RiotCowGrrl

she/her/ella (tma and white) Marxist-Leninist THE USA IS A TERRORIST STATE blogging from stolen Comanche and Tonkawa land

[ballgame]

[mousidy]

looking for transfem writing advice: so i have this character and she's like this 9 foot hairy, hulking creature covered in warts and she's a cannibal who picks up afabs off the ground and then she roasts them over a fire and eats them alive and then she takes their hair and then clumsily fails to weave it into a wig for her bald spot because of her massive hands

i'm a little worried i have some biases while writing transwomen, and i had a friend get offended at my art of her so im just getting a little worried.

average tme's depiction of a trans woman

[eliassimp]

Deltarune fans don't even tell you what happened in weird route they just look at you like this

[jpegwoe]

[jpegwoe]

No but this is actually how true crime mfers sound

[dilfhamlet]

[dilfhamlet]

the literal only funny tags on this entire post

[roman-cup]

Me and my brother and going through delatrune chapter 5, and this is what I get from the start of the chapter

[faeyuh]

how it felt to fight mad mew mew’s body dysmorphia while hatsune miku serenades me in the bg

[beggarysnobberyandfunsies]

If u hate her u will die and go to hell

[kayla-denker]

Drag queens are not TMA.

(Unless the specific Drag Queen is a trans woman or transfeminine nonbinary person. But they're about as common as lightning in a snowstorm because most Drag spaces are deeply transmisogynistic.)

[razerbackbitch]

[itsapmseymour]

Still wrapping my head around the fact the phrase "Hold Your Horses" is a play on the word Stable...

To be stable.

[zzoupz]

[zzoupz]

[actuallyapathy]

obsessed w how none of these are the real origin of the phrase

[swanpaw]

[riverpiracy]

[dorothylarouge]

There is no greater example of the selfish, antisocial, and solipsistic American spirit than the belief, held by millions, that one is entitled to set off loud and violent fireworks days before any relevant holiday or special occasion, even unto midnight

[dorothylarouge]

Triggering the PTSD of military veterans is the only positive use case for fireworks.

[kayla-denker]

I'm just not all that sympathetic when transmascs talk about how hard they have it receiving misplaced hatred from people who mistake them for trans women. Like, I saw a lengthy post earlier today from a guy talking about a "Trans Periods" event that was being held exclusively for transmascs (they did not include transfems in this event) that had to be delayed — not cancelled — because it received a bunch of hate from transmisogynists who assumed it was an event for trans women to talk about our periods. When they cleared it all up with the public that this was a transmasc-exclusive event the harassment died down enough for them to hold it. When that hatred is directed at us, it isn't misplaced. It's striking its intended target. We can't dispel it by telling them "No no no! We're not trans women!" Because we are trans women. So you may notice that we don't get to hold events like that because of it.

So sorry you catch some easily deflected strays every now again from the firing squad that's constantly shooting at us. Go cry me a river about it and then maybe I can sail far away from all of you.

[angel-in-shibari]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

infinite handcuffs hack

[noze2222]

Something that I realised when I first started getting more into transfeminism that really made it click for me is that even when people say "trans women are women", they rarely actually mean that. Even a lot of trans women don't fully believe it when they say it, even if they don't realise.

We're still expected to act like a third gender. Sure you fall more into the group of "woman" than the average born male but a lot of the time there's still an implicit understanding that you are to not push too hard on being a real woman. If you talk about the misogyny you face, the ways you enjoy engaging with womanhood, or start happily taking up space, people will often get weirded out. They'll look at you funny, or they may verbalise disgust. A trans woman might be a woman, but it gets awkward when it becomes apparent that the woman in question genuinely believes it to be true and doesn't just want to be humoured.

I fell into this trap for a long time. I would feel uncomfortable even calling myself a woman sincerely because it felt like I was doing something wrong. I was encroaching. I was pushing my luck with what was acceptable for a pseudo-woman to do. If you are a trans woman who feels like this, like you're a separate category of person than just a plain woman, you have to realise something. If your joy makes people disgusted or uncomfortable, that's their problem. Make them uncomfortable, make them squirm (assuming it's physically safe of course). You owe these people nothing. You are a woman, full stop. Embracing that fact without shame or asterisks does wonders for your self esteem.

[kayla-denker]

What if you started giving trans women the benefit of the doubt instead always giving us the detriment of the certainty?