since we’re all talking abt newcomers and stuff, when did you guys first join tumblr
for me it was back in like 2014 (i think) when i was in my twenty one pilots phase and didnt know how tumblr worked but i saw funny memes of it on facebook
i then tried to make a #inspirational quotes from animes and cartoons account where i just yoinked stuff from google images lmfao
8 months ago on November 8th, 2022| J | 39,521 notes
okay but do you understand that liz wallace made the bechdel-WALLACE test because she was a dyke who wanted to go to movies and pretend the characters were dykes and her friend alison bechdel happened to put her silly little litmus assessment into a comic strip and then the rest of everyone else decided it was a bona fide way of means testing media for Feminist Content? do you know that? it doesn’t sound like you know that
The first person to issue a marriage license to a gay couple in the United States was Clela Rorex. She was the commissioner of Boulder County, Colorado, in 1975, and she kept issuing licences to gay couples until she was ordered to stop.
She understood intersectional equality on a fundamental level – her logic being that she, a woman, a single mother, a feminist in the 70s, could not deny a gay couple the right to a marriage. She was a champion and a pioneer for queer people for the rest of her life, and she passed away this week.
Remember Clela during Pride, with the fighters and the disruptors, as another person who helped pave the way for us.
Anyway with anti-sodomy laws back on the discussion table I’m going to repeat that you can personally be squicked out by the consensual sex someone else has, but saying that their consensual sex between willing, active, adult participants should be illegal and is indicative of some sort of moral failing is L I T E R A L L Y a major facet in extreme homophobia and absolutely has gotten people killed.
You don’t have to like their business but as long as everyone involved in the encounter is saying yes, it’s also really not your business.
This is the precident you are helping further by digging your heels in and saying ‘but I think it’s gross and makes them bad people’. This is what happened last time that was the reasoning for law, and what is being threatened to happen again.
“but Jaz, how would they enforce it”
Easily.
People would report you to the police for any hint of it. Whether real or imagined. You held hands with someone of the same sex. Someone started a rumor that they saw you kissing. You bought a sex toy and the vendor automatically reported you. You clicked a web page or picked up a magazine that had a different suspected deviant on it and the shop owner or internet service provider automatically reported you. You had certain mannerisms. You hung out to much with a specific friend. You seemed too close to a family member. Literally anything.
In some cases people would literally peep through windows, listen at the door, even wait across the street for your guest to come over and then call the police to kick the door down and catch the two of you in the act.
Never forget that the Stonewall riot was started by one such raid where police stormed a gay bar looking to arrest as many “sodomy” and “public indecency” suspects as possible.
That’s how. By encouraging people to barge into other people’s private, consensual sex lives and make reports to the authorities. By encouraging people to lay traps so unsuspecting gay people could stumble into them. By encouraging people to stalk and harass anyone who showed any sign of 'being a pervert’ in the name of 'protecting neighborhoods from predators’. By weaponizing the real concern for predatory behavior against people who were engaging in consensual intimacy in a way they happened to not like.
By doing exactly what I’ve been continuously saying is bad behavior that has gotten countless LGBT people jailed and killed.
We’re not turning this against our own community. Homophobes and transphobes have already made it plenty clear they don’t care how good or respectable we are, they just want us all dead.
“how would they enforce it”
well in 2012 a guy named snowden let us know they’re basically wiretapping us at all times and have gigantic collections of all our metadata and we have been living in a nice little surveillance state since 2001’s patriot act
Don’t forget just a few years ago in…I forget if it was Cameroon or Uganda, but one of the two, a tabloid published an entire-ass doxx list and encouraged readers to “kill the homosexuals.”
One of the women on that list, after she managed to escape, turned out to be straight. She just had a neighbor who disliked her and reported her to get her out of the way.
