As a trans-androgynous person, what the hell is this? Are we not allowed to be happy about who we are???
this is exorsexism
No :) deal with it. Second hand dysphoria isn't my problem :)
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As a trans-androgynous person, what the hell is this? Are we not allowed to be happy about who we are???
this is exorsexism
No :) deal with it. Second hand dysphoria isn't my problem :)
sex aside i really just want somebody to reach for me first
Yes, the Prince should have let the Enchantress inside
Time for another Disney Beauty and the Beast 1991 rant, because I'm feeling real salty today.
I'm tired of seeing people saying the Enchantress was awful for cursing the Prince because he was a child and shouldn't let strangers inside his house.
No. He 100% should have let her inside.
First of all, he probably wasn't a child. The only evidence he was a child is Howard Ashman's "10 years we've been rusting" lyric because Howard wanted him to be a kid. The two directors of the film wanted him to be like late teens, and all other evidence in the film points to that. So, he has no canonical age at which he was cursed. (And no, him being a kid in Enchanted Christmas doesn't count as canon within the context of BatB 1991 and analyzing the original prologue.)
BUT HEY EVEN IF he was a child, you're mistakenly thinking of him as an ordinary child in modern times and the castle as a modern ordinary house. Neither of those things make any sense. He wasn't just some kid, he was a prince, a leader, a guardian for his people that he was supposed to protect, no matter his age. The castle was his home, yes, but it was much more than that, practically a public place, for his subjects to gather. Any of his subjects should be able to come there and ask to enter.
BUT HEY EVEN IF he was a modern child in a modern house who was taught about "stranger danger," remember that there were dozens if not hundreds of adults in the house with him. He wasn't home alone, nor did he live in a modern normal neighborhood. If you live in the middle of nowhere with no shelter anywhere else for miles, just a forest full of deadly wolves and bears and who knows what other scary shit, and a frail old lady comes to your house at night in the freezing cold, and asks nicely to come in, because she is 100% guaranteed to die if she doesn't, and there are like 87 adults around to make sure she doesn't get up to any mischief inside your house, and you have tons of space and food for her, are you honestly telling me you'd be cool with your kid turning her away to die? No! You would have wanted your kid to let her in and your servants to take care of her. It doesn't matter that you don't know her. You don't go around committing manslaughter when you can save someone's life with zero risk, cost, or inconvenience to yourself.
It was so fucking cruel and sadistic for the Prince to turn her away. There was literally no reason to do it, absolutely zero downside to letting her in. Any halfway decent person would have let her in. Hell, even a dick like Gaston would have let her in. It would be insane for anyone to turn her away in modern times, let alone back then, let alone if you're her fucking leader who has a responsibility for her well-being.
You can still debate whether that horrific mistake was enough to warrant getting cursed over (though we know from the prologue it wasn't a one-off, but I digress), but you cannot debate that it wasn't a horrific mistake. It was. It was dead wrong. Period. And the Prince was a complete sack of shit for doing it, child or no.
I'm once again in a salty mood, so you're gonna hear me say some more about this.
The reason that this matters is that the entire movie is about transformation, growth, and redemption, so if you take away the triggering sin at the start of the story, you destroy the whole point the movie is trying to make.
He has to be really bad at the start so that he can become really good by the end.
The story makes no sense if he was treated unfairly at the beginning and did nothing majorly wrong and we sympathize with him as a poor little kid. Again, you may argue that the curse is too harsh, but this is fairy tale logic, and regardless of the details of the consequence chosen, the crime it was chosen for has to be valid. The inciting incident has to be a real and major sin for all the rest of the redemption story to work.
I'll reuse this chart I made for this other post because I'm a nerd:
The climb of that blue line is a lot less impressive if it doesn't start down in the gutter when he refused entry to the old lady!
Also, please note how his consequences (pink line) align with his actions (blue line) through most of the story. Bad stuff happened to Beast when he chose to do bad stuff (same with Gaston, as shown in the linked post, if you're curious). Good stuff didn't start happening to him until after he started behaving well, and Belle doesn't love him until he undoes his earlier sins. This "good/bad karma" is also a major part of the message of the movie, so it's important that the curse is justified, at least by fairy tale logic. Fair consequences follow actions.
If you want to tell a story about a character's growth following unfair consequences, that's a story about trauma recovery, not redemption. Trauma recovery is also a great theme for beauty and the beast type stories! I include it in my Disney BatB fanfic too! But it's not the theme of the actual 1991 Disney movie Beauty and the Beast.
