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@killeronmain
WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS UNTAGGED GORE AND BODY HORROR
call me Killer call me Monster call me Main, I don't care
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I reblog monsters, killers, blood, and gore. May be nsfw. Will not tag reliably, so be aware
Now with added gender and minority talk etc
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Some feminists, particularly radical lesbian feminists, have accused trans women and men of benefiting from male privilege. Male-to-female transsexuals, they argue, are socialized as boys and thus given male privilege; female-to-male transsexuals on the other hand are characterized as traitors who have abandoned their sisters in a pathetic attempt to acquire male privilege. Transfeminism must respond to this criticism, because it has been used to justify discrimination against trans women and men within some feminist circles. When confronted with such an argument, a natural initial response of trans women is to deny ever having any male privilege whatsoever in their lives. It is easy to see how they would come to believe that being born male was more of a burden than a privilege: many of them despised having male bodies and being treated as boys as they grew up. They recall how uncomfortable it felt to be pressured to act tough and manly. Many have experienced bullying and ridicule by other boys because they did not act appropriately as boys. They were made to feel ashamed, and frequently suffered from depression. Even as adults, they live with the constant fear of exposure, which would jeopardize their employment, family relationships, friendships and safety. However, as transfeminists, we must resist such a simplistic reaction. While it is true that male privilege affects some men far more than others, it is hard to imagine that trans women born as males never benefited from it. Most trans women have "passed" as men (albeit as "sissy" ones) at least some point in their lives, and were thus given preferable treatments in education and employment, for example, whether or not they enjoyed being perceived as men. They have been trained to be assertive and confident, and some trans women manage to maintain these âmasculineâ traits, often to their advantage, after transitioning. What is happening here is that we often confuse the oppression we have experienced for being gender-deviant with the absence of the male privilege. Instead of claiming that we have never benefited from male supremacy, we need to assert that our experiences represent a dynamic interaction between male privilege and the disadvantage of being trans. Any person who has a gender identity and/or an inclination toward a gender expression that match the sex attributed to her or him has a privilege of being non-trans. This privilege, like other privileges, is invisible to those who possess it. And like all other privileges, those who lack the privilege intuitively know how severely they suffer due to its absence. A trans woman may have limited access to male privilege depending on how early she transitioned and how fully she lives as a woman, but at the same time she experiences vast emotional, social, and financial disadvantages for being trans. The suggestion that trans women are inherently more privileged than other women is as ignorant as claiming that gay male couples are more privileged than heterosexual couples because both partners have male privilege. [...] Based on this understanding, transfeminists should not respond to the accusation of male privilege with denial. We should have the courage to acknowledge ways in which trans women may have benefited from male privilege -- some more than others, obviously -- just like those of us who are white should address white privilege. Transfeminism believes in the importance of honoring our differences as well as similarities because women come from variety of backgrounds. Transfeminists confront our own privileges, and expect non-trans women to acknowledge their privilege of being non-trans as well.
from The Transfeminist Manifesto (2001) by Emi Koyama. This quote is from the section "The Question of Male Privilege"
I hate posts like these that attempt to split hairs over individual oppression points to argue that one group of trans people has privilege over another (especially since, if we must, trans men notably have higher rates of sexual assault and less representation in government than trans women, facts that get conveniently ignored or even actively erased in these convos) because well. Itâs unproductive, but even moreso it becomes a breeding ground for rank TERFish transphobic bile to be spread around uncritically:
This is what TERFs believe, wholesale, and is just transphobia, nothing more. If you genuinely think itâs okay to say that trans men âtransitioned to manhood to benefit from the patriarchyâ you arenât safe for trans people to be around, yes even if youâre trans yourself. The idea that this is somehow âqueer solidarityâ would be laughable if it werenât so depressing.
