[cherumie]

what if a rat said cheesus christ

[rice-pudding-slaps]

for the Spanish crowd: y si las ratas dijeran quesucristo

[mn72r]

[wallofgoats]

me putting the little tag back on the bread bag

[autogynophelia]

The concept of "transmisogyny" had to be invented because without it there was no way to explain why transfeminine people are so particularly marginalised. The logic of transphobia is that we are actually failed men, men who have broken the rules of gender and so need to be punished. Likewise, transphobia considers trans men to be failed women who have broken the rules and so need to be punished. If you follow that logic, you would expect to see trans men occupy a position in the social hierarchy similar to "marginalised woman" and trans women to occupy a position similar to "marginalised man", i.e. trans women should be below cis men, trans men should be below cis women, and trans men should be below trans women. But that is actually not what we see when we look at something like the gender pay gap statistics. Trans women are actually right at the bottom, well below trans men, and everyone else.

So, if the logic of transphobia is that we are actually men, how the hell do we explain the fact that we occupy a social position significantly below those that transphobes believe to be actually women? There's only one way to make sense of it: that the nature of our "failure" (i.e. the direction of our transition) brings about a massive extra social penalty. That's exactly what "transmisogyny" refers to: this extra form of oppression that sits on top of transphobia, and whose existence is necessary to explain the data that we see in the real world. It's just like physicists theorising Dark Matter: the universe is not behaving how it should according to our current theory, so there's a new force we need to incorporate to make it make sense.

In light of this, what purpose is served by hypothesising a counterpart to transmisogyny called "transan***phobia"? What data is unexplained by the current model? Are trans men being treated even worse than we would expect based on how transphobia operates? I am not aware of any evidence for that, nor of any transan***phobia theorists who even think about oppression in this way. Instead, it's far more common for them to understand "transmisogyny" as "any oppression a trans woman experiences", and to think, "but I also experience oppression, so I need a counterpart name for my oppression", and then land on "transan***phobia", "transmis***ry", "anti-transmas***inity", etc.

They don't understand that transmisogyny is a specific form of oppression due specifically to transition direction, it sits on top of transphobia, misogyny, and anything else, it doesn't displace them. To say, as many transfeminists do, that "transan***phobia doesn't exist" is not to say that trans men do not face oppression. It's just the assertion that the direction of their transition does not incur any extra oppression on top of what they already experience due to transphobia and misogyny (which is a lot!).

I find it useful to think about which specific form of oppression I am facing in each situation. E.g. I am walking down the street and some guy wolf-whistles at me (that's misogyny, it's the presumption that my body is a sexual object for men's gratification). I tell him to fuck off, but he hears my voice is weirdly deep and then clocks me and shouts "You're a man!" (that's transphobia, he had noticed a disconnect between my gender presentation and what he presumes to be my AGAB). He chases after me, swearing, screaming, calling me a T-slur, etc, and I have to run really fast to avoid getting beaten up (that's transmisogyny, it's an instinctive disgust reaction that he probably couldn't even articulate why he feels so strongly about). Transmasculine people are likely to be able to relate to the first two experiences but not the third.

A month ago I was running a trans event and I asked people to share any news they wanted to related to their transition. There was a trans man who talked about the waiting list for being seen by the gender clinic, something everyone could relate to and we commiserated with him about it. And there was a trans woman who talked about how she had ordered an Uber Eats grocery delivery, and when he arrived she went out to his car to help him carry the bags, but when he saw her he called her a "fucking [T-slur]" and chased her down the street where she had to hide in a bush and wait for him to leave before going back to her house. She was less upset about that than the fact that after she complained to Uber they banned her from the platform. She had been using grocery delivery to avoid going to the store because she gets abused there. When she said all this, the transmascs in the room were like "what the fuck", while the transfems were like "this is why I boymode with delivery drivers"/"this is why I pretend I can't speak"/"this is why I do all my shopping at 3am at the 24hr supermarket because there's no one there to harass me". There is a serious gulf in the kinds of negative experiences we consider unremarkable, and the kinds of negative experiences transmascs consider unremarkable, and that gulf speaks to the differing levels of oppression we face.

[kosmogrl]

I hate change, I’m scared of change, I need something big in my life to change soon or else I’ll go crazy

[achillesinhighheels]

my sexual fantasy Is to have someone notice my absence and wonder about me

[milf--adjacent]

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

[cafffine]

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

[wizardshark]

In the year 1450 a priest rolls over and slams his hand into his candle, burning him and sending wax flying all over the place

[masochism101]

WantingSomethingICantHave.com

[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

[vatio-mache]

the kind of sense of self you can only feel when you are geographically distant from your mom

[casadelanime]

me showing the doctor where to amputate my leg as i ready the tourniquet 

[sluttynurse]

[diabloii]

[supplementes]

cavemen exchanging handheld fertility idols like the business card scene in American Psycho and when the rotation gets to Grug Allen his is the Venus of Willendorf

[letterful]

— STANISŁAW BARAŃCZAK, translated from the Polish by the author & Clare Cavanagh.

[kaylmao]

you could spell it like horce

[papayajuan2019]

could really go for 200mg right now. of anything.

[femalepentimento]

Kent Rogowski - There is a Rainbow (2012)