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i might just talk more about trans politics on this blog cuz fuck it this is my blog lol sorry its not dnp related unless you want it to be <3

the thing about whipping girl is, the thing i always heard from trans men and trans mascs is that it doesn't mention trans men and their experiences. except it fucking does!!!!! julia serrano has multiple direct quotes and sources from trans men discuss their experiences with the invisibility we might face and how it contrasts with trans women's hypervisibility. how a trans male author had press looking around confused trying to find the t-slur in the room until they realized no the Man was the author. and how ultimately, our invisibility is to our benefit in comparison to the supposed "representation" that hypervisibility affords trans women.

and it SHOULD BE Like yeah no shit a trans woman who is writing a book about trans women and the experiences of trans women isn't going to talk That Much about trans men, no shit!!!!!!!! oooough like sometimes we really affirm our own genders by behaving like the worst type of men by going "what about me what about MY Rights" be forreal.

and the other criticism i hear of whipping girl is that she doesn't write enough about the experiences of trans women of color, or lower class experiences. serrano herself admits she is a middle-class able-bodied white woman who was able to afford transitioning and that is the experience she writes of, so she admits that is a blind spot for her. so like, i agree with that critique but that is also addressed within the text itself and ultimately to find more about more marginalized experiences, you need to seek that out. thankfully theres so many websites and apps where you can listen to the experiences of working-class trans women and trans women of color if you just search it out, it is not hard to find.

so like its not a perfect book but it is a good Starting Point if you want to understand your trans sisters

#transfeminism #transmisogyny #whipping girl #julia serrano

just starting whipping girl today. it's kind of incredible the difference in how i hear people talk about whipping girl (ie: that it's 'too focused' on transfeminism and transmisogyny... lol) . when barely twenty pages in we get this from the second edition.

im not saying there's gonna be nothing to criticise in the book itself (the author herself says there is!!) but it really feels like reaching to be accusing serrano of being intentionally 'exclusive' and wanting all trans-activism to exclusively follow her lead, rather than having written a book about her identity. like, with all the love in my heart, if you're reading this for insight into transmasculinity... why are you trying to buy clothes at the soup store?

#julia serrano #transfeminism #feminism #reading list #not image described #like the first thing that comes up when you google the book (looking for a hosting website lol) is criticism on its coverage of men +#masculinity. that's also the majority of the content in the tags #look maybe she says some crazy shit further in but. vitriol for the author seem wildly offbase if this is her stance on all that #something something which probably means nothing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/juliaserano/p/julia-for-hire?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2neyz5

Julia Serrano, creator of essential queer texts like Sexed Up and Whipping Girl, is currently in need of work! If you or someone you know would like to support her she has a Patreon (there is a 1$ tier). You can also hire her as a Public Speaker, Writing Consultant, Beta Reader or another service listed on her websites or the article link.

#julia serrano #beo.txt #trans #transgender #trans woman #transfeminism #trans-feminism #queer #bisexual #whipping girl #sexed up

[ID: The "was anyone going to tell me" meme, edited to say, with linebreaks added for accessability:

"Okay, was anyone going to tell me that Julia Serrano is exorsexist as fuck and thinks nonbinary people are just binary trans people who won't admit it so that they can feel superior to trans women

(Because she identified as nonbinary before she identified as a trans woman and apparently thought she was superior to trans women)

And thinks gay people aren't oppressed for their same gender attraction

And insists that brains are inherently gendered as either male or female

And says that the white western gender binary wouldn't exist if it weren't the most natural and right system, ignoring the historical and continuing destruction of the genders of other cultures

And pretends that trans men being seen as women is a privileged while also claiming that they always pass as men with no problem ever???

Or was I just supposed to find that out by reading Whipping Girl myself???"

End ID.]

I'm so fucking infuriated.

#Whipping Girl #Julia Serrano #Rjalker reads Whipping Girl #Whipping Girl exorsexism #Whipping Girl homophobia #homophobia #exorsexism #described images #trans #transgender #nonbinary

*banging pots and pans together and shouting* Julia Serrano is exorsexist as fucking shit and says gay people aren't actually oppressed for their same-gender attraction, it just because they're gender nonconforming!!!! But then she literally turns around to claim that butch women are treated better by our society and have privilege over traditionally feminine women, and says the white western gender binary only exists because it's the most natural one, and says nonbinary people are just actually binary trans but don't want to admit it because they want to feel superior to trans women, and trans men are simultaneously priveledged for being treated like women but also they're priveledged for always passing and being seen as men, and literally spends all her essays pretending her experiences are universal while paying lip service every now and then to the idea that all trans people are oppressed and she isn't trying to downplay the oppression non-trans women face, only to then immediately go on to downplay and dismiss and speak over other trans people about the the oppression they face and pretend like she knows trans men's experiences better than they do, and says nonbinary people aren't actually nonbinary but just saying we are to feel superior, but no one wants to fucking talk about this because I guess bigotry is okay as long as you're a trans woman who had enough money to go to collage and get paid money to put this bigoted shit in books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#block of text #INFURIATED #FROTHING AT THE FUCKING MOUTH #Julia Serrano #transphobia #exorsexism #mispergeny #transandrophobia #treiphobia #transandromisia

zygs she literally says gay people aren't oppressed for their same-gender attraction, they're oppressed for being gender nonconforming. NO, I AM NOT JOKING.

#caps lock #Whipping Girl #Rjalker reads Whipping Girl #homophobia #discussion of homophobia #Julia Serrano #this is your savior???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[ID: The "was anyone going to tell me" meme, now edited to read:

"Okay, was anybody going to tell me that Julia Serrano is exorsexist as hell, or was I just supposed to find that out while reading Whipping Girl myself?"

End ID.]

Well. Consider this me telling you all so you don't have to only find out when you read her book where she's exorsexist as hell and says brains are inherently either male or female and that the white western gender binary wouldn't exist if it weren't the most natural and right system ever????