Hello Humans

[iggythegayalien]

Why is it when I really like a show I'm too nervous to watch it when a new episode is out?

[iggythegayalien]

I still haven't watched the last episode of TADC I don't want the show to end yet.

[iggythegayalien]

I'm so lonely and I can't do anything about it I go to a therapist I take anxiety medication and I still can't make friends. I just wish I will die in my sleep.

[iggythegayalien]

Bro I'm literally having a gender Identity crisis right now.

[iggythegayalien]

Damn I wish dying my hair blue, wearing kandi bracelets and using Neo-pronouns cured my autism the way Fakeclaimers on Tiktok believe it does.

[iggythegayalien]

Something weird I've discovered is that I do school work faster if I set a timer instead of promising I'll do it in my spare time because the deadline is in two weeks. Yesterday I put on a 2 hour timer and I just locked in by making my own deadline.

[iggythegayalien]

So in the Omegaverse if two omegas have sex do they both get pregnant?

[iggythegayalien]

I don't think the 1% of the population is trans fact is true because I've met more trans people than billionaires personally.

[worst-roommates-ever]

[iggythegayalien]

What

[iggythegayalien]

Why is it when I really like a show I'm too nervous to watch it when a new episode is out?

[iggythegayalien]

When I was a teen I thought ADHD was just loud kid syndrome because students in my classes were using ADHD as an excuse to be loud and annoying. To the point I accused a fellow student of faking anxiety and ADHD because I thought those mental disorders were contradictory.

Yes I am now aware that ADHD is when someone has issues with paying attention and controlling dopamine levels in their brain.

[iggythegayalien]

I'm the middle child in a family of 7 kids and my dad told me I was the only one that was planned.

[genderkoolaid]

cis people are wayyyy too damn comfortable with making jokes about men getting pregnant. and frankly so are other trans people.

[genderkoolaid]

idk what trans man/transmasc needs to hear this but no you are not in on the joke. 9/10 when somebody makes an mpreg joke they are not laughing with you. they aren't even really laughing at you. they are laughing at a caricature of you. they know what a trans man is and yet have so little care about trans men that their first thought when it comes to pregnant men is the hilarity of a cis man being feminized (often forcefully) and how amusingly grotesque or amusingly erotic they find it. you are not in on the joke. you were never in on the joke.

[genderkoolaid]

like. :( this was a funny episode otherwise but this was just really uncomfortable and upsetting to see. especially since i know dropout cuts out certain prompts in editing for a lot of reasons, so this promot went through so many different steps and nobody brought up how this might come across? or nobody thought it was bad enough? and i kept waiting for the contestants (one of whom literally is genderqueer!) to work into their jokes something make it clearly about cis men or smth, but. no. and how am i supposed to take that y'know?

[genderkoolaid]

i think my biggest problem is that these jokes boil down to "isn't it so WEIRD that a man is pregnant/has breasts???? isn't that so STRANGE?????" and whether you take that the route of "this is funny because its disgusting/disturbing" or "this is funny because its extremely erotically charged, often in a way tied to humiliation/control" you are deriving comedy from the idea of a trans/intersex man's body just. existing naturally. there is no greater depth it is just "wouldn't it be funny if a man was female in some way? but still identifiably masculine but in a way that has been corrupted by the sexual embarrassment of the most stereotypically female act? isn't that amusing?" and at worst its another example of how, when people try to get one over on cis men through the route of gendered/sexed humor, it frequently relies on leveraging trans & intersex men as examples of a man at his most failed, embarrassing, sexually dominated. and the worst part is again that there's not even a cursory attempt to diffuse this charge by the comedians making these jokes, there isn't any acknowledgement of what they are talking about. it's like anyone who's ostensibly a trans ally enters this pocket universe where trans and intersex men don't exist whenever one of these jokes comes around. and how am i supposed to feel about this!!!!!!!!!!!!

[genderkoolaid]

also its funny that the only time I have ever seen any meaningful public outrage about these jokes was towards Lil Nas X with his Industry Baby promotional stuff. which i frankly didn't even mind. because while obviously there was an element of "man pregnant!! how strange!!" because of Society, but to me the humor was primarily "a literal reference to the album title" + "i have a new album coming out, so i am depicting myself as literally pregnant with my new album." if he had been a cis woman, it still could've been funny, because there was more to it than just the shock factor of him being a man (although that is mostly how people took it).

but yeah. the only time ive ever seen anyone get any meaningful pushback against these kinds of jokes, was when it could be used to "call out" a Black GNC gay man who was already getting a ton of homophobic hate. how interesting.

[genderkoolaid]

"boypreggers" "boyvulating" "boybortion" do you know that a black trans men had the cops called on him because he went to an OB/GYN? or how a black trans man had doctors try to pressure him into getting an abortion, on top of other racist and transphobic medical mistreatment that caused him to have a mental breakdown and develop PTSD after giving birth? or how a black trans man was arrested for shoplifting because he was pregnant and they assumed his baby bump was stolen clothes? or that a pregnant trans man had to jump out of an uber with his wife and run away from the car because the driver was threatening him for being a pregnant man? or how a pregnant trans man was murdered by his abusive husband and misgendered across the news? do you think about any of this ever? do you remember your mpreg obsession when you start talking about reproductive rights or do you immediately start talking about "men controlling women's bodies" without a hint of fucking irony? has your fetishization and mockery of male pregnancy actually translated into any meaningful support for men who can get pregnant?

& i wanna make this crystal clear my point is not "everyone who makes these jokes knowingly is doing it to mock trans men." many people who make these jokes DO think they are doing it in xyz totally lighthearted unrelated to trans men way you think justifies this. my point is that no matter what people think these jokes are about, they are indicative of how we think about and engage with the reality of trans and intersex men. at the very least i want people to think twice before they throw around these jokes like there's no deeper meaning here.

[iggythegayalien]

It's so tragic to me when I see a bigoted comment online and the posters PFP os one of my favourite characters.

"Like Kinger how could you say that about transgender people I thought I could trust you."

[iggythegayalien]

[iggythegayalien]

Me and my friend

[thesociologicalcinema]

“Listen to me. Gender is a construct, society is a construct, money is a construct. But bedtime is very, very real.” Artist: Will McPhail

[iggythegayalien]

Loaf