So my point is this: Beast is horrible at the start! Let him be horrible! Don't make excuses for him! Let him suck, and then let him learn and grow! That is the whole point of this story!
its not funny but i do think about it a lot
This made me think about this panel from Calvin and Hobbes:
But unlike the adult in this strip, Calvin’s dad actually APOLOGIZED for yelling at him when he saw how guilty his kid was:
So fucking interesting that everyone is an expert on the transmasculine experience except for the trans man or trans masc that HAS that experience.
Sometimes you see a take so dogshit like "trans men can't meaningfully reclaim femininity because they've always had the privilege of performing it without consequences" that you have to resist the urge to just go off the grid and leave everyone around you to fend for themselves
they're still arguing about surrogacy on twitter
the reason surrogacy warrants particular scrutiny, aside the fact that its roots are literally chattel slavery lol, is that it is a contractual arrangement premised on the basically total surrender of bodily autonomy. it transforms a human body into a site of continuous, high risk labor with consequences that cannot be paused or meaningfully mitigated
can a surrogate safely "quit" in any real sense? can they safely get an abortion? can they quit after 4 months? can they quit after 9 months? do they get to clock out after 40 hours a week? do they get breaks? do they get a union?
in what world is it a leftist position to defend 24/7 labor
#SmokeBreaksForSurrogates
Favorite trope from real life experiences
transandrophobia is gooseworks being called out for being racist and antisemitic, and then her supporters blaming trans men for “digging up dirt for not being allowed to hc Jax as transmasc”…????? no actually, i don’t think real life harms should be arguments for fictional shit
Holy shit don't get me started on how bad Tumblr got after episode nine I've had all the Jax tags blocked since
What's even funnier about it to me is gooseworx even approved of all headcanons and gender ideas towards Jax she literally doesn't care how you portray Jax through both pronouns and gender identity 😭
Gooseworx isn't someone who we should be supporting because of her poor actions and statements!! It's not even about her characters like some people like to assume
Like you said she's racist and antisemitic, and she's also very fond of calling some people "females"
Whether she means cis women or anyone with a perceived female sex I don't know honestly but it's overall been fairly misogynistic from her too
I think she also made a joke about filling the spot of a rapist online. I know less about that one and reblogs or comments with correct information are welcomed
This is transandrophobia. It's not trans masc peoples faults that goose is a bad person and that's why many of us don't support her even if we enjoy the content of TADC.
I am not tagging with TADC or goose tags because there will be a fight and I do not want a fight
I really wanted to believe goose was a good person and I think a lot of people did. The criticism doesn't come from Jax. It comes from her poor actions
yes she joked about becoming the next Shademan. He is a porn artist who drew a lot of characters, and he was always controversial for drawing them looking extremely childish in his art. This controversy got worse when he started depicting REAL CHILDREN In his artwork, and at its peak was because of a specific, particularly “disturbing and violent” (as many have described it) image of a 12 year old actress that was apparently so horrible that her team worked to remove the image from the internet entirely. In 2021 he was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon (a knife)
I had a dream last night that I ran away from fascists and ended up at this farm that was full of this weird but very large prehistoric animal that was like a fluffy Tapir and I want to know if it actually exists. It was about the size of a Dairy Cow.
Like this but with big fluffy hair with white streaks
Oh my god
People who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. Does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? Are you a returning customer to Sweeney Todd? Lmao it grows back, fools.
This is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep's soul is stored in its wool. So sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that's gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.
Same for me, I get a new soul with every haircut. That's why my personality changes so much.
Tumblr citizenship means being completely unsure if the person posting about sheep souls is being 100% serious or is just taking the piss.
THEY TAKE THEIR PISS TOO?!?!?
Yup, stockpiling it in giant buckets to pour on the poor
My reading comprehension isn't that bad
They did used to soak wool in aged piss. Just a fun little wool history fact for you.
dont they still do? right @systlin? people still use piss for wool processing?
People absolutely still use piss for wool processing.
Ammonia is a great degreaser, and helps in dye work
so they piss on their wool and then they dye?
It’s wild when people claim only transfems challenge the patriarchy by rejecting masculinity. Subversive masculinities have always been a threat to the patriarchal order.
