Eithne Róisín

It/They/She Yes I use both names, no it isn't confusing 30 y/o Trans creature, vaguely a woman

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[kayla-denker]

My roommate is transmasc. We were just talking about their reluctance to use the men's bathroom even as they "pass" more and more as a man, which is starting to cause people to give them concerning looks when they use the women's. They said they still use the women's because they feel more comfortable there. Which is fine, we shouldn't have gendered bathrooms anyway. But I told them "you might not feel as safe when you eventually get 'accused' of being a trans woman in the women's bathroom." To which they replied "oh, I'll lust lift my shirt and show them my mastectomy scars. That'll prove I belong in there."

Oh but "everyone is subjected to transmisogyny," right?

This is the point of TME/TMA. This is why non-transfeminine people aren't subjected to transmisogyny.

I can't fall back on my AGAB to "prove I belong" in women's spaces.

[hoodiegal]

"if someone confronts me about being a trans person in the wrong bathroom, i'll just expose myself to them" is an incredibly TME thing to say

[sivavakkiyar]

Lu Xun, Lu Hsun, Zhou Shuren, china, mao, maoism, communism, chinese revolution

For revolution we need revolutionaries, but revolutionary literature can wait, for only when revolutionaries start writing can there be revolutionary literature. So to my mind it is revolution which plays a big part in literature. The literature of a revolutionary period is different from that of ordinary times for, in a revolution, literature changes too. But only great revolutions can effect this change, not small ones which do not count as revolutions.

Everyone here is used to hearing about "revolution", but if you use this word in Kiangsu or Chekiang you will terrify people and endanger yourself. Actually revolution is nothing strange, and we owe all social reforms to it. Mankind could only progress, evolve from protozoa to men, from barbarism to civilization, because of ceaseless revolutions. Biologists tell us: "Men are not very different from monkeys. Apes and men are cousins." How is it then that men have become men while monkeys remain monkeys? It is because monkeys will not change their ways — they like to walk on all fours. Quite likely some monkey once stood up and tried to walk on two legs, but many others protested, "Our ancestors have always crawled. You're not to stand up!" Then they bit him to death. They refused not only to stand but also to talk, being conservative. Men, however, are different. They eventually stood up and talked, and so they won out. But the process is still going on. So revolution is nothing strange, and all races not yet moribund are trying to revolt every day, though most of their revolutions are merely small ones.

[dancinginmyeyes]

Before a great revolution, nearly all literature expresses dissatisfaction and distress over social conditions, voicing suffering and indignation. There are many works of this kind in the world. But these expressions of suffering and indignation have no influence on the revolution, for mere complaints are powerless. Those who oppress you will ignore them. The mouse may squeak and even produce fine literature, yet the cat will gobble it up without any consideration. So a nation with only a literature of complaint is hopeless, because it stops short at that. Just as in a lawsuit, when the defeated party starts distributing accounts of his grievances his opponent knows that he cannot afford to go on and the case is as good as wound up, so the literature of complaints, like proclaiming one's grievances, gives the oppressors a sense of security. Some nations stop complaining when it proves useless and become silent nations, growing more and more decadent. Witness Egypt, Arabia, Persia and India all of which have no voice. But nations with inner strength which dare rebel when complaints prove useless wake up to the facts and their lamentations change into roars of anger. When such literature appears it heralds revolt, and because people are enraged the works written just before the outbreak of revolution often voice their fury their determination to resist, to take vengeance. Literature of this kind heralded the October Revolution. But there are exceptions too, as in the case of Poland where although there had long been the literature of vengeance3 the country owed its recovery to the Great War in Europe.

[mousidy]

look i understand your frustration with "cis women boundaries". but we can't just say "other people don't get to have boundaries if it makes it harder for me to be safe" because that is a one-way ticket to authoritarianism. What we can do is make safe spaces for trans women, and choose on a case-by-case basis if they include cis women or not. Keep in mind too, not every trans woman feels safe sharing a space with cis women... and they deserve safe spaces too.

