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“I think a lot about queer villains, the problem and pleasure and audacity of them. I know I should have a very specific political response to them. I know, for example, I should be offended by Disney’s lineup of vain, effete, ne'er-do-wells (Scar, Jafar), sinister drag queens (Ursula, Cruelle de Vil), and constipated, man-hating power dykes (Lady Tremaine, Maleficent). I should be furious at Downton Abbey’s scheming gay butler and Girlfriend’s controlling lunatic lesbian, and I should be indignant about Rebecca and Strangers on a Train and Laura and The Terror and All About Eve, and every other classic and contemporary foppish, conniving, sissy, cruel, humorless, depraved, evil, insane homosexual on the large and small screen. And yet, while I recognize the problem intellectually–the system of coding, the way villainy and queerness become a kind of shorthand for each other–I cannot help but love these fictional queer villains. I love them for all of their aesthetic lushness and theatrical glee, their fabulousness, their ruthlessness, their power. They’re always by far the most interesting characters on the screen. After all, they live in a world that hates them. They’ve adapted; they’ve learned to conceal themselves. They’ve survived.”

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“Dream House as Queer Villainy” from In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

mistressofthebats

This is part of why Vampires have been popular. This is part of why Goth is a thing.

This is also part of why i think talented LGBTI people need to rewrite ALL the great stories of history, without exception, of every single genre, with LGBTI heroes and all these ‘villainous’ traits put into the heroic lens while claiming every single trait denied LGBTI people in representation. Because a lot of the survival traits cherry picked to make those villains are things that all of culture could learn from but the various things left out that were part of Queer culture that allowed so many to survive and change the evil prejudiced world to gradually improve as far as it has. And to reveal the face of the evil that we’ve had to fight against for the monstrosity it has been.

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virgojesus

‪‘Transphobia’ towards trans-identifying females is just sexism. There’s already a word for it.

‘Transphobia’ towards trans-identifying males is a by-product of sexism, and sexism benefits all men.

Gay trans-identifying males experience homophobia.

Straight trans-identifying males can experience misdirected homophobia and at worst a form of prejudice against those who are gender non-conforming.

This prejudice can intersect with other axes of oppression, as is the case with transwomen in prostitution who face violence at the hands of johns. They may experience classism, racism, ableism, etc. but not ‘transphobia’. Not ‘cissexism’. And obviously not ‘misogyny’ or ‘transmisogyny’.

This prejudice for being gender non-conforming is rooted in the oppression of women, which they also benefit largely from.‬

The issue with the word ‘transphobia’ is that it implies that identifying as trans in and of itself is an axis of oppression, but it isn’t. It implies that there is an institutionalised prejudice against people who identify as trans, but there is not. Having a belief that isn’t shared by others is not a form of oppression.

Punishment of gender non-conforming behaviour, however, is a direct consequence of sexism, something which hurts all women and benefits all men, even if they do experience some fallout.

antiterf

I usually try to see where the other side is coming from but you basically just called being transgender a political opinion and that's why trans people can't be discrimated against by it.

If you knew a single damn thing about being trans it'd be that gender roles are more Forced upon us than anything to be seen as a "real" man or some shit. That us being gnc to you, is us being acceptable to all other cis people. But when a trans man wears a skirt or a trans woman has short hair everyone looses their shit.

If we were simply random gnc people then why the hell are we getting shit, including actual doctors trying to push our transition aside, for suddenly "conforming" to it?

Like from going on about how trans women institutionally benefit from transphobia to a blatant lack of knowledge in sociology this has to be one of the biggest ideological shit shows I've seen in a while.

"Having a belief that other people don't have isn't oppression" okay yeah cool next time someone tells me it's impossible to be bisexual and that I need to choose one or the other then that's not oppression at all? I believe I'm bisexual and other people don't, guess that's fine!

misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024

The entire OP can be summarized as “WAAAAAH!!!!! YOUR ISSUES ARE JUST OURS LITE!!!!! I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO BACK THIS UP, BUT I’M A FEMINIST SO I’M RIGHT!!!!!”

And for the bit about the “having a belief other people don’t have isn’t oppression” thing? There are SO MANY FUCKING WAYS that can twisted back on you, Op. if having a belief other people don’t have is not oppression, then guess what? The idea that minorities deserve rights is a belief we don’t share with our oppressors. Considering that difference in opinion leads to us being denied jobs, murdered, kicked from our homes, etc. wouldn’t you say that counts as oppression?

Or is it only “beliefs” that you don’t like that get this treatment?

mistressofthebats

This is a testable hypothesis. Just compare the murder, rape, assault, employment and other hate/discrimination figures. If Trans = or < Cis with the same identification it might be true, but if Trans > than Cis with the same identification it cannot be true. Just a reminder, Trans women in Qld Australia over a decade ago faced 3 TIMES the assault and 6 TIMES the assault with a weapon rate Cis women did and that was well before the noted increase in Transphobic violence and anti-Trans propaganda of recent years. So to the OP it has to be said, in traditional Australian: “Yeah, nah!”