Transfems rejecting masculinity is one kind of threat, of course, but trans men (and others doing subversive masculinity) undermine the very idea that masculinity = cis male power. That’s arguably just as destabilizing, if not more, because it strikes at the engine room of patriarchy itself.
so, why is it that the transfeminism tags and popular "transfeminist" blogs like mousidy, missstrogen, PDB, etc., lead you to pro-pedophilia blogs so easily?
like, how as a community did we let this fester to the point where it's not even obfuscated behind pedophile dogwhistles and let to exist out in the open?
i think the answer lies in a game of deliberately manipulative telephone, and the basic facts of social media being used by a vulnerable minority.
first, you take predator-blog. she's getting push-back and "harassment" from other blogs who want her rightfully out of the community, because she has already acted on her desire to predate.
then, predator-blog hides the truth of this "harassment." either by giving a fake reason as to why it happened: something that doesn't implicate her as what she is. or she simply vague-posts about it, not using her own platform to amplify it.
this isn't sustainable long-term, though, because there are people who know the truth, including your victims. in order to make sure these things get buried, you need to damage control. HARD.
so predator-blog starts blogging about the oppression of those with paraphilias. how they are unfairly mistreated by society, how they are scapegoated by both sides of the political spectrum as the ultimate boogeyman.
"these people with paraphilias can't help it. they need help from society. kicking them away from support is counterintuitive."
then some more posts about youthlib...
"children in our society aren't being given autonomy. they're a unique social class being oppressed."
she barely even needs to post all that much about it, because her smokescreen is already set-up. here's the perfect alibi:
Anyone bringing up my danger to community is actually responding to these political points, and/or my status as a trans woman. I am being pedojacketed.
all the gatekeeping, the in-group safety precautions of disallowing you a free platform to further abuse others, it's now retroactive proof of transphobia.
the trick is obviously that predator-blog has used progressive-sounding rhetoric to also justify her past behaviour, so others like her who may have similar allegations are further incentivized to poison the well and follow her lead, lest they also get de-platformed from their marks.
this creates a community panic around keeping these trans women safe from "harassment," because trans communities, irl and online, are often isolated and tight-knit by necessity.
now we've created a culture of strict non-acknowledgement of predators in our space. it benefits the predators, and the predators have major incentives to make you believe you're to benefit too. they've tied their issues with being actively dangerous and called out for it with the transfem community's issue of being denied spaces to exist, because they know intuitively to exploit your anxiety.
it's so obvious when you look at the state of things: trans women defending lolicon. trans women saying extreme kinks are inherent to being a trans women. trans women attacking "tRaNsAnDrObRoS" viciously because, surprisingly, the group of people who are likely to be sexually abused keep calling you out for the sexual abusers in your spaces.
the byproduct of all of this, is exactly why you keep seeing those pedophilia apologist and pro-pedophilia blogs. they've taken advantage of an often targeted community and boiled them like frogs.
you should feel absolutely fucking pissed that this has allowed to happen, on a website where trans women congregate, in a political climate where many trans women are safer online.
it's worth noting that this is only going to get worse over time and lead to an even more isolatory community for trans women.
this isn't exclusive to tumblr i'm sure, because i've been in other trans women spaces off of this website, and it's the same shit there, too.
so this is a widespread movement to weaken our communities and make them EVEN MORE vulnerable to predators and bad actors. it's just very visible on this website in particular, because of the ease of access in seeing these blogs.
this is why i'm slowly warming up to the term "TRF." isolatory group of women who victimize themselves to the point of shunning away all others who could relate to them, inherently separatist movement?
“progressive” men when a woman is deemed evil enough that they can call her a bitch 24/7:
Yeah I’ve chosen loneliness over regret. It’s so shitty and miserable but I am so utterly tired of regretting the things I have done and watching them fuck up my life forever
literally same and like IDK i just have come to the conclusion that there’s different flavours of regret and as it stands right now i want to pick the flavour that does others the least damage. which means no relationships no kids barely even any friends or long lasting bonds in general. and the older i get the more i understand how that’s really really not easy - esp w how mentally / chronically ill i am not as an excuse but like an objective reality. but i just think the isolation is going to be an intrinsic part of the way i have to live forever. i really hope you find some peace w it eventually 💌 im sorry it’s all so hard. wish there was an easy answer to the big stuff
When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respir
We're the first society to face plague with tools that we confirmed worked broadly and effectively and then just decided to stop using them for... some reason that's still not entirely clear.