rebecca swift (ver 3.9.11)
old habits die screaming
39 🫠 chronically ill / transfem / queer / enby / lesbian / pākehā / swiftie / writer / beneficiary / recovering alcoholic / sleepy bitch / terminally online
they/them
Ōtautahi - Aotearoa
paypal.me/gamerswift13
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[Not loaded yet]- friends i cannot tell you how anxious i was as a trans person in 2025 to be entering a place for the first time in my life that has been designated a safe space for women only. and i felt seen. seen in a way i've never felt before. i was instantly treated just like one of the girls, no hesitation
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- that's amazing! i'm so happy for you 🥹
- So fucking stoked for you
- This kerfuffle over the use of 'cunt' to describe cunty behaviour is SUCH A DISTRACTION from the real issues here
- And talk about reversing victim and offender, suddenly Van Velden is the victim here
- What's the opposite of "feckless" anyway
- #Kai Dinner.
- So it's not okay to call RW politicians acting like utter cunts "cunts", but it is okay to call a well thought-out and equitable budget manifesto "Marxist" despite not being Marxist?
- Brooke Van Velden is hypocrisy in a skin suit
- I'm so tired today
- Surely "Left-wing Trumpism" is an oxymoron?
- Luxon, Peters, Seymour and Willis deride the Greens tax policies. Not enough to landlords, tobacco companies and prisons obviously. The quartet of dunces should shut up and get real jobs.
- cycling through a million things i could say about the word 'cunt' but idk man as far as gendered insults go i don't think it's usually used to refer to women specifically in this country is it? like to me a cunt is kind of like the US definition of pornography: you know one when you see one #nzpol
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View full threadahahaha incredible. i'd never call you a prude, and the fact you use that word at all proves it!
- Yeah but I am. Like academically I know other people have bodies and they do things with those bodies, but it’s really none of my business and the least I know about it the better. 😂
- It seems apt tonight to post this wee graphic I made in 2005, an adaptation of a National electioneering billboard (one of a series including the infamous iwi/Kiwi one)
- Aotearoa not yet dominating the latest posts for the search term "cunt" on bsky, if you're curious
- oh yeah no for sure, like again being from whakatū like if you don't like a woman she's a b-word but if you don't like a man he's a c-word for sure
- Yeah, it speaks volumes that the most insulting thing society says you can say to a woman is to literally call her a woman. I guess that really stings if you’ve got used to thinking yourself better than all those other women…
- Van Velden putting the "gaslight" into "girlboss gatekeep"
- Denying working women equitable wages is, in fact, a very cunty thing to do. The pay equity amendment legislation looks like, sounds like, and reads like a very anti-women, anti-feminist bill. It's very cunty and so are its architects and supporters. #NZpol #CuntGate #PayEquity
- that's totally fair! it's not a word i use a lot tho i probably do use it more perjoratively than not. growing up in whakatū nelson everyone said it a lot and i feel like i just grew out of it tbh. i would never use it as slang for anatomy tho bc that just feels crude to a point i'd be embarassed!
- It’s probably fair to say I’m likely the crudest prude you’ll ever meet. 😆
- i haven't even done very much today but just by virtue of it being the most i've done in a single day in a fucking long time i feel like i've done SO MUCH omg
- got up at 9am and had breakfast, went to meet my new GP IRL for the first time, went to the City Mission for my first ever AA meeting (which went great, btw), then joined a group where we tried (and failed) to learn to make coffee like a barista, played a silly card game for a bit, now i'm home
- Ok that is an absolutely bonkers number of things to get done in one day, you must be exhausted
- I’ll roll my eyes at variations of GC (not used an insult, so not problematic!), and I’m fine with it used as slang for anatomy, but I really don’t like it used pejoratively. I tend to think way too much about the meaning of words, so there are other swears I similarly avoid.
- Also: it’s far more commonly used at men (see my first point) which is why it slaps so hard here. And I think this is probably playing into why people are using it in this time and context. They want something more shocking than the more familiar “female dog” to express how they’re feeling.
- It’s not gendered because it’s used to insult women, it’s gendered because people think calling someone a vagina (ie a woman) is one of the worst possible insults. It comes back to how women are valued; ok to stick a dick (far less offensive) in, but not much good for anything else.
- I can call her a total cock if she'd prefer?
- i feel good you guys. i feel really good.
- Yay,good you
- It would be much easier to just say you hate the disabled than to write a whole book on the terrifying thought of seeing a disabled person in the public eye
- Not a WHEELCHAIR. The horror of someone of advanced age being able to get around without using all their energy and avoid risking serious injury from falling. Thank heavens didn’t happen. 🫠 www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
- Yeah it's a gendered insult in the US, but not in the UK, aus or here
- I do shit all day at work but if i do 3 things on my days off im like I DID SO MUCH
- We really are the most twee nation in the world
- I can't believe I am alive for Cuntgate #NZPol
- OMG I went out and this happened??
- I've made the call, it's the first time cunt has been said in the house
- I bet it's been muttered a few times.
- There was also Rawiri Waititi ending his pre-hikoi speech with 'c u next Tuesday', which was brilliant and hilarious.
- Gerry didn't even catch that though
- LOL he's really not very quick off the mark.
- hating cats is such a massive red flag. it's just a silly little fluffy soft guy who hangs out in your house doing silly stuff
- massive red flag! like i've met people who are allergic to cats but they still just love them from a distance. people who *hate* cats i'm pretty sure are basically fascists who are trying desperately to hide it
- i honestly dont understand hating a specific animal unless its like mosquitos, which spread disease, bc like its an animal, what do you want from it
- yeah being allergic to cats and hating cats are two separate things
- i like how there's at least 10 dog breeds from every single location on earth but with cats it's just, "yea this is a cat". like there's a few breeds [allegedly] from such exotic places as "bengal", "siam", "the orient" (🤔), "maine"; but otherwise it's just like "this one is yellow" "this one has
- long hair" "this one has short hair" "this one looks like a turtle (???)" "this one is intersex and we can tell bc it has orange spots and a dick"
- Spoke at a local psychology forum today, briefly, and used some of my time to talk about the reality of what life is actually like for trans people in the US and UK at the moment - cos people know the headlines, but not the detail. That was the quietest room I've ever spoken to.
- so proud of you! you are crushing it wow 🫶
