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absolutely nuts to reblog something about ensemble stars' racism and condemning it with a racist insensitive joke about the imperialist vietnam war? while you're being critical of enstars you should try being more critical of yourself too!

failshimi

unsure how much hate i managed to put in this stupid image but anyway hopefully it will be more effective in catching people's attention instead of just text. the amount of people on tumblr who ignore all this and/or continue actively playing the game always puzzled me. a recent example — how many people realized that the masquerade knights event was (extremely effective) damage control for a 4katsuki song that came out at a relatively same time? apparently not a lot considering that the tag was full of knights mv screenshots. and there's even more older instances of things like that happening

#falling out of love with enst is like grabbing the last chopper out of vietnam

noblackwomannocry

isupportforcefem and the white trans problem, or: bringing up black people to look less like a rape culture advocate

note: before you say anything know that this post was written by a black woman who is not going to take your hit dog hollering seriously

one thing myself and others have noticed from isupportforcefem is a bizarre inclination to shoving "and black people" where it isn't at all required. issues that directly affect transfems have an "and black people" tacked on to make the reader consider that not only is what being discussed transmisogynistic, but potentially racist, and wouldn't that just be terrible? The constant juxtaposition comes across as though isff believes accusations of transmisogyny to not be serious enough, whereas beefing such discrimination up with potential racism makes others more liable to consider it "real".

take these two posts:

these posts are based on a false premise: the idea that, in tandem with trans people being constantly falsely accused of rape, black people are also constantly falsely accused of rape.

I do not know any people, black or nonblack, cis or trans, who have been falsely accused of rape. the idea that false rape accusations are 1. a source of discrimination that these specific groups face and 2. a commonality between them requires you to believe that

false rape accusations are commonly made, and

for some reason trans people and black people are constantly accused of this

this requires you to align yourself with the misogynistic belief that false accusations of rape are constantly weaponised against the accused. the premise requires you to believe that there are squawking harpies constantly accusing innocents of rape, and that they must not be believed. pokeballvictimized's entire blog for the last few days has been trying to get you to believe that "actually who gets to determine what rape is?" is a line of logic a true transfeminist would follow and not logic imported straight from seething incels on 4chan.

the related "and black people" thing here is white transfems knowing a basic concept - that, in countries where we are minorities, black people are incarcerated at disproportionate rates; that we are more likely to be falsely accused of crimes; and that racially-based accusations of sexual assault and rape have, in cases, been weaponised against black men - and mixing these into a finely blended soup to run away with it. black people as a whole are similar to transfems because we are constantly accused of rape. black transfems are constantly accused of rape. where did they get that? don't worry about it, just know it's happening. the woman who confessed to choking a woman unconscious in a parking lot and complained about how mean people are being for bringing up that she choked a woman unconscious in a parking lot (highly recommend searching "anonsee" on bluesky to see what people have said about storyweavingspider, serial boundary violator during sex who tries to frame these assaults as just being part of kink!) is in support of it, and she's our token black woman, so it's all good. 👍

if you see yourself as someone who cares about women, who cares about victims of sexual violence, and who does not ally themselves with those who perpetrate sexual violence, you must see these posts for what they are: people who assume that everyone else is constantly being "falsely" accused of sexual harassment dragging black people into it because they need to look better. the idea of ubiquitous false allegations of rape and sexual assault is something coined by misogynistic men. no useful transfeminist analysis can operate under the assumption that waves of innocents are being falsely accused of rape while not addressing what this says: that malintentioned vile creatures are doing the accusing, that they are lying, that whatever assault or rape they report is an attempt to have someone unpersoned and socially murdered. you must also see it as an inherently racist act to bring up black people solely to go "a-and it's not just me, black transfems i mean uh people get this too!"

