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[oldmanontumbler]

Hey this somewhat of just kind of a vibe read, so if you feel otherwise it's no big deal; but this post you reblogged earlier feels to me like it wasn't made in good faith https://www.tumblr.com/oldmanontumbler/783939517587587072?source=share

Like it feels like it's getting into "trans men aren't oppressed" territory (at least to me)

This post:

Isn't saying that trans men aren't oppressed! It's just explaining structural privilege.

Men hold more power than women under the patriarchy. But both men AND women hold more power over anyone that society decides to "unperson" or delegate to a "third sex."

The "third sex" is always gonna be trans women. Going from female to male is considered bad, but going from male to female is considered unthinkable. Like, it's a well-known fact that trans women and transfems face discrimination for the act of being trans women, in addition for being trans and for being women.

The "t-word" category is that third sex, that does not affect trans men/transmascs. It's predatory "man in a dress" characters and punchlines, it's "trap" and "sh*male" pornography, where the sensation of a woman having a penis is supposed to be both grotesque and titillating, it's the fact that trans women are denied resources, kicked out of communities, and murdered much, much, much moreso than their transmasculine peers.

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I think it would be helpful if the general view of the t-word was reframed. A lot of people see it as just a "slur for trans people," as "fag" is for gay ones, and thus you get a slew of trans men referring to themselves as "tr*nnies."

The reality, insofar as I understand it, is different.

If you want to punish a man, you degrade him to womanhood. Structurally, women are positioned below men, and men work hard to keep it that way.

If you have a trans man, you can hurt him by keeping him, socially, at the "woman" level, misgendering him and denying him the privilege men, as a class, afford one another.

But what about trans women? If society wants to punish a trans woman, well, they can't punish her by treating her like a woman, because that is what she wants (not the oppression, of course, but the recognition of her gender), and they can't punish her by treating her like a man, because that would mean affording her men's privilege when she herself has committed the "crime" of rejecting manhood.

So what is done instead?

Instead, trans women are socially punished by being treated as a class below women. That's what the t-word describes in the diagram, as far as I understand.

Neither I, nor the person who made this chart (who I will accredit once off mobile), nor anyone who reblogged this post is saying that trans men aren't oppressed. Unfortunately, we very much are! The thing is, though, trans men are oppressed for being trans. Trans women are oppressed for being trans, for being women, and for being trans women specifically. The worst-case scenario for a trans man is the best-case one for a trans woman. That is all that the post is demonstrating.

⚠️ If I said anything incorrect, please let me know and I will amend it. ⚠️

[blue-cypress]

So mummy curses- who in the audience has been cursed by a pharaoh before? I'm seeing a few hands. Well I once got cursed, and let me tell you there's no worse mummy to get cursed by then the white pharaoh of utah. I was just trying to buy some fishing equipment and then BAM suddenly any food I eat turns to jello and instead of scarabs I kept getting swarmed with those invasive beetles that look like ladybugs. Yeah the orange ones that die on your windowsill.

But yeah long story short my buddy Robbie, he's a mechanic but he knows a thing or 2 about pharaoh curses, and he tells me I gotta return what I took from his pyramid, but I didn't keep the receipt for the fishing rod I bought so that wasn't an option. So instead we just had to go beat the shit out of him. Thankfully the Bass Pro Shop people were very understanding and let us do our thing as we clobbered him. Robbie brought a tire iron and hoo boy the pipes on that white pharaoh when he got him in the knees. Eventually he just lifted the curse so we would stop. So that's the end of that story. I mean Robbie converted to mormonism a while later but he always gave me that vibe so I'm not sure if he got cursed.

I read this out loud to my sibling like i was sight reading and I genuinely started dying at "so instead we just had to go beat the shit out of him"

[controversial-blorbo-bracket]

I'm doing my part and voting "I don't know them" for every homestuck character.

thank you for being a loving friend of Don't Know and a fellow Homestuck not-knower

[blue-cypress]

Ok. So in the early 80s the board game Monopoly was quite big, so to capitalize on this a group who called themselves The Parker Sisters (a play on the company that owned Monopoly at the time, The Parker Brothers) approached board game company called Fire Island Games with an idea; Monopoly, but gay. This resulted in the following game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11862/gay-monopoly

Now as you can probably tell, this game actually does more to stand out compared to your average Monopoly clone; it has a round board, it's own Mascot in Ollie Gaytor, all the money costs being in really annoying amounts, and a trivia mechanic where landing on certain spaces will result in you answering a question about either historical queer figures or the "hanky code" popular among gay men of the time. Now a notable problem with that last one is that this game was apparently somewhat of a rush job. After all Monopoly had only been on shelves for what, 48 years at that point. Who knows how much longer the fad will last? But anyways a lot of the trivia is just straight up wrong. (I don't have a definitive number as to what percentage but I know it's at least SOME).

