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The issue of trans women being sent to men's prisons isn't brought up as being a monstrous thing because of the misgendering, it's monstrous because we're sent there to be legally sex trafficked.
That's what V-coding is. That is why they are so adamant about sending trans women to men's prisons, because sex trafficking trans women within the men's prison system is an essential part of that system. Being misgendered by this isn't even an issue that's on our radar!
im a huge fan of trans women
i think trans women should be pandered to in all aspects of life
i love you trans women
Any Anglo LGBTQ publication that publishes clickbait traumaporn about homo/transphobia in non-Western countries, especially Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, without mentioning the role European/American colonizers and capitalists and evangelicals played and continue to play in installing those bigotries is doing de facto imperialism for free
that sure is a word salad you just put on display there
Please explain to me how hardcore radical Islam or the Russian Orthodox Church are the fault of Western Europe.
"Hardcore Radical Islam" - the US overthrew secular, progressive, elected governments in Iran and Afghanistan in the 20th century in the name of resource theft and stopping socialism. The mujahideen, which later formed the basis of Taliban, was directly armed and funded by the US to fight against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union from 1979 to 1989. The CIA and US State Dept. directly funded other fundamentalist wahabbi groups during the Cold War as a way to combat secular socialism and communism. The US is currently funding and arming extremist Islamist groups in Syria as well, such as the al-Nusra Front and Tahrir al-Sham. Saudi Arabia, one of the United States' biggest allies in the Middle East which currently enjoys the generous patronage of the US arms and petrochemical industries and hasn't had a single sanction placed on it in the name of "democracy" despite literally being an absolute monarchy, also spends exorbitant sums to propagate fundamentalist salafist interpretations of Islam, is one of the biggest financial supporters of al Qaeda, and was literally complicit in 9/11. Additionally, the destabilization of Iraq and Syria through U.S. interventions laid the groundwork for the rise of ISIS, which is essentially a U.S. asset by keeping swathes of the Middle East destabilized and staging terrorist attacks that create the justification for further U.S. military presence in the region.
Russian Orthodox Church - the fall of communism in Russia and other Eastern European states essentially devoured the social fabric of those countries and left millions of people to fester in abject misery, crime, corruption and poverty. The Orthodox Church and other religious organizations which had previously been kept in check by the secular socialist governments filled the void left by the collapse of virtually every social safety net that existed during communist rule. The current oligarch-nationalist-Orthodox alliance that rules Russia was directly set up by the U.S. through interference in the 1996 Russian elections to ensure Boris Yeltsin would be elected president over the Communist Party candidate; Yeltsin would later essentially handpick Putin as his successor. A similar pattern can be seen in other former Eastern bloc countries, such as Poland, where the U.S. supported the right-wing, strongly Catholic trade union Solidarity in the 80s, which would later form the basis for Poland's current far right, homophobic ruling party Law and Justice, and Hungary, where the U.S. supported the "liberal" student organization Fidesz, which is today Viktor Orban's fascist anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant ruling party.
Anti-LGBT movement in Romania is literally founded by neoprotestant USA religious folks tho. The Romanian Orthodox church may be homophobic AF, but it's a lazy, satiated wolf most of the time. The neoprotestants organize tho
Entire swathes of neocolonized territory in Eastern Europe, Asia, LatAm and especially Africa have essentially become playgrounds for American "evangelicals" (read: theocratic fascists) to export their venomously anti-LGBT, anti-feminist "movements" after they fail in the States. They take their anger at being made irrelevant and impotent in the imperial core out on queer people, women and religious minorities in the periphery and Global South. Supremely evil shit.
you inform the average gamer that the gerudo of zelda are orientalist caricatures and they start acting like you just shot their wife in front of them
you try to tell people that Japanese people can, in fact, be racist, and are actually quite good at it, and they act like that's the most implausible thing they've ever heard
now, we all know fearmongering about cis men being "pressured to transition" is completely absurd and exactly that, fearmongering over something that is not happening no matter how you slice it.
but frankly even if that was happening. 1,000 cis men getting forcefemmed is worth it if even just one of them is a hopelessly closeted and repressed girl.
Right now, some poor girl is reading posts about the "egg prime directive" and "let GNC men exist!" and going deeper and deeper into the closet, my heart breaks for her truly.
If you're reading this, if you have thought about being a girl, even just a little bit. You can do it, you don't have to listen to these people who despise trans women. You can be a girl!
