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22, I kill my own kind ruthlessly. PFP by @latteoo16.

[kafvus]

Long overdue intro

Hello. You can call me Kaf or Kafka. I personally don't care what pronouns are used on me but I draw the line at he/him. I am ftmtf detrans. I'm not a fan of using labels to describe myself because they feel restrictive, but I don't mind using virago to refer to myself sometimes, though I certainly have a slightly different understanding of it. I'm also a sex-averse and repulsed asexual. I've been lurking in the virago community for a while now and realized I never introduced myself so here I am.

I mostly keep to myself but I have lots of interests like marine & aquatic life, space, literature, art, philosophy, gender commentary and very occasionally video games and anime. I'm also fond of sudoku, uno, nonograms, tabletop and gacha games in general. I'm also obsessed with smosh. I reblog a lot but rarely post, and am very much a lurker. I sometimes suffer from dissociation & dpdr and have some form of undiagnosed social anxiety and ocd. I'm also extremely tokophobic so discussions of pregnancy will be few and far between.

For all intents and purposes, this is an nsft space. It goes without saying but minors please do not interact.

Terfs, swerfs, trans- and queerphobes, gender conservatives, overtly religious folks and supporters of israel are absolutely not welcome here. If you are also someone who takes online discourse too seriously, consider yourself 'politically neutral', or are a mean person in general, please refrain from interacting with me. I lean left and am very much a communist, an agnostic and an intersectional feminist. This blog is a safe space for transmascs, masc-presenting individuals and queer cishets. Androphobia is not tolerated here.

If you wanna talk, asks are always open. I might take a while to respond but please don't hesitate. Just don't try to pick a fight because I WILL fuck you up. Tone indicators are recommended because I am not good with tone all the time.

[knightsoflamancha]

Chinese Immortals

[goodmorningmiles]

Illustration by Oscar Chichoni

[emeldiir]

FAT BUTCH SUNDAY

today we worship fat butches and studs and fat butches and studs only

you may pay for your sins by telling a fat butch or stud you think they’re cool and smart and funny :)

[juunipupu]

(rough wip) Knights in Love

[biwrites]

Hi! It’s been a while since the whole thing happened, but I wanted to kind of bookend the Virago conversation that happened here a bit ago.

Since I answered that anon about Virago identity, I have been reached out to by multiple members of the community, some with critique, some with additions, some with very kind words, some with words of thanks. Overall, the Virago community has been extremely kind, openminded, and a joy to talk to. I understand members of the community here suffered a wave of harassment, and I have had multiple members of the community reach out to me asking if I was okay, and if any of it had come my way. It hadn’t, but I genuinely appreciate the care I have been shown. I’m sorry you guys have dealt with the harassment you have, you deserve better. Nobody should be harassed for their identity.

I wanted to tell y’all that you have been absolutely wonderful, and that you have this bi butch’s support. Genuinely y’all have been wonderful to talk to and I’ve had some extremely interesting conversations over the past few months! Thank you guys so much <3

[princesseblade]

More black princesses, more black fairies, more black mermaids, more black girls doing all the things, for fucks sake

[mayayayayayaya]

i love looking up stuff with derealization tags with the expectation that i'll find some parasocial unity and understanding through other people's ventposts only to exclusively find generic weirdcore unreality slop

[shoefaced2]

i will never buy the idea that only men are emotionally repressed when women genuinely grow up:

-being called sensitive and dramatic

-hear boys get told to "don't be a sissy," "stop crying like a girl," "man up," and other bullshit

-being told their anger is unbecoming

-learning they have to hide their justified anger to protect themselves from others' violent reactions

-hearing that society automatically views them as less competent at work due to their ""emotional nature""

like, a big reason many women are "in tune with emotions" (which isn't even true for all women) is bc they're raised to coddle other people's emotions. they are not given full, protected access to their own. and if most men had to deal with the anger and resentment women conceal on a daily basis, they'd implode

[shoefaced2]

Just ignore them girl that community is fucking weird

Idk that I agree with this 100% either. There are definitely some takes that contribute to my reluctance to use the label. But it's such a small community (like, really small), and again, it skews young. I was horrible about engaging in discourse in my early twenties.

I see potential in the term "virago," and while I'm not using it right now, we're likely not going to find any other word for gnc women that a) isn't infantilizing like tomboy, b) isn't clunky like "gnc woman," "gender nonconforming woman" or "masculine woman," and c) had existed since the 14th century.

The community doesn't technically own the term "virago." It has existed for a long time, and it can still be adapted in multiple ways. The community itself can still adapt too (it's only like,, 10 people who are actually vocal lol).

[spicyraeman]

“hes a woman to me” IS HE? or are you equating women with submissive character traits you've arbitrarily put on a random man

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[shoefaced2]

virago - wikipedia

[secretscents]

Men are masculine. Women are feminine.

Be trans, be nonbinary, be anything else. But making your gender font a oppression point is soooo fucking weird of you.

You're not opressed for wearing fucking jeans bitch. Shocking: Feminine women get raped because we're more attractive than a trooned up brute.

Trans men dont even complain this much. You're still cis. Kill yourself.

I can smell you through the screen

[genderwanderer]

I got more sexually violated and harassed more when I presented visibly masc. Rape is less about attraction and more about power - children, sapphics, transgender and genderqueer people, indigenous women get assaulted more because it’s a form of power to correct autonomous but innocent people, not because rapists find them hot.

Correction rape exists. This is basic feminism 101.

[secretscents]

So you're saying masculine women are more oppressed than regular women?

"Regular Women" is insane.

Yes!!!!

[roxxystarry]

Pip in his pretty princess dress :D

[cerberusmon-wm]

saying that feminine women dont have privilege over masculine women is crazy cuz like. i cant even think of a single public facing woman that at least DOESNT wear makeup thats how fucked we are