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boccher

waxromantic

fongus-the-ninth

Likely one of the funniest things we will get from the extremely late-to-the-party among us show

haaarpb

haha uh oh

oupyfactory

maybe the single funniest twitter comment I've ever seen

perception-filter

tlirsgender

As a principled feminist I'm often tempted to say shit like "are men capable of higher thought" but then I have to remember not to perpetuate gender essentialism and change it to "why do men choose not to think about anything"

invaderxan

lateleviathan

terrible influence (affectionate)

anawkwardlady

obsessed bc she DOES tone it down a little a second later

(i added the video because its ending me)

heaat

calli

oneheadtoanother

analog-delight

Sorry drag kings aren't as popular. I guess masculinity doesn't work that well as a costume to be mocked

anatombombatallhours

this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of ballroom culture that it borders on outright racism.

society may respond to drag as though it aims to mock, but the foundations of drag, and certainly, the grand majority of drag artists themselves, do not seek to mock femininity, and instead perform it expressively.

while there may be drag artists who seek to mock femininity or masculinity (or other things that don't fit easily or at all into those categories), expressive performance does not inherently seek to make a mockery of the person or thing being portrayed.

drag kings aren't popular in the mainstream for a plethora of reasons, but the fault lies with the transphobic, queerphobic, and misogynistic (especially specifically on the basis of body parts designated "female" regardless of personal identity) society receiving them rather than with drag kings themselves.

ballroom culture involved performances of masculinity and femininity alike, and was a commentary on the simultaneous restriction and freedom found in self-presentation.

drag artists are not your enemy.

the society that requires us to present in certain ways to survive, is.

recoveredcombatsister

everybody listen the tboy is going to lecture a trans woman on drag culture. fuck yourself

depsidase

tpwrtrmnky

"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces

tpwrtrmnky

My cutting-edge radical queer politics: Actually meaning it instead of just saying it as an empty slogan

tpwrtrmnky

I am so fucking done with this post coming back to haunt me over and over, so let me explain:

"Taxonomy" does not inherently refer to biology. Because I'm a weird nerd on the internet and was thinking about the science of inventing systems of classification, the word happened to come to mind when I was firing off this post waiting for a tram or some shit.

IN PARTICULAR, I do not mean that medical transition makes you bIoLoGiCaLlY fEmAlE. Insofar as sex is a meaningful set of traits, transition can change all the ones that matter, and I don't give a shit. I mean the un-transitioned trans women too. I mean the trans women who never realize. I mean the young trans girls who know they're different, but don't know why yet. Every trans woman is a woman, for real, and is marginalized as a woman by a society that hates women.

"More than any other group" in the sense that if you're going to group trans women with anyone, you're grouping them with other women. Not in the sense that trans women have The Greatest Claim To Womanhood, you clowns.

The context of this post is that I am making a point about how ostensible allies to trans women will analyze trans women like weird type of she/her man instead of type of woman, and reach completely wrong conclusions through that analysis, which they then INSIST on despite evidence to the contrary. Whether it's employment, medical risk factors, mental health profiles, you will be wrong about your guesswork on all of them when you work from a starting point that isn't "trans women are a type of women".

It's radical because it addresses the root cause of an issue, which is that significant portions of society, including other queer people, have the wrong fundamental conception of trans women. It's also radical in the other senses of the word.

Finally: This is inward criticism. I am expressing frustration with other queer people. I don't care what Jeremy, 57 at the pub, has to say about my identity. I care that Elliot, 23, thinks I don't belong in lesbian spaces while he does.

Karma farm THIS ONE on Reddit, if you absolutely have to.