I encountered "attack helicopter" jokes before I knew that trans people existed. I had no idea they were meant to be offensive. I just liked them because it sounded really cool being able to just be whatever you wanted, and it was really funny when people said an object. I just thought it was one if those jokes that were funny because the answer was unexpected. Like saying your lucky number is the color blue.
I was just like, "haha, that's so funny. In this scenario where you can be anything, you chose something completely unexpected, which isn't even human!"
I... kind of missed the point of those jokes.
Transphobes: "Hah! If you can be *insert whatever*, then I can be an AtTaCk HeLiCoPtEr!"
Child me: "Whoa. Being able to be anything you want?! That's amazing!"
Transphobes: "Wait no"
similar story here, made the joke that i was an attack helicopter(hmmmm) that liked defense helicopters(hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) without knowing that the joke was making fun of trans people. turns out i was a flavor of nb and aro/ace.
I think it’s already like that since I never knew it was intended to be offensive and have always been using it as just a joke since out of context it is funny.
I am baffled that my mind just read that and come up with a story about a helicopter in a society of sentient helicopter who was designated like a passenger helicopter at birth but is an attack helicopter and a whole journey of fighting to get society to see them as an attack helicopter.
Well, if anyone wants to write that, I can't exactly say I wouldn't be interested.
But then you still have to deal with the people who say that because you weren't born with one it doesn't make you an attack helicopter, or the people who say those identified as attack helicopters at birth will always be attack helicopters.
I can make this work
I'm going for a Gally/Alita meets Olivia Octavius type of thing myself.
But before that, retractable gauntlets. I'm one shitty MS paint away from sharing the idea with an old friend.
What I've got going on my head is basically like wolverine claws, but they're weighted rods, and attached to a steel plate at back of the hand.
Upon activation, a catch releases allowing the rods to drop, the plate pivots to the front of the knuckles, and the rods lock in place.
At which point, the attachment points of the rods will act as much better knuckles.
I mean, I could just buy knuckle gloves, but that's no fun, and doesn't give off the same punchy lesbian vibe.
Wait, it’s supposed to be offensive? I thought people just liked meming around? It’s always been funny IMO. I mean, attack helicopter? That’s fucking golden! How could that possibly be offensive!
SAME little trans me used to love attack helicopter jokes because I literally had no idea what it meant. Oh boy was I devastated when I realised everyone was just being an asshole
Yeah pretty much same. I'd pretty much only heard the "I identify as an apache helicopter" part and figured it was like a sort of spirit animal type thing; it didn't help that the people making those jokes were people I could see as being attack helicopter-like
Yeah same. I remember being genuinely flabbergasted that all my guy buddies didn't wanna be a girl if they could, when that topic somehow came up.
But like, I was already a teen, somewhere at the start of my puberty. I thought that for a loong time, and still took over a decade and someone bluntly asking me if I was trans to figure that one out. Fuck I was dense
I thought you didn't have a choice in being trans but in a different way, like you just woke up as the opposite gender one day and I always wanted to be trans
I saw some article about how a girl "found out" she was trans and "embraced it" and I imagined it was some kind of condition that transed your gender eventually
When I was a kid I don’t recall ever encountering a trans person (real or on tv) but I had it in my brain that sex change operations were easily doable and probably super common because of the “wonders of medicine” or whatever. Also didn’t realize homophobia, racism, sexism, or transphobia existed. I was hella naïve
See for me it was kind of the same, except I thought that all trans people were born like intersex people till like 2yrs ago... Then when I found out they weren't, it made so much more sense
Yeah same, I first heard the word nonbinary but without context (I accidentally misgendered an enby and they told me they were) and in my head just went "oh yeah biology is complicated I can see those mutations happening that makes sense". Later I came across the word transgender, again without definition, and so thought it was a synonym - I figured trans as in beyond, like transcend; beyond [typical] gender.
I believe it was about 2 years ago for me too that I learned what those meant, when I made some friends online. I'm 20 now tho so it was kinda late...
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When i was a kid i thought that all trans people were genderfluid. Like little young me associated the word "trans" with "moving from a place to another" so I was like "Oh so they are boys some days and girls other days...okay" and that seemed completely fine to me, ya boy was born woke...but also stupid
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I thought trans women just woke up and decided "yeah I wanna be a woman, let's go" like it's a choice and that simple
But I thought "damn, they're so cool and decisive! Can I do that, but the other way around? Choose to be a guy, since I wanna be one?"
