frogs that eat people

she/her, anthorophage tranny, I post arts and crafts... sometimes

[arabian-batboy]

You know for a studio named after an Arabic word, studio Ghibli really never bothered to make any Arabic-influenced stories or characters.

[natoapologistblocker]

No way Ghibli comes from an Arabic LIBYAN word

[huzni]

The word in question, «قِبْلِيِّ» or 'qiblī', literally means "from the Qiblah." That is, literally "from the direction of the Ca3bah," otherwise transliterated as either 'Kaabah' or 'Ka`bah.' The Ca3bah is that stone building covered by a large black cloth —located in Meccah— towards which we Muslims pray.

And no, the studio have produced no Islamic-themed stories or characters ever either.

[hagiomoto]

And the Italians took it to name the plane they used to gun down Muslims. And Miyazaki being a fan of those planes name his studio after it.

I doubt he knew the term is Arab.

[mousidy]

weird pattern I'm noticing among some of the twerfy transmascs on here where they fixate on what their pasts were like and what they assume transfems' pasts were like. like even when they've gained privilege via transition to manhood they're like "well this happened to me before that and it probably doesn't happen to pre-transition trans women so really they are my oppressors"

like man even if that's the case, what about right now? what about right now when you've both, you know, transitioned? has that not changed anything?

[mousidy]

like some of these men are self-reportedly cis-passing and they seem to think they really don't have privilege over even a clocky trans woman. like, brother. get serious

[mousidy]

I saw one of these dudes mention having become sterile via surgery and I can't help but think like... yeah? a cis-passing man who can't carry children is telling women who can't carry children that we don't face reproductive oppression like he does? do we think sterile women are privileged...? or is it only if they're trans? what's the explanation here

[hagiomoto]

[funnyhatsincorporated]

JJJ after Spidey transitions: "Parker, it just tears me up inside seeing that masked menace tarnish the reputation of trans women, just setting an awful example for the young trans women of this world. She still brings in papers though so still take pictures of her, and maybe I'lll...confound it I'll let up on the freak. I still hate that webheaded adrenaline junkie but I'll not let her turn my daily bugle into one of those rags that print out jk rowling interviews, journalistic integrity, my girl, that's what it's all about. Now be happy our insurance covers transitioning and stop asking for a raise, I'M TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING HERE!!"

[girlballs-archive]

yknow i kind of forget sometimes that like. pregnancy is innately tied to sexual stuff. like "haha hey guess what. gets you pregnant" is actually kind of. a horny thing to say in fact.

[girlballs-archive]

LISTEN. it's really easy to forget that telling a tumblr mutual that you want to get them pregnant Actually Means cumming inside them. this is a common problem i'm sure

[girlballs-archive]

this captures it perfectly actually. i'm not busting inside i'm doing a fairy trick

[biglazebian]

[girlballs-archive]

hey. hey that's not what the post says.

[dragongirlbunny]

[kayla-denker]

If you're able to recognize the unequal social dynamic between transmascs and transfems that gives them privilege and power over transfems, then I know you're able to recognize that the exact same social dynamic exists between white trans people and racialized trans people.

When you refuse to accept that and try to deny it exists, you're literally doing the exact same "we're all faggots in the eyes of the state" bullshit that you see so many transmascs do in order to deny that they have male privilege. It's just "all lives matter" ideology all the way down.

Transmascs having male privilege doesn't erase the discimination they face for being trans. And white trans people having white privilege doesn't erase the discrimination we face for being trans.

Acknowledging this doesn't harm you in any way. It doesn't invalidate your experiences with discrimination or anything.

This is not just intersectional feminism 101, it's literally the intersection that led Kimberlé Crenshaw to introduce the concept of intersectional feminism in the first place! You cannot call yourself an intersectional feminist if you reject that this intersection of misogyny and racism exists and causes racialized trans people, especially racialized transfeminine people, to be diacriminated against worse than white trans people.

