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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Its Coke posted:

goddamn that whole press release though. it might as well be on pink paper with flowers around the margins and written in cursive.

"I'm so inspired by this wonderful place in my life, despite being scared over the invasive violence of my privilege, to embrace and love my authentic self" no bro. you need to buy Dark Souls and you need to play it for a month without talking to anyone. if you get lonely listen to the Joe Rogan and/or Cumtown podcasts. welcome to manhood

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

lol got his rear end :synpa:

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Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

So is Elliot's wife into men? She married someone who was a women so I'd think no, right? Does this mean they'll get divorced?

Maybe they will, maybe not. Sometimes there's intersection between butch/non-binary/masc/transmasc preferences, sometimes there's none, and sometimes the person is bi or pan. And sometimes the person loves the other enough not to care about it. Look at the writings of Leslie Feinberg, who writes about a similar conflict - preserving her identity as a butch lesbian, or whether he should sacrifice that to express himself in a masculine gender.

Lord Decimus Barnacle
Jun 25, 2005


Hell Gem

Waltzing Along posted:

Good for him.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

I ATE A BIG OLE PILE O poo poo CUZ IM A MAN!!

Ocean Book
Sep 27, 2010

:yum: - hi
I hate the cool guy woke poo poo where whenever queer issues come up it’s like “well whatever who even cares, I don’t care, whatever, you do you, it’s no big deal”, like you personally being ok with gay marriage and trans rights was all that was needed before queer advocacy became meaningless

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G
Never mind. I'm an idiot.

Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

im gay

Blueshirt
Sep 27, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Can we bully him for being a manlet now?

Cowman
Feb 14, 2006

Beware the Cow





great now I'm gay

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Blueshirt posted:

Can we bully him for being a manlet now?

I mean, if you're a tremendous piece of poo poo you can I guess

Cowman
Feb 14, 2006

Beware the Cow





if he's a guy now is he still gay?

Tinestram
Jan 13, 2006

Excalibur? More like "Needle"

Grimey Drawer

Ocean Book posted:

I hate the cool guy woke poo poo where whenever queer issues come up it’s like “well whatever who even cares, I don’t care, whatever, you do you, it’s no big deal”, like you personally being ok with gay marriage and trans rights was all that was needed before queer advocacy became meaningless

Perhaps, but on the other hand I think that the more people who say it's all cool and good, the better off the queer community will be.

Do it ironically
Jul 13, 2010

by Pragmatica
I’m the person who gets really angry about other people being happy and themselves when it affects me zero

*fires up Parler*

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

SubnormalityStairs posted:

Perhaps, but on the other hand I think that the more people who say it's all cool and good, the better off the queer community will be.

"That's cool and good" is fundamentally different from "who cares", though.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Cowman posted:

if he's a guy now is he still gay?

Coming out as [anything] doesn't change what you are although it may adjust the terminology

Not that you were asking in good faith

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

SubnormalityStairs posted:

Perhaps, but on the other hand I think that the more people who say it's all cool and good, the better off the queer community will be.

I think they were talking more about things like this

AHH F/UGH posted:

Is it wrong of me to say who cares

Twat McTwatterson
May 31, 2011
is the name change necessary? Or just personal preference?

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Twat McTwatterson posted:

is the name change necessary? Or just personal preference?

Depends on what you mean by "necessary" but for most cases yes.

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.
*me holding megaphone two inches from your eardrum* ACTUALLY I DON'T EVEN CARE WHAT HIS GENDER IS

Tinestram
Jan 13, 2006

Excalibur? More like "Needle"

Grimey Drawer

Who What Now posted:

I think they were talking more about things like this

If that's the case then yeah that's super obnoxious

Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS
gently caress my rear end Bolty!

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.
The good thing about this is that Juno will now never be used by Christian parents to convince their children to never get an abortion.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Stex T posted:

The good thing about this is that Juno will now never be used by Christian parents to convince their children to never get an abortion.

Also it's good anyway

ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy

GORDON posted:

I think they realized that making knives illegal in a country of 500 million guns was kind of stupid.

On topic, best wishes to Isaac. Life's lovely enough without having to pretend to be something you're not in order to keep the idiots happy.


titties posted:

Assisted opening knives are legally distinct from switchblades because ao knives need you to exert force to manually open the blade partway before the assist takes over while switchblades open automatically with a button press

:thunk:

So i can buy a mechanical switchblade that shoots its blade out for quicker blading as too a flip blade/butterfly knife that needs physical force to come out at a greater risk for the user ?

How can this be!

