yes please tell the olympic gold medalist how she’s shooting wrong

Men will mainsplain anything to anyone.

Makes sense. I mean, a passenger of a cruise line isn't called a sailor, right? Astronaut literally means "star sailor."

OP how could you not include the first paragraph of the article

Huge oversight on my part you're absolutely right

the only kind of gatekeeping I will allow

[id: a tweet by @TPAIN that reads: "I encourage everybody to at least (in private if need be) take a shot at doing something you actually think you'd like but your friend circle has deemed it "corny" or "lame". Liberate yourself from the constant need of approval from everybody besides yourself and go have fun". /end id]

u know, i think he means it

I’m starting to think furries are the fastest growing sector of the American economy

From his Twitter:

All I wanted was cool robots. But this is the future we got instead.

this man is leveraging his presence in a niche community to advertise his tax services and you're sat here with your thumb up your ass thinking this precludes advanced robotics somehow. we should all someday be so lucky as Tax Badger

“My doors are only closed to wall street” Tax Badger just went from cool dude to legend.   

[Description: Top image, a profile page for Tax Badger, a self-described “Tax business for furries!” with a drawing of a badger dressed in a suit and looking very professional. Second image, from his twitter, someone in DMs asking “I know you do taxes for furries but do you do taxes for non-furry, furry-friendly NSFW content creators?” Tax Badger replies “Of course! Furries are my target client, but my doors are only closed to wall street.”]

I hope people realize how awesome this is.

NSFW artists are both highly in demand and highly ostracized, sometimes by the very same people who patron their work. They’ll have a few who genuinely support them up, but if hard issues hit, like say, an audit (TAXES), can you imagine a smut or hentai artist taking all of their paperwork and numbers to the local H&R? Sitting down and explaining their business expenses- some of which might include porn conventions, or printing and distributing 18+ adult content on their own dime. That sounds doable, right?

The JUDGEMENT ALONE would be exhausting, constantly defending yourself and your work when it’s actually in high demand, and that’s assuming you can even find someone willing to help. Any bullshit excuse could send you out the door.

Do not, EVER, turn your nose up at a professional offering their services to a niche group of people. Because one day, you may find yourself in a niche, suddenly in need of a pro hookup- for something that the average career person can get out of a quick google search (I totally had to delete the words ‘phone book’), but find nothing but slim pickings for your market.

This is really important to recognize, because exclusionists don’t often want to recognize this dirty little truth about their community.

it’s almost like being an asshole about some things is the gateway drug to being an asshole about nearly everything