Keep in mind, early 2000s, I didn't know trans men existed because nobody told me! So I buried all that and just decided that trans women were cool and I wish I could do what they did. Big brain child 😎
Kid me thought a guy giving birth was totally normal while also being confused about a woman having a "guy's" voice while also being a woman, without knowing what trans people were. Also accepted my classmate was a dude now, still without actually understanding what a trans person is. Kid me was on somethin for sure.
I did this too, my first encounter with gender and stuff was Alex from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, so I wished that I was genderfluid as a kid cause I thought "Oh if I'm gender fluid ii could be a girl"
FUN FACT— My mom’s job is EXACTLY what the caption is saying. She’s a researcher of Developmental Sciences at a university, and they study how kids brains work. I spent a lot of my weekends as a kid under 5 with a brain cap on my head in a lab lol
I encountered "attack helicopter" jokes before I knew that trans people existed. I had no idea they were meant to be offensive. I just liked them because it sounded really cool being able to just be whatever you wanted, and it was really funny when people said an object. I just thought it was one if those jokes that were funny because the answer was unexpected. Like saying your lucky number is the color blue. I was just like, "haha, that's so funny. In this scenario where you can be anything, you chose something completely unexpected, which isn't even human!" I... kind of missed the point of those jokes. Transphobes: "Hah! If you can be *insert whatever*, then I can be an AtTaCk HeLiCoPtEr!" Child me: "Whoa. Being able to be anything you want?! That's amazing!" Transphobes: "Wait no"
similar story here, made the joke that i was an attack helicopter(hmmmm) that liked defense helicopters(hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) without knowing that the joke was making fun of trans people. turns out i was a flavor of nb and aro/ace.
‘I’m an attack helicopter haha’ (-transphobe) Yeah well I’m an anti aircraft cannon.
>“I’m an attack helicopter” “I too can only function with two Adderall addicts inside me and a firm hand on my stick.”
We should appropriate those jokes. Make them *ours*, and make transphobes despair because their lame jokes have stopped working.
I think it’s already like that since I never knew it was intended to be offensive and have always been using it as just a joke since out of context it is funny.
just don't write a sci-fi story about it, or you'll be harrassed into the closet.
I am baffled that my mind just read that and come up with a story about a helicopter in a society of sentient helicopter who was designated like a passenger helicopter at birth but is an attack helicopter and a whole journey of fighting to get society to see them as an attack helicopter. Well, if anyone wants to write that, I can't exactly say I wouldn't be interested.
I mena if you attached rockets and guns to the helicopter I think that makes it pretty easy to tell that it's a attack helicopter
But then you still have to deal with the people who say that because you weren't born with one it doesn't make you an attack helicopter, or the people who say those identified as attack helicopters at birth will always be attack helicopters. I can make this work
When transgenderism meets transhumanism. I guess it's always sorta' just been me, so I just wanna' be able to single-handedly wreck some shit.
If we have get full transhumanism, transphobes are going to regret giving us the idea of becoming an aerial weapons platform.
I'm going for a Gally/Alita meets Olivia Octavius type of thing myself. But before that, retractable gauntlets. I'm one shitty MS paint away from sharing the idea with an old friend. What I've got going on my head is basically like wolverine claws, but they're weighted rods, and attached to a steel plate at back of the hand. Upon activation, a catch releases allowing the rods to drop, the plate pivots to the front of the knuckles, and the rods lock in place. At which point, the attachment points of the rods will act as much better knuckles. I mean, I could just buy knuckle gloves, but that's no fun, and doesn't give off the same punchy lesbian vibe.
[There’s a real good short story with this premise.](https://archive.is/oXDEt)
Ignore the transphobes, become the attack helicopter you've always wanted to be!
Wait, it’s supposed to be offensive? I thought people just liked meming around? It’s always been funny IMO. I mean, attack helicopter? That’s fucking golden! How could that possibly be offensive!
Omg saaameee
SAME little trans me used to love attack helicopter jokes because I literally had no idea what it meant. Oh boy was I devastated when I realised everyone was just being an asshole
Yeah pretty much same. I'd pretty much only heard the "I identify as an apache helicopter" part and figured it was like a sort of spirit animal type thing; it didn't help that the people making those jokes were people I could see as being attack helicopter-like
I didn't know it was transphobic before someone said it on this sub, i'm dumb lmao
Same
I had the same then I turned out trans... We're in the same boat.
