Shitty Critic

just to reblog shitty things. also content warning, i reblog stuff about so much fucked up shit. will probably move a bunch of liked posts to this one slowly but surly when I get them all here. Also please block me if you really, really do not want to see that shit.

[britts-galaxy-brain]

I miss the days when websites were smaller and more niche, and you could just whole ass throw someone off the entire site if they were being a nuisance or outright abusive.

Yes I know you can technically still do that today, but now you have to go through a corporation with a bunch of reports getting sent to staff of said corporation that likely aren't going to know what the hell is going on.

Back in the day, you could just go up to the site admin or one of the few mods and they'd know what went on, what the context was, and be familiar enough with everyone involved to make an informed decision.

[kdotlover]

why are people still using "trans men make more than trans women" as a talking point to demoralize trans men talking abt transandrophobia like ok. studies also show that trans men get raped way more than anyone else if you wanna play this game. whats the point of this stupid bullshit infighting.

also. whats worth getting a bit of money more if we're both still making infinetly less than cis people

[luckyladylily]

I think it's especially interesting because it makes it absolutely clear that these people are viewing others oppression purely through a lens of how it impacts or compares to the oppression of trans women. The statistic is that trans men make 70 cents to the dollar. This demonstrates that trans men suffer significant financial discrimination - it is evidence *for* the existence of transandrophobia, not against it.

It is a nonsense argument that can only exist coming from people so completely focused on only their oppression that they cannot consider the oppression of others except by comparing it to their own to find evidence that their oppression is the worst oppression. It's oppression Olympics at it's most transparent.

[genderkoolaid]

idk who needs to hear this but get off 4chan. and if you are already off 4chan, also get off the 4chan you have built into your mind.

[genderkoolaid]

to be clear its not even that 4chan is a homogenous pit of pure evil. there's a lot of people on the site and they are human beings with interests seeking community. i say this for those reading this post who go "well but i'm not on 4chan to be a nazi, i don't engage with that kind of really rancid stuff"

even if you are on the least rancid edge of the cesspit, there is still a reason it is a cesspit. by which i mean that the overall culture of 4chan is the problem, the ways of thinking and engaging with yourself and other people and society it encourages people to adopt are the problem. the overall callousness and cruelty and irony poisoning are the problems. get off 4chan.

[genderkoolaid]

from @395nm

There's discourse trying to rehabilitate 4chan by claiming it's not really more bigoted than twitter, facebook, or tumblr. This is false. If you've ever considered these takes, please actually go to 4chan (everything's visible with no login) and try spending half an hour there. I used to get porn from /gif/, but I stopped, because seeing 600 slurs every time I visited got tiring. You can't go 5 minutes without seeing KKK-level discourse on Black people, gay people, trans people, Jews, and women. Nazi, incel, and child molester rhetoric is mainstream on 4chan. There's always at least one active thread for non-consensually recorded porn, as well as a trans hate "rope fuel" thread and a natsoc thread. There are bigots on tumblr, but the ones on 4chan are 100x more open and emboldened. I don't trust anyone who tells me they're the same. On tumblr, Black people don't get as many reblogs as white people. Some of you scroll on by, or leave ignorant comments like "I've never heard of that kind of racism. It doesn't sound real." When a Black person posts on 4chan, they get told, "don't post [slur]s here. There's already a thread for [slur]s, so post it in that thread and quit shitting up this one." I'm paraphrasing - the people on 4chan are substantially less civil. I understand "channer" is often used against transfems on tumblr, trading on the stereotype that trans women come from 4chan. The answer is to deconstruct the stereotype - most trans women did not come from 4chan. If you did come from 4chan, the answer is "I've left it behind and deconstructed the attitudes I learned there," NOT "It's no worse than other websites!"

(now I do want to point out that tumblr also has aggressive racists and outspoken nazis, as well as more covert/progressive racism. but overall, culturally, 4chan is tolerant to explicit white supremacy and nazism to another degree & goes back to the cynicism and cruelty and irony-poisoning)

[queeraliensposts]

TERFS: trans women are men and men are evil therefore trans women are evil

TIRFS: trans men are men and men are evil therefore trans men are evil

Intersectional feminists: no gender is evil, masculinity is not inherently aggressive, the problem is that men are encouraged by the patriarchy to be aggressive and violent, and men need to unlearn these patterns to be better people.

