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Just thought I’d fucking Gnome all my idiot followers
one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"
the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.
The reduction of trans men to mere concepts
There's a chicken-and-egg scenario involved in transmasculinity these days:
Which came first, the violent erasure of transmasculine people from society and history, even trans society and history- or the reduction of transmascs to ideas instead of people?
Whichever happened first, they're both in an endless cycle right now. Trans men are erased and rendered hyperinvisible. Then, trans men are too invisible to speak up for themselves when they're erased further. As a result, no one listens to trans men when they try to speak for their actual experiences.
As a result, trans men are no longer a demographic with lived experiences and stories: they are ideas. They can be anything depending on the needs of the non-transmasculine speaker.
One example of this was touched on in this essay regarding the problematic portrayal of MPreg, where MPreg is celebrated not because it validates pregnant men as men, but because pregnancy is portrayed as something that inherently causes a man to become submissive (feminist), and it's doubly feminist when the one who impregnated him is a woman because that means a man submitted to a woman.
In particular, I want to draw attention to this paragraph:
And yes, I said the idea of a man in a feminine position is inherently feminist to them, NOT the man himself. The feminine position he is in makes him an object to be viewed and discussed, not a subject with thoughts and beliefs. The pregnant man is not a feminist, he's a feminist concept. That, I think, is the core of the problem with mpreg jokes - to people who make them, a pregnant man is an idea, a symbol, a fictional situation, instead of a real human being. They ignore the existance of actual men that can get pregnant in favour of the idea of them, because the first one has agency, and the second one has no agency (because he exists in their head). To people like that, pregnant men = blorbos jokingly impregnated by defying biology, or blorbos in omegaverse AUs, not the living, breathing trans and intersex men. They imagine pregnant men for many reasons: as a sexual fantasy, to make a joke, to declaw and tame them, but never to actually consider what it's like for real life men with uteruses. Pregnancy is just another situation they can put their blorbos in, not a real thing some men go through. So there's no space in their minds for the discrimination we face in gynecological and prenatal care, or the fear of being forcibly impregnated as a way to detransition us. Pregnant men are theoretical to them, just like catboys, so they get annoyed when we remind them that we exist and shoo us away claiming they're not talking about us.
-@sluglover666
While this quote is in the context of MPreg, I think it very much applies to wider discussions around transmasculinity. Detransitioning or "forcefemming" a trans man, for example, is very popular on this site, both as a sexual fetish/fantasy and as a genuine desire. And objections to this are met with, inevitably, the same protest that the world doesn't need more men, it needs more women, and further, masculinity is inevitably rewarded.
Transmasculine input stating otherwise is not welcomed, because this isn't about transmasculine people as people; it's about transmasculine people as concepts. And in this environment, it is a fact that the most feminist thing a concept of a transmasculine person can be is become a real, feminine person instead. His life would be of more worth as a miserable cis woman, because as a trans man, he is a mere concept.
Stating that one's masculinity has not been rewarded is not a feminist action, because it assigns agency to what is supposed to be a mere idea- the person "gifted" womanhood who threw it all away.
Trans men being concepts, not people, is also why trans men are never discussed as transgender men. They might be trans if they are facing an issue that harms the entire trans community (after all, this concept being attacked could lead to harm being done to REAL people!) but otherwise they are just men. And just men are, unless being put in their place via sexual humiliation (pregnancy, forcefem, pegging, etc) not feminist ideas, so the best thing for them would be to be rewritten as properly feminist concepts. So, there is no use in discussions about the ways in which transmasculine experiences diverge from cismasculine ones, because right now, the trans community online has little use for delineation of two interchangeable concepts. At least cis men have a chance on the order of a few percent of realizing their identity as women- real people- down the line.
It's seen as meaningless, and maybe even disingenuous, to draw a line between transmasculine and cismasculine experiences, because the difference between two flavors of not-women who have failed to be Feminist Concepts is meaningless.
