Also "socialism"

There's nothing inherently negative about the phrase "welfare state", but the way people talk about it, they've practically become dirty words.

And the job title is ambiguous

I just saw the laziest job description. It's literally five lines, and I have no idea what the job is beyond "SCIENCE!" or what qualifications are needed.

Intersectionality is your friend!

"Cis people don't get misgendered" is a bad take.

"Cis people get misgendered, but not as often/but it doesn't hurt them as badly" is... still a bad take!

Someone: "I'd tap that." Me: "...why?"

As an asexual with a really weird and complicated relationship with sex, I find human horniness very confusing.

Not as confusing as society's treatment of it, mind you. But pretty confusing.

Twelve year old me was a huge jerk, TBH

Is there a name for that phenomenon when you're doing fine, and then your brain suddenly reminds of you of something bad that you did many years ago and suddenly you feel crappy?

[500 page thesis deleted in favor of this post]

Getting real sick of the Sims community treating "attractive" as synonymous with "white(-passing)".

Real fucking sick.

Please just use color words I learned in elementary school

Listen, I know I'm a writer, but I still have to check Wikipedia to remember the difference between "crimson" and "scarlet", so if you tell me that your pride flag is "pumpkin, ultramarine, mauve", my brain is going to do an Error 404.

Siiiiiiiiigh

Went back five years in someone's blog archive (because this is a thing I do when I'm bored) and found anti stuff, because apparently "this person may or may not get off to fictional characters that may or may not be underage" as a talking point is older than my ability to adult like a proper human.

Instead I am *working through my trauma* and learning to *deal with those words*!

If I was an anti, I would be currently campaigning very hard to remove several innocuous words/phrases from the English language because they are part of my trauma.

I'm not talking slurs or insults here, I mean perfectly normal terms that get used on a regular basis.

I didn't realize how bad Tumblr was until I left

So far, I have not yet learned to associate Dreamwidth's "Inbox (1)" thing with a feeling of exhausted dread that I'm about to get yelled at by some right-wing puppet in the name of fake social justice.

I have a lot of grey hair and I'm not even thirty yet

"He started going grey in his thirties!"

Oh, boo freaking hoo, I've been going grey since I was twelve.