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Vincent/Vince/V

He/xe/it

Bi transhet

Genderqueer trans man

Brainweird mentally fucked schizo

Schizospiritual esoteric pagan pantheist

Catkin

On and off homeless for 2 years

Casual drug user

Anarchopunk

No DNI. I will block you for any reason I feel like, this is my house. I've blocked people for having the same name as me. I've blocked people because they followed me while I was in a bad mood.

Art in header is mine

#actually homeless #homeless #addiction #tw drugs #actually schizotypal #schizospec #schizophrenia #my post

jadedresearcher

ngl this is the funniest procedural thing ive made in a while i saw https://genders.wtf/gauntlet/ and realized that the only way it could be better is if it went forever

kinda curious to see what ppl get

$hyperoperationfractallisation blog's avatar$

hyperoperationfractallisation

Can I have a version that doesn’t play music

jadedresearcher

@hyperoperationfractallisation present for you

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hyperoperationfractallisation

Yayyy!

jadedresearcher

Exciting update: by adding a mute button I accidentally broke gender. It’s fixed now. Unless its currently a day that reminds me of the day a youtuber discovered the bug for me on accident and thought it was hilarious that you could never answer enough questions. The world is so beautiful.

psychephrenic

Is this why I've gotten to 1500 answers and not able to get a result??

#so so sad #I put so much time into this

jadedresearcher

ngl this is the funniest procedural thing ive made in a while i saw https://genders.wtf/gauntlet/ and realized that the only way it could be better is if it went forever

kinda curious to see what ppl get

psychephrenic

Guess I have to keep going????

jadedresearcher

ngl this is the funniest procedural thing ive made in a while i saw https://genders.wtf/gauntlet/ and realized that the only way it could be better is if it went forever

kinda curious to see what ppl get

#I love this so much #will reblog with my answer when I get bored of answering the questions #I'm at 202 so far

redstonedust

some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

rongzhi

Trust

English added by me :)

#laugh rule

omnipotentnothing

I have a headache because I'm a bad person

telumendils

#laugh rule

thememedaddy

amazoogle

the enemy drank water today. did you?

ewoly5

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win

kosmogrl

sorry I can’t hang out tonight. yeah I’m busy freaking out over things that might not even happen. yeah it’s gonna take a while

genderkoolaid

it really should be transfeminism 101 that the concept of victimhood under patriarchy being tied to some inherent state of being, rather than one's actual lived experiences with oppression and violence, is unhelpful and inaccurate, leads to the alienation of trans and intersex people, and is itself grounded in patriarchal ideas about gender as an inherent natural trait.

so why isn't it?

tildesee

I suspect that in part is because the most common and quickly learned trans women's self defense is, to combat relentless undermining of trans women's "qualifications" as women, to insist to the point of thoughtless mantra "every trans woman is and has always been a woman from the moment she was born", "at no point in life ever has a trans woman experienced male socialization or male privilege", and similar statements, to the point that it actually makes it difficult as a trans woman to talk about the fact that, for example, I went from being able to hand out 3 resumes in my industry and get 4-5 job offers out of it, to handing out 30+ resumes before I could even get a call back for an interview.

The core of that self defense is rooted in creating the narrative of an inherent, timeless, and extrasocial gendered experience. It's a self defense strategy that has had an incredible amount of utility, as much as I dislike it and try not to utilize it myself. It also has the knock on effect that if trans women's experience is inherent, timeless, and extrasocial, the only way that works in the protective way it's meant to is if everyone's gendered experience is inherent, timeless, and extrasocial. This is also why you'll get a surprising amount of trans women arguing against the idea that binary gender (and gender as a whole, sex too) is a social construct.

If trans women's experience of womanhood is inherent and eternal, so too must trans men's experience of manhood; for trans women to have never experienced manhood or make privilege or male socialization, the same must be true of all women, and the opposite true for all men, trans inclusive. Because internalized oppositional sexism.

This is a significant part of why I go pretty hard on the "it doesn't matter if we were born this way or we choose our gender or orientation, we deserve the same respect either way". But that's kinda getting down a garden path.

Anyway. Transfeminism has such difficulty grappling with transandrophobia and trans men's experiences of womanhood as concepts because that mantric self defense precept is so powerful and so high utility, and relies on gender and this experience of oppression as being inherent.

Genus delendum est ut genus liberetur

silyaspider

I agree, I think it's a "we backed ourselves into a rhetorical corner" thing. Interpreting social dynamics in reference to a unitary self with an eternal fixed gender is useful against some transphobic arguments, it's just... wildly incorrect and unhelpful outside of that narrow use case.

Personally, I guess as I gradually become comfortable with the idea that the unitary self is a myth, I'm at least plural-ish, and my past gender identity is best described not as "woman" but as "confused"... the idea of retconning myself into "always woman" as part of some myth of immutability is nonsense.

My understanding of my gender can and does change, can be and is self-contradictory, and all the transphobic bullshit is still bullshit. Conversion therapy, for instance, is bad because it's cruel, not because my gender is incapable of change over time.