Museum Of Incompetence

26 /Bi/ Trans man for clueless cis people and enby, QUEER (they/he) Names Rome - Personal blog with fandoms and humor. Ask me to tag things

[missy-mistress]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @msbarrows

god here's hoping

text: I hope I'm online when it happens

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

It was absolutely in my bingo card that the people who yell at trans men that they have so much privilege would throw a shit fit when you pointed out their white privilege

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

For the record if you spend all your time telling other people they’re evil for having privilege and then get mad when people call you out for having privilege, the thing you are seeking out is not intersectional analysis but rather personal absolution.

[antisocial-transfag]

prev that is something I've been thinking about. if your understanding of male privilege just takes you to "and that's why I hate men" it's not very helpful. and I don't even think that trans men don't experience male privilege ever, even if it's more conditional than a cis man's. it's just obviously being used as an attack. so ofc they respond with "no, trans men don't have male privilege ever". I think that trans men should be able to openly talk about whether they have male privilege and how that manifests for them without being judged or treated like they're lying. trans people have important insight into this stuff having lived as different genders. it's not just trans women magically being able to talk about all trans experiences because they're the Most Opressed (regardless of what their other demographics and circumstances are, on top of that)

people say that misandry isn't real, and as a societal force it isn't, but individuals can definitely be misandrists. and somehow it shakes out that they take it out on marginalized people, surprise surprise. but some trans women will say something to the effect of "trans women are women so they're actually just being misogynistic" and i just don't think that's quite how a transphobe's mind works. you can't genuinely hate men as a philosophy and have that not affect how you think about other people (including trans men, whether they think of us as men or as women who are "gender traitors")

[tubularnb]

I do not like how asserting that Transandrophobia exists is assumed to be anti transfeminist. Treating it like MRAs in response to Feminism- which reduces the arguments to bad actors instead of a genuine exploration of gendered dynamics and how that affects trans men.

People who talk about Transandrophobia are not trying to disprove transfeminism, nor diminish the (very serious) affects of systemic transmisogyny. And the way some people rush to devalue these opinions because of some surface level similarities to MRAs is... Deeply annoying.

It's frustrating the way these two ideologies are treated as though they cannot coexist and interact with each other. And the way there's so much actually virulent discourse over what is essentially semantics.

[veryberryskye]

sorry i missed the gala of suitors i was outside picking on the weird girl in the garden tending to weird looking plants. yeah she had a little shack with a cauldron back there it was gross. anyways she gave me something to drink and now im madly in love with her so we need to start planning a wedding or whatever

[drcuriouslxix]

Sorry I missed the crones' union meeting. The fuckingg princess showed up??? She wouldn't leave until I gave her a dr pepper. She got this really weird look in her eyes drinking it. I guess shes only used to beverages with 22 or fewer flavors

[veryberryskye]

oooohh the love potion worked i cant believe you gave me a love potion im so in love its so effective lets make out

[girlballs]

One of the funniest things I've seen happen in real-time is the gradual progression of cyberdeck DIY stuff going from "this is obscure nerd shit" to "unless you literally need a Windows/MacOS device for work, a tiny bespoke handmade Linux machine will probably give you less headache and be more reliable and is vastly less likely to get remotely bricked by an update or obsoleted"

[girlballs]

The problem with this though is that Linux Users (distinct from people who use Linux) are some of the most annoying fucking people on the planet, so a lot of people who would probably benefit from a little custom Linux machine are going to be put off of the concept entirely by condescending nerds with superiority complexes

[theswisscheeserag]

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

It’s incredibly sexist to claim Taylor swift’s dad bought her career

damn you're right. both of her parents worked together to buy her career and I am sorry for disrespecting Andrea Swift in this way

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

[deramin2]

Every time I hear a white vegan say that I want to throw the rubble of the Klamath Dams at them.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

The Klamath River Runs Free

The Klamath River Runs Free

[supreme-leader-stoat]

#also do you have any idea how much conservation is funded by people who want to eat those animals#at least in the us anytime someone buys ammo or hunting equipment or hunting licenses that money goes directly to state wildlife agencies

[genderkoolaid]

rewatching make a man out of you from mulan & with all due respect for the actual story of mulan itself. this song it REALLY does feel like something made in a lab for horny gay trans guys. like the erotic tension of this is incredible.

ohhhh no ive been forced to dress up like a boy and this hot ripped dude is making me do manual labor and bullying me into being a real man!!! im collasped on the ground and he's standing over me and glaring at me with his glistening muscles!!! and then im so motivated by him that i become the best sexiest strongest coolest man, better than all the cis guys around me, and the hot scary guy has a sexuality crisis because he has fallen madly in love with me!!!!!!!!! and i get to punch him in the face and he likes it

[genderkoolaid]

[softwaring]

[mothcub]

The joyful boys.

[nerdreamer]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[lasttree-garsennon]

Get peer reviewed prev

[theropoda]

love leopard seals. they are so dragon coded. that is an entire mammalian marine wyrm

[theropoda]

Look at this fucking. beast. Medieval painting animal that eats princesses

[kindlingnorah]

princesses

[somecunttookmyurl]

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

[somecunttookmyurl]

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

[somecunttookmyurl]

sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

there was once a little boy.

[somecunttookmyurl]

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.

[somecunttookmyurl]

and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best

[somecunttookmyurl]

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

[beggars-opera]

[libriamore]

Ok but this is how to teach history. This is how you get people to pay attention, to care. Find something small and make it personal, then zoom out to the wider context. History is best taught as a story, with people who lived their lives in ways that came together to create something remarkable that we still talk about today, but who were still just human at the end of the day. They kissed, argued, cried, and dreamed just like we do. And sometimes they really liked ducks.

[less-stressed-news-producer]

God dammit now I’m crying

[when-you-fail-again]

[some-lionheart]