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Complaints of Your Teacup

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We all love tea. But have you ever appreciated your teacup?

This is a poem where your teacup complaints about you.

Thecomplaints are funny and it would be better not to read it while drinking the tea. Because laughing while reading the poem might increase the anger of your teacup.

Your teacup is angry at you and has expressed his anger through this poem. I think you must read it otherwise your teacup might rebel against you!

Complaints of Your Teacup

greyhyms:

yknow, I used to chalk up all the meticulous guarding of lgbt labels to people chasing a sense of superiority - be it moral or intellectual. “You don’t know what this word means, you’re using it wrong, your existence is wrong, I’m right and here’s the citations to prove it.”

But I don’t think it’s that, actually. at least not in the majority case. I don’t think people are *trying* to create hostility and isolation - I actually think they’re doing the opposite. Rather, they think they are. They think it’s a defence tactic. I think this guarding of labels, allowing no fluctuation or grey space, is an attempt to protect the people inside those words from the worst of reactionaries and bigots. It’s an armour, it’s a wall, and it’s rigid and confining so as to best protect what’s inside it.

But no one is ever ever ever going to be truly liberated inside walls that rigid. It’s impossible on every level. And maybe some individuals are lucky enough to meet every proper check box for a word, according to whatever record has been drawn upon, but it doesn’t help anyone else. And it does nothing long term. It does make people scared though. Scared of stepping out of line and being thrown out. We just end up replacing one rigid set of rules, one binary and one social expectation, with a different one.

But we have to, don’t we? That’s what people think. Because if that person calls themself both a stone butch and a trans man interchangeably, changing day by day, never picking a side, then they’re invalidating and contradicting everyone else who uses those words. They’re watering them down, they’re making them WEAK. And when they’re weak they’re more vulnerable to attack. If one of the Bad Guys sees this person acting this way, they’ll make assumptions about everyone else and they’ll use it to disprove the existence of everyone else. This person is a weak link. This is a chink in the armour and a crack in the wall and we need to expel them and repair the damage before it’s too late.

If a trans woman is butch lesbian and doesn’t want to take hormones and wants to identify with he-him pronouns that can’t be allowed. That contradicts everything about every single one of those words. It’s an insult to being trans, to being a woman, to being a lesbian, and this person needs to commit properly because if he doesn’t, if he won’t conform, it will endanger everyone else using those words, it will water them down, it will make them weak. We have to get rid of the weak link or the Bad Guys will come after all of us. Better to go after just the one. Won’t even consider it a loss, because How Dare this person endanger us in the first place.

Men will attack lesbians if someone calls themself a bisexual lesbian, and others will think that bisexuality isn’t enough on its own. they’ll draw conclusions about everyone else won’t they? they’ll get the wrong idea about those words. You’re using the words wrong, you’re butchering those words, you’re ruining what they mean and you’re endangering the rest of us when you do it. Panic panic and quickly expel this person from the community. Call them out, call them names, harass them, torture them, ridicule them, it’s what they deserve. We have to keep these words safe and pure and good and they cannot fluctuate, they cannot change meaning, they cannot move around, because if they do that they become weak, diluted, and vulnerable to attack.

The same story, over and over and over and over and over again. And it’s wrong. It’s so wrong. The Bad Guys, the bigots and the reactionaries, they’ll come for you anyway. They don’t care if you use the words right or wrong, because they don’t want those words to exist at all. You aren’t safe in your walls, you’re trapped in them, and you’re vulnerable in there all on your own, like a sitting duck.

Stop kneejerk reacting to everything and everyone you think is too wild or wrong. It isn’t helping them and it isnt helping you. It’s helping the enemy who wants to hurt both of you. Divide and conquer has never been so easy than people fighting about who should be allowed to have the word lesbian in their URL.

satans-classics:

punkenglishnerd:

Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.

Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!