[thepinkpestilence]

the amount of hate anons and messages trans women and transfems could get simply for not wanting to take a part in pushing down trans men and transmascs is so disgusting. bc those people (tma/tme users and transandrophobia deniers) would claim to put trans women and transfems above everyone else but turn around and harass them the second they dont agree with their posts. its pathetic. shout out to every trans woman and transfem who is supportive of all trans siblings!!!

[bi-enad]

Blocking isff supporters and transandro bros in equal measure. I hate everyone on this site.

[bi-enad]

The rampant transmisogyny on this site only further pushes trans girls into that insulated group. Like sorry but transmisogynists do share an equal blame with the grooming of trans girls on here. It makes the job of isolating these girls very very easy by ensuring they have no outside support in the first place. Do better.

[this-is-weird-behavior]

i really do not think it can be overstated how much hatred against trans men on this site is driven by people finding trans men Just Kind Of Annoying. people have pipelined themselves into posting on the daily about how tmes should be raped to death because 6 years ago a teenage trans boy was somewhat overexuberant on a fandom post, and other such minor irritations. finding someone (and therefore their entire segment of the population) Just Kind Of Annoying is a direct line, especially on the internet, to completely unpersoning them. nothing one of those people ever says or does should be taken seriously, even if it's a matter of life and death. because they were kind of annoying :/

[this-is-weird-behavior]

hang on yeah i want to talk more about this ^ specifically. been seeing people here discuss the phenomenon of the fascist "right to comfort" mostly in terms of people not wanting to have uncomfortable conversations or not wanting to be exposed to topics that are harmless but make them feel weird. and cringe culture is very much an extension of that perceived right to comfort. if you cannot extend your tolerance to someone who is really fucking annoying, not to be best friends with them or anything, but just to protect their basic rights and dignity, you lack principles. point blank. you need to build a bulwark of values that prioritize autonomy and dignity for everyone and it needs to be strong enough to weather the most irritating person you know, or else you will also inevitably become a fascist or part of the fascists' body count.

[transbutchsupreme]

Isff's beef with @anti-parent is that this person engages Youthlib very responsibly. Shoot them a follow. Isff's beef with @this-is-trans-joy is that they platform the voices of those chasing gender euphoria without centering ops ego or sick claim over the coming out process of others. Shoot them a follow.

[confused-rat]

Jesus fucking Christ, might as well just say you hate your wife at this point.

Imagine drawing the love of your life free art all the damn time and she has the fucking nerve to turn around and say “it’s not that hard, I could do it too actually, but what I’m doing is actually harder so I’ll leave it to you~”

Fuck off Lily, being an artist and writer are both equally challenging in their own separate ways and neither one is somehow better or more challenging than the other, and obviously you can’t fucking draw or else you wouldn’t constantly be stealing other people’s art for your videos.

[hearts-monitor]

You know I was starting to feel relieved that I haven't heard from Hearts in a while because I thought she finally took the hint. Either that or she wanted to try a "vacation" and get some sorta gotcha on me only to realize people won't talk about her as long as she isn't spamming unrelated tags and trying to get peoples attention.

And then I see that out of all of her 60+ alts she decides to come back on her most openly racist one. You know, the one that's supposed to be a "parody blog" of one of the people she already said some pretty awful shit to.

Reminder of the other shit Hearts has posted on this alt specifically.

If Hearts ever tries to bring up how she's been apologizing and that she's moved on or that "the old Hearts is dead" ever again, I want everyone to remember that while trying to cry for pity and attention and sympathy, this is how she behaves when she believes nobody is paying attention close enough. This is what she's doing simultaneously alongside crying that everyone bullied her for "nothing".

Fucking despicable.

