here is the scene from baymax with the trans man without linking back to a transphobe/giving a transphobe clout pic.twitter.com/rBMh9rtNwR
— $ ELIANA $ (@loveIabor) June 29, 2022
It’s a few seconds in an online cartoon, how many people actually care… Oh.
IMO, this is the clip that actually knots the ‘conservative’ knickers. Your body may change, but you are still you…
Like i wish baymax was my father pic.twitter.com/gUnjIRvao3
— riss ?? (@harpyeda) June 29, 2022
This goes on my viewing list, in the aspiration that I’ll cut back on doomscrolling enough to merit subscribing. More here, including a trailer:
‘Baymax!’ Creators Discuss the Return of the Loveable Healthcare Robot
War For Ukraine Day 132: Air Raid Sirens Have Sounded Over Almost All of Ukraine As Russia Continues Its Bombardment
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Tampons are always a weird hang up with some guys. On occasion I have to buy them for my girlfriend and it’s whatever, but other guys a freaked out by the though even the touching things.
Anne Laurie
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I vaguely remember a male late-night talk show comedian, back in the 80s? 90s? doing a riff: Yes, I’m buying tampons. Cuz I got me a woman! And you’re buying… a twelve-pack and a pornographic magazine…
Those were simpler days. Not better, mind you, but simpler.
livewyre
There’s something about gender affirmation as a concept that completely throws off traditional norms of dominance – just as true today as a century ago. It’s actively offensive to tell youths that they can define themselves in ways other than are handed down to them, and letting gender variance play out cuts right to the heart of it.
Nominally you’re supposed to accept the place you’re given. You get special words on your birth certificate that designate whether you work inside or outside of the house, and what neighborhood to go live in with the rest of your kind. There are options for exceptionally gifted collaborators, but only insofar as they keep the structure standing. If just about anyone can discover their own gender then that all falls to pieces.
That’s why it’s the enemy. That’s why even the most innocuous displays of variance have to be shot down with every round of ammunition to hand – because it’s actually a threat to what’s actually being done. Affirmation destroys assignment. Anytime – anywhere – you could decide what life is about, it challenges the traditional order. And the traditional order says guns and gonads should be worshiped from birth, at the penalty of meeting the wrong end of one.
NotMax
Tampon trivia:
Wisconsin’s Rep Jim “Tex” Sensenbrenner did not receive his nickname from any connection with the Lone Star state.
NotMax
Ancillary feminine product clip: Spongeworthy.
;)
MisterForkbeard
You know what’s silly I’m watching that and my first impression wasn’t “trans man” it was “dude buying pads”. Because yes, a lot of us do that for our wives or girlfriends.
I can’t understand why people would watch that and immediately go crazy. The whole damn thing is innocuous.
Cheryl from Maryland
I remember my mother telling me that a boyfriend who bought you tampons was a keeper.
Anne Laurie
Mine, too!
If this is the worst thing TERFs can find to complain about… they really don’t know how well off they are, do they?
ColoradoGuy
I’ve always wondered why some men get all freaked out about periods, or tampons. She’s a girl, right? You do know that women menstruate, right? So why are you surprised by a bit of blood?
My own personal theory is that men rarely see (their own) blood unless something is very, very wrong, and they freak out when they see it. In the more old-school families, sisters keep it quiet, and mothers don’t discuss it with sons, so sons really are in the dark about the whole subject. It becomes a “female thing”, not discussed in the presence of boys or men.
I was fortunate my first girlfriend was so matter of fact about it. Just by power of example, I realized it was nothing special, just another weird social taboo, like so many others in our culture.
mrmoshpotato
So where is the screaming about balls sprouting hair? Oh, right, only lady parts (sorry) are gross.
NotMax
‘@mrmoshpotato
Obligatory?
evodevo
@ColoradoGuy: Men have ALWAYS been freaked out by menstruation…see: anthropology re: American Indian and many other societies’ customs isolating women to the outskirts of the village while having their periods; Jewish Levitical rules (Niddah) governing menstruating women’s behavior; Islam forbidding intercourse; some branches of Buddhism bar menstruating women from a temple; etc. etc.
MagdaInBlack
I can’t find anything offensive in these clips. I see kindness, sweetness and generosity of spirit.
I suppose a certain type finds those traits offensive.
sab
@MagdaInBlack: I think they are very sweet. But I do find it a little odd that a humanoid blimp with a man’s voice is consoling a young girl about her first period. On the other hand, at that age I wouldn’t have listened to a grown woman about much of anything. And my own mother was ridiculously nice.
Kropacetic
You may notice the dude’s sweater is a trans flag. Although, yes, perfectly normal for a cis man to buy pads or tampons.
RedDirtGirl
@Kropacetic: they do say “I get these ones”. So they appear to be buying them for themselves.
Anne Laurie
You know that, and I know that, but is the random two-year-old of the bigots’ fantasies gonna know more than ‘ooh, pretty colors‘?
satby
@Anne Laurie: That’s what the retrograde types are so worried sbout. Children are uncomplicated creatures, and the small ones mostly accept that if you say you’re a girl or a boy that’s what you are. If you can say what you are and have that be acceptable, where will it end? When they accuse all of us ( and they mean straight progressives too) of grooming, they’re speaking their fear of losing their hierarchy. It’s threatening enough to them to kill over.
Neldob
I thought that was very sweet. All that helpful togetherness reminds me of my distant right wing relative whose son is now a some variety of alphabet gendersex and the dad is now much nicer.