#man²

[man-squared]

A reminder that it's okay to use a binder if you aren't trans or don't know if you are.

You are not taking something away from anyone else. You should have autonomy over if you want a chest or not, regardless if you're trans (or specifically a trans man) and regardless if sometimes you do want a chest for whatever reason.

Take this post as permission to try binders if you have the means to.

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I can’t remember what the post was about but it was on instagram and the comments were like ‘omg someone write superman/batman does that exist yet’ and like... yes, ofc it does, and then the comments following were like ‘i’m going to find out!’ and ‘I’m not sure, I’ll see if I can find some’... and then someone went ‘are you guys okay?? fanfiction is scary’.

It was a bizarre interaction to read as someone’s who’s life essentially revolves around writing fanfic.

[man-squared]

Insinuating that trans men (and/or transmascs who aren't men) transition to gain male privilege is transphobia

[man-squared]

One day people will all come to the conclusion that reducing manhood to "evil, bad" and indirectly suggesting that "all men should die" leads to people staying in the closet far longer than they should.

And maybe one day they'll apologize for forcing trans men and other queer men to stay in the closet (which unfortunately I highly doubt), but we got a lot of redfem (alternative spelling) shit to wade through and toss out before we ever get there and it'll be a while before it spreads to the rest of society.

[man-squared]

Look, you don't have to use, like, or even look at the word transandrophobia/transmisandry, but if in any case you are calling people TRAs or TMRAs, then you are perpetuating transphobia. Do you all not know where TRA came from? Do yall think that adding and M to further mimic MRA makes it any better?

Anytime I see anyone decide that any sect of trans people talking about transphobia is a TRA, a TMRA, or a MRA, I'm going to assume you are siding with the terves that call us all that for talking about general transphobia or the transphobes that insinuate that trans women/people are MRAs by calling them TRAs. There is absolutely no room in trans activism for this word, no matter who you are using it towards*. I don't care what you think about actual MRAs; don't call a trans person that - our struggles are real and harmful and don't need to be mocked by people not doing the work to deconstruct gender and bigotry.

*Satire is obviously fine. I know a few bloggers on here who have jokingly embraced TMRA because they see the transphobia behind it.

[man-squared]

It's baffling how many people talk about how they want better for their kids but when their kids (or a surrogate for their kids, theoretically or alive) ask for a better world or experience a better world, they gripe about the spoiled kids and reminisce about very traumatic, bad times in their lives.

[man-squared]

Trans men don't transition out of queerness, by the way.