Return of the Princesses

Ruby and Aster | 29 | she/her | TMA | interests: D&D, pokemon, FFXIV, destiny 2, persona 5, animal crossing, and more! | pfp from picrew but idr which one :sob: im sorry

[ritahayworrth]

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

[ritahayworrth]

link to article

[cassiterite-tenring]

hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.

june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day

[houseofglass]

happy june 12 to you

[kaijuno]

[evilwizard]

[lilylikesplants]

Femininity is a gift, I'm glad to experience it. I wish the patriarchal idea of it being a negative quality would just die off.

Those who embrace femininity out of joy are some of the happiest people I have ever seen, and I strive to acheive that.

I love being a girl, it's genuinely a gift.

A while ago my gf said "I like being a girl" while we were talking about gender stuff, I didn't say it out loud but honestly, knowing other people also like being feminine brings me much joy. She's really feminine and I take a lot of inspiration from her, I love her so much.

I love women, I love being one, and I wish every woman and woman adjacent person out there a very pleasant femininity.

[transsexual-feminism]

This is transfeminism!

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

“I just need to learn how to seem more normal and they’ll leave me alone,” she thought, lacking any ability to understand why the boys they said were her peers seemed to hate her from the moment they met her

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Patriarchal society teaches boys to hate girls and believe it or not being a girl involuntarily sorted into boys spaces can very often mean being seen as an acceptable (and even deserving) target for that prejudice

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

“Hello yes the boys you keep forcing me to be around keep attacking me on sight and the girls I find myself relating to and drifting towards have already learned that ‘boys’ are dangerous, which I don’t disagree with, but as a result they’re keeping their distance out of fear that I’m the exact sort of predator I’m trying to find refuge from, may I have some basic human kindness and connection, please?”

“That’s extremely selfish of you have you considered that maybe you deserve to be abused?”

“I had not! I’ll just internalize that now since it’s the only consistent message that anyone is sending”

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

I literally cannot stress enough the constant societal forces that work 24/7 to make even an unrealized trans girl think that her existence is fundamentally wrong and she deserves to be punished for it

Before I knew it was about gender I still knew that there was something ‘defective’ about me that justified the bullying and the harassment and the total lack of empathy from the people who billed themselves as figures of authority

[tlirsgender]

So do we think it's "really bad" that I don't even try to interact with Transmasc Spaces:tm: because so many of them are so fucking (trans)misogynistic or is this just a natural consequence of Groups That Don't Have Women In Them

[tlirsgender]

Like it's kind of fucking nuts that Not Hating Women alienates me from "my community" this much. Like no I'm in community with transfems actually. I just share a demographic with transmascs. That's two different things

[i-enact-postvore]

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

[loveshoplifter]

same but it's black people

[i-enact-postvore]

That's right

[fucktoyfelix]

Trans men having male privilege doesn't mean trans men dont experience transphobia. It doesn't mean we don't experience oppression at all. it just means that we can leverage our position over trans women and get away with it. We can destroy their lives and face 0 repercussions. It means if it comes between a trans man's word and a trans woman's word, he is more likely to be believed. If you're a feminist this should anger you and you should work to make sure that you're aware of this and never do it. If this makes you defensive, you're probably already doing it. Fix your heart.

[mousidy]

Sick of the TME view of gender as a radical performance of nonconformity rather than the existence of nonconformity and gender being radical through external force declaring it such. Wanting to be taboo vs the natural state of existence being seen as taboo.

yes!!!! too many of them act like it's this game of fucking with the status quo and playing with taboo that trans women have some kind of advantage in, because to be hated more is to Win, and they are Losing because their expressions of gender are seen as more acceptable

[affectionatenouns]

Thinking about the comment liberals love to make whenever a new cis woman gets transvestigated.

"Conservatives can't look at a beautiful woman without thinking about cock and i think that's hilarious."

You think it's hilarious because it isn't happening to you. It doesn't affect you and it never will. It's a joke to you because you've never thought of trans women as people who have to deal with the effects of these hate campaigns. Someone else can probably word this more coherently, but fuck me it bothers me so fucking much to see these people who think they're such good "allies" just come out and admit that they don't see me as a person.

You find it funny when a cis woman gets transvestigated because you know she's a "real" woman. You wouldn't say a fucking word if it was me in her place. You would let the right come for me, you would let them pick the meat from my bones, and when my skeleton is left you would dance it through the streets with crocodile tears in your eyes saying "oh HOW could this have happened" for a day before you went right back to complaining about how people need to compromise more. It makes me fucking sick.

[affectionatenouns]

And if it were a trans woman of colour you wouldn't even fucking acknowledge it was happening to her to begin with. You barely acknowledged it when it was a cis woman of colour. I know for a fucking fact you'd let a trans woman of colour rot and blame her for having the nerve to die, you wretched hogs.

[affectionatenouns]

The responses always go one of two ways.

"Haha conservatives are so stupid for thinking this woman could ever be a MAN"

or

"Look at her though, she's so pretty! There's no way she could be a TRANNY"

and both lines of answers say the same thing. The Tranny is ugly, the Tranny is repulsive, the Tranny is something Other that we don't desire to see, something we hate, and more importantly, something we are united with the Right in our hatred toward.

The Tranny is not a woman, the Tranny is a Tranny, and it needs to be humiliated and removed from polite society at once. This is the one thing the conservative and liberal will always agree on, time and again. The only difference is the liberal will pretend to be upset about it for a second.

