Garden of Eden's Ass

general purpose freak blog (she/her, 22)

[recoveredcombatsister]

yk i think the fundamental problem is that transmascs dont believe that they belong to a different demographic than us transfems. i think its that they still believe in a Trans Community of one demographic - the Trans Demographic, with one unified Trans Experience, rather than that of women and men who share a marginalization

this shows up when transfems make posts for and about other transfems, and invariably transmascs will come along to try and make it about them as well. they dont see it as a womens post, they see it as a Trans post that hasnt mentioned transmascs yet

this also shows up in discussions of transmisogyny. transfems discuss the intersectional bigotry we face and transmascs will get defensive that the conversation centres us and not the Trans Demographic as a whole. this is where "transandrophobia" theory comes in, from transmascs misconstruing transmisogyny as just "transphobia for girls" and insisting there must be a transphobia for boys in return, and to deny "transandrophobia" legitimacy is to deny that transmascs face any transphobia. its morphed into its own transmisogynist violence at this point but its inception was very clearly fueled by the transmasc insecurity over there not being one Trans Experience. transmascs think there has to be a blue version, because they dont conceive of transfems belonging to a different demographic than them

i think no small part of this is that transmasculine transition doesnt force them to reckon with transmisogyny the same way transfeminine transition does. of course, it would be wrong to claim no transfem falls victim to this, but far more transfems do have that reckoning because we are forcibly subjected to transmisogyny. and because transmascs flatten the demographic to just Trans, they believe themselves to have a postion of authority to speak on trans issues without ever being forced to interrogate their inherent transmisogynist biases from living in a transmisogynist society and understand the misogyny within the demographic, and any pushback against them is pushback against the Trans Demographic as a whole

my problem with all of this is that nobody who needs to hear it is going to listen to me, because ultimately were dealing with men, moreover: marginalized men, and men prefer to revel in their power to speak over women and take up space and assume they know best rather than listen to the women in their "community" when we tell them theyre wrong. after all, what reason do transmascs have to think otherwise? i mean, were all faggots in the eyes of the state, right?

[the-bitter-ocean]

While we are at it I need nonblack people to stop saying “YN” and “🥷🏾” just to get around saying antiblack racial slurs. Yes that includes that stupid shit where white people go “ooh but I said nega not-“ I don’t give a shit. You know damn well what you meant. Fuck off. It’s a insta block from me for anyone who does this shit and think it’s funny or whatever don’t pmo.

And before someone fucking says “erm are you referring to the fanfic / shipping term? How is your name offen-“ obviously no I’m not referring to that and anyone who is using it to mean “your name” types it with a slash -> (y/n) *NOT* “yn”. Like. I need nonblacks to stop randomly regurgitating aave they see or hear without knowing what it fucking means and misusing it to hell and back thinking it’s cool/ trendy/ or something worthy of mockery. It means young nigga. Stop fucking using it if you’re not black lol

[sistersorrow]

People wanna pretend it was all in good fun and only got racist afterwards (if they'll even acknowledge it ever was racist) meanwhile some of the earliest TikTok making clanker jokes were skits that were just "racist dad hates his daughter's black boyfriend" only the boyfriend is a robot instead, and before that, these exact same kinds of jokes were circulating the Star Wars fandom for over a decade

They want all the "fun" of being blatantly racist and provocative, but don't want any of the reactions you'd get from someone watching you being blatantly racist

[crazy-brazilian]

[suchcrispwhimsy]

never been seen in the same room together

[happilyhadesbound]

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

[lautakwah]

[frostops]

So obviously it doesn’t actually matter whether or not anyone knows if one individual person is tme or tma. The framework still holds value regardless. but oop here is kind of showing their hand by saying “without asking if I’m a boy or a girl” right? Clearly they want to catch people in a trap where they ask what gender they were assigned as proof people who use tme/tma are indeed transphobic. And seemingly everyone gets that is the trap because no one is. But oop doesn’t say “don’t ask my agab” and instead says don’t ask “if I’m a boy or a girl” implying they are equating the two.

For what it’s worth tme/tma is not equivalent to cafab because most camab people are tme, because most of them are cis. And it’s not equal to gender either, because most women are tme, because most are cis. But obviously both are factors. If you were assigned female at birth and/or a man, you are in the vast majority of cases tme. we live in a gendered system where both the gender ypu were assigned and the gender you are affect your positionality. We can’t change that if we pretend it isn’t an issue.

“You can’t tell if I’m tme or tma if you don’t know my agab which means it’s bad” is dumb because it’s not me or any other transfeminist knowing that matters. The system which if for instance you get arrested has to decide what gender to house you with knows, and that has consequences. Doctors who have access to your medical records know. The people who raised you and coupd have punished you for nonconformity as a child knew. So oop is correct that we as people who do not know them and do not have power overt them cannot accurately place them specifically as tme or tma. But there system we live in does that regardless.