Congrats to Elliott by the way

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I had one of those butterfly knife style combs when I was a kid because I was a badass huge dork

AHH F/UGH
May 25, 2002

ShortyMR.CAT posted:

:thunk:

So i can buy a mechanical switchblade that shoots its blade out for quicker blading as too a flip blade/butterfly knife that needs physical force to come out at a greater risk for the user ?

How can this be!

Congrats to Elliott by the way

Because scary brown men and young white boys who stopped going to Protestant churches were carrying them

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.

The Bloop posted:

I had one of those butterfly knife style combs when I was a kid because I was a badass huge dork

Well, as long as you could do those flippy doo-dah tricks like that one guy in Falling Down then you're fine.

runnypoops
Mar 26, 2016

been there. done that. prove yourself to me.
Idiot Page

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Twat McTwatterson posted:

is the name change necessary? Or just personal preference?
Serious response - even gender neutral names can end up personally wrapped up in a lot of gender presentation baggage for the people involved. I don't think there'd be anything inherently wrong with a man being named Ellen, but clearly Elliot wasn't comfortable using that for himself now that he's come out. Other trans people can have different preferences because there's no one trans monolith all trans people have to match, but this shouldn't be used to excuse deadnaming trans people because '[certain person] is fine with it!'

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.
Gonna go into the reddit thread and look at all the most downvoted posts.

Any idea what protective clothing I should wear?

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Stex T posted:

Gonna go into the reddit thread and look at all the most downvoted posts.

Any idea what protective clothing I should wear?

A diaper and a condom, but that's just general advice; you shouldn't look at reddit

Jollity Farm
Apr 23, 2010

Wipe-clean waterproofs, against all the poo poo.

Anyway, this is good because, aside from anything else, the trans boys will have a good role model, one who isn't a (horrible) porn star, so they can talk about the issue with their mum.

(I suppose the aforementioned Chaz Bono might also be a point of reference for someone's mum, but he's mostly famous for being related to celebrities, so it might not work. Anyway, there's always room for another role model, it's not Highlander)

Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010

I encountered this information from the headline "Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page announces they are trans" and having never seen that show and Page being a not especially uncommon surname assumed that there is a different actor who had been presenting as male but had just revealed that their intention to transition, and since I had never heard of them didn't click through to find out more.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Its Coke posted:

I'm a little susppicious of it because of the press release. they use the phrase "my joy is real, but it is also fragile." no man would ever say something like that

So in a great many respects I'm a manly man type of guy, I'm just in to trucks and pitbulls and getting drunk and whatnot, and I would totally say this sort of poo poo. Your gender stereotypes are pretty messed up if you think gaming is a manly attribute.

Like that other poster but unironically, this has made me reconsider my sexuality.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

dudes rock

Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

I am also very into Pitbull

a new study bible!
Feb 2, 2009



BIG DICK NICK
A Philadelphia Legend
Fly Eagles Fly


Didn't David Cage creep on his nips?

Simone Magus
Sep 30, 2020

by VideoGames

Jollity Farm posted:

the trans boys will have a good role model, one who isn't a (horrible) porn star

Is Buck Angel bad now? I watched a documentary on him awhile ago and he seemed really cool

Anyway as a trans man also this is cool, I've always liked Page in most movies :)

Ironically I think he's the weakest part of Umbrella Academy but that's on the writing, not the acting

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
dudes stay winning


Simone Magus posted:

Is Buck Angel bad now? I watched a documentary on him awhile ago and he seemed really cool

Anyway as a trans man also this is cool, I've always liked Page in most movies :)

Ironically I think he's the weakest part of Umbrella Academy but that's on the writing, not the acting

oh yea Buck sucks real bad, major shithead about the whole 'I'm one of the RESPECTABLE ones not like you trans kiddies' and he's done poo poo like out partners when he's in a spat with them and all, real douchebag all around and it's hilarious that a porn dude is all smug about being a 'good one' now.

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Miss Broccoli
May 1, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Simone Magus posted:

Is Buck Angel bad now? I watched a documentary on him awhile ago and he seemed really cool

Anyway as a trans man also this is cool, I've always liked Page in most movies :)

Ironically I think he's the weakest part of Umbrella Academy but that's on the writing, not the acting

Yes, he loving sucks. He doesn't think non binary people are real, complains about anyone who doesn't look and transition exactly like he did, and he outed one of the Wachowskis publicly. He's also swallowed the stupid loving biology poo poo transphobes shout about.

Also a literal porn star is not good representation. Porn is not representation at all, it's fetishisation

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