forgot the link:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/danielle ... 362690479/

#11426

Excessive sweating and tachycardia are symptoms of being a fat fuck, nothing to do with being a woman.

#11427

Shatterface wrote: ↑ Excessive sweating and tachycardia are symptoms of being a fat fuck, nothing to do with being a woman.

Yeah, he should've either deleted the bit about documenting his wank "for science" or disclosed he has high blood pressure and heart disease.

#11428

holy shit what
what

#11429

rayshul wrote: ↑ holy shit what
what

:lol:

I dunno. Nope. I dunno, either.

#11430

Ape+lust wrote: ↑
rayshul wrote: ↑ holy shit what
what
:lol:

I dunno. Nope. I dunno, either.

Nothing gets me in the mood as good as asking someone for their "explicit permission to fantasize about them" while I'm having a J Arthur.

#11431

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: ↑
Ape+lust wrote: ↑
rayshul wrote: ↑ holy shit what
what
:lol:

I dunno. Nope. I dunno, either.
Nothing gets me in the mood as good as asking someone for their "explicit permission to fantasize about them" while I'm having a J Arthur.

HAHA! I hope the sour smell of a prison mattress gets him in the mood. Because "I was pressured, I felt I couldn't say no" has sent a lot of men to the slammer.

#11432

Ape+lust wrote: ↑
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: ↑
Ape+lust wrote: ↑
rayshul wrote: ↑ holy shit what
what
:lol:

I dunno. Nope. I dunno, either.
Nothing gets me in the mood as good as asking someone for their "explicit permission to fantasize about them" while I'm having a J Arthur.
HAHA! I hope the sour smell of a prison mattress gets him in the mood. Because "I was pressured, I felt I couldn't say no" has sent a lot of men to the slammer.

He's dangerously close to Louis CK territory here. A couple years from now when he tweets the wrong opinion about something and the accusations start, I guaran-fucking-tee this friend of his will be among them.

#11433

katamari Damassi wrote: ↑ He's dangerously close to Louis CK territory here. A couple years from now when he tweets the wrong opinion about something and the accusations start, I guaran-fucking-tee this friend of his will be among them.

That's coming sooner than later, I think. Because he's an arrogant little fuck with a silver spoon upbringing that's left him ignorant and naive, yet convinced he's some sort of sage. He does dumb stuff because he doesn't know better and reacts badly when it's pointed out.

#11434

https://www.thedailybeast.com/congressi ... g-bathroom

#11435

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: ↑ ...
Nothing gets me in the mood as good as asking someone for their "explicit permission to fantasize about them" while I'm having a J Arthur.

Reportedly he was rather a straight-laced fellow - who would rather not be known for his contribution to the vocabulary...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... plaque.JPG

#11436

Sometimes I think that life has gone beyond parody. But if there is anyone out there looking to support a good cause...

https://www.patreon.com/BrentJohn

https://www.curioos.com/brentcherryart

#11437

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ Listen, I know you Yanks love guns and the 2nd amendment thing and right to arm bears and all that shit, I get it but fucking hell, how many more? .. Do something ffs. :cry:

Just try and take mer gurns, commie. MOLON LABE!!!! Hurrrrrr....

#11438

* I mean "un tek"

#11439

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Sometimes I think that life has gone beyond parody. But if there is anyone out there looking to support a good cause...

https://www.patreon.com/BrentJohn

https://www.curioos.com/brentcherryart

The hairy chest makes me think it's Danielle Muscato.

#11440

katamari Damassi wrote: ↑
MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Sometimes I think that life has gone beyond parody. But if there is anyone out there looking to support a good cause...

https://www.patreon.com/BrentJohn

https://www.curioos.com/brentcherryart
The hairy chest makes me think it's Danielle Muscato.

Oh shit. Didn't see that it said "anti-SJW"

#11441

Next person who shares a detailed description of a Dave Muskrat masturbation experience I will hunt down and kill.

#11442

So Muscato is asexual "by choice"? SUUURE he is.

I wouldn't be surprised if he secretly posts on some incel boards, whining about all the hot women he gets to hang around with and who are superficially friendly with him, but that he doesn't get to fuck.

#11443

So Muscato is asexual "by choice"? SUUURE he is.

I wouldn't be surprised if he secretly posts on some incel boards, whining about all the hot women he gets to hang around with and who are superficially friendly with him, but that he doesn't get to fuck.