[verminfang]

Thinking about a vampire dude bro who won't drink girl blood- because he's afraid it will estroginise him soy products style- getting trapped in a mental cage when he learns vampire dude who only bites other dudes reads as gay

[nightporter1980]

punk rock is about begging for approval on tumblr

[anarcho-catboyism]

We really went from "free the nipple" to "um the public didn't consent to you wearing a choker"

[lil-grimlynn]

VIETNAM HAS MOSS FROGS.

THEY LIVE IN MOSS.

THEY ARE CUTE AS FUCK!

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Now lets go live the way of the moss frog.

[fancybroom]

[dr-cringe]

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

For those who needed to hear it today

[usatei2011]

[wiskie]

“Remember, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels 😇”

[storyweavingspider]

Make France a subordinate territory of Haiti and take a higher tax rate for 122 years.

[storyweavingspider]

Actually nah, 250.

[tlirsgender]

My hot take about ghosts is that they're only scary if they're mad at you. White christians are scared of dead people cause they're the ones killing them

[tlirsgender]

"I'm being haunted by vengeful spirits" and why are the spirits vengeful? 🤨 victim blaming much

[tlirsgender]

Me and the girls are hangin out with our ancestors they're chill as fuck maybe if all the ghosts you know have a problem with you you should look inward

[storyweavingspider]

Girls if you see this I am stuffing you full of high calorie and fat and protein food. For the boob and butt and hip growth, you see

[missstrogen]

Make girls fatter today, eat more carbs :)

[storyweavingspider]

For the girls with *certain* brainworms:

Your transition is fueled by calories and fat specifically. Unless you are extremely blessed by genetics, you will not grow the boobs, etc. you want without puttin calories in it, because boobs are almost entirely fat and have to GAIN new fat to make them.

Also if you feel you’re not developing fast enough, or as fast as the other girls, ask your mom, aunt, or grandma (on mom’s side) (if you safely can) if women in their side of the family family are early or late bloomers—it will legit help dysphoria so much to be able to go “oh, yeag my friend got D cups in 6 months on estrogen, but women in my family were the last in their classes to start puberty” rather than despairing that your transition is “just obviously a failure”. Trust me, I know and I was there too and my body is still growing and changing a LOT more 5 years on E bc my momma was a late bloomer too.

[storyweavingspider]

IF YOU ARE SCROLLING AND HAVEN’T EATEN RECENTLY, THIS IS A SIGN TO GET UP AND GO EAT

Reblog it to make the girls around you go eat too 😤

[creatingblackcharacters]

Dealing with this situation at work reminds me of how Michelle Alexander made a good point in The New Jim Crow about how much of the battle for civil rights has moved into litigation versus community led pressure, as part of colorblind racism, and how that has affected our ability to fight back.

Because think about it. I'm willing to bet money everyone (Black and nonblack!) has experienced something at work that they, in theory, could combat in a court of law. It don't even have to be racism, really any sort of discrimination.

But... Who has the resources for that? Who can afford to take a large company to court? For how long? Can you afford a good lawyer? How many people are even Aware that they're being done wrong by, in order to bring it up? What if your judge is also biased (or paid off)? We have these laws in the books, but the means to utilize them are lost to just about anyone who can't afford to enforce it.

Just dwelling on that, I guess.

[becquerel]

ok i feel crazy reading through the tag for sinners because theres this very weird pervasive notion that it seems like people do not understand remmick and his kkk member first victims are in fact lying repeatedly throughout the movie. like they lie. we know they lie because they promise all they want is to come inside and play music for the juke joint. that is not true at all as they want to come inside and kill everyone.

so why are there so many posts resting on the notion that they are unable to lie when these same vampires say they dont believe in the kkk anymore and just want equality.

[becquerel]

"when remmick de-racist-ifyed the former kkk members" did we watch the same movie. no the fuck he did not. that woman was lying when she said they no longer worked with the kkk. because she wanted to eat the people still inside. good lord.

[bloodonmybarbieshirt]

We established incredibly early on to the movie that the KKK lie! It's their main thing! They lie that the vampire ain't in their house, they lie that the Klan is gone, they lie about that musician to lynch him in a train station. Folks ain't got no media literacy.

[becquerel]

yes exactly! + this reply too

there's a huge theme of historical lying to black americans to exploit and kill them. the devil is smarter than to look scary for his victims!

[creatingblackcharacters]

FINALLY someone brings up how they were lying about the Klan from jump! We literally saw the dudes Klan robes in the house before/when the Choctaw hunters were chasing Remmick down! They dead just didn't pay attention to anything in the movie!