I am once again mentioning that this "study" had 700 LGBT respondents. For the entire thing. This is compared to the 2015 USTS (link) which has 27k responses from JUST trans people. It shows that trans men, and nonbinary individuals who were AFAB, have a lower income on average than trans women and nonbinary individuals who were AMAB. In fact, in 2015, trans women in the US have the HIGHEST yearly income compared to any other subcategory of the trans community
Someone in the replies mentioned the number was 7000 not 700, which while still small, is an important note. I must also note about the 2015 study shared by intersexcat-tboy, that trans women and nonbinary/genderqueer folks who were AMAB in the study are on average more likely to be white than trans men and nonbinary/genderqueer folks who were AFAB, and the former group was on average older than the latter- both variables which affect income statistics, with race playing a heavy role.
The fact is that the true trans pay gap isn't between trans men and trans women, it's between white trans people and racialized trans people. This whole thing where we're bickering about which trans gender is doing better is fucking ridiculous when racialized trans people are on average, experiencing worse outcomes than white trans people on every metric.
Do trans men have systemic power over trans women? There really isn't a good evidence to back that up, nor is there any reason to believe the reverse. There is no steady metric for measuring the systemic power of one portion of a tiny minority against another, and it's stupid to bicker about it when we already know that different groups of trans people need support with different issues. Non-exhaustively, trans women tend to need support against stranger violence, and exclusion from education, and trans men tend to struggle with domestic violence, and discrimination in hospitals- and all trans people have higher rates of discrimination in all these fields than cis people. Most the issues trans people face are intimately connected to exploitation and violence at the hands of cis people- I mean not least because they are 98-99.6% of the population
But do white trans people have power over racialized trans people? Abso-fucking-lutely. White trans people are white before we are trans, point blank period.
being a trans guy is great because you get all the negative effects of being a woman in a patriarchial society and all the negative effects of being a man in a patriarchal society
The Following is intended to be commiseration with our shared suffering and not derailing.
being a trans gal is great because you get all the negative effects of being a woman in a patriarchal society and all the negative effects of being a man in a patriarchal society
also absolutely not intended to derail and just to be like âfuck this shit sucks and I hate that u guys have to deal with it tooâ
being nonbinaryis great because you get all the negative effects of being a woman in a patriarchal society and all the negative effects of being a man in a patriarchal society
Erosion, oil painting by Kim Jakobsson
Had a dream a few years back and this was the last thing I remember thinking before I woke up. Itâs stuck with me for some reason
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My rendition of DoHW Kromer There were some elements I don't think I was properly able to convey in this, but yk im learning I lowk didn't wanna draw a bunch of human feet/legs on her (like in the sprite) so I adapted since i'm not very good at drawing those yet
As much as I wanted her to be more gross looking, I also wanted to keep the form pretty stable and solid-ish so I didn't go too wild I made her tail end more fleshy and soft/weak so she wasn't all muscle and still looked a bit like how she looks in her sprite (plus I could keep her human-ish legs there, almost as if she was not fully developed yet)
@/BEERM0N's work over on twitter actually inspired me to make a grotesque design for her worm form. I don't think they've been active for a while, but check out their work still, it's amazing
dont mind the doodles in the top corners, I was gonna color them too but my wrist can only take so much
some folks over in a discord server helped me make her a little more gross looking after I showed my sketch. Thanks to them I added her skin and arteries kind of sticking/melding with the floor for her tail end. They lowk gave me another idea for a kromer worm drawing but I end up hurting my wrist when I lock in, so it might be a while before I get back to it
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Acrylic on canvas paintings by Dominique Lebel
El banquete
Painting by Marc Potts on Instagram
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"Mainstream Western feminism claims to embrace intersectional theory, but it may be truer to say it is weaponizing it. Unmoored from [Kimberle] Crenshaw's critical analysis of institutional power, it becomes little more than a buzzword and a shield from legitimate criticism. More than once I have been scolded by a white woman who believed that because she identified as an "intersectional feminist," she couldn't be racist.
Perhaps this betrayal was inevitable. It certainly isn't the first time an initiative aimed at improving the lives of racial minorities has been appropriated by whiteness...
What makes this all the more frustrating is that white women have been able to chip away at the chains that bind them through the tools gifted them by people of color. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is "diversity". The civil rights era made the 1960s counterculture and the second-wave women's liberation movement possible, and affirmative action has long included gender diversity among its aims.
