One, sorry for double posting, tumblr mobile has borked, didn't post one of my reply posts, and then eventually posted it an hour after I made another one. Sorry for that. Anyway.
Okay regarding yay-bunnies.
If a white woman was hurt by white men, and so when venting accused white men as a class; if a Black woman was hurt by Black men, and accused Black men as a class; if a gay woman was hurt by gay men, and accused gay men as a class...
Would you feel need to scold them? Or would you recognize that a woman has right to complain about men from her minority group, the oppressed group she belongs to?
Even if you disagreed, would you at least leave her alone when she was ranting about her sexual abuse on her private blog, recognizing that even if you don't agree, maybe it'd be best to leave her alone?
I am asking seriously. I am not trying to scold you, I am trying to illustrate to you what exactly did you do wrong.
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You came to a personal blog of a victim of sexual abuse, who was angry and bitter at men from her minority group for hurting her, to say "Not all men".
I want you to think about this in context of feminist theory - because it looks like a blind spot. You took a woman from your minority group, mad at men in the group who abused her, and scolded her that she complained about men who sexually abused her by basically saying 'not all men'.
Even though in all other context, a Black woman complaining about Black men would instantly be understood as being hyperbolic and not talking about literally all Black men; a disabled woman would be seen as hyperbolic and not talking about literally all disabled men; and a gay woman would be seen as hyperbolic and not literally talking about all gay men.
The argument already includes implied framing that it doesn't apply to all men, yet you came in, scolded her that you didn't understand the universally applied framing, and basically incorrectly mansplained her own vent to her by going "Not all men!".
Like you do see the issue here?
If you want to counter negative stereotypes leveraged towards transmascs... I feel in this situation you have done more bad than good. And don't even understand it.
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Yes, trans men are oppressed by patriarchy as a gender glass compared to cis men - often even compared to cis women. But within bounds of our minority group, trans people, transmascs are higher - however little - than transfems. Transmascs simply don't have to deal with entire specific *kinds* of oppression and stereotypes. There's no V-Coding for transmascs. Transmascs aren't being arrested for undressing in a locker room, which is the nominal purpose of a locker room. Transmascs aren't being forced into sex work, or raped by cops under threat of arrest as sex workers. That isn't to say transmascs are treated well by society - just slightly less horrific in some specific regards.
But that just makes it worse. The fact that transmascs are men/masculine people who are directly oppressed by misogyny and need feminism should require you to be better feminists, rather than making such basic blunders in feminist theory like telling a fucking female rape victim on her blog that 'not all men'. The reason people tell guys like you you sound like an MRA, because you do.
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I'm not saying this out of hate or spite or anything else. I wish this entire idiotic discourse stopped, especially now, as trans women and transfems, and any Black trans people are getting their blogs mass-deleted. If you say you should support trans POC, don't support vague generic idea of trans POC - support actual *people*. Yay-bunnies is a Black trans woman, one of the fewer and fewer still active on this site.
The reason this discussion started today because her blog got nuked. And perhaps you don't realize, but you contributed - if passively - to the dogpile that got her nuked. You have contributed to this. Some of your followers, as you can see from their messages, actively hate yay-bunnies, they want her to shut up and all the bad stuff. These people read your blog, they're your community and it's not a leap of logic to assume they were one of people who falsely reported yay-bunnies.
Did you call them out for it? For their racism and transmisogyny? No, you basically agreed with them. Why did you do that?
If you believe this is wrong, this is disgusting and fucked up - please take a stand. Make a statement.
You don't have the power to stop it, but you have the power to stop contributing to it.
Ok thereās a lot here so imma go bit by bit, I hope you donāt mind <3 /gen not trying to be mean or anything I realize that comes off a little snotty
Tumblr mobile is shit so thatās ok I didnāt mean any malice with what I said, and I fully get it I was legit on a plane (on flight WiFi) so I figured you maybe didnāt see it even.
In regards to your first point: personally would feel the need to say āthatās not helpful and saying that isnāt the best overall.ā And if you think Iām shitty for that thatās your choice and opinion.
The reasoning I think that is because feminism is relating to all people regardless of specifically gender should be equal. I believe this, so I believe you just shouldnāt say those things regardless of whoās saying it and of whoās being put in the box. Also, as a trans man, (we have higher rates of rape, mind you, but I donāt like to say āxyz has it worse in abc regardā and Iāll get to that in a minute) I felt a bit butt hurt, Iāll admit, to being put in the ājust sees trans women as sex dollā box. I love trans women personally, and I know many trans men who feel the same, and I am aware that as a usamerican I would be nowhere rights-wise without the combined efforts of both the transfems and the transmascs of yore.
No blogs are private btw itās the internet thatās public. If I heard someone talking and saying something wildly incorrect and shitty I will call them out in the middle of whatever meat space gathering weād be in in this hypothetical as much as I would here. (I might be deterred only by the fact that Iām a skinny sometimes non-passing and not medically transitioned trans guy in the Midwest which I donāt have to deal with here on tumblr)
Yay-bunnies followers have come to my personal blogs, my gimmick blogs, my blogs that have been dead for ages, and told me the worst things you can tell a person. Even if and when it wasnāt her followers, people can and will say whatever they want. Itās the internet. There is no privacy. You are speaking publicly.
She wasnāt complaining about men who abused her, she was putting all trans men into a box and saying āthese people view trans women as sex dollsā and I find that unacceptable.
I would, in all of those hypotheticals you listed there, btw, say āhey thatās not cool to sayā
I do not understand the issue. I took issue with her saying something, I retorted, I got told to kill myself, several months passed, and now you come to me asking me to apologize when I did not do wrong, in my opinion.
I think Iām doing great things for the people that support the same causes as I do, and I believe that Iām creating a space where many people from many different walks of life feel safe speaking their minds to me, such as yourself right now. I enjoy what I do here. Itās not much in the grand scheme of things, but Iām not out to fight the good fight and defend transmasculine honor. Iām out to create somewhere that people can go to when they want to see respect, and they want to see good faith conversations. Iām out to respect trans people. Iām out to respect *people*.
Trans mascs are being silenced, shunned, ignored in research, and told to sit down, be quiet. Our forefathers are getting reframed as the lesbian heroes of yesterday and itās seen as a great celebration when we get into sports on the womenās team while being forced to not medically transition. We all have it bad, both sides. Letās not play this game, Iām not into it.
I feel like Iāve been speaking out about it? And if you look through my blog you can see me speaking out whenever I come across a post calling out @staff for these fuckass, disgraceful, pathetic mass bannings.
I will continue to stand up where I see opportunity to! This isnāt a āI did it once so Iām done now :3ā this is me saying I plan to continue and that I have!
Iām glad youāve entered this civilly you are doing me much more of a justice than most do <3
I hope in the end we can find common ground somewhere, I believe there is food and your heart and you care deeply about this cause for good reasons, I think we just see it differently.