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smoqueen-deactivated20251108

how it feels to listen to music

xzkey

#fe #art

bulkbarnes

misc vamps

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muteddaydreams

men should never laugh or smile

pansyfemme

“penises” or “vaginas” aren’t actually real physical objects with a function. they exist solely as metaphors and to influence imagery in weird art films

neilcicierega

If someone beats you up for being "cishet white male" and nothing else, is this okay? Did you deserve it?

what if the world was made of pudding

#absolute classic

our-lady-of-haymakers

It's really awesome how a vast majority of self-identified liberals conceive of liberalism as this smol bean birthday boy ideology of Let's All Get Along Together and frame it as this brave and kind yet tragically neglected voice of empathy and reason rather than, y'know, the dominant ideology of the capitalist world system that has caused countless wars, overseen colonialism and settler colonialism and neocolonialism, eviscerated state systems to create free market carnage, toppled countless popular governments through interventions on trumped-up charges of illegitimacy, and produced a climate catastrophe of near-apocalyptic proportions by putting its hands up while corporations torch the world.

And in the face of all this, and the inevitable rise of fascism from the material conditions created by the liberal world order, the liberal can say with complete earnestness that what we Really Need is a return to the good old days of liberalism where everyone was niceys and the slaughter and cruelty and meanness was confined to the global periphery and the slums and the villages rather than interfering with our sacred rituals of treat consumption.

fishpondfish

not everything is getting worse. at least you don't hear high hopes by panic at the disco every day anymore

juney-blues

other trans women can put it better than me but there's this, tension, between "radical genderpunk you can be whatever you want forever-ness" and "trans woman as politicised identity"

one views any engagement with your assigned gender at birth as like, being trapped in a prison of your own making,? as using the tools of the enemy or whatever. and the other is "yes my assigned gender is a prison, it is a prison the outside world is constantly enforcing on me and i would like to be able to talk about that a little thanks"

so you get this tension, where one side (made up of predominantly people who aren't trans women) says "the ideal world is one in which you can be whatever the fuck you want forever! so call yourself anything you want as long as it makes you happy, you can be an afab trans woman if you want it's all made up :)" and the other side says "hey hi yes i broadly agree with you on the whole ultimate gender liberation front, but we do not live in an ideal world and transfemininity is uniquely demonized even as far as trans identities in general go, so i would appreciate it if maybe you didn't act like our identity and oppression was something made up that you could just put on and take off whenever you like? we sure as fuck can't do that."

and then the other side goes "hey all these trans women are invalidating us! why are they gatekeeping and being so exclusive! assigned gender at birth shouldn't matter so why are you acting like it does!?"

and they say this while we live in a society where your assigned gender at birth very much does matter, and if you're a trans woman it is borderline impossible to escape that.

it's like an is-ought problem where since we're not acting like we already live in a gender utopia where one's relationship with assigned sex and gender is completely arbitrary, we're treated like the enforcers of the gender binary.

this is where you get stupid bullshit like people calling trans women radfems

anarchautistic

Somewhat tangential but I've found that if you're transfem and nonbinary and want to be a radical genderpunk people take it as an excuse to masculinize you. You say something like "I want to be seen equally sometimes as male, sometimes as female, sometimes as neither" you quickly find that it doesn't actually happen. Everyone hears that and defaults to seeing you as "failed male faggot." If you ask for she/they/he pronouns you get 90% he. Even if you ask for she/her you still get 10% he 40% they. When you give TME people the option to gender you in masculine terms even slightly they just start to do it all the time and completely reject the validity of your womanhood. You learn pretty quick that from the transmisogynist gaze, it's easier to accept you as some nebulously degendered oddity than to accept a trans woman as having a legitimate claim to womanhood.