[prollyrpolly]

There’s a reason I use CAMAB/CAFAB (coercively assigned gender at birth) instead of AMAB/AFAB, and even then rarely (and with ‘individuals’ in front of the acronym). Cause like, a lot of people, even in the queer community, just take bioessentialism and throw a progressive topping on it that’s like “gender isn’t real but your sex is” and then use AMAB/AFAB for bioessentialist talking points. And even then when someone says AMAB they typically just mean transfems, they do mean all individuals CAFAB when they say AFAB though (something something regendering transmascs into the female sexgender class and degendering transfems into the third sexgender class). Just like gender, sex isn’t real either, and a saying I really like using to explain this is that “the stars are real but the constellations aren’t.” No one trying to define male/female can do it without excluding people that they would consider male or female, and the definition they’re thinking of, the one that everyone uses to try and bioessentially distinguish male/female is whatever sex your doctor decided you were when they looked at your genitals at birth, which is clearly bullshit so no one tries to define sex that way, and since they can’t define it any other way it shows that sex is just bullshit outright and that it’s a ‘constellation’ that doesn’t have anything tangible to do with reality and is just something created by humanity to have meaning. The stars are real but the constellations aren’t; sex isn’t real. So therefore it’s important to use CAMAB/CAFAB rather than AMAB/AFAB, because sex is a fake thing coercively applied onto you by society.

[recoveredcombatsister]

its fucked how much clarification you have to do as a transfem if youre writing a post criticizing tboys but want to stay on their good side. youve got girls bending backwards and doubling the length of their posts covering all their angles so that whiney men wont bruise their fragile egos reading it and throw a tantrum with the ultimate goal of socially murdering her. and these dipshits still dont think they have privilege for being men

[catgirldogthing]

The backlash to the use of TMA/TME is very annoying to me. It usually comes in one of two forms.

Often some TME will freak out over the fact that they were mistaken as a transfem and thus discriminated against. They will use this as evidence that these terms are exclusionary because they were affected by transmisogyny while being TME. While I agree broadly that maybe instead of transmisogyny affected we should say transmisogyny targeted, I also don't care that much. These complaints are usually used as a means to tone police or shutdown transfems who are simply using the common terminology to describe their oppression. By pointing out problems in phrasing or choice of terminology they trivialize or ignore the actual bigotry that's being discussed.

More common though are people saying that TME/TMA "recreate the gender/sex binary". This is untrue for a number of reasons, not least because TME include both cis men and women, but primarily because these terms exist to be inclusionary of people who exist outside of the gender/sex binary. There are plenty of agender, bigender, or otherwise nonbinary people who are direct targets of transmisogyny. In addition there are many intersex people who might not even refer to themselves as transfem or nonbinary also experience transmisogyny. The entire point of the TMA/TME is so that we can move away from referring to trans women exclusively as the targets of transmisogyny, because they aren't. TMA/TME are not prescriptive terms, they are descriptive, and in fact exist outside of the gender/sex binary precisely because that is what is necessary to describe the targets of transmisogyny. However, I can also sort of understand where people are coming from. To someone first encountering these terms it can feel like TMA could just be replaced with amab trans, and TME could just be replaced with afab trans + cis people. Of course, this isn't true and the reason why is again because TMA/TME are descriptive terms. Any use of agab is necessarily prescriptive, it is takes a largely meaningless characteristic of someone's life (agab) and prescribes unrelated traits based on that characteristic. When making a statement about all or most amabs or afabs, you are presupposing some universal experience inherent to those with a given agab. This is just gender essentialism. Conversely, TMA/TME are direct descriptions of one's relationship to transmisogyny. Any statement connecting the two would necessarily be essentialist because it would be making a statement about the way all people of a given agab are. The sex/gender binary is bad not because it separates people into distinct groups but rather because it essentializes and oppresses people based on socially constructed and broadly meaningless traits forced on them from birth. TMA/TME could not be more different.

[gaynessopimizationalgorithm]

"no i dont hate trans women, they're just all misogynistic men, im a good person"

[vi-visected]

i told my dad the joke “dad jokes are just mom jokes that a man repeated louder” and he thought it was hilarious. he turned to my mother, intending to relay the joke to her, and a bare second after he opened his mouth i watched it dawn on his face that he was about to become the subject of the joke. when i tell you that man was slackjawed as he turned back to me, like he had an entire life altering realization in the span of about 20 seconds.

[pleasehelpme11111111111]

just got out of the mental hospital and the thing that was reaffirmed for me from being in there as a TME person is that there is that transmisogyny is very real but TME people barely experience any transphobia at all.

Just to preempt the devil's advocates here, I'm a non-binary person who has been on low-dose T for 9 years on the 24th of this month. Yes, I've had top surgery and my legal name and gender marker have been changed and that may make you think "well you're so far along that of course you pass so of course you didn't experience transphobia!" But no, I do look visibly transgender.

I was misgendering constantly because I do not correct people that seem cishet when they misgender me due to experiences with exorsexism/enbyphobia and I am almost a decade into purposefully transitioning to be androgynous. It is not possible to "pass" as a non-binary person but it is possible for cis people to not know what to think of you. About half the patients thought I was a man and the other half thought I was a woman. Cisgender people don't ASK, just assume.