Now unfortunately like all good stories the tale of Gay Monopoly came to an end, and all due to a simple mistake. You see; the reason games like Chicago-opoly, Horse-opoly, and Bibleopoly (yes those are all real) are allowed to exist with no involvement with the official Monopoly brand is that way back when that you can't copyright the word "monopoly", however you CAN copyright having the full word "monopoly" in the title of your board game. So as long as it's -opoly and not monopoly it's fine. (with the exception of ghettopoly, which is as bad as it sounds, but that's because the rube who made it chose to represent himself in court).

So basically since Gay Monopoly had the full word "monopoly" in it's title (fun fact a differnt part later made Gayopoly but it's far less interesting), they got sued by The Parker Brothers, which confused Fire Island Games, since apparently they thought that The Parker Sisters had the license to use the Monopoly brand. So they got sued into the dirt and Gay Monopoly was killed forever.

very interesting!! Sucks that it's no longer around cause it sounds entertaining

[oldmanontumbler]

Just out of curiosity; what is the appeal of the blood and flesh posts? I've been trying to think about why someone would actively want to see it/seek it out and I'm drawing a blank. So I'd genuinely love to hear about what you like about it.

I love what viscera looks like. It's very compelling. I assume it's why some people visit museums - a deep, deep pull to see something stunning.

[oldmanontumbler]

For the resent ask game; 3, 14, and 20

I know you meant "recent," and there is absolutely no shame in a typo or misspell, but a Resent Ask Game, with HATEFUL themed asks, would be so much fun. I should cook one up.

3. What are you looking forward to right now?

At the end of August, I am moving in with my girlfriend/my best friend of over a decade!!!!!!!!! There are innumerable reasons that I am stoked about this. I adore this woman. I will be able to send donations again. All the newfound agency. Spending every day with one of my favourite people. We've talked about raising chickens, and setting up budgets, and making cookbooks and a home library... I could go on.

14. If you could give a TED Talk on anything, what would you talk about?

THIS IS A GOOD ONE, AND ALSO QUITE HARD TO ANSWER. Memory Loss × Fave Song Phenomenon Combo. (You know, when you have a LOT of songs you like, but someone asks you for your favourite and you suddenly forget all music you've ever heard.)

I think I'll go with something that's recently been on my mind: the way young people (minors + young adults) are denied personhood, both in the literal sense of being legal property until you're 18, and in the sense that kids aren't seen as equally "fully realized person" as adults are. I've had a blast with the "Kane Parsons; only 20 years old" meme, and I am very proud of him and impressed by him, but I don't think he's a uniquely remarkable 20 year old visionary. I think kids and young adults could write award-winning screenplays, and novels, and research papers - if they had access to the same tools/resources adults do, and if adults let them.

It's like the seventh bullet point in the Finkbeiner Test. "The fact that she’s the first woman to do that says a lot more about the prize-giving committee than it does about her. So if I were going to put that into a story, it would be a story about prejudice in that prize committee." Same idea.

20. What do you wish someone would ask you?

Uh, fun ask game questions, like these ones. :P

Jokes aside, I'm pretty direct, I think. If I want something to be different, I usually voice that opinion.

Thanks for the questions! Expect some in your own inbox. >:D

[oldmanontumbler]

At first I saw your 🩸🥩 tag and was like "I'm not into these kinds of posts but I also have no problem with gore so I don't need to blacklist it" but it is now at the point that I did in fact need to blacklist it and I think that's impressive. I didn't know you had that in you... and then out of you, alongside a lot of blood

Oof. What can I say? I'm a simple man. I love the stuff. You're a complex man. No blood and guts for you.

And with this message, I think it's time I move 🩸🥩 to the "Trigger Tags" section, because there'll be a LOT more where that came from.

[oldmanontumbler]

Umamusume posting 😞

Let me assuage your fears: I do not care for cute horse gambling simulator.

I have a fondness for Agnes Tachyeon. I probably misspelled her name. I know near nothing about her. But she's an amoral scientist who probably experimented on her own body and I RESPECT that. I want to be just like her when I grow up (<- grown adult speaking).