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I don't know how to explain but love characters who use theirs nails/claws in combat.💅
The common refrain of "transmascs will shit themselves when they realise that T is making them look like a man, not an androgynous femboy twink" has always bothered me for two reasons. The more minor reason is that "man (on T)" and "androgynous femboy twink" are pretty obviously not mutually exclusive categories. There are a ton of men (cis and trans) with normal T levels who are androgynes, femboys, and/or twinks. There are people who may not end up looking like that when they are on T, but it is still within the realm of possible outcomes, and if it's what one wants to look like, there are things one can do to get closer to one's goal.
The more major reason I am bothered by this refrain, though, is the fact that people who say "why do transmascs always want to look like androgynous femboy twinks?" use this demeaning tone that indicates they have a low opinion of transmascs, androgynous people, femboys, and twinks. It is said as if transmascs are too stupid to know even the basic facts of what they're doing with their bodies, and as if wanting to be an androgynous, feminine, or visibly queer man/masc is inherently a bad and absurd thing to desire. The principle of "some people say 'twink' when they really mean 'fag'" is on full display here. It becomes more obvious when it's paired with overt transmedicalism, e.g., "Why do these trender wannabe twinks feel the need to tell everybody that they're trans?", or "'Transmascs' who want to be feminine twinks are basically not even trans". I can only conclude from statements like these that they think being a "real man" means not being a feminine twink, and that it is unacceptable and undesirable (for a man/masc) to be visibly queer and/or GNC. Otherwise, this would not be said with such derision. Needless to say, it is not the hill pro-trans people should ever be dying on.
Maybe these people should consider that some transmascs WANT to look like men and not "androgynus femboy twink".🤨🙄
Happy Pride month everyone
Cis men are not the “default” or “true” state of masculinity.
there’s this subconscious idea that most people have, and it’s that to be a cis man is to be a “true” man. It is the truest state of being male. That’s why transmasculine people are often criticized if they don’t strive to be as close to cis as possible.
Dress masculine. Change your name. Use he/him. Cut your hair shorter. Bind your chest. Get bottom surgery. Take testosterone. Those are all things that imply masculinity, because they’re what cis men are like. If you’re not striving to be as close to cis as possible, are you even a man at all? Because that’s what’s perceived as the truest state of being a man. “Passing.” If you aren’t passing as a cis man, you may as well not be a man at all.
THIS is transandrophobia at its core. This constant need to be as close to cis as possible, to treat transmasculine people as cis men, because if you don’t see them as cis, you don’t see them as a man at all. But that’s not true.
“Cis” isn’t the default. It’s not a goal to be reached. It doesn’t have to be, not if you don’t want to. I think people should stop treating traditional masculinity as the truest form of male identity. You can be a man while using she/her. You can be a man while having a large chest. You can be a man while wearing dresses and skirts every day. You can be a man while having long hair. You can be a man while having a feminine name. Because cis isn’t the only way to be a man.
Why am I just now finding out about Dr. Alan Hart, the first trans man to transition in the US, who discovered that x-rays can detect tuberculosis in its early stages and thus saved countless lives.
And the worst thing? There used to be a fundraiser which used his deadname as the title and called him a lesbian. Him who literally took testosterone, presented as a man and called himself a masculine name. I mean, take one look at him and you know that’s a man. And it lasted for 15 years under this name. Fifteen. Years. And even when this was protested, the organization doubled down on this and in 1996 they changed its name to sth completely different in answer to this instead of just changing the first name.
How many more trans people have to change the world for us and our stories to be recognized as equal to cis people’s??
Transandrophobes seem to think that all trans men have to do is say "I identify as a trans man" and they're immediately welcomed into the upper echelons of patriarchy and liftrd into positions of power
Isn't that what terfs believes in regards to trans women?
Anyway, if you think that society just accepts trans men no questions asked and gives them privileges, you're an idiot and a bigot
And if you believe that when you're trans or any flavor of queer, you're a disgrace and a traitor
hate when men complain about how theyre not allowed to be vulnerable and people will be like "and who set that system up?" as a gotcha moment. stop acting like patriarchy was funded by calling in Every Man Ever in a room and letting them all singularly decide if they wanted it. patriarchy hurts everyone in different ways, they're allowed to complain and you shutting them down and telling them to stop complaining are doing exactly what toxic masculinity wants you to enforce
@Milisa from twitter gave me the idea to draw a what-if of Chris encountering Mother Ethan so I already had a clear direction in mind
Then they proceeded to draw a sketch page of them and it like an aftermath to their encounter- I was so happy hehe
and ereshkigal too
"I hate all trans men because one time, one singular trans man did (shitty thing) to me!"
Okay cool.
Then I hate all women because my mother was abusive
Then I hate all lesbians because the leader of my country's fascist party is a lesbian
Then I hate all gay men because Peter Thiel
Because apparently that's how it works?
We get to hate entire diverse (and oppressed) people groups because a single person belonging to that group is a shitty person?
You know who thinks like? Incels. TERFs.
They will pick one example of a shitty cis/trans woman and claim they are ALL like that and don't deserve rights, respect and basic human dignity
Do you REALLY want to act like that?
I don't.
Oh, and you know who also does that?
Racists.
They will happily tell you about all the bad things some immigrant or person of color did. They have all these examples just ready to go. Fox News and Tucker Carlson and all the rest will tell about every single crime ever committed by a non-white person
"A Syrian refugee stabbed someone and that's why we need ICE" type of shit.
This isn't any different. It really isn't.
And that's before you remember that many trans men are not white.
"I hate all trans men because one time, one singular trans man did (shitty thing) to me!"
Okay cool.
Then I hate all women because my mother was abusive
Then I hate all lesbians because the leader of my country's fascist party is a lesbian
Then I hate all gay men because Peter Thiel
Because apparently that's how it works?
We get to hate entire diverse (and oppressed) people groups because a single person belonging to that group is a shitty person?
You know who thinks like? Incels. TERFs.
They will pick one example of a shitty cis/trans woman and claim they are ALL like that and don't deserve rights, respect and basic human dignity
Do you REALLY want to act like that?
I don't.
Another one for the blocklist:
Again:
"trans men transition into privilege" is terf rhetoric
trans men do NOT have any male privilege under patriarchy, quite the opposite
no I'm not being transphobic by pointing out that basic fact,
but this person is malgendering; only acknowledging the gender of trans men to have an excuse to hate them
By the way, this is underneath this post I commented on, where the OP justified their hate of ALL trans men because ONE was shitty to them one time.
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"but asian countries hate each other" "but some asian countries/cultures are so vastly different from one another" welcome to earth this happens on literally every continent
”fandom is supposed to be fun” but Black and POC fans don’t get the luxury of feeling safe and having fun because of stuff like this.
Even if you don’t have the emotional bandwidth to fully engage with everything that’s happening, at least don’t speak over the Black and POC fans who are affected.
For the blocklist, but also this one is hilarious:
"You don't know how oppression works, also trans men aren't oppressed" fucking comedy gold
quite callous how the general societal reaction to allegations of child abuse increasing in frequency seems to have been "all these millions of people are lying and faking on the internet for clout, parents are the only real protectors for children" instead of "perhaps there is something wrong structurally with how we treat children"