[genderkoolaid]

Nevertheless, each writer’s reflection on the public distancing by straight women from the objects of their desire rests on the belief that these displays reflect women’s feelings about their attachment to men as a stable category—disappointment or shame—rather than their feelings about their attachment to women as a stable category—fear that this category is becoming politically obsolete. The thing is, the popular misandrist left discourse, perpetuated by straight women, has almost nothing to do with sexuality, but everything to do with gender. Like political lesbianism, this Political Heterosexuality is not concerned with actual, felt sexual orientation or relationships—it’s concerned with the reifying of binary categories at the expense of a nuanced analysis of gender that accounts for race, class, and transition. [...] While the decrying of men by Political Heterosexuals is less overtly bio-essentialist—tending to focus on men’s emotional immaturity, commitment-phobia, poor sexual skills, lack of hygiene, or failure to own a real, off-the-ground bed—it still relies on an implicit or explicit comparison with women, and thus, a binary. What makes these men men is that they are not women; what makes these women, then, women is that they are not men. In my view, professing hatred of men online is not exclusively or even often reflective of individual disappointment or in service of individual absolution; it is in service of the desire to continue to define the political category of “women” by a clean-cut opposite, in a time when it is no longer politically correct to do so. [...] Good feminists do indeed acknowledge the impossibility of lumping women together as a discrete group with legible, united needs; over is the heyday of white second-wave feminism, claiming all women—regardless of race or wealth—as equal in their second-class citizenship. But, even as progressive women dutifully point out the failure of the universal, acknowledging that the universalizing of the category “women” nearly always reeks of white supremacy and transphobia, many of those same women continue to fervently desire a universal, whether or not they’ll say it out loud. And the loophole, championed by Political Heterosexuality, is to affirm that men constitute a political class—the silent foil being, then, that women still do, too.

from "In Defense of Men: On the failures of Political Heterosexuality and No Cis Men" by Sophia Giovannitti

By rehearsing the view that ‘men are the worst’ while continuing to pursue romantic and sexual attachments with them, we perform an othering gesture that shores up the purity or innocence of our own identities. We may love men, we declare, but we barely enjoy it, okay?; we are embarrassed; we are not contaminated by them; we are not they. In other words, we get to continue to be ‘women’. Perhaps, semi-unconsciously, we had worried that the very category of ‘women’ had become untenable. If we can only continue to reproduce the category ‘men’ loudly enough, then, we wager, the category ‘women’ might stay safe. (Note, while a majority of heterofatalist misandrists online today seem to think they are trans-affirming, their position not only requires erasing trans men altogether, but also all trace of trans women’s lived experiences as men, regardless of those women’s own self-understanding. Indeed, misandry, as I see it, can never reliably be prevented from collapsing into transphobia.)

from "Collective Turn Off" by Sophie Lewis

[genderkoolaid]

When you said in your Katherine Hepburn post that you wonder how many transmasculine people kept their identities close to their chest to be the wife or mother that they were supposed to be, I always think of my neighbor.

I live in an extremely Mormon community in rural Northern Utah. I came out as a trans man as a teenager, about 10 years ago. My neighbor— someone who I had always known as a traditional Mormon woman in her early 40s, a devout housewife, a mother of several children, a valued community member from a very important family in our area (her brother is literally the mayor of our town), and at most SLIGHTLY more reclusive and quiet than most of the bigshots in our community— quietly told me on their front porch one evening that they have always seen themself as a man.

They wistfully told me about their college years, where they were involved in the lesbian community, before in their early 20s realizing that it was “more” than that. About how they only moved back home and got married after their college degree because the thought of being a disappointment to their family, and being disowned, felt impossible to cope with. So they got married to a man that they admit they don’t feel any ounce of attraction towards, and had several kids, and they’re not quite the pride to their parents as their siblings (due to being slightly more reclusive, not really having friends to speak of that aren’t just church ladies that they work with, and, admittedly, always seeming a bit depressed to me). They said that they were proud of me for doing what I needed to do, though, and they were happy that my family at least wasn’t disowning me.

Nobody else in our community knows. Not their family, not their husband, not their kids, not the people they do church outreach with.

And whenever I read stories of forgotten trans men, I always think of them. They’re still alive! They’re still here! And nobody but me will probably ever know! And if I hadn’t come out in this tiny little community, I’d never know either!

Idk. Sorry for the vent/rant. Thank you for listening. It crushes me to be the only one who knows them as a man, sometimes.

Thank you for sharing. These are the transmasculine stories we need to be telling more and louder.

[shamebats]

Never not thinking about Lou Sullivan's mom, Nancy Louise Sullivan — a homemaker in a devout Catholic family, raised 6 children in the 1940s-70s iirc. Never did transition, but was very supportive of Lou.