Reblogging this again because I saw a blogger I liked just randomly answer(and agree with) a concern trolling ask about forcefem being "problematic" for "involving people in a sexual kink". With all the usual nonsense about egg jokes "reinforcing gender roles"
Every single day I am made to walk on eggshells around everyone around me. I am made to feel uncomfortable about being trans, I am made to shut up or risk violence and social death. I am constantly moving through the thick swamp of transmisogyny, and I come on here and see people clutching their pearls over some poor widdle gnc Cis Man feeling a bit icky because he heard tell of a forcefem basement somewhere.
Who gives a fuck! I certainly don't! And if you aren't a transmisogynist, you wouldn't either!
Ethnic cleansing is not just the active removal of a people by force, it is also creating conditions that necessitate their displacement. Every single Ghazzawi who has been displaced to Egypt or elsewhere as a result of this genocide is a victim of ethnic cleansing unless their unconditional right of return is afforded to them, which likely it will not be. Keep that in mind.
I just get weary of every time a Palestinian family is helped to flee Gaza seeing that framed as a ‘success story’ or a happy ending. These people were ethnically cleansed from their homeland by Israel. That is a tragedy. It is only a ‘success’ in that they live to see another day. The conditions which were manufactured specifically to make their displacement an existential necessity should’ve never been imposed upon them in the first place. They should not have had to flee their homeland with the likelihood they will never return to escape a holocaust. I need you all to understand that. It’s a happier story, yes, but it’s still a fucking tragedy.
calling Trump a “Russian asset” is truly one of the most cowardly and despicable psychological self-defense methods of American liberals.
Look at your decaying white supremacist empire in the eye.
Everything that the Trump administration has ever done has precedent in American history.
Trying to cast him as a “Russian asset” is an attempt to rearrange the ingroup-outgroup dynamic of American political power to say “No-one from the proper ingroup would do this.” But Trump is a part of the one ingroup that trumps all others: he’s fucking RICH. And what about the entire right wing faction that is right there with him, contributing their own efforts and ideas to the reactionary project? Are they all “Russian assets” too?
He’s kind of like a combination of the worst attributes of previous Rich Guys In Charge, like he has Clinton’s sexual predation, Reagan’s entertainment industry background, G.W. Bush’s brutal foreign policy, et cetera.
Liberals look at the brutal crackdowns on immigration, and are like “where did this come from?”
But they cannot answer where the Chinese Exclusion Act came from. Where Executive Order 9066 came from. Why post-Civil War Reconstruction was dismantled. Where Jim Crow Laws came from. Who created DHS and ICE. Who continued to fund DHS and ICE for the last 24 years. Et cetera.
People say that the attack on Iran is unprecedented. But it has deep historical precedent, the USA has a long history of unilateral invasions, and the ruling class of the USA has been trying to generate consent for invasion of Iran for over 50 years.
I’m tired of all of this. I just want people to face reality.
In short:
i know this may be controversial but i actually think trans women should be allowed to participate in women's sports even if they beat cis women
By Jeffrey S. Kaye
Back in the early 1950s, the U.S. conducted a furious bombing campaign during the Korean War, dropping hundreds of thousands of tons of ordnance, much of it napalm, on North Korea. The bombardment, worse than any country had received up to that point, excepting the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wiped out nearly every city in North Korea, contributing to well over a million civilian deaths. Because of the relentless bombing, the people were reduced to living in tunnels. Even the normally bellicose Gen. MacArthur claimed to find the devastation wreaked by the U.S. to be sickening. Most controversially, both North Korea and China alleged that by early 1952, the U.S. was using biological or germ warfare weapons against both North Korea and China. The U.S. government has strenuously denied this. Nevertheless, captured U.S. flyers told their North Korean and Chinese captors about the use of such weapons. Later, after the prisoners were returned to U.S. custody, counter-intelligence experts and psychiatrists interrogated them. They were told under the threat of court martial to renounce their confessions about germ warfare. They all did so. To convince the world of the truth of their claim the U.S. had dropped biological weapons on their countries, and after turning down the suggestion that the International Red Cross look into the charges, the North Koreans and Chinese sponsored an investigating commission. Using the auspices of the World Peace Council, they gathered together a number of scientists from around the world, most of whom were sympathetic to either the Left or the peace movement. Most surprisingly, this commission, which came to be known as the International Scientific Commission, or ISC, was headed by one of the foremost British scientists of his time, Joseph Needham.
The ISC travelled to China and North Korea in the summer of 1952 and by September produced the “Report of International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China,” which corroborated the Chinese and North Korean claims that the U.S. had used biological weapons in an experimental fashion on civilian populations.
The summary report was only some 60 pages long, but the ISC included over 600 pages of documentary material comprising statements from witnesses, including airmen involved in dropping the weaponry, as well as captured enemy agents; reports from doctors; journal articles from the United States; autopsy reports and lab tests; and photos and other materials. Most of this documentary material has been all but inaccessible for decades, with only a handful of copies of the ISC report in a few scattered libraries in the United States.