All of that out of the way, I was actually ACCOMMODATED when I was checked in. It was a co-ed unit and I was given my own room instead of asked to share with another patient to "protect my privacy" and because I was non-binary. I was given my hormones every day except the first two days I was in the hospital.

The worst of the transphobia I experienced directly was from another patient and that was actually more specifically exorsexism and misdirected transmisogyny. I said "why?" when asked "are you a boy or a girl?" and the person then assumed I must be transfem and had a reaction to that. I don't believe in correcting transmisogynists who assume I am transfem as I believe it reinforces in their minds the belief that transfems are "lesser" and I am still the same lack-of-gender as any other agender person, just with some different experiences than transfem agender people.

Now for the comparison. My sister was hospitalized about 2 years earlier and had been on E, prog, and spiro for about 2+ years at that point was consistently, throughout the entire stay, denied access to her hormones. She was placed in the men's ward of a non-co-ed unit. She was constantly misgendered and she was also conveniently let out of the hospital the day she told the nurses she was going to detransition. She was STILL in active psychosis at that point and was very much a danger to herself and others. Their entire goal seemed to just be breaking the "delusion" that she is a woman.

Back to devil's advocate, you could say it was a difference between how long we'd been transitioned, my surgery, my name/marker being changed, and various other factors... but NONE of that justifies what happened to her. They very easily could have given her her hormones, given her her own private room, and transferred her to a hospital with a co-ed unit the same way they did to me. You don't suddenly earn respect after you've been through surgery and a legal process.

While I was not in active psychosis, they STILL diagnosed me with unspecified psychosis because I made the mistake of telling them I had hypnagogic hallucinations. Despite this, I was released without ever telling them I was going to de-transition. Being diagnosed with psychosis was not transphobia, it was general ineptitude of our mental health system.

So... what about how they were different hospitals? We were at different hospitals, after all.

There WAS another non-binary person(she/they) at the hospital I was at. She was transfem, younger than me by about a decade, but still transitioning. They were CONSISTENTLY deadnamed and misgendered by staff. At one point someone apologized to a staff member for misgendering her, because it rightfully upset them, and the staff member said, under his breath, that "[she's] in here for a reason"

So then.... why was I respected and they weren't?

[dakigivemethestrength]

Non-passing trans men out here like white people going "Just got a tan, and a little kid gave me a weird look. So I know exactly how racism feels now. Yeah now I'm racialized. Race is all about social perception."

Except somebody thought they were a trans woman and looked at them funny in the woman's bathroom, so now they think they're TMA and understand transfeminism better than actual trans women who they refuse to listen to and constantly talk over.

[doll-failure]

being a trans woman of color is incredible because "progressive" tme people will invoke my life and experiences to talk down to my white sisters as if they're uplifting me but when i try to speak with my own voice they pretend i dont exist

[weapon-of-mass-feminization]

Just saw transfem gender dysphoria be called "autoandrophobia" are we so fucking fr

[mousidy]

was trying to remember whether I'd spent much time around openly misogynistic boys as a kid, and it occurred to me that a solid 90% of my friends growing up who didn't already know they were girls figured it out eventually. it's starting to make sense that I never bore witness to anything resembling "locker room talk" lmao

[justsixerror]

Yes, TME/TMA is technically "A Binary" in the literal meaning of the word, but criticizing it for being the new "AGAB" seems somewhat misguided. Yes, everyone is affected by misogyny in one way or another, and yes that Can involve men, regardless whether trans or cis (see: homophobia often being closely intertwined with misogyny targeted at men; "boys don't cry"; etc.), but misogyny itself is inherently a tool of patriarchy, the purpose of which is to systemically (notice this.) upkeep the sex/gender/class binary of man versus woman. Men (regardless of other marginalized identities) tend to be assumed "default" under patriarchy, which puts them in a position of (relative and often conditional) privilege over women in similar groups of marginalization.

Arguing that no one is "truly exempt" from any sort of oppression generally completely misses the point and more often than not leads into "nothing means anything" territory which is incredibly unproductive.

Trans men (and other people who are not the intended targets of transmisogyny) can sometimes be oppressed by it, yes, but there isn't a Systemic And Structural Form Of Transmisogyny which specifically always targets them. Yes, individual TME people can be badly impacted by it because of being mistaken for someone who is transfeminine. But there are only some cases of that happening, while EVERY transfeminine person is affected by it due to being transfeminine.