I daresay most of us don't feel safe sharing spaces with cis women, lol. systemic discrimination against marginalized women is not "boundaries" it's discrimination. if you're uncomfortable with a group of marginalized women, that's called bigotry, and it's never at any time in history been a good justification for discrimination. and no we are not going to do "separate but equal" get serious

[oneheadtoanother]

[lost-my-soup]

@my-life-is-a-sidequest

[catboybiologist]

After some years of HRT I've been left with this deep, low simmering rage. Because what do you mean it was always this easy to be happy

[catboybiologist]

I take a shot once a week, and even if that was too much, I could do it as pills, and so many of my problems just evaporated overnight.

And not one person thought to bring it up.

When I was talking about how horrifying puberty felt. When I was cutting myself. When I was in inpatient care. When I attempted suicide. When I talked for YEARS in therapy about how dissociated and trapped I felt in my body. When I felt like I never truly fixed something that was deeply wrong about me that started at puberty.

Not one person said it was a possibility. No one thought "hey, maybe this kid should go to someone trained to identify dysphoria". No one mentioned that trans people weren't some weird other group of people. It didn't have to be pressure. It didn't have to be "forcing" me. Just mentioning that trans people exist and it could be me. That it was possible and it was easy. No pushing, just laying the option out there.

HRT is treated like this last ditch option. This horrific, mutilating thing that I GUESS we can give to you if you have NO OTHER options. Because did you know it's permanent? Did you know you'll be on it for the rest of your life? Did you know the health risks? Did you know it'll make you infertile? Did you know that it's deviant? Did you know that it's an alternative lifestyle for other people?

No one said it was okay to WANT it to be permanent. Or noted that most people are reliant on the medical system in one way or the other anyways (and it's not even necessary for HRT). Or that the health risks are the normal parts of having that hormone, even in cis people of your gender. Or said it was okay to not want kids, or mention that you can just freeze gametes. Or acknowledged that the "deviant" people are just people, living their lives, that have been violently pushed out of "normal" society.

I grew up in an area that Republicans mock for being a kind of "woke central". And even then it's just. Not treated as an easy option. It was never on the table if you don't specifically already know you're going through gender stuff, and no one will help you get to that point. At which point, it's still treated like the last ditch option. Did you know you can be a feminine man? Did you know you can slap a "she/her" in your twitter bio and be done with it? Did you know that you're oh-so-valid without it? Did you know that you shouldn't take HRT? Maybe don't take HRT? Don't take HRT? Don't take HRT? Don't ta-

When you've been in it a while, HRT is the easiest, most casual thing in the world. Just pop a shot on a Saturday as part of your "everything shower" routine and you're done.

Anyways. Support trans kids always and forever.

[catboybiologist]

And if anyone comes swinging in here with "but Sierra you don't have to take HRT to be trans this is toxic" I'm going to fucking scream, because that is the status quo. "Just do this without doing this" has become a "give them an inch" refrain when making ourselves "acceptable" to the cis. Of COURSE you don't need to take HRT. I'm only reminded of it a dozen times a day.

[tpwrtrmnky]

There's straight up no such thing as an apolitical fandom space btw, there are participants in fandom who are privileged enough to not notice the politics, and there are people who, if they speak up about bad experiences in fandom, are Making It Political.

[chorusys]

the sweetest girls in all of existence are made to think they're horrifying monsters, it's so fucked.

[chorusys]

NO ACTUALLY THIS POST IS ABOUT REAL LIFE TRANS WOMEN

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[lilyblisslys]

I’m not complaining, people gotta do what they can, but man the internet feels like it’s primarily a series of donation goals where someone becomes homeless if they aren’t met nowadays

[deepseasmetro]

if you think for even just a second how fucking crazy bonkers it is that women are so frequently kept from being protagonists or important or fully realized characters when its like. That is literally 50% of the world population. Half of all people (more or less. hopefully more as time marches on!) are women. And you look at media and think about how many protagonists are men and their best friends are men and the ensemble cast is 80-100% men and the fandoms are about men and the romances are about men. well. YOU GO INSANE

