my name is hayae. i keep remaking tumblr accounts because i keep deciding that i want a different aesthetic.
my age isn't your business. i like things sometimes. i'm sure you'll figure it out.
this is my account where i just post whatever i want.
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i do NOT fw generative ai. you're goofy if you use gen ai art/music/writing/what have you. i don't use chat gpt and i consider this to be my moral superiority. just figure it out urself buddy.
i think you're goofy if you're obsessed with japan, like ok. go off fetishizer.
i am not a rightie or anything like that lol if you're coming here for that sorta stuff then, idk why you're here.
I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.
"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!
The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.
Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup
this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀
i don't know if this would reach the intended audience (who i am asking the question for) but how do native american folk feel about their mythology and folklore being used in fictionalized contexts? i do not mean in the form of bastardization (talking about it like it is some mystical thing or something), but instead like... if you were to do some sort of sci-fantasy thing, and have a group based on xyz native american tribe, and re-contextualizing the myth to fit into the sci-fantasy world.
i do think that another problem with how people view oppression is that a lot of people seem to believe that all oppression is based on personal identification and not outside viewers' perceptions of who someone is
i think we should go back to using "encoding" (what the author meant to put in) and "decoding" (how the audience is interpreting the author's creations) into the world. Everyone say thank you stuart hall. why did we abandon this
here with more thoughts. white white white white white! i will say it again and again maybe.
i do not feel safe in many trans spaces. many other people of color feel the same - so many white trans people (and this might go for other communities, of course, but i am focusing on problems in the trans community) see tpoc as Inherently Sexual. it might be unrealized, but it is very, very common. and if not that, then something to "glorify."
i am speaking from a japanese trans man perspective, i want to note. my culture is seen as something that is to vye over. so many white trans people choose japanese names because of their ~anime~ and other bullshit. i have seen white trans people going by whole ass SENTENCES in japanese. like, "put a sentence into google translate and chose it as their name." being japanese is an aesthetic but not an experience that people can actually have because they are the exotic people. i am also seen as inherently more feminine (whether i pass or not). i get degendered tenfold because people don't actually want to acknowledge that i'm an asian trans man. and i know that's the case because the people around me are more willing to gender the white trans men we know more.
and similar things happen to, for example, black trans women! because many people see being black as an inherently masculine experience (which is obviously not the case).
and it doesn't really matter because None Of Us are white, so we are seen as sexual anyways. i see trans latinas be sexualized all the time because of just the fact that they are latinx. so many black trans women are sexualized. trans moc are also not acknowledged because like, well, apparently because they can't be sexualized in the same way as trans women they simply don't exist. so many of us are seen as objects to white trans people!
and again, OBVIOUSLY this is a phenomenon that has existed outside of the trans onlinesphere. there's just been so much bullshit arguing nowadays amongst trans people, and half the arguing i see is by White Trans People and most tpoc i see are just like Well fuck us i guess. because. well. fuck us i guess!
Whatever i mean. be there for the tpoc in your life? that's the real message. see them for more than an object
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while I understand queer people having anti black phases when younger and changing and I honestly commend them for changing but we do need to address how casual antiblackness is especially among the queer community and how it isolates black queers from everyone else.
and when we are rightfully upset we are treated as the perpetrators.
not only does our lingo (aave) get misused and butchered by non black queers, but the level of disrespect that happens when we don't agree with everything they do or say especially with casual anti blackness.
it's something a lot of black people I know dealt with to some degree, including myself. how normalized it is both in the world and especially internet culture. it's frustrating that white people especially get it a little easier when it comes to being "problematic" compared to black folks who are already heavily stigmatized.
I made this post initially because I'm a lil tired of non black queers getting an easy pass on being anti black because "they were just kids" but black people never get that same treatment when we fuck up. when we fuck up it's game over, black kids aren't even allowed to be kids because society already views us as aggressors at age 7.
another thing that queer discoursers i think need to realize is that intersectionality does not necessarily mean the different axes of oppression that someone experiences but like how the forms of their identity contribute to their experiences as a whole, and also that being two marginalized identities does not mean that you have Double Oppression
i keep seeing trans discourse all over my dash on a Separate blog and i feel like it is lowkey driving me crazy. i mean idrgaf about what that one guy said but that's b/c i tend to consider pretty much any discourse on this site kind of stupid. unfortunately this discourse affects my irl world since i am friends with many queer people, young or old.
my main take (half-joke) is that half of the trans community on tumblr appropriates asian names and i've seen people try to give their ocs japanese names but it's just wholeass sentences, not even like. a name. stuff like that. not to make it about me <3 i just think it's embarrassing to watch that happen and makes pretty much everyone's points become moot after that </3
the other take is that i think there is an intersection trans men experience specifically as their identification of being both trans and a man, but i don't think terms outside of "anti transmasculinity" really fits because "being a man" is not an axis of oppression, but when specifically paired with being trans and described as a trans man (or transmasc whatever u wish), it does become it's own unique experience that other trans people might not experience. same with nonbinary ppl when they're like MtN or FtN - not that these specific forms of identification are necessarily important, but u see a difference between those who are MtN and those who are FtN.
the third take is that ultimately it feels like you don't give a fuck about anyone in the community if getting into arguments online is the main way that you try to prove shit like this. and this goes for everything. i've been weening myself off online stuff but good lord i cannot get into online discourse because that shit is consuming you get too obsessed with the bs you're saying more than the actual message behind it
thinking now - i do think race as a concept should be kind of abolished but also mentioning race as a serious problem today is probably one of the best ways to actually examine a lot of biases and systemic issues that we (america and pretty much any country ever, i'm just speaking from an american perspective) have and consistently face. like imo it's just easiest to "categorize" by cultures.
one of the strangest experiences that i've had as of yet is, there is this one tumblr user here.. while i won't specify them, this isn't a vaguepost, they've explained a phenomenon i'm not really used to. but i've seen a lot of posts from this one user who talks about europeans and their tendency to not claim someone who is ethnically european because they live in a different country (specifically america).
i feeeeel like a lot of it comes from the fact that, in america, a LOT of the white americans kind of "lose" their euro roots. america has a pretty distinct culture but being ethnically american is pretty much just native americans and no one else lol. same with canada! and ofc a lot of this has to do with imperialism/colonialism/what have you, given that the euros traveled far from their home country.
anyway, that's not really the point. i'm japanese-american and a lot of my job has to do with speaking to other japanese people - they ALL consider me japanese. not nationally, but ethnically. there is a specific term for this in japanese, too (nikkei - i am nikkei amerikajin, for example. or an american person with japanese descent as a translation). yes they can tell i'm a japanese american. i've never set foot in japan. all of them still think i'm japanese.
of course, i think a lot of this hateboner that euros have over people who identify as a certain european ethnicity (in america) because that is their ethnic make-up comes from the fact that europe is pretty much the main place that has been so up-in-arms about ethnicity/race/geography/etc as a means of superiority, where even similar cultures are severely looked down upon. and i am very aware of japanese imperialism lmfao and yes this divide happens in japan but sometimes europe is just absolutely crazy to witness man
never said it was isolationist right now. it has historically been isolationist. did i not say it like that, or what. japan isn't isolationist anymore either
