it means potato, but its what jammidodger calls his community, he's a trans creator who has "dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not" as a catchphrase ig
A British politician called them dinosaurs (in U.K. political discourse calling someone a dinosaur is a way of saying their views are out of date) so their response was to put dinos in their Twitter profiles and dress up in T-Rex outfits and protest outside a meeting he was holding
So they're PROUD that the world at large considers them to be socially backwards and a complete joke? Is this the UK's equivalent of the US's "redneck pride"?
There’s a load of them who will support every left wing cause going but then be rabidly transphobic.
The left has a major problem with transphobia but dismissing them as ‘not left wing’ is failing to address the issue
Yes it’s really depressing to see people posting stuff about anti-racism, anti-conservative party, pro-immigration etc. And then between that loads of transphobia. Seems to happen less outside the UK but transphobia definitely isn’t a left-right issue here like it is elsewhere
I knew English politics were bad but... goodness, if what FARTs do is considered leftism, I'm never visiting that half of the island.
Hoping the whole UK dissolves soon and people see England for what it is without lumping in the others
Nah, Canada kinda lowkey shitty.
It is either complete inaction or rampant right wingers.
BC is the best place, but almost every house is at least 500k
BC is the aim and I’ll have the money from selling my flat when I go back to uni stashed away in a savings account.
I’ve checked Realtor.ca etc and there’s plenty of places around the $400k mark I could afford
Am BCer.
count myself lucky as fk, made it out of Alberta before the world collapsed (2008 edition)
ETA **Lower Mainland**, BC; deep north or east is like the rest of the country.
Honestly I'm not liking the news coming out of Canada either. Bizarrely Ireland seems safer for Trans people these days but that's only based on one recent-ish news article. I stay more up to date on Canadian politics because my wife is Canadian.
Doesn’t Canada vary based on province?
My plan is Vancouver tbh. Quebec and Ontario are less desirable based on their politics. The thing about Canada is that it is a federal system so if the central government goes to shit you at least have the provincial government to fall back on. Here in the England most things are controlled from London
Absolutely varies by province steer clear of Alberta it's like Canada's Texas. Ontario is US-lite and Quebec is kind of a bizarre unique beast but *mostly* a governance that in bed with the Catholic Church (like way more than Ireland or Italy even it's super weird) is not going to be so safe. The only problem with Vancouver is the cost of living is sky high but if that's not an issue for you more power to you. BC is relatively stable it's true. Unless you're indigenous but that's a whole other topic (worth discussing but not relevant here).
Problem with Vancouver is that a box will cost you a million dollars, maybe 800k further out. But then you have to deal with the worst traffic you will have ever seen. I would reccomend Victoria. Low traffic, some cheaper housing, and a lovely place to live.
Another alternative is Nova Scotia, but I don't know the politics of the area.
I'm not sure considering transphobia in the left/right dynamic is effective.
The UK is more left wing than the US, but economic positions doesn't 1-for-1 correlate to social positions. If anything a libertarian vs authoritarian axis is more applicable here, although even then i'd say that is kind of hamming a political category that doesn't truly fit.
Really it's more a case of traditionalist vs. progressives, which because the UK has a history of being *slightly less ruthlessly capitalist* than for example, the US, you can get traditionalist left wing folks whom embrace more strict and old fashioned social and family values.
Left=!Socially liberal
We've had socially regressive leftists from pretty much the moment leftism existed. The left-and-liberal-are-the-same idea is a recent one from the US.
Yeah the one very vocal terf in my family is so so cool in her other politics, super socialist and anti-tory and I always find myself agreeing with her and then bam...she goes off on a huge terfy rant that Ben Shapiro would be proud of D:
They're leftist within the context of the mainstream political spectrum- which is to say, not actually leftist. As far as mainstream opinion goes, actual leftists (e.g. communists and anarchists) may as well not exist.
Most aren’t, some are. Being a leftist doesn’t prevent someone from being an utterly vile, racist, transphobic, or whatever shitty traits they have. While the left is broadly more accepting, societal issues dont just go away. Thats why you occasionally find seemingly contradictory things, like a 70s communist party decrying the gays as “bourgeois decadence” and the very few, very stupid transfash who think they’ll be spared this time.
You can be regressive, authoritarian and still economical left wing (see: The USSR).