What’s funny about the transandrobros is that they do stumble onto something real and then immediately make it corny. Yes, trans men and transmascs do face a specific kind of punishment under patriarchy. My gf and I have been calling it trans emasculatation because that is what it is: a social process that strips them of recognized manhood while still disciplining them through the logic of sex. Patriarchy does not simply “hate all trans people the same.” It sorts, ranks, humiliates, and assigns each of us a different place in the machinery. For trans women that place is feminized punishment, sexual degradation, public containment. For trans men and transmascs, a large part of the punishment comes through being denied the authority, legibility, and social standing that masculinity is supposed to confer. They are treated as counterfeit men, failed women, confused girls, softened bodies playing dress-up. That is a distinct injury.
You can see it in how they are spoken to. A cis man can be read as dangerous, competent, commanding, abrasive, or authoritative even when he is stupid. A trans man is far more likely to be read as childish, deluded, emotionally overwrought, aesthetically unserious, or in need of correction. He is not granted the ordinary presumption of masculinity that patriarchy hands out to males as part of their social wage. He is instead kept in a humiliating middle zone where he is punished for reaching toward manhood and mocked for failing to embody it correctly.
That is Trans Emasculation.
You can see it in medicine too this is ofc not unique but the way it shows itself Is absolutely unique.
It also shows up in sex and social life. A lot of trans men are not treated as men with erotic power. They are treated as softened masc accessories for somebody else’s fantasy, or as harmless little princes who can be petted, aestheticized, and consumed without ever being fully recognized. When they try to be assertive, dominant, horny, possessive, jealous, territorial, or simply blunt, the reaction is often immediate disgust or ridicule. People who tolerate those qualities in cis men suddenly find them embarrassing, fake, or creepy in trans men because what is being rejected is not just the behavior. It is the audacity of claiming masculine presence from a body patriarchy still wants to keep subordinate. That is why the punishment can feel so intimate. It is not just exclusion. It is constant diminishment.
The problem with the transandrobros is that they take that real pattern and then immediately start whining like Reddit boys who just discovered structural analysis yesterday. They want the language of oppression without the discipline of analysis. They want to act like every discomfort is equivalent to transmisogyny, or like patriarchy is simply being unfair to them in the same way it is unfair to everyone else. No. Trans emasculatation is real. It matters. It is worth naming. It is worth studying. It is not an excuse to flatten the hierarchy of gendered punishment or pretend that trans men and trans women are being processed through the exact same machinery. They are not. The point of a concept is to get more precise.
So when I say the thing that’s funny about the transandrobros is that they do face unique oppression under patriarchy, I mean they are half-right in the most annoying way possible. They sense the injury. They name the bruise badly. Then they turn it into a performance. The serious line is simpler: patriarchy humiliates transmascs by withholding recognized masculinity, recoding self-assertion as delusion, and dragging them back toward feminized dependency whenever they try to stand in their own social authority. That is trans emasculatation. It is real. It is ugly. It deserves a better politics than grievance cosplay.
hrt and transgender surgeries being positioned as dangerous and experimental despite being around for much longer than ozempic, which many people are pushing as a miracle weight loss drug while ignoring its real medical indications and any possible negative side effects
it seems like hypocrisy but it's really the same idea: your body is not yours to control. you are not allowed to be fat, you are not allowed to be trans, we will say whatever it takes to keep you in line
Protect black women. Fuck the state of Georgia.
Same Georgia that, last year, kept Adriana Smith’s brain dead body corpse alive because she was 9 weeks pregnant, against her families pleas by the way. They even forced the babies birth date earlier because she was decomposing! As of 2 weeks ago he was finally taken out of NICU but is still to this day, entirely reliant on oxygen, because he can’t breath on his own. And who pays for this? The government and hospital used a dead black womans body for an experiment after all, so of course they’d at LEAST foot the bill right? Just kidding it’s the family that wanted to put their daughter and grandson to rest of course! It’s only $600,000+ USD!
And to those of you who think you’re safe because you’re ready and wanting to start a family so obviously youre not getting an abortion anyway! So what?? Think again!! Because you can now be charged as a “would be killer” for using pain killers during pregnancy because the same ingredient just HAPPENS to also be found in abortion pills!
They literally used these women as experimental test runs for what they can get away with and they’re getting away with it!!
Justice For Alexia Moore and Adriana Smith
Koko the gorilla did irreparable damage to the average hearing person's understanding of sign language
I would love to learn more if you've got a rant locked and loaded
Koko, as with most "signing" apes, was "taught" modified ASL (bc their hands are different and they physically cant make all the same signs we can) by hearing scientists who did not speak ASL. They would learn a few signs, and then teach them to the apes, who would associate signs to objects and rewards.