[notebeans-galaxy]

there are more trans men and transmasc folks who lived and died as women than the world will ever know about. i cannot tell you how many stories I've heard of people's mothers and grandmothers telling their trans kids and grandkids that they probably would have transitioned if it had been a real option for them when they were young, because there's so many that counting would be pointless. Not just to escape womanhood, but because they wanted more than anything to live how they felt comfortable without judgement from their friends and family. And because they knew they couldn't do that without being ostracized, they gave up and conformed to expectations as best as they were able to.

The sunk cost of life as a woman is the main thing that stops them from transitioning as adults. Marriage, kids, the exhausting process that is going through a second puberty, the expense and physical strain of something like surgery alongside having every choice they've ever made held against them. They know transitioning means their husbands will most likely abandon them, their kids most likely won't support them. Loss of friendships and the supportive spaces meant for women, despite having lived as a woman for decades. And most people can't take that kind of total societal rejection.

[genderkoolaid]

also want to add to this conversation that Matthew Shannon's study of the USTS data found "a negative association exists between income and MTFs who transitioned to female earlier, and FTMs who transitioned to male later," meaning trans men who come out later in life are more negatively economically affected that trans men who come out earlier in life.

and being a housewife in a conservative environment is pretty important here as well; both anon's Mormon friend and Lou's mother were in a culture where the pressure to be a wife and mother were very strong and the expectation to get married and have children as soon as possible is heavy. in many cases (historically in the US and historically and presently in other places) people classed as women were legally discriminated against in terms of having a bank account, getting a credit card, taking out loans, or even being able to travel without a male relative. and that last one also IMMENSELY limits the ability for transmasculine people in such regions to organize communally as well.

so a trans man in this environment is in a situation where he is the primary caretaker of a child if not multiple children as well as performing the duties of a wife, having little to no formal work experience (only years of unpaid domestic and reproductive labor #WAGESFORHOUSEWORK), is entirely dependent on his husband and community who will reject him, if not subject him to corrective/punitive violence, should he come out, not to mention the economic burden of divorce. and then either have his children taken away from him and told their mother is schizophrenic or possessed by demons, or try to raise his children on his own as a single parent?

its not a shocker that a lot of trans men simply choose not to. or don't figure its a choice at all; how many have been trained from childhood out of expecting autonomy over their life or body in the first place? that you put your husband and children and community and god before yourself and your selfish wants, especially when those wants are perceived as diseased and unnatural?

[trans-for-man-tion]

Is that man mansplaining

or are you misusing that phrase?

warning: i made this while annoyed and tired so feel free to correct it how you see fit

I have noticed a couple of people trying to use the word mansplaining to get trans men or trans masculine people to shut up about whatever topic it is they're discussing

and it made me realize that the word "mansplaining" has been bastardised into "a man that I dislike or disagree with talking about something"

[crystaluranium]

Ngl I really do feel a scathing amount of ire towards the popular “transfeminists” of this platform, especially because they’re all complacent in promoting anti trans bigotry against trans men, and they know they’re doing it and yet they just don’t care, and if anything, are glad it is happening because they just hate trans men that much.

They *know* that trans men face misogyny, they *know* trans men aren’t “misgendering themselves” talking about it. It used to be a common feminist saying that yes even cis men are impacted by misogyny. But it’s just a way to divert the argument and get trans men to shut up, it’s a way to distract from the points being made so everyone wastes their time bc they want trans men to exhaust themselves explaining the same shit to the same people over and over again who just do not care.

They *know* that ‘transandrophobia’ actually refers to specifically the bigotry/aversion to trans men, hence the fucking ‘Trans’ in the name. They know it doesn’t actually posit that misandry exists on a systemic level like that of misogyny. They know that it specifically refers to the mix of transphobia and misogyny faced by trans men, combined with using/targeting the trans man’s masculinity (or his supposed lack of such) as a cudgel against him. These “transfeminists” don’t care. They’ve seen what it means, they’ve had it explained to them a hundred times over. Their ignorance is totally feigned so they can continue bashing trans men with impunity. It’s just a way to divert the conversation, and then complain about “tMRAs” when folks come in to correct this believed misconception.