[deepseasmetro]

so like as always i must say love urself and seek art from outside the Teen Boy genre, BUT ALSO..........this idea that well, of course shounen doesnt have a lot of women, its for boys, is so strange, because plenty of media whos primary demographic is women.......also has plenty of men!

like why are we letting boys and men get away with not being interested in women, like, at all? i think most women i know actually can and do find themselves compelled by, interested in, and attached to male characters literally all the time. but men cant do this for women?

i mean, kill la kill is right there. it's a shounen pretty much entirely consisting of women, and its universally loved and critically acclaimed. but also, exception and not the rule, right? but the problem is exactly what im fucking bitching about here: men, and so to a larger extent society in general, cant see women as Literally Just People Equal in Status and Interiority and Interest to Men. theyre a special kind of people that only some people can connect with, while men are a universal constant. The Everyman.

so like. yeah. stop reading shounen, but also start asking yourself WHY do we keep giving a free pass to men for literally not being able to see themselves in or relate to female protagonists?????????

[calamity-corner]

"a woman who's willing to fuck men is actually more queer than a lesbian" actually i think you just hate women

[calamity-corner]

i'm not interested in making space for trans men in lesbianism. there's no reason they have to suddenly give up their lesbian friends, their "community", but Lesbians do not need to make a special little bioessentialist seat at the table for straight men. it does not ever need to happen. this shit pisses me off so bad

[calamity-corner]

yknow what post i hate? that post about how "sometimes a dyke will mistake a twink for another dyke and vice versa and they'll make out and it's not actually straight it's Extra Special Queer, even more Queer than usual!" no what you just described is at best a silly mistake. it's not More Queer for a lesbian to make out with twinks. it's not Extra Special 5D Gender Chess for a lesbian to kiss a man. why are you so obsessed with making sure every lesbian knows she should really kiss men? why is making straightness Queer the hill you want to die on? why do you hate lesbians so bad

[natalieironside]

It's fascinating (and infuriating) to live in an age where almost everyone I know is languishing in Dickensian poverty but social media is slap full of professional-managerial computer-touchers who've never known hunger insisting that the economy is fine because their metrics say rich people are still rich.

[natalieironside]

A bad economist and a bad engineer are often bad in the same way; they're both people who, when reality doesn't conform to the model, decide to get mad at reality instead of adjusting the model

[lakevida]

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Have I gotten worse at posting in the last few months?

[redshift-starfire]

Your quality of posting has shifted on a different axis than good/bad. Your posting has gone Weast

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I'm posting weast

[default-cube]

in all honesty i think your posting has actually gotten better. you have so many cute interactions on here, it's adorable and warms my heart.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Awwwwwww <3

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

[amygdala-dan]

This makes no sense

[maxknightley]

it literally could not be more straightforward

[thatguyfromthatwebsite]

It literally doesnt make sence, both have the same value, they're both $30

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

I think the failure of many people to grasp an incredibly simple, barebones metaphor is demonstrating implicit bias very well

This dude straight up stated the fucking answer and still can’t understand it, because he’s expecting the answer to be his own views lmao

[thatguyfromthatwebsite]

No im not expecting anything its just a badly frammed metaphor

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

Bro you said the answer. Both have the same value despite different sizes. It’s simple. Basic. Elementary.

[thatguyfromthatwebsite]

But it never says that, it just asks you wich one is greater and the text ends there, wich leads you to thinking that one indeed has greater value then the other, and that the one with the greater value is the answear

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

It asks you which one has the greater value and what is the answer to that question?

[thatguyfromthatwebsite]

Im not about to argue over a focken tit size metaphor

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

Never underestimate the lack of reading comprehension on this site lmfao

[flipocrite]

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[thatautisticlesbian]

the metaphor is super good tho, like if i have 30 bucks of coins my backs gonna hurt and if i have big ole titties my backs gonna hurt too

[five-crows-sharing-a-laptop]

I started dating a slime girl made of cornstarch and water.

She’s such an adorable little masochist. She gets hard whenever I hit her.

[akula-red]

Take your dad jokes out my horny search-

[five-crows-sharing-a-laptop]

No you get hornier about my jokes.

[singing-bowl]

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight