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"Love" that it has somehow become controversial even among trans men to say that trans men are men. And not in some metaphorical sense or whatever, not in a "gender isn't real" sense, not in a "but they're still female" sense, but in the sense that trans men are real, actual, MEN. And in addition: trans men that medically transition are MALE. That's what medical transition does: it changes your fucking sex! That's the whole point of it! And no, not just when you get grs, HRT alone does that too!
But no, so fucking many of them hate trans women so goddamn much that they've committed to misgendering themselves and spreading TERF ideology about how "they'll always be female" just so they can insist that the inverse is also true: that trans women are actually, and always will be, men and male.
often there will be people in the notes of my media crit posts saying they wish they could get better at literary analysis and honestly i think the best way to do so is to read as much as possible as widely as possible. read through the seminal works of academic media studies to give yourself a solid starting framework of course but after that you gotta go wild. read well-written things and poorly-written things and things they are somehow infuriatingly both. read academic literature beyond just that which is directly relevant to media studies, from feminism to post-colonialism to environmental studies. read the classics and read schlocky mass market slop. anything that deepens your understanding of the world will help you to interpret it
^^ yes!! you also have to be willing to accept that you might have bad takes and accept analysis of your analysis. conversation with the dead and gone, whose historical works inform current media. and conversations with the living, who may argue back. and it’s okay to exist in a dialogue.
defending or adjusting your opinion helps you learn to better articulate yourself and improves the clarity of your analyses.
It's so obvious that so many of you see racism as just a minor oopsie that causes no material harm. Why are racialized people not allowed to talk about our oppression? Why are we always the ones who have to forgive and rebuild bridges? Why do we have to forget and ignore that so many people don't see us as human beings? Why are we not allowed to be hurt when somebody decided that our centuries of suffering is something to laugh at and make light of? Why are we erased when we express our hurt in order to dismiss it? Why are we obligated to forgive and forget while this system continues to hold a boot on our necks?
No I'm not fucking defending transmisogynistic harassment campaigns or pedojacketing against Gooseworx nor is it ignoring the fact that white transfems get scrutinized more for racism than any other group of white people. I've already fucking talked about this on my blog, and also how a lot of the people talking about a transfem's racism wouldn't give a fuck if they're TME.
That being said, fuck if I'm not pissed that a bunch of people on my dashboard have outed themselves as being unsafe for trans women of color by saying "stop talking about the racism of the TADC cast." There'll never be a "right time" to talk about this. If this was said about any other form of bigotry then y'all would flip your shit. But since it doesn't affect you personally it's perfectly fucking fine I guess. Thanks for abandoning your racialized sisters because you can't take racism seriously.
no one cares that you shave your legs because of sensory issues shut the fuck up forever
really galling amount of people misinterpreting this post so i'd like to clarify. i'm saying that when discussions about patriarchal beauty standards and the way women are heavily shamed and coerced into eschewing their own natural state of being (hairy) are occurring, it is unhelpful (AT BEST) to interrupt and say that the reason YOU remove the hair from your body is because of sensory issues. that's not what we're talking about. stop asking for validation for doing something that society at large wants you to do. stop derailing the conversation because you feel uncomfortable about being made aware that you, for whatever reason it is, adhere to harmful, unfair and ridiculous beauty standards. you're stepping into the middle of an important conversation that needs to be had and making it all about you. shut the fuck up forever.
also quite frankly i think a lot less people would experience sensory issues if they let their hair grow out so that it isn't bristly and rough and irritating. and i cannot help but wonder why these sensory issues aren't as predominant in men. maybe you're uncomfortable with the hair on your body because you've been taught to be uncomfortable with it. just a thought.
the unfortunate side effect of developing a more critical eye for fan behaviour as a product of society™️ is that new fan takes on a piece of media become fairly predictable. oh the white guy with daddy issues is your favourite? you think the asian man is an adorable subby cinnamon roll? you think the woman in a position of authority is either mom-coded or a total bitch? say less
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anyways, I'm still so angry over that Deadline article about Disney nuking Ncuti Gatwa's era of Doctor Who because of "woke" (not even kidding), because they received "overwhelming" feedback that the show was "too woke" for international audiences. It will never not piss me the fuck off how woke was/is literally aave for being politically aware that's been so co-opted by white establishment conservatives that this bastardised co-opted colonised concept of "woke" is now weaponised against Black people, people of colour and other marginalised people to justify casting us down and out. A literal fuckinf alien was played by a Black gay actor and old white people lost their shit and now a 60 yr old show is basically dead because some white people hated they weren't being directly pandered to. I'm never not gonna be pissed the fuck OFF
Hey, people in the comments who said I was wrong about the show being dead because I could see the writing on the wall months ago....well, now there's the official announcement. I really hope that no one ever forgets that Doctor Who was cancelled because of anti-Blackness, racism, and corporate greed.