if you are surrounded by people constantly accused of rape it would do you good to assess exactly what sort of company you are keeping. "My friends are constantly accused of rape" is a line only people like Bret from the frat house, iignoremissingstairs86 from IRC and John Politics the senator should be capable of saying, because these are the types of people who would keep accused rapists in their company. false accusations of sexual violence form a very small fraction of total accusations, and these false accusations are usually vague accusations with no named perpetrator. the idea that a specific group of people are constantly targeted by false accusations of sexual violence flies in the face of what we know to be fact about sexual violence reporting and statistics.

again, consider: what benefit do these people derive from going "and black people" when talking about issues very specific to them and their online circles of people who seemingly constantly engage in behaviour worthy of being accused of sexual violence? they want you to connect the struggle that black people have in proving our innocence when accused of crimes with their struggle: being ostracised from communities for behaviour ranging from sexual harassment to outright sexual assault. they want you to equivocate these struggles because they earnestly believe that systemic discrimination against black people is equivalent to their former friendcord's self-policing.

this is something that only someone racist is capable of. make no mistake about it. there is nothing innocent about bringing up black people in an exaggerated defense against "false" accusations of sexual violence. they want you to feel guilty because you, the reader, know that systems are stacked against black people, and they want you to feel that their "struggle" - being constantly accused of sexual assault, something they attempt to paint as normal for trans people - is equivalent. do not believe them. it is transphobic and racist rhetoric and these people should be shamed.

I will conclude this with another post from isupportforcefem shoving black people into unnecessary hyperonline transfem discourse:

note that again black people are brought up where we are irrelevant. the gun that kills transfems And Black People. because us black people are constantly hurting others, you see, just as transfems are constantly hurting others - but don't worry, we aren't worth ostracising, even if we do constantly hurt people. you have to include us for our mistakes. said mistakes may range from being racist to being a rapist. but please forgive us. social ostracisation is on par with murder after all.

note the final post that would make Brock Turner proud: "accountability is a lie made to hurt underprivileged members." the concept of recognising the missing stair is, to people like isff, a form of oppression in itself: to warn people about someone's past behaviour is as good as pulling the trigger on them yourself. accountability of any form, including accountability as minor as no longer being allowed to participate in a community with someone you have harmed, is a falsehood - because by doing this to protect others you are hurting the feelings of someone who has done wrong, and transfems And Black People Btw who are more likely to do wrong somehow will be really hurt :(

autistichalsin

Damn this post was eye-opening. And so true. I don't know a single person in my life who has been falsely accused of rape, but I sure do know a lot of rape survivors falsely accused of being "hysterical" or "oversensitive" or "manipulative" or "trying to ruin a good person's life over a misunderstanding."

False accusations are not a problem on the scale people on this site want us to think it is. I remember when "false accusations" were rightly seen as a misogynistic whataboutism meant to derail talks about rape culture. Now we're doing "but false accusations!!!" Wokely, so it's okay... what the fuck ever. And the racism of trying to use black people as a human shield against this "problem" is just... vile. (Obviously this is different from people trying to, say, classify drag shows near children or teaching them about Pride as pedophilia; that actually IS pedojacketing. But even then, note that the accusation isn't coming from any of the children who would be seeing a drag performer, but instead from the government twisting the language to begin with... so still it's not an example of a lying, false victim making accusations.)

Plus it doesn't escape my notice that usually, the people getting accused of "predatorjacketing" the trans people in these instances are themselves queer; it's blatantly putting trans victims below trans predators on the hierarchy. If it really was about protecting trans people, there would be a desire to remove predators from the community before they could hurt more people. Not to protect the predators from the consequences of THEIR OWN ACTIONS. It was always about protecting predators over the victims, even when those victims are trans, all along.

Oh I am so mad. I can't believe I let people on this site convince me to start using such an inherently anti-survivor sentiment in the name of "protecting" marginalized people. It's been feminism 101 for DECADES that "false accusations" are a wildly exaggerated phenomenon and the language around it exists solely to delegitimize rape victims. But they put a leftist coat of paint on it, intertwined it with racial issues and with the government passing laws with language intended to target queer people, and had me buying it, hook line and sinker when it was just repackaged rape apologism all along. They fucking exploited my desire not to harm people through systemic violence. Oh I am so fucking maddddd

autistichalsin

Sorry to reblog-spam, and especially with a novella of a reply, but I keep thinking about this.