And the fixation on this in particular is exactly the point. It’s more complicated to explain that despite being men, trans men aren’t seen or classed as men by patriarchy. It takes more time to explain how “no, if trans men weren’t trans that wouldn’t make them cis men. That hypothetical is literally impossible and you know it, so it’s worthless to use as a framework”, and that’s precisely the point. It gets you wasting your time explaining something complex to someone who just hates you, because the truth can only be so simple before it stops being true, but at no point can you make a lie so simple it’s no longer a lie. The goal is to prime their audience to tell themselves a story that all this “transandrophobia” complexity is just some stupid “mini Hitler bro bullshit” because if they can just get trans men to shut up then their views can remain simple and unexamined. Every time they say trans men don’t face erasure, or that they’re lucky to be invisible, they actually know that trans men are being actively erased and they’re hoping for it because they don’t want to share space with them or even think about them as anything more than a punching bag who takes it and doesn’t complain.

Like you can explain everything that people concerned with transandrophobia have been saying for years and in response they will stare you dead in the eye right after and just say “misandry isn’t a systemic force” as if you’ve said nothing at all. It’s just a short quippy and wrong thought terminating cliche so that they don’t have to think about it, and more importantly it signals to their audience that they don’t have to think about it either. Like. It’s definitely transphobia, but it’s also just saving themselves from having to think too hard about why they’re constantly targeting trans men, and it absolves them from ever having to reconcile with what they’ve said and perhaps even done to trans men. “Because trans men are men, and they’re annoying, so they deserve it.” It’s an extremely simple idea, and a simple worldview, with a simple conclusion, that doesn’t require them to reflect on their behaviors or beliefs at all. The whole “TMEs” thing posits trans men as being on similar levels of privilege to cis people, and it’s used most oftenly as a derogatory term rather than a descriptor. It’s completely evident in the vocabulary too, it’s never “people who are TME/TME people” or similar, because even that would be far too humanizing. So as long as trans men are basically like cis people in terms of privilege, then they don’t need to be helped, they can be freely mocked without it being considered dragging a minority, and most importantly, these “transfeminists” don’t have to change or reflect on their behavior at all. See? Simple!

But the truth about how trans men are affected by the same oppression just in different ways, facing unique injustices, to the point where trans men as a class genuinely do not hold privilege above trans women, nor act as their oppressors, is a nightmarishly uncomfortable truth to someone who hates trans men and just wants to keep bashing them with a winding diatribe of reactionary rhetoric dressed up with feminist vocabulary. Were that true, it means there’s a problem that requires action. Not only does it mean on an individual level they’d need to reassess their individual biases and behaviors, but much more broadly it means that there’s a problem that needs to be addressed on a big picture social scale.

Like. A common derogatory phrase that gets slung around is shit like “men want to be oppressed so bad” (they always have to remove the ‘trans’ part, ever notice that?) and like. I think most trans men would actually be somewhat reluctantly relieved if it was the case that trans men as a class didn’t struggle as much. Like those who are spreading awareness about misinformation about and general lack of resources surrounding DIY T and bringing attention to the rampant sexual abuse of trans men for instance aren’t doing it because they think this is some fun and silly oppression Olympics game. They want more awareness of these debilitating social issues that go unaddressed and ignored, and every minute “transfeminists” argue about the validity of the terms trans men use to describe this phenomenon is time deliberately wasted because they just hate trans men. We need to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and start treating them like the reactionaries they are.

Their approach to trans men and specifically trans men simply advocating for themselves is fundamentally authoritarian in nature. And I genuinely am coming to the realization that it’s pointless trying to convince people who have this mindset. It’s a waste of time and if you prove them wrong they don’t care, because they know everything you’re saying, because they’ve heard it before. And it’s not going to get them to adapt and adjust their arguments, they’re just going to keep posting the same “transandrophobia is wrong because misandry isn’t real” takes even knowing what the term actually means. Their mindset is simply not one which revolves around actual material analysis, it’s just what they wish the truth was, and they wish that trans men stayed silent and just took the abuse, because they need a way to hurt men and they’re not gonna risk it with the cis men who actually have power over them. The fact that it’s this constant fixation with trans men and not cis men is fully evidence of this.