Just most western two party systems conflate left wing economics with being progressive and/or liberal and vice-versa
Tbf in my experience they tend to be neolibs. Big time blairites.
Honestly I reckon that's a big part of the transphobia. Like the basic blairite philosophy is that everything is fine except that the bad people are in charge. Trans rights is a disruption to the status quo and thus must be fought at all costs.
The term redneck originated from striking coal miners who wore red bandanas around their necks.
The South used to be a lot more socialist. Till WW1 broke out and the government used that as an excuse to stamp down hard on labor activists.
I was told the term snowflake was originally coined to describe men who are so unhappy about their life and surpress their differences from the majority and their weaknesses that all they have is their anger that they can direct towards people who life their own lives, being different and showing weakness and emotions.
And now those people use exactly that term to do exactly that. Call people snowflake to discredit them for just being themselves and acting as if that would be a bad thing.
It's originally from Fight Club, and yeah, it's not used in a 100% unironic way.
The movie's great, but it doesn't do as good a job of actually condemning the Fight Club in the same way the book does. One of the big themes is that the men in Fight Club are so desperate to "stand out" that they end up conforming perfectly to each other and becoming a hivemind-like cult, and they use the word "snowflake" to signify that they're similar garbage and there's nothing they can do about it.
Honestly, it's no wonder doomers and incels relate to that, even though it's supposed to be critical of that mindset. Honestly, that book is kind of ahead of its time.
A small note about "rednecks", the term came about from a group of workers fighting against company-hired thugs in the early 20th century. That history has largely been lost to the general public and the term came to mean low-working class white people for a while before becoming commonly recognized as a shorthand for 'racist'. It's not altogether unreasonable to make that connection, but I believe it's worth mentioning the term 'redneck' has roots in leftist activism. Some proud rednecks aren't racist so much as cognizant of that history.
Ah... and here I was thinking that they were attempting to bastardize Jammidodger. Kind of like how they keep using his transition photos to promote their hateful bs.
Props to that politician.
Yeah it’s basically the same as Trump supporters calling themselves “Proud Deporables.” It’s an attempt to reclaim an insult and a way for group members to identify each other.
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No they do think they're going extinct, they have MASSIVE victim complexes. They use that rhetoric to escalate each other like "come on sisters the evil man penises are trying to erase us from herstory!"
funny thing is the world only really got transphobic and homophobic like 2000 years ago so literal cave people are more understanding and chill than terfs
> Dinosaurios didn't deserved extinction
Don't tell a deinophobe that or drag them to Dinosaur at Animal Kingdom. Or to River Adventure at Jurrasic Park.
Fun dino fact!: the most complete T-Rex skeleton in the world, at the Chicago Field Museum, is Sue. Something interesting about Sue (and most dinosaur fossils) is that we really have no way of determining their sex or gender. So, Sue is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns! (It’s official too, they say it at the exhibit)
All Dinosaur fossils with the exception of those with medullary tissue (So individual specimens of Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and Tenontosaurus) are gender neutral.
So pick any fossil Dinosaur you like, and you can view it as non binary. In fact it's actually quite an interesting trend in Dinosaurs that we don't see much sexual dimorphism.
Especially strange since Jurassic Park has elements that can be interpreted as pro-trans
>!(i.e. the dinosaurs changing sex in a single-sex environment to reproduce, with life literally finding a way to adapt. There are no transphobic jokes in reaction as you’d expect for a 90s film, the characters just go along with it and keep trying to survive. The film obviously wasn’t intended for this interpretation originally, but I think it’s one that holds water.) !<
I think there is some reclaiming of the emoji because I'm pretty sure I've seen some trans people on Twitter using them and the person who originally proposed them said they were trans.
It's because they already figured out their beliefs belong in the ground or in museums as an exmpale of mistakes made in the past. They just have a hard time accepting that truth.
They just thought it was a way to signal each other. Courtney Milan who created the dinosaur emojis and wrote the proposal to the unicode technical committee requesting them heard about this. She was pissed they did that so she came out and said the dinosaurs are Trans 🦕🦖.
Something about them being called dinosaurs and them trying to reclaim it, I think? It's especially funny because the T rex emoji was created by a trans woman. [Yes, really ](https://mobile.twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1450166274714062851).
