#peaking

[depressao-com-cafe]

One of the aspects of "peaking" that hit me much later was the disillusionment that comes from identifying with a "progressive" movement then watching the language that defended the ideas I agreed with turn against me.

Don't like how women are sexualized in media? You've got to deconstruct your internalized puritanism. Pointing out male violence? Fear of the "other" puts minority men at risk therefore any criticism against males (unless it's cishet able bodied white ones) empowers discrimination policies. Capitalism wants you to feel bad about yourself and buy things to fill that void but don't criticize the aestheticization of LGBT identity or else you're a bigot. If you think the female sex exists you're a bigot. Deconstruct your anti-male biases or else you support your local fascist.

[boudicasdaughter]

What radicalized me was the TIM who joined our campus women's health group. Every time we'd share about our struggles with eating disorders, endometriosis,PCOS, side affects of birth control and fear of assault he had to cut in , talk over us or redirect the conversation because it was making him feel 'invalidated and attacked'.

ahh this is a shared experience we have! I know a discord TIM who once asked me to stop talking about my period

I was like 🫶 no 😘

thank you for sharing!

[unstableextremist]

I frequent detrans subreddits often as someone who is on testosterone and doesn't plan to be forever. One thing I've noticed is that the "trans-friendly" one, actual_detrans, constantly has MTFs asking why there's more FTM detransitioners. It's such a pointless question to ask considering nobody can really answer off speculation alone, and the frequency at which it is asked; as if the answers will change within a week.

I can't help but feel like this is some form of validation seeking that MTFs are so prone to doing. Especially on fucking reddit. Like when MTFs post on some random ass subreddit asking shit like "Are trans women welcome here 🥺?" Like anybody is going to say no.

[paperlunamoth]

Thank you Abigail Thorn, aka PhilosophyTube, for setting in motion my eventual peaking when you said, with complete seriousness, "I am in fact of the female sex," when right up until that moment I had thought that all trans people were willing to acknowledge that you can't literally change your sex, and that no trans people were genuinely claiming otherwise. With one statement you caused me to start questioning everything I hadn't thought to question about the ideology being promoted by the trans movement. You truly helped this viewer to think more philosophically and critically in her daily life, which is exactly what you set out to do. Congratulations and thank you so much.

[weather-pics-and-stuff]

[boudicasdaughter]

you asked once about former tifs of radblr and why we peaked. i've always needed to say this - i peaked because of the rampant pedophilia. i was groped as a young child already, and when i was 13 i was groomed as a ftm by another trans person along with three of my other friends (two also ftm, one a gay boy). i ignored this for years. age 19 i started seeing the "little sister" mtf blogs on here. i was disgusted and horrified, especially as a sexual abuse victim. this is when i had my first "oh my god, this is male behavior" realization, but i didn't detransition for another year. every ftm i have ever known was sexually abused in some way. the mtfs i have met have either been genuinely homosexual men with mental health issues (sometimes also stemming from sexual abuse) or an active predator looking for ftm victims. i was very lucky to have only been on t for a few months when i detransitioned, but i had identified as ftm since age 13, and i realize now it was absolutely a discomfort with my body after sexual abuse. n e way... only post this if it goes thru on anon i'm a crypto still 🫡

thank you so much for sharing all of that. you went through a shitstorm and made it out the other side. I'm glad you’re in a safer place now and can look back and see those patterns for what they were. that's earned wisdom!! sending you a lot of peace.

[call-me-chips]

And you see, class, this is what's known as "Peaking"