stamping-hammies

this account sucked but the terminally online rats being a cunt about it didn't exactly help. listen - try to educate people before you blindly flame them. i was 13 when i properly cared about this account (fyi: as i write this in 2023, i'm 20. so, relatively long time ago), so was very impressionable and overly emotional and my opinions were guided majorly by what i thought people (read: mostly tories and people who bullied me at school for being non-binary and neurodivergent) would like me for, not what made sense to me personally. mind you, a lot of yous who flamed me clearly did it to look "good" or "correct" or "funny" or whatever, didn't really care about changing my mind, so i hope you've grown up as i have.

in case you're curious about my current beliefs:

- lgbt+ discourse is fucking stupid - if you think some lithsexual polyromantic agenderflux 14 y/o on tumblr is a problem or threat to our community, get a better perspective.

- if someone wants to use neopronouns and all, let them. they're not hurting anyone. you might not understand it, but they don't need to present themselves in a way that's palatable to you.

- cis/het phobia isn't real. "down with cis" jokes and similar ones are ironic (a twist on people's attempts to oust lgbt+ people from society) and used to punch up as an oppressed group. people are not oppressed for being cishet, and if you think they are, read the news and then the definition of oppression.

- science and history support trans & non-binary people. gender, unlike sex, is a social construct and it has been that way for many, many years. colonisation has led to obsessive pigeon-holing of people into one group or another, and the very conflict of ideas of binary gender versus other perceptions of gender in different cultures attests to its existence as a social construct. medical transition, though not necessary for validity as a trans person, has been proven by studies to benefit the mental health of trans people. honestly, this is a complex topic that i won't get into all the nuances of here, so i recommend you do some reading of your own.

- triggered jokes still aren't funny tbh. sorry, not sorry. these jokes have been used to water down the meaning of the word to the point where it's frequently misused and not taken seriously.