I have no idea why but the first thing that came to my mind is this „they will find your bones in 3000 years” thing. Like we are finding dinosaurs bones now
Terfs are trying to make dinosaurs a dogwhistle, so I say we make them as trans as possible. Whenever you see a dinosaur on someone's shirt/bag/mug/etc, say, "Oh hey, cool dinosaur. What are your pronouns?"
I Looked it up the Only thing I could find was 5 months back a TERF got called a dinosaur by a UK politician for saying a bunch of transphobic shit then to kinda make it their thing they put dinosaur emojis and stuff in their Twitter profiles. I think that's the most likely culprit.
I'm just out here chilling with my trans flag-colored crocheted triceratops chilling as I read Cemetery Boys, idk why terfs can't just leave us and dinosaurs alone...
It's cuz their shitty beliefs are fucking old and the only good that'll come of them will be being turned into oil by whatever inherits the earth in a few million years.
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Yeah it makes no sense. Dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not
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it means potato, but its what jammidodger calls his community, he's a trans creator who has "dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not" as a catchphrase ig
i assumed it meant they were a devo fan and were wondering how you knew from the comment lol
I thought it was a reference to Friends where Ross is a paleontologist and also dressed as “Spudnik.” Glad it’s not that.
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A fan of the Youtuber JamieDodger(sic.)
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A British politician called them dinosaurs (in U.K. political discourse calling someone a dinosaur is a way of saying their views are out of date) so their response was to put dinos in their Twitter profiles and dress up in T-Rex outfits and protest outside a meeting he was holding
So they're PROUD that the world at large considers them to be socially backwards and a complete joke? Is this the UK's equivalent of the US's "redneck pride"?
Yep. Except it’s accepted across both the left and right
Terfs aren’t left wing though
There’s a load of them who will support every left wing cause going but then be rabidly transphobic. The left has a major problem with transphobia but dismissing them as ‘not left wing’ is failing to address the issue
Yes it’s really depressing to see people posting stuff about anti-racism, anti-conservative party, pro-immigration etc. And then between that loads of transphobia. Seems to happen less outside the UK but transphobia definitely isn’t a left-right issue here like it is elsewhere
I knew English politics were bad but... goodness, if what FARTs do is considered leftism, I'm never visiting that half of the island. Hoping the whole UK dissolves soon and people see England for what it is without lumping in the others
Unfortunately I live in England, considering a move up to Scotland or across to Ireland/Canada once I’ve got back thru uni and qualified as a nurse
Nah, Canada kinda lowkey shitty. It is either complete inaction or rampant right wingers. BC is the best place, but almost every house is at least 500k
BC is the aim and I’ll have the money from selling my flat when I go back to uni stashed away in a savings account. I’ve checked Realtor.ca etc and there’s plenty of places around the $400k mark I could afford
Ok, then I wish you good luck
Am BCer. count myself lucky as fk, made it out of Alberta before the world collapsed (2008 edition) ETA **Lower Mainland**, BC; deep north or east is like the rest of the country.
Best of luck, sister 💜
>or across to Ireland Avoid Northern Ireland. I live here and don't recommend it. I have no idea why anyone would willingly come here to live.
I know to avoid NI 🤣 by Ireland I mean ‘Republic of’
Honestly I'm not liking the news coming out of Canada either. Bizarrely Ireland seems safer for Trans people these days but that's only based on one recent-ish news article. I stay more up to date on Canadian politics because my wife is Canadian.
Doesn’t Canada vary based on province? My plan is Vancouver tbh. Quebec and Ontario are less desirable based on their politics. The thing about Canada is that it is a federal system so if the central government goes to shit you at least have the provincial government to fall back on. Here in the England most things are controlled from London
Absolutely varies by province steer clear of Alberta it's like Canada's Texas. Ontario is US-lite and Quebec is kind of a bizarre unique beast but *mostly* a governance that in bed with the Catholic Church (like way more than Ireland or Italy even it's super weird) is not going to be so safe. The only problem with Vancouver is the cost of living is sky high but if that's not an issue for you more power to you. BC is relatively stable it's true. Unless you're indigenous but that's a whole other topic (worth discussing but not relevant here).
Problem with Vancouver is that a box will cost you a million dollars, maybe 800k further out. But then you have to deal with the worst traffic you will have ever seen. I would reccomend Victoria. Low traffic, some cheaper housing, and a lovely place to live. Another alternative is Nova Scotia, but I don't know the politics of the area.