#11444

There I am eating my itialinan sausage pizza in my lonely hotel room and wham bam!

#11445

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKoEY-8ahdM

#11446

May 19th .. Not the greatest day to be a female Royal. :?

#11447

Shatterface wrote: ↑
Fri May 18, 2018 10:30 am
Why oh why isn't this show about ME?!?

Why This Trans Woman Can't Identify With 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Why on earth would you need to "identify" with a movie in order to appreciate it? Do you also need to "identify" with Blade as a vampire? With Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang?

#11448

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑
Fri May 18, 2018 10:40 am
I don't suppose there's anything that can be done about the 200 million guns already out there and I'm not suggesting peoples 2nd amendment rights be taken away but surely there has to be some kind of serious back ground check and licensing brought in now.

Also about storage rules probably, as I suspect that those school kid have borrowed daddy's gun. Someone mows down people with your weapon => same prison sentence as he'd have gotten if he'd survived the police fire.

#11449

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑ So Muscato is asexual "by choice"? SUUURE he is.

I wouldn't be surprised if he secretly posts on some incel boards, whining about all the hot women he gets to hang around with and who are superficially friendly with him, but that he doesn't get to fuck.

Muscato looks like an archetypal incel tbh.

#11450

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑
Fri May 18, 2018 11:42 am
Face/Off was also good casting for Cage. The plot of the movie was insane, the characters were insane, who better than Cage could fit in within the insanity?

It's when they ask him to play a normal human being that he fails, and badly.

I disagree. In my memory he was doing fine in Leaving Las Vegas.

#11451

DrokkIt wrote: ↑
Kirbmarc wrote: ↑ So Muscato is asexual "by choice"? SUUURE he is.

I wouldn't be surprised if he secretly posts on some incel boards, whining about all the hot women he gets to hang around with and who are superficially friendly with him, but that he doesn't get to fuck.
Muscato looks like an archetypal incel tbh.

Transactivism seems more and more like an incel cult than a gender identity. It's all about entitlement to women's places and women's bodies.

There's more to being a woman than failing to be a man.

#11452

This is a good docu....

#11453

:shock:

#11454

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ :shock:

This is just wrong.

Porn should be 4K and landscape.

#11455

feathers wrote: ↑
Shatterface wrote: ↑
Fri May 18, 2018 10:30 am
Why oh why isn't this show about ME?!?

Why This Trans Woman Can't Identify With 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Why on earth would you need to "identify" with a movie in order to appreciate it? Do you also need to "identify" with Blade as a vampire? With Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang?

Trans activists are all fucking narcissists.

With all this in mind, it becomes hard for me to identify within the world of The Handmaid’s Tale. How can I feel June’s terror at her situation when I know I would never face it myself? I can sympathize but not empathize with so many of the show's stories.

How can I possibly care about other people? Why isn't this show about me me me?

This feeling of being left out can sometimes hurt, especially given the cultural significance that The Handmaid’s Tale has come to represent for a lot of women under the Trump administration.

I want a piece of that oppression, too!

That’s not to say that I demand trans representation in The Handmaid’s Tale like I do from other TV shows.

Yeah, I think the cast of Orange Is The New Black pretty much filled that 0.3% quota all on its own.

You could also imagine that 1.5 of the 500 anonymous Tommies wiped out by that Stuka in DUNKIRK were closeted transwomen.

Or, you could get treatment for your NPD.

#11456

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Next person who shares a detailed description of a Dave Muskrat masturbation experience I will hunt down and kill.

So, there I was, hanging out in the local park just after dark when I found a discarded Muskrat mask. As I slid it over my head, I heard the unmistakable sound of high heels approaching and felt the old familiar tingle in my porridge plant. Suddenly, things were looking up...

PM me for the rest of this poorly written pile of shite.

(Come at me, Cavanaugh, you fucking sissy!)

:twisted:

#11457

I thought the whole trans thing was about identifying with something you are clearly NOT but clearly it's about identifying as and never with.

There's zero empathy with actual women.

#11458

Actual women are passé.

#11459

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Actual women are pussé.

FTFY.

#11460

The shit part is that I know plenty of non insane trans people and it seems like... there's a massive comorbidity with people with real crazy personal problems and this stuff. But I wonder if that's just the fact that being trans has become faddish - these people aren't really trans, they are looking for the next way to be special or different or... uh, sexually fucked up.