They keep saying (well some of the less vitriolic ones at least) “we’re not opposed to you creating your own terms, just make them better” but like, honestly the biggest evidence that you can’t change their minds is their insistence that you can with the right discussion. The argument isn’t supposed to end, it’s supposed to continue indefinitely until trans men back down and be quiet again, and in the meantime, they’ll keep bashing trans men and gleefully contribute to their erasure.

I know I am beating a dead horse at this point but I really need this to sink in. People who are in support of trans men will enter these eventual flamewars with the implied understanding that if they can simply explain the validity of transandrophobia to whichever “transfeminist” in question, they’ll change their views and start supporting trans men in their advocacy. But like, what exactly are the incentives for them to do so? They *want* to hate on trans men (evidenced by the litany of insults all specifically drummed up about them in volumes which I have never seen by the side in support of trans men), and meanwhile, you don’t want them to hate on trans men and deny their experiences, *but they’re already doing that right now.* These “transfeminists” are not pausing their actions and waiting upon the outcome of this debate to reevaluate whether or not they should continue, they will actively deny deny deny trans men’s experiences and their right to self identity their hardships the entire fucking time. They already got what they want, and what they want is to bully trans men. That’s why all of their arguments against trans men are so shit and easily debunkable given the time and sources. They don’t *need* the arguments to be good (if anything it’s not a bug it’s a feature, bad arguments draw you in like bait for a trap to waste your time), they don’t *need* to win you over to their side. Like, sure, they’d appreciate another attack dog if it gets other trans men to shut up, but overwhelmingly what they want is for trans men to be silenced. It’s no coincidence that one of the biggest adjectives used to describe trans men by these “transfeminists” is “whiney”.

Let’s also not forget that most of this debate shit is online AF. And they’ve staked their entire online presence in service of disagreeing with those in support of trans men. Conceding any point would cost their entire presence, and would get their followers to turn on them now that they’ve been primed to vehemently disavow anyone who breaks rank.

They insist that trans men just need to invent better language, and then they’ll respect and understand it, but in the meantime, they’re not pausing any of their current rhetoric or trying to find ways to include trans men in a broader framework. No, they’re continuing with the frankly transphobic insistence that trans men don’t face any unique vulnerabilities and don’t need support because as long as trans women are supported then all of their needs will be met. And as we’ve seen with the constant rejection of every term trans men have come up with (“there’s no such thing as misandry, so trans misandry is a bad term. There’s no such thing as androphobia, so transandrophobia is a bad term. There’s no such thing as anti masculinity, patriarchy rewards masculinity, so anti transmasculinity is a bad term. Oh and isomisogyny? Wow way to paint yourselves as the real victims of misogyny.”), like, this is deliberate.

When people in support of trans men do their own work, get their studies and sources in a row, these “transfeminists” constantly say, “this isn’t good enough, you need more research and you need to do better work.” And like. Being people who act in good faith, we keep believing them? When they’ve demonstrated at every possible opportunity and metric that they’re not acting in good faith? We fall for it every time because we want to act genuinely and these “transfeminist” bloggers are happy to weaponize that good faith to their advantage. They keep dangling this fucking proverbial carrot in front of us and say “you know we’re just like this because your theory is incorrect. If you haven’t convinced us then you’re just not well read enough, you haven’t structured a good enough argument and really you need to try harder if you’re going to get anywhere.” There is no collaboration, only animosity.

So my message to any person who’s pro trans men reading is that you should just focus on spreading awareness and keep posting without taking them into account, and don’t get into pointless arguments because wasting your time is their ultimate end goal. This is just their newest culture war bit, piggybacking off of the ace discourse, and the bi discourse, and the mspec discourse. Because it’s just reactionary bullshit yet again. If you change the environment then they’ll change even quicker than you, and then later act like they never did anything to hurt trans men or maybe even supported them.

The biggest indicator that you’ll never get a foothold with these “transfeminists”, is their insistence that, “actually you can, just keep doing better work.” Because that provides us ample distraction, and gives them ample time to keep freely bashing trans men in the meantime. Hell, the biggest indicator that reporting their explicitly hateful posts, blocking their blogs, and archiving their shit takes actually works, is their insistence that it’s “social murder” (great job appropriating the term btw) to show anything less than full and total uncritical and unconditional support.