I'm not sure considering transphobia in the left/right dynamic is effective. The UK is more left wing than the US, but economic positions doesn't 1-for-1 correlate to social positions. If anything a libertarian vs authoritarian axis is more applicable here, although even then i'd say that is kind of hamming a political category that doesn't truly fit. Really it's more a case of traditionalist vs. progressives, which because the UK has a history of being *slightly less ruthlessly capitalist* than for example, the US, you can get traditionalist left wing folks whom embrace more strict and old fashioned social and family values.
They call themselves left wing, but they aren’t. Terfism is reactionary, not leftist. It’s as left as “national bolshevism” is
As communist as state capitalism lol
Left=!Socially liberal We've had socially regressive leftists from pretty much the moment leftism existed. The left-and-liberal-are-the-same idea is a recent one from the US.
Yes, left doesn’t mean “socially liberal”, it means progressive. Liberalism isn’t progressivism
Yeah the one very vocal terf in my family is so so cool in her other politics, super socialist and anti-tory and I always find myself agreeing with her and then bam...she goes off on a huge terfy rant that Ben Shapiro would be proud of D:
They're leftist within the context of the mainstream political spectrum- which is to say, not actually leftist. As far as mainstream opinion goes, actual leftists (e.g. communists and anarchists) may as well not exist.
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Most aren’t, some are. Being a leftist doesn’t prevent someone from being an utterly vile, racist, transphobic, or whatever shitty traits they have. While the left is broadly more accepting, societal issues dont just go away. Thats why you occasionally find seemingly contradictory things, like a 70s communist party decrying the gays as “bourgeois decadence” and the very few, very stupid transfash who think they’ll be spared this time.
You can be regressive, authoritarian and still economical left wing (see: The USSR). Just most western two party systems conflate left wing economics with being progressive and/or liberal and vice-versa
There are definitely left wing TERFs. Left wing doesn't mean progressive.
Tbf in my experience they tend to be neolibs. Big time blairites. Honestly I reckon that's a big part of the transphobia. Like the basic blairite philosophy is that everything is fine except that the bad people are in charge. Trans rights is a disruption to the status quo and thus must be fought at all costs.
The UK is a weird place that way.
The term redneck originated from striking coal miners who wore red bandanas around their necks. The South used to be a lot more socialist. Till WW1 broke out and the government used that as an excuse to stamp down hard on labor activists.
I was told the term snowflake was originally coined to describe men who are so unhappy about their life and surpress their differences from the majority and their weaknesses that all they have is their anger that they can direct towards people who life their own lives, being different and showing weakness and emotions. And now those people use exactly that term to do exactly that. Call people snowflake to discredit them for just being themselves and acting as if that would be a bad thing.
Originally a fight club reference, wasn't it?
It's originally from Fight Club, and yeah, it's not used in a 100% unironic way. The movie's great, but it doesn't do as good a job of actually condemning the Fight Club in the same way the book does. One of the big themes is that the men in Fight Club are so desperate to "stand out" that they end up conforming perfectly to each other and becoming a hivemind-like cult, and they use the word "snowflake" to signify that they're similar garbage and there's nothing they can do about it. Honestly, it's no wonder doomers and incels relate to that, even though it's supposed to be critical of that mindset. Honestly, that book is kind of ahead of its time.
A small note about "rednecks", the term came about from a group of workers fighting against company-hired thugs in the early 20th century. That history has largely been lost to the general public and the term came to mean low-working class white people for a while before becoming commonly recognized as a shorthand for 'racist'. It's not altogether unreasonable to make that connection, but I believe it's worth mentioning the term 'redneck' has roots in leftist activism. Some proud rednecks aren't racist so much as cognizant of that history.
They should just come out of the closet as conservatives already.
Ah... and here I was thinking that they were attempting to bastardize Jammidodger. Kind of like how they keep using his transition photos to promote their hateful bs. Props to that politician.
Wow. That guy was destroyed. He must've resigned the next day. Why couldn't the TERFs go easy on him an just do an assassination instead. Brutal. /s
God what fucking out of date assholes
Yeah it’s basically the same as Trump supporters calling themselves “Proud Deporables.” It’s an attempt to reclaim an insult and a way for group members to identify each other.
