we as a society need to let go of the "savage" marginalized man myth ! "death is the only ending for the villainess" is written sympathetically toward a woman of marginalized background (penelope), but the depiction of a currently enslaved man from a conquered country (eckles) has like none of that compassion. like after i realized he was gonna be singled out as uniquely obsessive and dangerous toward the rich, noble woman who literally owns him, i just had to drop the manhwa, i couldnt stomach it 🤢
i dont really talk about my experiences as a nonbinary trans man of color and how Haha Man Bad rhetoric made it harder for me to realize and accept im transmasc, but that's because a) a non-insignificant number of you get transmisogynistic very quickly when talking about being transmasc, and i want nothing to do with you losers b) cis women see these conversations and go to violent lengths to avoid acknowledging they have any privilege or power over us and letting go of their cis feminist gender essentialism
it has nothing to do with transfems vilifying our transmasculinity (🙄) or nonsense like that.
i've also noticed it's mostly white transmascs who're constantly blaming transfems for our invisibility, gee, i wonder why that is
Sharing this to my followers because this is a very insightful analysis some of you might appreciate.
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[ID: The above series of images are screenshots of a twitter thread by May Peterson (@/maidensblade), from February 11th, 2020.
The first tweet reads: "Something more (white and/or cis) feminists could do with understanding is negative masculinity. (Thread)
Think about how a white cis man can scapegoat “male transsexuals” (trans women) as predators and at the same time be scaremongering about the “danger” of men of color."
The second tweet reads: "You see a lot of instances of this, where the male/masculine traits assigned to a group are used to drive the cultural terror around that group, because they’re imagined as brutal and invasive and that powerful white cis men need to protect against them."
The third tweet reads: "This pattern looks counterintuitive to feminist analysis that insists a masculine attribution = unilaterally preferred and privileged and feminine = hated and oppressed."
The fourth tweet reads: "Something that gets missed a lot here is that the frailty/“need for protection” of white cis women isn’t a narrative they have independently.
Cis white men speak this narrative as part of their own story, that they have to protect their women from degenerates and invaders."
The fifth tweet reads: "White supremacist normative masculinity is both the flip side and the ordinate condition for white cis female frailty and infantilization.
By talking about “their women” being vulnerable, white cis men are also narrating THEIR OWN sense of vulnerability."
The sixth tweet reads: "In this system “good men” are supposed to protect from “bad men,” and that distinction comes from where the lines is drawn between who is the hero and who is the enemy."
The seventh tweet reads: "The hypermasculinized “outsider” is a typical model for the Enemy in this formula. Negative masculinity is the male/masculine attribution of the Enemy and it’s not the same as the maleness of the Hero."
The eight tweet reads: "There’s an Enemy femininity too, just like there’s a Heroic femininity. Consider the distinctions made between sex workers and “good women,” deceptive temptresses (a negative femininity also ascribed to trans women) and innocent maidens."
The ninth tweet reads: "Gendered stigma is complex and compounding, and feminist analysis that simply goes with the idea that femininity is considered bad and masculinity is considered good is not adequately capturing how gender is used to draw lines."
The tenth tweet reads: "Bloomberg can be found recently demonstrating multiple forms of negative masculinization scaremongering.
We just can’t ignore the way a form of male rage/male appetite is ascribed to certain oppressed people in this way." End ID]
