Knightcorpse

She/Her | 27 | Doctor Who Addict

[knightcorvid]

Queensland government’s “Adult Crime, Adult Time” laws a violation of children’s rights

Amnesty International Australia urges the Queensland government to abandon the second tranche of “Adult Crime, Adult Time” legislation that

[trangoldin]

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Transfemme eggs are still absorbing all the toxic and oppressive propaganda about how women are ‘supposed’ to be even before their self-realization, the major difference between them and their cis counterparts being that they are almost unilaterally incapable of living up to even the bare minimum of those expectations and usually have their self-worth shredded to pieces as a result

[sararasx3]

Oh so THAT'S why I felt that I looked awful, daaaamn. Finally I figured out what they meant by transmisogyny hurting trans women even before they figure it out!!

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

This sort of thing is the tip of the iceberg. Once you know to look for it, you see it rearing its ugly head in so many places

[theconcealedweapon]

[porcelain-dollbones]

it really is kind of interesting how attached people are to the idea of the improvised line and the genuine reaction in film. nearly every single famous moment or line has some sort of claim floating around that it wasn't in the script and was either made up on the spot by an actor or was sprung as a surprise on the actors to get their 'real' reaction. you know, sometimes people do come up with good lines in advance and write them down, and sometimes people can pretend to be have a convincing emotional response on screen

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[juststarsandthemoon]

Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data

[markovchaingang]

straight men aren't actually into women they're just faking it for female attention

[plaidos]

obviously objectively it’s terrible but it is pretty funny watching terfs scramble to defend 1. taking upskirt photos of people you disagree with 2. rejecting women from rape crisis lines based on their voices 3. JK Rowling’s offer to pay the legal feels of anti-abortion & pro-conversion therapy organisations. all because this slightly-above-average children’s fantasy author somehow so thoroughly became the face of a hate movement that basically nobody within that hate movement is willing to criticise her even when she objectively acts against their interests. it’s genuinely kind of baffling to watch.

[slimegirlandroid]

tending to my pet anarchists. going into their solarpunk themed enclosure and spreading packaged medicine around in bushes for them to naturally gather. refilling their stock of grain discreetly so they think it all comes from their garden sized wheat field. I spot one and she hisses at me and calls me an authoritarian tankie but i make cooing noises and offer zines as treats and she lets me pet her

[finalgirlianthe]

the worst person you know has 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 in their bio

[decompose1]

girls i know accusations of racism can occasionally be falsely leveraged against trans women in order to discredit them and this Is Bad but this does notttt actually mean that you can just ignore the racism in the community like it doesn't exist. because racism exists in all communities and lately it is Nightmarish to be a nonwhite doll. i have experienced really glaring racism in several transfem spaces and there's been this really kind of awful attitude or like idea enforced that i shouldn't talk about it because speaking up could socially murder another tgirl. and that's really bad. that's really really bad. like it's really bad that i'm hesitant to even post this because of the scrutiny we're under. and yes the fact that it is so dangerous to speak up is because of the massive amounts of surveillance & transmisogyny we're facing but that just CAN'T mean racism gets a pass, okay? BIPOC girls are not expendable and you can't keep throwing us under the bus.

but i know calls to action without any kind of instruction aren't very helpful so here are some tips that i think you can easily do yourself with your own circles:

1) Staring off simple: Look around. Are there any BIPOC girls in your friend group, or are all of you white? Why? Do you often joke about everyone in your friend group being white? Why is that funny?

What to do: Examine why there are no people of color in your group. Examine why people of color may not be comfortable enough to hang out with you & your friends. Correct these, where possible. Do some reading on anti-racism. Talk to more people.

2) Examine how you talk about people of color & racism. Are you downplaying racism in your community? Are you treating women of color as dramatic or unreasonable for bringing it up? Do you find yourself only defending white dolls, always defending them from claims of racism, but never defending BIPOC dolls? Why?

What to do: Think about why you care more about accusations of racism than protecting the women of color in your community. Make sure you're making your space safe for BIPOC girls. Speak openly and loudly about anti-racism. Hold your sisters accountable- they should be apologizing when they say or do something wrong.

3) This one might sound silly, but as we often meet each other over fandom and roleplay- how are nonwhite characters treated in your circle? Are they always aggressive, angry, or antagonistic? Do you find yourself putting nonwhite characters in more roles like cops, dictators, sex pests, etc?

Additionally: If your circle shares sexual content, is there a lot of art where there's a pale/blonde character on the bottom, and a darker character on top? Are you and your friends always drawing darker characters as more dominant, more sexually aggressive, or promiscuous, while the white/pale characters are more innocent, submissive, modest, or clueless?

What to do: Examine how the way your group approaches fandom & art with nonwhite characters in it may make people of color uncomfortable. Examine why your art may make people of color feel unsafe or awkward hanging out with you. It's not wrong to have the occasional character of color be more antagonistic or dominant, but it's a problem when this is a pattern. If it's happening All The Time, question why!

4) Be honest with yourself: Did this post make you feel defensive? Does it make you feel defensive when people say something you did was racist? Why?