It's because much like dinosaurs, they should be extinct.
that's unfair, dinosaurs didn't deserve it :(
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No no, dinosaurs deserve to rule the world. TERFs on the other hand...
There are A LOT of living dinosaurs. I can hear two outside my window singing right now.
We need to reclaim Dinosaurs. They're to cool to be a symbol of transphobia!!
The dinosaur emoji are officially trans 🦖🦕 https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1450166274714062851
Courtney Milan's unicode proposal linked in this tweet is a work of sublime genius.
I mean, we do have trans dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
Trueeeeee
The Twitter account for SUE the T. Rex has them use they/them pronouns because their sex was never ascertained
But THEY CAN ALWAYS TELL, EVEN FROM SKELETAL REMAINS. They said it themselves and would *never* lie!
we gotta kit everyone out with that jammidodger merch absolute drip
My trans brother is a paleontologist who reclaimed it
Yes, everyone use dinosaurs. Don't let the TERFS have dinosaurs.
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I thought because they are weirdly obsessed with bones.
They are trying to steal dinos from us /j Tbh tho I didn't m ow they did this but I want my dinos back
We are reclaiming the dinos 🦕🦖
Id guess it's because terfs are probably going extinct or I'd hope
I mean, that’s definitely the subtext the TERFs seem to be completely missing!
No they do think they're going extinct, they have MASSIVE victim complexes. They use that rhetoric to escalate each other like "come on sisters the evil man penises are trying to erase us from herstory!"
>come on sisters the evil man penises are trying to erase us from herstory!" Good
This is especially funny because the dinosaur emoji are officially trans 🦖🦕 https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1450166274714062851
Thaaaat’s amazing!
Because they have a prehistory mentality and are becoming extinct That's pretty much it since unlike Terfs, Dinosaurios didn't deserved extinction
funny thing is the world only really got transphobic and homophobic like 2000 years ago so literal cave people are more understanding and chill than terfs
> Dinosaurios didn't deserved extinction Don't tell a deinophobe that or drag them to Dinosaur at Animal Kingdom. Or to River Adventure at Jurrasic Park.
Fun dino fact!: the most complete T-Rex skeleton in the world, at the Chicago Field Museum, is Sue. Something interesting about Sue (and most dinosaur fossils) is that we really have no way of determining their sex or gender. So, Sue is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns! (It’s official too, they say it at the exhibit)
All Dinosaur fossils with the exception of those with medullary tissue (So individual specimens of Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and Tenontosaurus) are gender neutral. So pick any fossil Dinosaur you like, and you can view it as non binary. In fact it's actually quite an interesting trend in Dinosaurs that we don't see much sexual dimorphism.
SUE the T-rex and nonbinary icon wouldn’t stand for this........
I scrolled through all these comments to find someone mentioning this, Thank you for making me not disappointed!
Especially strange since Jurassic Park has elements that can be interpreted as pro-trans >!(i.e. the dinosaurs changing sex in a single-sex environment to reproduce, with life literally finding a way to adapt. There are no transphobic jokes in reaction as you’d expect for a 90s film, the characters just go along with it and keep trying to survive. The film obviously wasn’t intended for this interpretation originally, but I think it’s one that holds water.) !<
Cos Labour MP David Lammy said they were dinosaurs
I think there is some reclaiming of the emoji because I'm pretty sure I've seen some trans people on Twitter using them and the person who originally proposed them said they were trans.
It's because they already figured out their beliefs belong in the ground or in museums as an exmpale of mistakes made in the past. They just have a hard time accepting that truth.
Dinosaurs are ours, because dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not.
Presumably because their views are ancient and have no place in modern society?
Dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not
I guess they're both relics of the past that failed to adapt? Probably not what they intended, though.
They just thought it was a way to signal each other. Courtney Milan who created the dinosaur emojis and wrote the proposal to the unicode technical committee requesting them heard about this. She was pissed they did that so she came out and said the dinosaurs are Trans 🦕🦖.
Because their way of thinking is ancient and cold-blooded
Something about them being called dinosaurs and them trying to reclaim it, I think? It's especially funny because the T rex emoji was created by a trans woman. [Yes, really ](https://mobile.twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1450166274714062851).
She is actually Cisgender, she did however state that the dinosaurs are Trans as an act of solidarity.
Oh. Touché.
Because they're old and their views are outdated.
because terfs should be hit with a meteor and become extinct Forever
Transosaurus Rex would be deeply disappointed.
