âDonât use Baeddelâ
When you talk about Baeddelism (in terms of discussing anti-trans masculinity) or if you refer to anyone as a Baeddel thatâs deemed transmisogynistic. Why is that? âBecause Baeddelism died in 2015!!! Youâre just calling any trans woman you donât like a Baeddel and thatâs transmisogynistic!â And that would be the case of the first part were true. What is going on with this gaslighting of trans men that baeddelism isnât worthy of discussion anymore, just forget about it? An easy search for the term on twitter and you can see how Baeddelism is still perpetuated despite âdyingâ in 2015. The term is often used to imply when someone is disliking trans men or transmasculine people at the moment and itâs often used in peopleâs usernames.
So am I supposed to respond to that? Are we supposed to just let it go? Do you think if there were a specific online club of trans men who just harrassed and said dumb shit about trans women for years and then trans men these days would just casually put the name of that club as their username for cute funsies? Or threaten trans women that theyâre going to become apart of that club if they say something they donât like? Would that not be transmisogyny?? They taunt us by referring themselves as baeddels and then get mad when we talk about them. In what world world the reverse be cool to these people???
The fact that they may or may not be âactualâ baeddels doesnt matter. The point is to hurt us and they can act oblivious all the want. And despite all that, we canât talk about Baeddelism. If it were the reverse. You think they would just let that go like they want with Baeddelism?
I think the discussion of it highlights such an embarrassing blatant anti-transmasculine time in online spaces that acknowledging it would mean acknowledging anti-transmasculinity to people who donât want believe in it and donât want others to believe in it as well. And often people still agree with baeddelism and want to normalize it again by putting it in their usernames and using it to signal theyâre dislike of transmascs
If there was a club of evil transmascs who had a specific name like the Baeddels did we wouldnât hear the end of it, but since it was the opposite, weâre to supposed to forget all about it, even if itâs happening right before our eyes.
(Notes: of course misusing the term Baeddel can be transmisogynistic)