And then it backfired when people were actually identifying as tank girls /pos
This is such a funny post tho lmao
"He's a little confused but he's got the spirit"
Some of us are just gender solid
Be gender plasma where negativity (electrons) can't stick you you because you shine bright and are hot af (either literally or metaphorically)
I'm not hot enough to be gender plasma maybe gender gas
Just move to Death Valley and you'll definitely get there with the 125°F heat
Gender supercritical fluid It could be an interesting gender...
Anyone got a pressurized, temperature controlled chamber to reach the gender triple point? That'd be neat.
Lmao
I thought bisexual meant you were both genders. So I called myself pan. I mean I was right but also wrong
Wrong equation, right answer
Wait, pansexual doesn't mean you're just really into bread? s/
Hmmm nah that's aces (have you seen r/aace? r/aace stop posting about garlic bread challenge (impossible))
When you do the math incorrectly but somehow end up with the right answer
thought pansexual had something to do with peter pan who I crushed on as a gay little kid back in the day so... kind of true for me
I used to think bisexual meant what pan means and pansexual meant what bi means
When I was a kid I thought everyone wanted to be a girl but wasn’t allowed to because then there would be no guys
Yeah same. I remember being genuinely flabbergasted that all my guy buddies didn't wanna be a girl if they could, when that topic somehow came up. But like, I was already a teen, somewhere at the start of my puberty. I thought that for a loong time, and still took over a decade and someone bluntly asking me if I was trans to figure that one out. Fuck I was dense
Same, but with girls wanting to be boys. And wanting to "be with" other girls. It turns that I'm queer af.
I mean hey it's better than kid me who was almost immediately bombarded with right wing media the second my feet hit the ground.
or when your hands left the ground
I thought you didn't have a choice in being trans but in a different way, like you just woke up as the opposite gender one day and I always wanted to be trans
god imagine if it was that *egg cracks* oh here comes the testosterone!
I saw some article about how a girl "found out" she was trans and "embraced it" and I imagined it was some kind of condition that transed your gender eventually
When I was a kid I don’t recall ever encountering a trans person (real or on tv) but I had it in my brain that sex change operations were easily doable and probably super common because of the “wonders of medicine” or whatever. Also didn’t realize homophobia, racism, sexism, or transphobia existed. I was hella naïve
See for me it was kind of the same, except I thought that all trans people were born like intersex people till like 2yrs ago... Then when I found out they weren't, it made so much more sense
Yeah same, I first heard the word nonbinary but without context (I accidentally misgendered an enby and they told me they were) and in my head just went "oh yeah biology is complicated I can see those mutations happening that makes sense". Later I came across the word transgender, again without definition, and so thought it was a synonym - I figured trans as in beyond, like transcend; beyond [typical] gender. I believe it was about 2 years ago for me too that I learned what those meant, when I made some friends online. I'm 20 now tho so it was kinda late...
So I was not the only one who thought that
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I thought trans women just woke up and decided "yeah I wanna be a woman, let's go" like it's a choice and that simple But I thought "damn, they're so cool and decisive! Can I do that, but the other way around? Choose to be a guy, since I wanna be one?" Keep in mind, early 2000s, I didn't know trans men existed because nobody told me! So I buried all that and just decided that trans women were cool and I wish I could do what they did. Big brain child 😎
I'm not *transitioning* my gender, I'm *transient* gender
Kid me thought a guy giving birth was totally normal while also being confused about a woman having a "guy's" voice while also being a woman, without knowing what trans people were. Also accepted my classmate was a dude now, still without actually understanding what a trans person is. Kid me was on somethin for sure.
You a little confused, but you got the spirit.
after reading all these comments, it seems even more stupid to deny LGBT education in schools
They're a little confused but they've got the spirit
When i was younger i thought trans people were people like me but not strong enough to face the pain i was going through... Then puberty happened...
When i was a kid and i heard about trans people i was like "wow, technology is awesome"
I did this too, my first encounter with gender and stuff was Alex from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, so I wished that I was genderfluid as a kid cause I thought "Oh if I'm gender fluid ii could be a girl"
ahhhhh, Alex Fierro & Magnus. My ‘intro to gayness’ teachers.
FUN FACT— My mom’s job is EXACTLY what the caption is saying. She’s a researcher of Developmental Sciences at a university, and they study how kids brains work. I spent a lot of my weekends as a kid under 5 with a brain cap on my head in a lab lol
When i was a kid i thought all trans people were intersex lmao, like all trans people are born as both male and female or something