Affirmative action is viewed through a racial lens as unfairly benefitting undeserving Blacks because of its origins in civil rights. In 2006, Crenshaw described this toxic discourse as "simply a gross distortion of the reality" because "the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action have been Euro-American women."
Her claim that white women have most reaped its rewards is supported by evidence from various state departments. In 1995, a report by the California Senate Governmental Organization Committee found that white women occupied 57,250 managerial positions in California, more than those held by Blacks (10,500), Latinx (19,000), and Asian Americans (24,699) combined."
Chapter 6, White Tears/Brown Scars- Ruby Hamad
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people on here throw such a fit about people openly and specifically including men and men's issues in their fight for liberation, insist that actually it is vital feminist praxis to only ever engage with other human beings through the lens of "are you the Innocent Victim Gender or the Evil Rapist Gender", and then you look at a Black liberation group and
"Love Black Men: Boldly, intentionally, and without condition. This love calls us to confront and dismantle systems of oppression, patriarchy, and anti-black racism that equally devalue Black menâs lives, criminalize their presence and deny their full humanity. To love Black men is to make space for their healing, joy, complexity and vulnerabilityânot as a counterpoint to safety, dignity, or gender justice, but as essential to it. We call on ourselves and our communities to choose to build systems grounded in care, accountability, liberation and create spaces where Black men can thrive in love and be loved in return."
crazy. isn't it.
[ gently takes young and / or newly out binary trans people by the hands and looks you directly in the eyes with compassion and understanding ]
Nonbinary people are not your enemy.
Nonbinary people are your siblings in the struggle that is systemic transphobia. Our collective pain, our collective erasure from society is the goal. We are allies to each other.
Gendered liberation is not your enemy.
Gendered liberation as a goal is there to allow us all to exist freely in the ways that are most comfortable for us all. The goal is to uplift us all, to liberate us all, to give us the ability to have autonomy and agency over our own expressions, lives, and bodies â this inherently includes you and your right to find comfort in your identity and presentation however it may manifest.
Gender abolition is not your enemy.
I know that's a scary sounding one. It used to scare the shit out of me too. Especially right now. Especially when, if you are a USAmerican trans person, our government is directly attacking our right to exist publicly and privately. Especially when TERFs and other radfems have completely bastardized the concept of abolition into a blunt anti-trans weapon.
Gender abolition is not about telling you that you have to stop being a woman or a man â especially if you're a trans lesbian or gay trans man. Gender abolition is also not about reassigning coercively assigned physical sex as the "true" marker of someone's identity.
The goal of gender abolition is the dismantling of the roles and structures we forcibly and coercively assign to gender identity, often with a focus on the impact of imperialism and settler colonialism on those structures (when done within a solidarity oriented framework). Much like other forms of abolition work â like prison abolition â it is a practice meant to dismantle and repair generations of systemic harm and trauma.
I know that that seems lofty, especially if you are white. You may feel especially disconnected from that struggle and simply want to exist in the world you're already familiar with in a way you are already familiar with â but this fight is bigger than just you.
Audre Lorde â notable black, lesbian, feminist scholar â once said "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." and in that same spirit, you are not free while any trans person is unfree, even when their shackles are very different from your own.
We must exist in solidarity with each other â it is vital for our collective survival.
I found out today that there was a (thankfully very ill-fated) attempt to have the entire Wikipedia article on discrimination against transgender men deleted. At first I thought the perpetrator was yet another bargain bin transphobe/TERF act of disruption but apparently not so, she is a trans woman. The user in question had been disputing the use of transandrophobia in the article as being inappropriate, but as other editors pointed out, the way in which it was used was as to be expected (basically saying âhey this term is being used commonly right now in places to describe this phenomenaâ). When attempts to get the article edited to remove any mention of the term failed, this user instead decided to just nominate the whole article for deletion instead. She even went as far as to say âyou will never be a manâ to the editors disputing this, though it was quickly deleted. Itâs the actions of only a single person, but I find this indicative of how the chronic devaluing and othering of transmasculine people and voices in faux-transfeminist spaces leads to action basically indistinguishable from cis transphobes. Resorting to attempted vandalism of an online resource and blatant transphobia is a symptom of this trend that deserves absolutely no patience at this point.
