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Another instance of an alleged*, non-influential trans woman being used as a springboard to legitimize transandrophobia.

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For context:

Tl;dr - trans man who enjoys and respects content made by 50-sub YouTube trans woman goes on her tumblr, determines she hates trans men, and decides to make a grievance post about it that garners thousands of upvotes on Reddit.

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What's being said by the usual suspects:

Note the history of the r/trans unfolding on my timeline (it didn't "go up in flames"). Also note the mention of egg_irl and notice how these subs are being framed as being anti-trans men versus anarchy_chess who "went to hell and back to defend trans men."

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And the legitimacy of misandry, which in this case is being used similar to how calling a white person a "cracker" is racist, is what's gaining traction. While this sentiment in isolation can be hand-waved away, this continued, widespread circulation of misandry to describe personal experiences of prejudice, which is no concession to the reality or legitimacy of the OP's claim, further entrenches its conceptual legitimacy in the minds of people who are not as tuned into the conversation around misogyny and transmisogyny especially.

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Finally:

The resulting product of this conceptual legitimization of misandry: a plausbily legitimate, co-opted extension, culturally synthesized for trans men in the form of transandrophobia/misandry.

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Addendum:

The cycle concludes. The trans woman is at once a misandrist, a transmisandrist, and a misogynist.

#transmisogyny

The "She's literally trans herself?" Reddit post, now removed, demonstrated the continued pervasiveness of transmisogyny and its ease of dissemination to wider audiences.

By creating a post in which a trans woman, whose identity was being "protected" by the OP, was not given, the audience was left to speculate and draw conclusions from their preconceptions of what OP's "trans woman" might have said or was like.

Or at least, it superficially appeared.

But the work had already been done. She had been described as "hating trans men." The conception was already there for the audience to synthesize from, and so all that was left to do was criticize the trans woman and offer explanations as to why she hated trans men.

The audience took its cues and filled in the blanks: misandry, and then transandrophobia were offered up.

What was notable about that unfolding process was that the trans woman could have been hypothetical. Her identity had not been divulged. Her actual words, motivations behind them, and the fact that she was, "respected and liked" by the OP, which suggested a social gracefulness or insightfulness about her, were inconsequential.

By the time the post was through, her motivations were coherently settled.

From misandry to transmisandry to misogyny, the absentee trans woman progressed as a man-hating woman, then trans-man-hating male, then woman-hating man, existing in descriptive contradictory states, yet whose actual reality was not necessary for these descriptions.

Her existence was only important insofar as it was rhetorically useful.

This is because the crux of trans men's, men's, and the casual audience's transmisogyny, and resulting grievance around rejection of transandrophobia and misandry, is motivated by narrative control. The reality of the trans woman or her motivations, which were certainly influenced by transmisogynistic experiences both systemically and interpersonally, are rhetorical constraints that these groups can and will ignore.

Trans men in particular who operate like this, just as cis men who operate under the reactionary concept of misandry, work to create a false equivalence between personal prejudice and systemic oppression in order to position themselves as the ultimate moral and epistemological authority on transgendered bodies. The cisgendered audience agrees with this project because it reasserts their ontological purity by reinforcing bioessentialism through the social reduction of trans women, ultimately, to male; therefore, man.

In transmisogyny, there is something for everyone.

#transmisogyny

meowficent

Another instance of an alleged*, non-influential trans woman being used as a springboard to legitimize transandrophobia.

meowficent

For context:

Tl;dr - trans man who enjoys and respects content made by 50-sub YouTube trans woman goes on her tumblr, determines she hates trans men, and decides to make a grievance post about it that garners thousands of upvotes on Reddit.

meowficent

What's being said by the usual suspects:

Note the history of the r/trans unfolding on my timeline (it didn't "go up in flames"). Also note the mention of egg_irl and notice how these subs are being framed as being anti-trans men versus anarchy_chess who "went to hell and back to defend trans men."

meowficent

And the legitimacy of misandry, which in this case is being used similar to how calling a white person a "cracker" is racist, is what's gaining traction. While this sentiment in isolation can be hand-waved away, this continued, widespread circulation of misandry to describe personal experiences of prejudice, which is no concession to the reality or legitimacy of the OP's claim, further entrenches its conceptual legitimacy in the minds of people who are not as tuned into the conversation around misogyny and transmisogyny especially.

meowficent

Finally:

The resulting product of this conceptual legitimization of misandry: a plausbily legitimate, co-opted extension, culturally synthesized for trans men in the form of transandrophobia/misandry.