Further, as mere concepts, transmasculine men are perfect targets for projection. Trans men can be "basically cis women" when it makes them look bad and less transfeminist; they can be mentally ill girls and theyfabs and cunts and bitches to undermine their identity. Remember, this is a feminist action, because humiliating a man, especially to a woman, is a good feminist concept. And when needed, trans men, being identical to cis men, are dangerous; they're threats, they're the ones committing the rapes and abuse and hate crimes against trans women, they're the ones passing (or wanting to pass) laws banning HRT for trans women (even though it's T, not E, that is currently a controlled substance). Because men are men, there is no use distinguishing between them, and the voice of trans men, as a mere concept and not a real people, is not welcome.
(In fact, one could also argue that trans women are being reduced to concepts in the opposite direction; it's just that because they are seen as properly feminist concepts, they are allowed to offer their own lived experiences, solely conditionally because it is of benefit at that time. A trans woman with a lived experience that contradicts a certain feminist point of view quickly finds herself reduced such that her existence is bad for feminism. If she discloses rape or abuse by a trans woman, or allyship with the idea of trans men, she too has her personhood stripped away, and she is now an antifeminist concept.)
And since trans men are now mere feminist concepts, this makes it easier to further the violent erasure of them. Trans men can't have existed historically; those were cis women who were trying to escape misogyny. Because, you see, it is a much better feminist idea to be a cis woman fighting patriarchy than to be a man fighting patriarchy, if you even consider trans men (who are, of course, identical to cis men) as capable of fighting the patriarchy. Trans men are the less-feminist idea, so they can't be allowed to exist. Alan Hart, Lou Alcott- none of them can be allowed to maintain their identity as trans men because they have more value as cis women, and they aren't people, but concepts.
And since trans men didn't exist historically, because they were all cis women, that means trans men are newcomers to the queer community. Thus, any demands to be heard, to be allowed epistemological authority over their own experiences, is entitlement; they can't demand a space that was never theirs respect their input equally to the real people who were there from the start, after all. They need to be quiet, shut up, wait their turn (which will never come) because they are, after all, men whose voices have never been absent; that's why they dominate history. Because trans men are cis men, and history is full of cis men. Historical trans men, or prominent modern trans men in queer spaces, are antifeminist concepts.
Historical erasure is a tool to strip trans men of personhood and reduce them to mere ideas, which in turn lets them be erased from the present- tomorrow's history. It's a cycle we must break free from.
I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀
if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old
i was helping socialise this bunny. he has a little bunny on his nose
oh tumblr staff definitely noticed the transphobe allegations and put the entire lgbtq+ in it LMAO
Cute little rainbow heart for pride month tumblr but how about you stop disproportionally banning trans women and marking sfw queer posts as mature
I do notice that the rainbow animation includes the black and brown stripes but not 🏳️⚧️
i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer
Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.
Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.
Has anyone seen the giraffe lamp at ikea
Hes allowed on the table
Were watching sumo together
Here imea giraffe lamp, it's your turn on the donkey kong
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What I feel people frequently forget about autistic special interests is that they aren't always information based. They may simply be visual or mental
Someone may have a special interest in a show, but instead of that meaning that they will talk about that show often, it may mean they watch that show extremely frequently.
Special interests are ways of regulating, not simply encyclopedias we have in our heads. Sometimes it's watching something frequently. Maybe only listening to one genre of music, maybe it's a collection, maybe it's an action. I'm tired of it only being seen as autistic people's personal encyclopedias
the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice
the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice
realizing many people don't know about infinity train creator owen dennis' among us show from years ago, which has been trapped in unreleased limbo all this time and was just dumped on streaming this morning with no advertisement. they don't even know about its weirdly stacked cast
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we all need to take better care of our selfs or we might Pass away
Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.
Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.
Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year
"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade
At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever
when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.
hmm. I wonder why governments might want this