The most jarring thing was, the apes are completely unable to learn grammar, and would say things like "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you" (actual quote by Nim Chimpsky), which their handlers would interpret as a sentence, when in reality the apes are simply mimicking signs in hopes of getting a reward. Those hearing handlers would see things like "Nim eat" and "eat Nim" and intepret those as equally meaning "Nim wants to eat".
More damning, the lack of understanding of ASL by the hearing scientists meant that most of what Koko and Nim Chimpsky "spoke" was purely the scientists just seeing what they wanted to see. A Deaf person was brought in to interact with Nim, and they were instructed to not give him any food until he signed "food". They spent hours with an increasingly distressed chimp who did not sign anything, but Nim's hearing handlers would see him move his hand close to his mouth and go "oh! there it is! he signed it!", and while they spent the whole day signing, they didnt see Nim signing back.
With Koko, her handler would claim Koko would sometimes mix up signs like "need/knee", "I/eye", "people/nipple" because they "sound alike/rhyme" but... they don't. Those words rhyme in spoken English. They don't rhyme at all in ASL. Koko wouldn't know those words rhymed in english because she DIDN'T speak english, she "spoke" modified ASL. Of course, as the scientists did not speak ASL either, they didn't realize it, and just assumed random movements Koko meant were signs, and tried to think what she "could have meant instead" by thinking of what words sounded like the ones equivalent to what she had just "signed", even though an ASL speaker would not make a mistake like that.
I'm not even going to get into the fact that almost all of what those apes signed was due to direct prompting from scientists, the fact that they did not use language when alone, or the fact that most of what they answered was complete gibberish (which resulted in videos like Koko's climate address (yes, really) having to be heavily edited and cut to make it seem like she was actually speaking anything that made sense).
One really nasty side effect of this was like. The amount of hearing people who decided to try learning ASL and other sign languages because of the vague possibility of being able to communicate with apes, instead of, you know, the ACTUAL possibility of communicating with and appreciating Deaf people. (one person even said that Koko inspired them to learn ASL so they could communicate with their deaf friend, like... why the fuck did your FRIEND not inspire you to learn ASL??? did you really have to wait for a fucking gorilla failing to learn sign language to think "hmm, maybe talking to my friend would be nice!"??????)
The talking ape experiments helped cement in hearing people's consciousness the idea that ASL, and sign languages in general, are just poorly transcribed forms of spoken English that can be easily learned even by a chimp, instead of complex, independent languages with their own histories, cultures and internal variation.
90% of all trans homicides are against transgender women and other transfems. Over 50% of those femicides are JUST black transgender women. Saying we all suffer the same, that we're all just fags in the eyes of the state, is erasing the very real issue of transfemicide.
Children are being killed in American and Israeli attacks on Egypt and Iran. Between past and present, the same policy of killing persists by the same killer.
Trump and Netanyahu are both sinking in popularity so the US and the zionist occupation decided to murder 50 children.
i get why people are skeptical of claims about “rising antisemitism” in a world where a genocidal state is claiming everyone standing up to them is being antisemitic, but the reality is that the average person actually genuinely is being more antisemitic. every comment section on every single post i saw about Holocaust Remembrance Day was like this
israel’s actions ARE causing a rise in antisemitism in the average gentile, because they push the narrative of representing jewish people as a whole, which would make us all culpable for their horrific actions. and even the people who aren’t being antisemitic themselves are certainly more okay with the people around them being antisemitic. it's likely someone you know or are close with believes in some sort of conspiracy about jews running the world or having all the money or controlling the media etc etc. not zionists, not israelis, jews. israel wants jews to believe that everyone hates us and they’re the only safe place for us to exist. as a diaspora jew whose family fled the shoah this is not fucking true and it’s insulting to say that it is, but being a gentile saying this shit only helps israel’s cause because it's what they want us to believe. they want the world to hate jews. don’t fucking fall for it. judaism is not zionism and zionism is not judaism.
to be fair, this is kind of exactly why people are skeptical — institutions like the ADL and similar groups that produce these statistics are deeply zionist and are counting anyone speaking out for palestine in these hate crime statistics. it’s important to acknowledge that both of these things are true; that zionist groups are coopting the idea of antisemitism to suit their needs (making the word feel as though it means nothing!) AND that actual antisemitism — that is, hatred towards judaism and any jewish people, holocaust denialism, saying that we “deserved” the shoah or that “hitler was right”, that kind of thing — are all happening more and more in increasingly public spaces
