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15 years ago, a "conservative" position that was widely popular was "we need to nuke Mecca, invade the Muslim world and forcefully convert them to Christianity"
Like this was the rhetoric used by people on the editorial pages of the New York Times, and people in Congress. The restrained position was we need to wage a forever war to prop up dictators who support our hegemony.
Before that, we had "Superpredators" and arguments about "preventing poor people from breeding"
And then the AIDS crisis
and Nuking Russia and forcefully converting them to Christianity (slavs are Godless Communists, you see. Orthodox isn't real.)
There's an aesthetic difference between the most powerful of older conservatives, who used to be more interested in sounding professional when they said horrible things, and today's most powerful conservatives, who are often more vulgar, but they're playing to the same audiences and for the same reasons
normalize men having fat fucking tits!!!
[ID: a tweet by @rockontoro that reads "not all trans man have like fucking A cups and can bind easy peasy and i wish we would normalize trans men not having completely flat chests cus neither do cis men lol" /end ID]
I remember seeing the youtuber macdoesit (who is an overweight cis guy) shirtless on camera for the first time and I was like damn. He's shaped kinda like I am under there. I mean my boobs are obviously much bigger because I went through estrogen puberty the first time but he had some little man boobs. And that led me to looking at more pics of shirtless obese cis men and some of them looked like me but like with smaller boobs. Obviously most of them didn't because contrary to popular belief there's many types of fat bodies but some of them were kinda shaped like me. I was previously comparing myself to this idea of the skinny easily passing trans man with small boobs and I weirdly feel better comparing myself to fat cis men now. There's this idea of how transmasc people are supposed to look that I've just never fit into. I'm fat, I don't bind most days because of my health issues, even when I do bind I'm still not flat. But after seeing other fat men I realized that the way I look, although ugly in the eyes of society and sometimes the queer community too, is... normal. And even if I don't like the way I look for myself at least now I know that I'm not like a freak of nature like I used to think when comparing myself to the trans men I saw on the internet.
I have the body build of a skinny gangly teenage boy but a much much larger chest. Like, comically imbalanced. So no matter how much I bind, I still look like... well, I look like I have boobs. My body doesn’t suit the “built chest muscles” vibe because my arms are pretty scrawny. All throughout teenhood I felt really gross about it. I wanted to be flat SO BAD and when I realized binding wouldn’t fix it all the way, I probably almost cried with misery and frustration.
I never really found a cis man that had my shape. But the moment that assisted in changing my perspective on my body was when I noticed that a kid names James in my university class had... kinda my shape. Skinny, with a weirdly un-skinny chest. And a more ‘feminine’ face. I gathered that James was a trans guy [or something on that spectrum, I never asked] — I had a feeling, naturally, but then I SAW his binder under his button-up shirt. And my brain went, “hey look— a boy, like you. With a shape like you.” James being my shape turned that shape into an acceptable and valid boy shape in my head, because James was an acceptable and valid boy. Of course he was.
official boob post
sometimes responding to media you like is articulate and sometimes it is microwave noises and static fizz
[ID: drawing of two simplified human figures. The first has their eyes closed and is looking pleased. They are in the middle of explaing something. The speechbubble reads: "fun and meaningful observations and analyses" the second is crouching with bloodshot eyes starring at the floor. The speechbubble is a colourful mix of static noise. End ID]