[pokeballvictimized]

So when people write all those apologist articles about call-out culture and other instruments of violence in feminism, I don’t think they understand that the people who most deserve those things can usually shrug off the effects, and the normalization of that violence inevitably trickles down and affects the weak. It is predictable as water. Criminal justice applies punishment under the conceit of blind justice, but we see the results: Prisons are flooded with the most vulnerable, and the rich can buy their way out of any problem. In activist communities, these processes follow a similar pragmatism. Punishment is not something that happens to bad people. It happens to those who cannot stop it from happening. It is laundered pain, not a balancing of scales.

-Hot Allostatic Load

[frostops]

i feel like another transmisogynistic element of discourse around femboy/trap/otokonoko/etc characters that goes under discussed. take the screenshotted tweet in this post.

the original tweet, the "which seat on the plane would you take" meme format and the characters are, some explicit trans women, characters who present as women and hate their maleness but are said to be boys in the text, transmisogynistic jokes, and venti genshin impact, who is like small and has braids. Mostly all depictions or abstractions of transfemininity . this obviously made to appeal to the transmisogynistic fetishization that makes most of these characters are popular as they are. this is the most discussed element of the transmisogyny present in common attitudes towards "femboys."

the quote tweet is a trans man saying these characters are the type of man he wants to be. this is the common transmasculine version of the above. transfemininity becomes a type of aspirational manhood to people who do this. its frustratingly less disussed (in part because its less common) but more pernicious as a result. they wrap their transmisogyny into their identity, so criticism of that transmisogyny is taken as "invalidation" of their identity.

But there are other qrts and replies, and in them you can find a third pattern. less often than the first, but more than the second, you will find people expressing a desire to enact violence on the depictions and abstractions of transfemininity. and not sexual violence, like some of the fantasies you might find the first crowd doing. its a lot of "i would kill all of them." some of that can be chalked up to regular perfmorative disgust of someone ashamed of their attraction to transfemininity, but you can even find people who style themselves as progressives doing it. the association of these characters with fetishization has allowed people who do not fetishize trans women but still hate trans women to disguise that hate as being against the fetishization.

so much talk about the transmisogyny with these types of characters is focused on the transmisogynistic way of liking them, but so much of the dislike is just as transmisogynistic.

[frostops]

"i want to fuck effeminate boys you can treat like women" and "i want to kill effeminate boys you can treat like women" arent really that different

[frostops]

this is why you cant discuss anything about these characters or the trends surrounding them with anyone other than trans women. even the people who dont fetishize them or deny their transfemininity still use them as receptacle for their brand of transmisogyny

[daughter-of-sapph0]

tumblr is a great website because you can report nazis and violence rape threats and people doxxing you. and you have to write an entire essay explaining exactly what rules in their own tos it broke and why breaking the rules is against the rules. and staff will have a <5% chance of getting back to you only to say "yeah sorry. even if we dont agree with the exact content in the post, it's not against the rules and doesn't violate our tos according to our own internal decision. so we wont remove it"

and then they nuke countless trans women's entire blogs for "any reason or no reason at all"

[prokopetz]

Frankly, I don't buy the theory that the repeated sweeping deletions of trans women's blogs have principally been the product of bad-faith mass reporting campaigns abusing automated moderation. I've been falsely mass-reported before, on multiple occasions, and nothing's ever come of it. Someone is pulling that trigger.

[tubapun]

All my love to gnc men but I literally cannot think of a situation where it's "more progressive" to have a character "just be a feminine man" than be a trans woman

[tubapun]

And like. There can be gnc men in media!! I'd love that!! But why is it always "maybe he's just a gnc guy" when the character is like. Clearly uncomfortable with their masculinity and struggling to try and achieve it even though they can't and it makes them sad to try.

Don't gnc men deserve characters who are like. Super confident in their masculinity as well as their lack of adherence to it? Characters whose themes make it clear they WANT to be men but not shackled by the idea of manhood? But no, they're only used as rhetorical devices against characters that are so clearly trans women that folks who haven't even seen the media are like "oh hell yeah, a trans woman!!"

[monstrifex-art]

29. LUCIFER - Vivid Shadows 2023

“Look upon me, your shining morning star. See me, and see what my Father’s love is worth.”

This piece is from Vivid Shadows, an art series I do with my partner Jill. You can get the art book here!

Also, prints are available here ;)

[monstrifex-art]

Looks like a bunch of people are finding this art again out of nowhere.

Hail Satan 🤘

[monstrifex-art]

Ah yeah, for those of you asking about the prints I had it on INPRNT for a while but then they decided the art had simply too much sauce and they took it down.

Here's the high res file if you want to take it to your local print shop or something. If you do, maybe just be cool and buy a couple books from my shop or toss me a few bucks on Patreon. Appreciate you 🫶

[melancholia-ennui]

Telling trans women they're "dividing the community" and engaging in "CIA shit" when they talk about transmisogyny and transfeminism is like telling Black people they're "dividing the labour movement" and engaging in "CIA shit" when they talk about anti-Black racism.

A labour movement that refuses to engage with racial justice will inevitably replicate the social systems of racial violence that dominate and permeate our society, and will therefore be unable to meaningfully challenge the capitalist system of which that racial violence is an essential tool.

In the same way, a queer lib movement that refuses to engage with transfeminism will inevitably replicate the social systems of transmisogynistic violence and will therefore be unable to meaningfully challenge the patriarchal system of which that gendered violence is an essential tool.

If at any point you find yourself telling a group of marginalised people, especially marginalised women, that they need to shut up about their concerns for the sake of "unity", you are in the wrong and you are dooming your activism to impotency and irrelevancy in the process.

[t4tvampireisms]

Drugs are morally neutral. Doing or not doing drugs is not an indicator of how good a person is. There are addicts who’d give you the shirt off their back, and sober people who poison the homeless for fun.