One thing I noticed too is that the fear is always "what if you're falsely accusing a trans woman of being a predator? What then? What if you singlehandedly get trans women killed? Is that what you want?"

But there's never fear the other way. "What if we're ignoring a victim of sexual harassment, abuse, rape, or other sexual violence? What if we're perpetrating rape culture by silencing victims? What if we create an environment where missing stairs operate with impunity? What if our collective indifference to sexual assault causes a victim to commit suicide?"

There is already a society-wide presumption that false accusations do more harm than actual sexual violence, and that predators are more worthy of protection than people they victimize. There's already an implicit, built-in framework that the victims are the ones at fault. They should have fought harder, not dressed that way, not been into kink, not refused to do kink, not been impressionable young people... The victims have to act carefully so as not to cause "undue" harm to the one who hurt them. The victims are the ones expected to act responsibly. Their pain is secondary to the hypothetical pain making an accusation could cause. Even though false accusations just do not actually lead to the kind of life-ruining people say it does. People accused of rape, DV, harassment, and other crimes rarely have any problem becoming politicians, musicians, athletes, priests, teachers, and other respected figures after this comes to light.

Notice that all the "false" allegations made against high-profile trans women on this site have never harmed them beyond their blog getting deleted for de facto violations of the site's terms of service (IE death threats), which is inevitably followed by them returning within a week as banned-account-2 and subsequently being left alone. That's what the racist queer people on this site call "lynching." For all they insist, MRA-style, that a false accusation will LITERALLY RUIN LIVES, it has never happened within the Tumblr queer community. In fact, most of the ones who have "had their lives ruined" have gained more support, more followers, and more influence in the community after...... kinda like in real life.

On the other hand, I've seen victims of their behavior harassed into attempting and possibly committing suicide, including MINORS. I've seen victims doxxed, threatened with rape, stalked, isolated from their own communities while their abuser is welcomed with open arms... you name it.

Once again: it's victims of sexual violence who are at risk of having their lives ruined, not "victims of false accusations," and yet everyone acts as though the latter are the ones in need of protection. Because vengeful, lying little shrews are everywhere, just waiting to ruin lives with malicious false accusations. And if you happen to get wrongly lumped in as a false accuser, oh well, suck it up buttercup, no one cares about something so insignificant as sexual harassment. You should be lucky you were only sexually harassed instead of being falsely accused of sexual harassment. Imagine how much worse it would have been for you!

It's parasitizing your empathy, that's what it is. It's taking your natural desire to good and help marginalized people, and shifting it from the people who do deserve it (people who have been harmed by bad actors in the community [and note that by far, most victims of bad actors in the queer community are themselves queer, so this behavior of denying victims recourse is queerphobic and dangerous to the queer community!]) towards predators who can speak well, have large followings, and convinced people that accusing any trans woman of sexual misconduct in any circumstances makes you a JK Rowling-level TERF.

And again, the race issue here, the inherent antiblackness of framing this as something that constantly happens to black people as a way of shielding themselves- that's another form of parasitizing. It's not "black people are disproportionately accused and convicted of crimes, and most wrongfully convicted death row convicts are black too- we need to help those folks," it's "black people and trans people are constantly falsely accused of rape, just, all the time, we need to help trans people, and a few of the black trans people who happen to agree with us on all these issues." It's basic feminism that false accusations are an anti-feminist, anti-victim dogwhistle; by trying to associate black folks with it, on a site where A HUGE NUMBER of black people have already been run off due to antiblackness... it muddies the waters ON PURPOSE. It makes it seem like to be a proper ally to the trans community and the black community, you HAVE to buy into the misogynistic canard that false accusations happen OFTEN. It repackages misogyny in a Woke, rainbow-colored box. The fucking nerve to use black folks that way!!