#transmisogyny

meowficent

Another instance of an alleged*, non-influential trans woman being used as a springboard to legitimize transandrophobia.

meowficent

For context:

Tl;dr - trans man who enjoys and respects content made by 50-sub YouTube trans woman goes on her tumblr, determines she hates trans men, and decides to make a grievance post about it that garners thousands of upvotes on Reddit.

meowficent

What's being said by the usual suspects:

Note the history of the r/trans unfolding on my timeline (it didn't "go up in flames"). Also note the mention of egg_irl and notice how these subs are being framed as being anti-trans men versus anarchy_chess who "went to hell and back to defend trans men."

meowficent

And the legitimacy of misandry, which in this case is being used similar to how calling a white person a "cracker" is racist, is what's gaining traction. While this sentiment in isolation can be hand-waved away, this continued, widespread circulation of misandry to describe personal experiences of prejudice, which is no concession to the reality or legitimacy of the OP's claim, further entrenches its conceptual legitimacy in the minds of people who are not as tuned into the conversation around misogyny and transmisogyny especially.

#transmisogyny

meowficent

Another instance of an alleged*, non-influential trans woman being used as a springboard to legitimize transandrophobia.

meowficent

For context:

Tl;dr - trans man who enjoys and respects content made by 50-sub YouTube trans woman goes on her tumblr, determines she hates trans men, and decides to make a grievance post about it that garners thousands of upvotes on Reddit.

meowficent

What's being said by the usual suspects:

Note the history of the r/trans unfolding on my blog (it didn't "go up in flames"). Also note the mention of egg_irl and notice how these subs are being framed as being anti-trans men versus anarchy_chess who "went to hell and back to defend trans men."

#transmisogyny

meowficent

Another instance of an alleged*, non-influential trans woman being used as a springboard to legitimize transandrophobia.

meowficent

For context:

Tl;dr - trans man who enjoys and respects content made by 50-sub YouTube trans woman goes on her tumblr, determines she hates trans men, and decides to make a grievance post about it that garners thousands of upvotes on Reddit.

#transmisogyny

Another instance of an alleged*, non-influential trans woman being used as a springboard to legitimize transandrophobia.

#transmisogyny

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man gets banned from his favorite reddit & becomes a misogynist, yeah that lines up…

#reading this takes me back #historicity be damned

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There’s no love like the kind where confronting transmisogyny gets you labeled a bitter, terminally online male.

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Beyond parody.

#transmisogyny

There’s no love like the kind where confronting transmisogyny gets you labeled a bitter, terminally online male.

#transmisogyny

my tme waiter:

"i hate the terms tma/tme; we all have been misogynistic- i may be misogynistic again!

anyway, did you know i, a man, get mistaken for being a trans woman? so much transandrophobia nowadays.."

me, staring at a corncob that's been floating above my head for 5 minutes:

can i have my corncob?

#transmisogyny

for anyone wondering what set off tme 9/11 on reddit, it was this post:

primer for fellow transfeminists:

this post got deleted because it has a study with fudged numbers re: trans women's sexual assault and created a misleading dichotomy that most likely set off the alarmbells for the transfem mod(s).

moderational reaction aside, the post is typical; the title is an eye-roller if you're already in a bad mood, the miscalculated sexual assault statistic will put you in a bad mood, and the OP's follow-up that they've "seen multiple studies claim that trans men face the most violence in general," will lead you to start rebutalling mentally.

any more, and i'll be regurgitating the post, so go ahead; it doesn't get better, you'll still be annoyed.

frankly though, there's nothing here that's noteworthy, that hasn't been said or accused, nothing that would stop the show on a regular day.

it's everything else that's been interesting (and heavily transmisogynistic).

#transmisogyny