If a person of color tells you your actions were racist, they trust you to improve. I don't tell people they're being racist if i think they're going to hurt me for bringing it up. I know many like me. Don't prove us wrong- take these criticisms into account and work on it. You aren't cursed to be some kind of terrible bigot forever because you messed up- panicking without action is useless. Just be sure you examine the behavior in question and work to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. Okay?

I believe all these things are easy enough to check with yourself & your friends. Please work on making yourself & your group safe for girls who aren't white.

[decompose1]

yahh ok so. this is both why i made this post and why the first sentence is like that. sometimes my fellow dolls fuck up and hurt me, right, but they're more likely to get hurt if i say anything and that's EXACTLY what causes this issue. if i speak up, im risking ruining their lives the second TMEs smell blood in the water, which causes this horrible awful cycle where i don't feel comfortable speaking up when other trans women are racist to me because i am so afraid of TMEs killing them about it when all i wanted was for them to make things right. This is BAD. This is actively causing trans women of color to hide when they get hurt and racist whites in the community to take advantage of our fear. It's a HUGE problem, and this is the very SPECIFIC problem i was addressing in this post.

So on that note-

White TMEs have harmed me leagues worse than white transfems. Do not take this post to mean you're somehow better. You aren't. You are in fact so much worse that i don't feel comfortable even discussing this with you because i don't trust you not to kill me if i do. The only reason i made this post and addressed other trans women specifically with it is because i want to believe my sisters will listen to my cries. That's why i didn't address the rest of yall

[transmascvoiceproject]

A transfemme kissed me on the cheek once... I mean we were dating and she explicitly asked me if I was ok with being kissed, but that eas still traumatizing..

💙

these TMAs are so bad at understanding consent. if she wanted to kiss you she should’ve prepared paperwork disclosing her intentions and all her medical history. anything less is assault and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

[transmascvoiceproject]

im not a terf, and i'll pay lip service to that, but if any tme people want to come on anon and spew obvious crypto terf bullshit, i might just believe it ngl. send in those resources boys!

[transmascvoiceproject]

i dont support terfs. that’s a bitter pill ill NEVER swallow and

wait hold on, is that a ball of peanut butter 👀

[junkyarded]

it never fails to drive me crazy that hollywood has supposedly churned out tons of "anti vietnam war films" but none of them ever have any vietnamese characters who are allowed to speak. and then you can turn on a ww2 movie and the germans get to talk and talk and talk!

[capnsoapy]

A lot of people are so willing to disbelieve transmisogyny that they'll frame it as a privilege

[capnsoapy]

No, trans women aren't "immune to criticism for unethical sexual behaviour". They are actually overly criticised for sexual proclivities which is a bias you need to account for.

[capnsoapy]

No, trans women aren't "massively overrepresented in media compared to other trans people". They are actually almost entirely unseen because the caricatures and stereotypes used to demonise them are not in fact representation.

[harlow1898]

Petitions about Transgender Rights – Support Causes & Make a Difference · Change.org

Explore and support petitions about Transgender Rights on Change.org. Discover what people care about and take action on causes that matter.

A list of petitions and information if you guys want to shut the fuck up long enough to actually help trans people

[plaidos]

This response is so crazy because of how blatantly, openly hateful to trans women it is. the replier went on to immediately vaguepost about how trans women shouldn’t whine about the ways in which we’re oppressed. The post is framed as if it’s in response to Capnsoapy has said that trans women are the most oppressed trans people, but OP never said anything like that (even though she would be well within her rights to do that) — all she did was point out specific ways that trans women are targeted by transmisogyny and how that affects us.

This replier has revealed the smoking gun of anti-transfeminism discourse: even when transfems are speaking exclusively about our own experiences, with no comparison to anybody else’s, just mentioning the ways in which we are oppressed & marginalised is enough to be treated as an insidious transphobic force separating the community

All OP did was point out that trans women are scrutinised higher than TME people when it comes to sexual impropriety and that we are caricatured more often than represented in fiction. That’s it. Those two statements should be uncontroversial to anybody even slightly aware of the concept of transmisogyny.

So then why are trans women even mentioning our own oppression nigh-universally treated as nasty self-centred separatists? Why is it acceptable for people to literally misgender us whilst dismissing our oppression in the same breath as outright saying that discussing the ways in which trans women are oppressed is pointless & doesn’t help anybody? How do you all not see that as blatant, open hatred of trans women — you know, real trans women, who actually live in the real world, not the imaginary ones who never complain that TME people hypothetically support in their head?

To the average TME person, trans women are supposed to be pliable, agreeable, quiet if we are expected to be supported or helped in attaining our rights. Simply pointing out that we are treated with discrimination is enough to lose respect from a self proclaimed ally. We’re the fucking women of women.

[communistkenobi]

You literally can't say anything about the way some people talk about gen ai cause youll get called an ai defender, lol, i got shit on for pointing out how gross it was that this one popular artist on bluesky literally typed and posted the sentence "if you use gen Ai you are 'intellectually and mentally lazy" like all I said was "hey, why are we using this kind of ableist language, please dont do that its gross" and guess what happened 😋

and perhaps... if you can't criticise something without using fascistic language and logic... your criticisms are not very good