[crystaluranium]

Like do you see this shit? This is exactly what I’m talking about. This was recently posted in response to trans men and their supporters calling out blatant lies. Nope. All comments deleted, and people offering corrections blocked, and this EXTREME BAIT VAGUEPOST was made. Again, a lot of self proclaimed “Transfeminists”genuinely know that trans men aren’t actually fucking “asserting that they’re not actually men.” It’s just a fuckin strawman/motte and bailey argument that always follows the EXACT SAME SCRIPT. And I’m just harping on this post in particular bc this user is one which some of the most popular “transfeminists” on the site semi frequently reblog from. These posts and these posters are the ones that are considered a legitimate article of rhetorical value in the “transfeminist” sphere.

>Trans men point out that they’re not cis men, and are not classed as men under patriarchy. They’re the only class of men which are men but are entirely classed as female under patriarchy, and therefore, any benefits offered to cis men are completely absent for them.

>“transfeminist” retorts that “wow, I can’t believe you’d all call yourselves women! Despite the fact that you’re acting like men due to this negative behavior trait I just ascribed to you! By attempting to correct my misconceptions, you’re just speaking over me, a woman, which makes you, a man, automatically in the wrong!”

And like, if you call out the transphobia in the statement, the defense will be “I’m not the one obsessed with my agab!” (And they’ll pretend that it’s not transphobic to automatically equate stating the struggles of being AFAB with being a woman)

If you attempt to reassert that hey, this issue also effects trans men, it’s worth including them, then the defense will be “why do men always have to make things about themselves, go make your own post!” (And they’ll act like the original wasn’t the definition of erasing trans men from trans issues)

There is no legitimate point that they cannot bad faith shitpost their way out of. It’s literally just bullshit to reaffirm their preexisting transphobic beliefs and reassure them that they don’t have to take trans men seriously, and neither do their audience. Trans men are routinely and consistently framed as people inherently not worth listening to, who by virtue of being men contaminate the forum with their presence and have nothing of value to offer. This is not conducive to good faith discourse and that’s the point, they don’t want good faith discourse, they just want to shit on trans men.

[confused-rat]

I love that Lily constantly tells on herself, then quickly gets angry for someone calling her out.

“So there’s other mods for this character besides the incest one that you could’ve used but you HAVE to use the incest one?”

“I don’t read books, but the only examples I’ll use in my dark media/sibling video is incest books.”

“I’m going to say that there’s never been any good Avatar media outside of the first show. No, I haven’t read the tie in novels I just looked them up.”

I love how she keeps outing herself, it makes what I’m doing here a whole lot easier when she does.

[bumbled-bees]

Seeing the latest asks for Star Wars. Do you think Lily is starting to lash out more at the fact she has been called a tourist more often than not? Because most of her rants regarding the topic just expose how little she knows about the thing.

I too am a tourist regarding Star Wars as I have never seen any of the movies ever (my husband is still trying to fix this lmao) so I have no clue how accurate (or inaccurate) she is.

BUT

Historically she does this with a lot of topics she claims knowledge on. Beyond media as well. She will claim knowledge on something and then the second she actually begins explaining it, it becomes clear to anyone with genuine knowledge of the subject that she's either making stuff up or missed the point entirely.

She struggles to see things on their own merits and often fits them into boxes she understands. But doing these confirms that she often does not understand what she's actually talking about.

If it doesn't fit into her narrow worldview or have something she can cherry pick to fit her tastes, it's "objectively trash".

And if she's called out for not understanding something she's talking about by her own fans no actually YOU'RE the idiot for not seeing the thing Lily fixates on.

[cdsillyposting]

I fell down the CD Call rabbithole 2 years ago and always knew she's sensitive but it wasn't until recently that I realized just how thin skinned she is. It's not even that CD can't handle disagreements, she can't even handle the idea of someone asking her to back up her argument with evidence. Today for example, CD blocked me because I dared to question her on what she meant when she said(paraphrasing here) "fighting games are fundamentally beginner unfriendly and are one fifth of a real game". No evidence or examples presented, no attempt to go into more detail, she just makes absurd sounding arguments then blocks whoever actually wants her to explain what she means. I've always hated fighting games by the way, so I'm not even some fanboy who's just mad because someone doesn't like my favorite thing.

Well

Yatzee from ZP/FR is a big part of that