in honor of barbie movie, i dug my Midge ™ out of my parents’ shed so i could show you all just how she worked if you’ve never witnessed it in action
as you can see, Midge has a magnetic pregnancy belly that contours to her unpregnant body
now inside the pregnancy belly of course is the barbie baby. it comes right out, no vagina to exit through. and if you look closely you can see that her underwear is also painted across the bottom of the belly. there is no mistaking this for a woman with any genitalia. just underwear.
here is the baby within the belly. i don’t think either of these is the correct way a baby should sit in a uterus but do i look like a fucking doctor to you?
the clearly very happy mother and child. and discarded magnetic belly. with underwear band.
fin
unrelated but i also found my louis tomlinson doll
terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we’re ‘brainwashed’
and because i’m an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it’s not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.
the answer blew my fucking mind.
the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.
an excerpt:
“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”
94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.
other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.
which means, at least from my perspective, that:
a) the 'brainwashing’ terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.
b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.
you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.
This essentially suggests that autistic people are likely to be NB because we are in fact resistant to the relevant brainwashing.
Also if you need a doctor to diagnose you with autism and you need a doctor to prescribe medical transition care…… you see what I’m saying? If you have already managed to see a doctor about autism then it’s going to be easier to see a doctor about gender things because you already have access to a doctor and know the process of how to get specialized medical care. Same is true for if you already have a doctor for gender things, it’s going to be easier to see a doctor about autism things
With my own non-binary gender and adhd, i can confirm that it’s easier to ignore gender rules because I’m already ignoring so many other rules that i simply do not think are necessary or improve my life. And it was easier to play with my gender expression because I already hated traditionally feminine clothes due to sensory issues
So while anecdotally I understand the data (altho the two most feminine cis women I know are also adhd), I think it’s a good idear to consider the third option. Instead of autism creating transgenders or transgenderism creating autism, maybe it’s just that a doctor’s diagnosis is connected to both. It just seems like every comorbidity is overrepresented in every medically-related subgroup and like…. the common denominator is access to doctors. I think there’s some level of they’re all influencing each other but my point is it’s more complicated than just “there’s a high rate of transgenderism in the autistic community so therefore one is causing the other”
The number one funniest example of people inventing bullshit reasons ships they don’t like are “problematic” that I’ve ever seen was people calling Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister “like siblings”.
Fam.
Have you forgotten the number one most notable trait about Jaime Lannister.
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Never seen/read GOT, be right back, gotta look something up.
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn’t make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you’re being snobbish or condescending when you’re just trying to be specific
experiencing the lesbian equivalent of guys being convinced they could beat a moose in a fight or w/e. objectively i could not handle that but couldnt i?
I am 6'5" and almost 300lbs, and this is all I have to say on this matter.