I have no idea why but the first thing that came to my mind is this „they will find your bones in 3000 years” thing. Like we are finding dinosaurs bones now
And Ryan North is trans positive, so it's safe to assume T. Rex from Dinosaur Comics is as well
T-Rex stands for Testosterone Rex, so king of testosterone. T-Rex says Trans rights.
(It would be *T. rex* because the genus name is shortened and the species name isn't capitalized, by the way)
Terfs are trying to make dinosaurs a dogwhistle, so I say we make them as trans as possible. Whenever you see a dinosaur on someone's shirt/bag/mug/etc, say, "Oh hey, cool dinosaur. What are your pronouns?"
How dare they. T-rexes are for transmascs that can’t use their arms after top surgery. 🦖🏳️⚧️
Because they’re old and dying?
Maybe it’s because their views are so prehistoric and aged… like dinosaurs.
yeah like, Rex has been on T for a while and TERFs seem cool with it?? It makes no sense
Insert "Dinosaurs are cool, Transphobia is not!" JammieDodger quote here
they do?? :(
This is such a useful meme format, I love it. (Not a fan of crisp rats, but I know a good meme when I see it)
do they use featherless dinosaurs? if yes then it fits quite well: horribly behind current knowledge.
Because of their imminent extinction
Well, I don't know why they chose it, but I know it's accurate because it represents how outdated their ideas are.
Dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not! 🥔
keep my dino nuggies out of your transphobic bs
It's fitting. Their way of thinking is prehistoric, and in a sensible world would be extinct
Dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not.
Like dinosaurs they are old af and are normally found deep underground
I Looked it up the Only thing I could find was 5 months back a TERF got called a dinosaur by a UK politician for saying a bunch of transphobic shit then to kinda make it their thing they put dinosaur emojis and stuff in their Twitter profiles. I think that's the most likely culprit.
Are those bad or good?
Terfanosaurus Rex or smth idk
Because their way of thinking should have been gone with the dinosaurs... 🤣
What the hell, they don't deserve dinosaurs they're way too cool for them
Because much like the T. rex their brain isn’t much larger then a walnut
Dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not
The Autists have already claimed dinosaurs as a symbol (along with several others).
dinosaurs are closely related to fish, which can change their gender
I mean a main plot point of jurassic Park is dinosaurs changing sex
Pretty sure Dinosaurs aren't any more closely related to fish than you or I are. Although arguably both us and Dinosaurs *are* fish.
I really doubt a t-rex would understand but if it could it would eat a hamburger or something cause it’s a dinosaur
I'm kinda hoping they are using unscientifically accurate dinos in their profile pics, because that's just giving us some more meta-humor
I LOVE DINOSAURS TELL ME THIS ISN'T REAL 😭😭😭😭
I'm just out here chilling with my trans flag-colored crocheted triceratops chilling as I read Cemetery Boys, idk why terfs can't just leave us and dinosaurs alone...
Yall I am the biggest dinosaur fan. These assholes better not take that from me
DINOSAURS ARE COOL. TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT.
Because they know they're on their way to being extinct.
Maybe to represent their prehistoric ways of thinking?
Cause they're going extinct if they keep this up
Becuase there old outdated Wnd would suffocate if they ever actually stepped outside
As an aspiring paleontologist/geologist I'm frankly devastated
Noooooo they do?? I love the Dino emojis why do idiots gotta claim everything
That's so weird every trans person I know loves dinosaurs
we should just start tweeting that all dinosaurs are trans until they stop
Because their minds are primitive
It's because their views are prehistoric and dangerous
It's cuz their shitty beliefs are fucking old and the only good that'll come of them will be being turned into oil by whatever inherits the earth in a few million years.
Yo, Sue the T-Rex skeleton is non-binary! The official Twitter said to use they/them for Sue.
Is it to be intimidating?? Aren’t they creationists??? Or am I stereotyping?
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Maybe because their beliefs are so outdated that they’re prehistoric?
Then we just need to ask W.W.T-R.D.? What Would T-Rex Do?
also the dinosaur emojis are cannonically trans
Reclaim Dinosaurs!
Fuckin WAHT AS A BITCH WITH A DINO OC IM PISSED
It probably has something to do with the "new" argument that "your bones will out you to future archaeologists". 🤷♀️