smoking with the cherubim sucks because those mfs have the head of a man, a bull, a lion and an eagle and all four of them expect you to offer them a cigarette
incredible blunt rotation though
Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.
Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:
The fact that chess competitions are gender-divided in the first place proves they think one [presumed binary] sex needs to be protected from the other.
And yet, with many competitions, for all the claim is that women need protecting from men, it's not until the men are threatened by the women that they actually enforce that divide.
It's still misogyny, which still leads to transphobia as well.
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this is a common misconception that gets brought up with a lot of gender divides - chess is not separated into men and women, but rather open and women - women can and do participate in open tournaments and some (notably: Judit Polgar, who was rank 6 in the world at her peak) actually refused to participate in women's tournaments
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this kind of nonsense just muddies the waters about the actual things that hold women back in games like chess, namely lack of a pipeline and lack of institutional support
wrote this previously it's no coincidence that this has happened right after fide got an open letter signed by more than 100 female chess players, including trans women, one of whom (yosha iglesias) was one of the fourteen original signatories and one of the most vocal), about how misogyny and sexual abuse are some of the main reasons why women and girls stop playing chess:
We, women chess players, coaches, arbiters, and managers, have experienced sexist or sexual violence perpetrated by chess players, coaches, arbiters, or managers.
We are convinced that this harassment and these assaults are still one of the main reasons why women and young girls, especially in their teens, stop playing chess.
Faced with these acts of violence, we have remained silent for too long. However, staying silent means carrying the burden of shame alone. Finding the words and the courage to speak up may take time, but we believe it is necessary and healing.
fide responded to this on august 11th with some vacant bullshit and no promises to improve things in any way, and then days later called trans women "the biggest threat to women's chess" and proclaimed these new policies.
yosha iglesias, who is supposed to participate in a national women's chess tournament this week in france, has been left deeply traumatized after weeks of harassment and media attention due to her speaking out about misogyny and sexual abuse in chess, only to be left in uncertainty about whether she can still play at all and of course being relentlessly harassed by transmisogynists, as well as run-of-the-mill misogynists who claim there is no sexual abuse or misogyny in women's chess bar the existence of trans women itself.
Thank you so much for saying this. The whole rule change now not only looks like an attempt to distract from the open letter, but to retaliate against Yosha Iglesias, a trans woman, for her activism in calling out misogyny and sexual abuse. This is so gross by FIDE on every level.
forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️
Lol. Everyone in the notes freaking out like 'I live by the sea, don't jump in, it dangerous'.
Like, guys, guys, listen, you don't understand. They don't mean... They want to be... Listen, ok, I grew up on the sea, I've been through hurricanes on trawlers and gale force 9 storms crewing tallships. I've seen enormous waves absolutely destroy boats. I've been caught in riptides while scuba diving and felt the complete powerlessness of it. The sea will absolutely annihilate you, consume you, never give up your body, and not even notice.
I know the power of the sea better than most, however, I know exactly what they mean. Sometimes you see it churning with unfathomable power and all you want is to just get in the sea and have it absolutely fuckin blast you clean. Like sandblast your fuckin soul. Fuckin powerwash your bones clean. Ya know?
Can confirm, getting beat up by the ocean is a religious experience.
"I can't believe my 50-year-old parent accidentally saw a weird meme on google image search" okay your 50-year-old parent used to get stoned in their dorm and watch ren & stimpy. your 50-year-old parent's first concert was the pogues and shane mcgowan threw up on their shoes in the alley after the show. your 50-year-old parent saw a double feature of porky's and the exorcist at a sleepover when they were nine. your 50-year-old parent was left alone for three hours every day after school and they found ALL the porn hidden in the house. one saturday in 1985 your 50-year-old parent drank water from the hose and then saw a dead body in the woods
Speaking as a 53-year-old parent, YES. Like, Dudes. Your 53-year-old read The Joy of Sex while babysitting at their parents' friends house when they were 9. Your 53-year-old parent has seen someone get the public spanking of their life at a Los Angeles fetish club. Your 53-year-old parent had a threesome in the back of a station wagon when they were 17. Every last one of your 53-year-old parent's high school boyfriends later came out as gay. Your 53-year-old parent endured the discourse of the AIDS crisis and the outrage over Robert Mapplethorpe receiving NEA funding because of that one photo of a man with a bullwhip in his ass. Your 53-year-old parent is a huge fan of The Teaches of Peaches. Your 53-year-old parent has written horny fanfiction about Cas and Dean, and yes: is well familiar with the Omegaverse. There is no need to protect us from weird memes, kids.
WE BEEN KNEW.
I feel like this needs to be a running thread.
This 50-year-old parent has seen things. Your 50-year-old parent scoured through all of mom's bodice ripper novels for the sex scenes at age 10, wondering why the author kept calling breasts globes, and then relentlessly tried to watch Skinemax through the wavy lines (Hello, Red Shoe Diaries?). Your 50-year-old parent snuck out of the house to go skinny dipping or get high or just to be a terrible nuisance to the neighborhood at large. Your 50-year-old parent got busted so many times trying to drink her parent's liquor that they put a padlock on the cabinet, after which said 50-year-old parent found the key, drank again and then promptly got busted again. Your 50-year-old parent had plenty of sex before marriage and in high school, and was on the pill. Your 50-year-old parent loved 2 Live Crew, Too Short, and NWA specifically because of the language. Your 50-year-old parent has written smutty smutty fanfic in several fandoms, and has a thing for guyliner (even in real life), dirty talk, and hair-pulling in the fic she read and/or writes.
We've seen things, so thank you for wanting to protect us I guess, but I think we've got this.
This dude is literally called a terrible claw lobster
me after evolving to get pringles out of the bottom of the tube
saying "are you haunted? are you fucking possessed?" is my favorite way to express my taking issue with someone else's behavior. like brother you are acting so strange and unlike yourself that the only explanation is you are being tormented by a spirit of some kind.
Ppl dont seem to realise that "only perceivably queer people should have access to queer spaces and support" and "nobody is obligated to out themselves to you and nobody needs to provide proof of their sexuality/identity" CANNOT coexist.
People are very quick to say "nobody should ever be forced out of the closet, there is no one way to be queer" but then throw a fit when someone who isnt visibly gay plays a gay character or when someone who isnt officially out acts in a ~queer way~.
Also, sometimes the person you think is the poster child for cisheterosexuality is in fact incredibly queer because that's the way they feel happiest presenting. And sometimes the person you're dead certain is queer is cishet and just really cool about it. And you will never be able to tell the difference on sight and that is a good thing.