RaskDishwasher

The name’s Henry. 24yo trans masc, he/him. I’m into sci-fi and fantasy novels and feminist and trans theory. I am unironically into podcasts that are just people yapping about either current events or things they love. Please recommend me those!

[raskdishwasher]

The weather where I’m at has been like this.

[perpetual-blogging-deactivated2]

this will get to the right people

[lesboydefender]

if you see a trans man or transmasculine person describing their body as female in order to communicate specific experiences (ie denial of reproductive healthcare, medical conditions like PCOS or endometriosis, etc) and your FIRST thought is to accuse them of being a terf or “clinging onto their womanhood” maybe ask yourself why you still believe that “female” and “woman” mean the same thing because i thought we as a community had long ago accepted that sex ≠ gender

[raskdishwasher]

It occurred to me that St. John the Baptist is the perfect patron for my summer job(camp lifeguard), as he is known for standing in a natural body of water while loudly haranguing people to get their act together.

[depsidase]

[raskdishwasher]

better to learn late then never

[waterlilyworld]

i’m gonna be really blunt here, the trans community’s refusal to reckon with the fact that the social category of the female sex is an intersection of oppression, not just womanhood, not just being trans, but being a person born with or coercively assigned a vulva, is actively inhibiting the liberation of transgender and/or transsexual men.

we are constantly told that we experience no intersection of oppression as trans men and that that creates privilege compared to trans people who do have intersections related to their gender identities, as if being a person born with or coercively assigned a vulva and being trans is not an intersection. but we can’t talk about it, lest we get sullied by our proximity to trans exclusive radical feminist theory. it’s the elephant in the room and it’s harming transfeminism, trans liberation, and trans men’s safety and well being.

yet what puzzles me is how many trans women and nonbinary trans people i’ve seen readily associate themselves with radical feminism. is that not also proximity to trans exclusionary radical feminism? or is it just the concept of a person born with or coercively assigned a vulva experiencing a unique oppression that’s the issue? why would that be? i mean seriously everyone was so quick to be willing to just give up on analyzing that axis of oppression and hand it off to terfs, like by them getting their hands in the concept of sex discrimination it’s now permanently contaminated.

it was an easy thing for people to concede ground on, because the only people hurt by it are trans men and transmasculine people who are unwilling to identify with womanhood. and if there is anything i have learned over the years from other trans people its that it is particularly easy to view us as disposable.

talking about the oppression of the social category of the female sex is not an either or, it does not automatically imply that trans women are not oppressed at the intersection of being women and being trans, it is a yes and.

i don’t see any way out of this for us if we don’t start taking up space and talking about our bodies and the rights that effect them. i don’t think there is anywhere to go otherwise, i really don’t.

[transmascfeminism]

"why would you use the word 'female' when you can say 'AFAB'?" good question. Here's why:

the event of me being "assigned" the female gender (which in my case amounted to simply looking at my genitals through an ultrasound image, and then again at birth, then marking F on a piece of paper), though a discrete and limited historical event that happened in the past then ended, DID continue to influence my life massively henceforth. it permeated every aspect of my life from the first breath I drew as a baby, and it still has an enormous impact on my day to day life right now even as I am pursuing medical treatments to change my secondary sex characteristics and the sexed "impression" of my physical appearance.

now I do not mind using the word "AFAB" to describe this aspect of my experience, one that reaches every aspect of my life and has impacted all aspects of my personhood, and is shared in a way that is by no means identical but very much similar and comparable by around half of the entire human population of Earth. however, I DO need to be able to talk about it, in black and white, no uncertain terms, in order to explain a huge amount of events in my life and of characteristics and behaviors I now possess (and am victimized for). And, as seen in the screenshot above, saying "AFAB" presents a built-in escape hatch for bad faith actors who are not interested in correcting the record or protecting intersex rights or what have you, but merely want to shut down conversations on this type of oppression - whether due to fear of being targeted for (being perceived as) not having experienced it, or resentment towards those who had it and speak on it, or whatever other reason, I honestly don't know and don't particularly care.

[homunculus-argument]

Imagine that one day as you're walking on a hot sunny path, your hat jumps off your head and lands into a muddy ditch. And you look at your muddy hat and ask it: "What did you do that for?"

"I don't want to be a burden anymore", your hat answers. "You are always carrying me around, and I can't carry you. That's not fair."

"I don't mind carrying you, little idiot", you tell your hat, "you hardly weight anything at all, and you shelter me from the sun."

"But that's different", your hat protests. "I don't mind the sun scorching on me. That happens anyway. It's literally no trouble for me to shade you too."

"Just the same it's no trouble for me to carry you. But now, because you wanted to stop inconveniencing and bothering me, I am now hatless and you are in the dirt."

[jantesika]

hello Aesop; how's the underworld been?

[homunculus-argument]

Every day I wake up and Hades kicks me in the nuts.

[batshit-auspol]

Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen

[batshit-auspol]

Regularly forget we posted this and then are hit like a brick with notifications like this one

[raskdishwasher]

Bee semen comes in a little glass vial

[chillyfeetsteak]

there should be more options than suffering via employment and suffering via unemployment

[raskdishwasher]

Born into generational wealth

[raskdishwasher]

Small town Montana Episcopal church this morning was CRAZY! first of all a lady fainted. Natural phenomena, hot day, not the spirit(I think). She’s fine. After that the priest pulled a quarter out of a kids ear right in the middle of the service. Is that of God?? The cherry on top was when the priest cracked a joke about the heat wave being so bad people had to be evacuating Trump’s 4th of July fair ‘by the tens’.

[raskdishwasher]

Thinking about all the people walking around with all their fingers today.

[raskdishwasher]

New Discourse idea: if you’ve got the same Meyers Briggs personality type as your partner it counts as incest.

[dogpuppy]

[raskdishwasher]

We all end up in the same place unless you die uh… fast enough

[fullmoonguidance]

let the bodies hit the floor is such a scary song. usually bodies hitting the floor isn’t a good thing but this guy wants it to happen anyway.

[fullmoonguidance]

and yet he insists there’s nothing wrong with him. haunting

[raskdishwasher]

Unreliable narrator

[garlicbreadmustdie]

idk who actually cares but my blog is dr pepper down to the hex code 🥹🥹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[raskdishwasher]

Beautiful

[despazito]

[raskdishwasher]

Could he help you?

[raskdishwasher]

The back half of Too Like the Lightning is like

Random character: once J. E. D. D. Mason sneezed at me, and ever since I’ve been completely unable to think about the number that comes after five and before seven.

Carlyle, hyperventilating: that’s against the rules! They can’t do that!!

Mycroft, narratorishly: Gentle Reader, I ate people :-(