If the Anonsee debacle had happened today, her victims would absolutely have been labeled transmisogynists and run off the site. Her victims would have been labeled dangerous, lying, transmisogynistic predatorjacketers not to be trusted in the community.

It's becoming increasingly clear that too much of the queer community on this site learned NOTHING from the MeToo movement. Actually, worse than learning nothing at all, what they "learned" is that "believe victims" is some kind of dangerous sentiment made solely to oppress queer people. They view sexual harassment or assault as a minor inconvenience that pales in comparison to the trauma of being accused of sexual harassment or assault.

That's really, really sad. Basic feminist principles, like "false accusations are not nearly as big a problem as rape culture itself" have been entirely discarded.

False accusations are not a real issue. Never have been and never will be. But silencing victims under the guise of preventing false accusations is VERY real.

Ending by echoing the OP, here: How many people do you guys know who have been wrongfully accused of rape, DV, sexual harassment, or other sexual violence? And how many people do you guys know who have been victims of rape, DV, sexual harassment, or other sexual violence, but were dismissed as "wrongful accusers?"

My tally: 0 falsely accused, dozens of victims not believed or written off as liars.

paradoxkin

this post treats "false rape accusations" as either a widespread misogynistic myth or something that doesn't meaningfully exist, but that flattens real distinctions between false reports, unproven allegations, and informal accusation narratives that circulate socially, but those aren't all the same thing.

It briefly acknowledges racialized accusations historically, but the way they're framed places them as distant, when the mechanism (accusation functioning as permission for exclusion, violence, or credibility denial) isn't confined to history. It still appears in modern transphobic discourse, where trans women are routinely framed as predators.

the claim that false rape accusations are "not a real issue" completely erases how accusations have functioned differently across contexts. in Jim Crow America, which ended only about 60 years ago, accusation alone (whether it was true, false, or unprovable) was repeatedly enough to trigger lethal racial violence. 14-year-old Emmett Till is part of a documented pattern where sexual threat narratives were used as permission structures for terror. That pattern is not abstract; it shows how accusation can become a weapon inside unequal systems.

Look at The Scottsboro Boys. Or the Groveland Four. Or this report from 2017 titled Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, which found that a Black person incarcerated for sexual assault is three-and-a-half times more likely to be innocent than a white person convicted of the same crime.

And in the present, you can search the phrase "trans rapist" on almost any platform and you will find the same mechanism operating again: accusation as identity-level framing rather than case-specific act.

"I've never met anyone falsely accused" doesn't prove much about whether it happens. they don't have to be common to be real.

There's also a tendency in this discourse to treat accusations as either fully credible or totally made up, when in practice they can be used strategically in interpersonal conflict. DARVO is a well-documented pattern for a reason: denial and reversal of victim/offender can include fabricated or exaggerated counter-claims. People are absolutely capable of making things up in order to punish, isolate, or escalate harm.

I have personally been falsely accused of predation by my rapist. My rapist went on to participate in an online harassment campaign targeting me, and continued to stalk me for years. Later it was admitted the accusations were fabricated as a direct attempt to harm and invalidate me. That doesn't make me treat all allegations as false, it just makes it impossible for me to accept the idea that this category of harm "doesn't exist."

the real issue isn't choosing between believing survivors or believing in an epidemic of false accusations, but recognizing that accusation itself is a tool that can be used honestly, mistakenly, or strategically, and that different systems of power determine who is believed, who is punished, and how quickly things escalate.

noblackwomannocry

please note the context in which I am discussing this. the idea that false rape accusations are ubiquitous and constantly weaponised against an entire demographic by another is in fact an incredibly misogynistic myth. if white people claim that this ubiquity also applies to And Black People then it also becomes racist. nowhere have I said these accusations do not exist, or that they have not been weaponised in this way. what I am abjectly refusing to acknowledge is attempts to compare racist accusations that have resulted in the deaths of real black people with the "every single one of us has been accused we all have a story we all have some angry bitch accusing us. And black people btw" nonsense.