in 2014 you could come on here and say “misogyny is bad and more ppl should consume media that includes women” and everyone would agree with you. nowadays you post something like “if you don’t care about women you might be a misogynist” and the reblogs are ppl saying “ummmmmm this take is actually problematic bc the only way i can escape misogyny is by pretending women don’t exist :/” we’re so cooked.
you are white before you are trans and i feel like some of y'all forget that
when people specify that theyre sayibg guys or man or dude in a gender neutral way it makes it both more annoying and less neutral at the same time
like we are typing. you typed "guys" with your hands. paused. and went "this might seem exclusionary to the women following me." and instead of using a different word just decided to appened "(gender neutral)" to it?
having to stop your conversation with a coworker when a customer walks in has the same vibe as two knights talking ildly on guard duty who have to quickly shut up and resume their positions as the king walks by. at least. i think so
The narrative that the use of TMA/TME was the start of some trend of dividing non-binary people into two boxes has been a masterful stroke of revisionism. it not only sneakily implies a halcyon past before the dreaded division, where non-binary people we all equal and indivisible, but also shifts the goal post on what this terminology is meant to achieve in the first place.
non-binary communities have always been categorized and divided along AGAB lines, long before even *that*(agab) was a commonly used term and often *by* non-binary people themselves. With non-binary identities and querrness in general becoming more accepted and talked about, there have been many schools of thought about this. (I am not dismissing these, but I'm not here to discuss them because it is not relevant to the point I'm making) Generally speaking, it has become less acceptable to talk about agab plainly and blatantly in regards to non-binary identities. this does not mean that all non-binary people get treated the same way or have the same experiences regardless of agab. there is in fact, a stark discrepancy in gendered traits and signifiers that are considered as part of, or emblematic of non-binary presentation. this is most obvious with non-binary representation in media, where the majority of non-binary characters fit one of two very specific molds.
one is that of a feminine baseline that achieves an aesthetic of androgyny by adding a select few masculine signifiers. most of the time, these characters will be played/voiced by transmasculine non-binary people. they are more likely to have a backstory or plot relevance and generally avoid homophobic/transphobic tropes. this accounts for the vast majority of non-binary representation.
the other is that of a masculine baseline with feminine signifiers and is (both in and out of fiction) generally considered less androgynous. these characters are most likely to be played/voiced my cis men, then cis women, sometimes transmasculine people and very rarely by transfeminine people. they are also much more likely to be side/joke characters and lean into homophobic and transmisogynistic tropes and stereotypes.
exceptions do exist, but they are rare.
so ask yourself, why is the default non-binary body a femenine one? why is the default non-binary character modeled after a transmasculine experience?
the awnser is transmisogyny. the transmisogynist dos not care wether the subject identifies with womanhood or not. they don't look for trans women, they look for "men in dresses". no transfeminine non-binary person has ever been able to avoid transmisogyny by leveraging their non-binary identity. this assumption ignores the ways transmisogyny actually functions. and all people, including those who make media, are implicitly aware of this, so they avoid casting/designing characters that look like "mem in dresses", except as a deliberate joke or mockery. intentionaluty is not required when transmisogyny is the default.
this is precisely why we have language to describe this dynamic. it didn't transform non-binary(all encompassing) into non-binary(TME) and non-binary(TMA) because that initial state never existed.
there was "non-binary" and "non-binary(tranny)" unless otherwise stated, TME is assumed as the default for non-binary people, same as cis women are assumed to be the default for women(no qualifier) and cis men for men(no qualifiers)
TMA/TME is simply terminology coined to describe a phenomenon that was already reality.
and this isn't all just theory or conjecture, I see this when I go out and spend time in queer spaces.
now, I am not non-binary. I am very firmly a binary trans woman, so I won't claim to have anywhere close to a complete understanding of that experience. I can only speak of my own experience as an egg transfem who thought she was agender, used that label and moved within non-binary friend groups and communities for 2 years.
in my experience and that of transfem NBs i've known over the years, transfeminine NBs are misgendered more often, not taken as seriously with their grievances, given less goodwill for real or percieved bad behaivior, and ultimately viewed more as guests by the non-binary communities they inhabit than actual members. they are included in events and meetups much less frequently, and often avoided when they do participate.
it's not uncommon to go to a meetup and not see a single transfem there. when you point this out or even just inquire about it, people get defensive and uncomfortable really quickly. platitudes like "we're all NB, why do you need transfem NBs specifically to be represented?" or "I don't really think about people's agab, I just go based on vibes" are common. it doesn't strike anyone as odd that the vibes always seem to be "off" with the NBs who look a bit too masculine, who's voice is a bit too deep, those with receding hairlines or hairy arms. those who look just a bit too much like they're "men in dresses".
I am glad that I eventually found my place within womanhood, not because there is anything wrong with being non-binary, but because I cannot imagine myself surviving in that kind of space, my otherness always evident, always affecting how I am seen-how I am treated, but never permitted to be spoken aloud, lest I upset the "real" non-binary people around me.
because they will not suffer a man in a dress. especially one who's too loud.
so when I hear cries about "putting non binary people into boxes" I can't help but think of the boxes that have always been there, just unlabeled.
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