if you are comparing the mechanism where racists used allegations of assault to have black people lynched to a vague "but trans women are being framed as predators!" you are proving my point for me. comparing violent white mobs using any accusation of wrongdoing to justify their physical violence against black people to, like you said, "false reports, unproven allegations, and informal accusation narratives" that are framed as a near-universal part of the transfem experience, the thing I am complaining about, reeks of white people once again trying to use examples of violence against black people as proof they are In Danger Guys It's Really Serious They'll Kill Me Any Minute (just like Black People).

even the examples you yourself have brought up here from Jim Crow era America are specifically notable for being cases where these false accusations ended in lives tragically taken by those who hated them. and yet even in a society framed to allow these accusations the greatest amount of power, these accusations were still not treated as ubiquitous nor discussed as such. even with those statistics you have shared about modern false accusation rates for black men we still do not treat these accusations as ubiquitous and affecting swathes of black people. it is especially interesting to bring up said divide when we know most rapes and sexual assaults are intraracial, i.e. said men are likely jailed due to false accusations from a woman of the same race as them.

if you thought that "I have never met anyone falsely accused" was a note on the existence of these accusations and not a comment on the supposed ubiquity of them (see the "Do you not know how many black people this happens to!!!") then sorry, but that is what this post was about from the start. it is statistically false to pretend that any demographic is being constantly falsely accused of rape by any vague group of nebulous bad faith actors. it is especially pertinent given that as I said above most rapes and sexual assaults are intraracial. the victims of most rapes and sexual assaults by black men are black women. I know many black men and women. I know many black women who have been victims of rape and/or sexual assault. most women know other women who have been victims of rape or sexual assault. I do not know any black people falsely accused of sexual assault. if I am to believe in the ubiquity of these accusations, which is discussed in terms that suggest a frequency of false accusations against trans women and transfems And Black People on par with that of the likelihood of any given woman being victim of assault, my own personal anecdote should be considered hard to believe. those of other black women on here who have said the same thing should also be hard to believe.

even what you've written here about your own experience is about being falsely accuses by your own rapist. DARVO as a tactic abusive people use against their victims is well known. those who have harmed others tend to lie about the victim for personal gain. it's my familiarity with this that contributed to this post. for years the man that groomed me when I was a child had a dedicated section in his page on his group's fandom wiki talking about how my accusations were a lie to entrap him and that I, a third world child, was the real predator harming a white adult American man. I'm very well aware that these accusations can be used in the ways you've described.

I just don't think that any of what you have said 1. serves to convince anyone of a supposed truth of their commonness that fllies in the face of what we know about rape and false accusations, or 2. justifies the sheer racism involved in comparing the institutional violence that black people have faced which has seen groups of black man falsely accused of rape, convicted of rape in unfair trials, and murdered for rape by vigilantes and the state to the supposedly common "false accusations" being discussed by trans women on this website. it is shamefully tone deaf, it is racist, it is being brought up by racist white users who mention black people solely as comparison points for their own benefit. they are not the same thing!

"different systems of power determine who is believed, who is punished, and how quickly things escalate." I know you came into this well-intentioned, and I'm thankful for your contribution. but when these people who keep calling getting their blogs deleted getting lynched & killed and talk about those who have accused them of anything from social faux pas to rape with the elegance and grace of a rapist man calling his victim a hysterical bitch out to get him, it's not a system of power at work that's making women like me read that and think there is more behind it. especially when the "punishment" being described is lack of access to person or friend group or hobby, and the escalation is the speed at which a non-black person will bring up Emmett Till to convince you that you are missing some amount of Nuance that you have already factored in.

oldschool-lolita-archive

Kisara’s coord planning in 2003.

Includes prices and description of items used!

Bisque Doll jsk, IW jsk, Heavy Syrup skirt, Heavy Syrup op (not skirt in no.7), Cornet jsk.

alienlike

maybe don't call black women "boo," white devil ❤️ also didn't delete anything about the workshop, white devil ❤️ it is still there, white devil ❤️ interesting you, white devil, are portraying me as screaming and yourself as calm ❤️ almost like you're a white devil ❤️