#relevance?

[thetangibleghost]

Π: Youre so cute, I bet you'll be cute as an adult too.

+: so youre allowed to find adult me attractive but if I find adult you attractive I'm either lying do doing it evil and fetish-ly

Π: yeah, exactly.

+: well. Then I guess I'll be evil and fetish-y about it, if that's the only option.

[rebellum]

Part of what bothers me about the anti-transandrophobia thing is that people act like gender is only relevant to oppression for women and nonbinary people. And it's just. Wat. How did you get there.

Black men aren't just oppressed for being black, they are oppressed for specifically being black men. The idea that they're more involved in crime, more aggressive, more likely to sexually assault people, is inseparable from the fact that they are specifically black MEN.

Gender non-conforming men, whether they're non-straight, trans, or into interests/act in a way thats considered "girly," are targeted by harassment, prejudice, homophobia, etc, because they're MEN. Because they are seen as engaging in wrong and incorrect masculinity. Gender policing of men is inseparable from misogyny, they are both sides of the same coin (that there is 1 way to be a man, and that it is desirable to me a man and undesirable to be anything else).

Racism and xenophobia affect men understood as foreign because those men are seen as dangerous, as "taking our women away/hurting our women", as scary and Other because of their potential to harm. That fear is specifically tied to being men. Racism and xenophobia affect women in similar but other ways. Like, fuck, man, the invasion of the middle east by the West/global North was specifically framed in the early 2000s as being about protecting Western values, including the value of protecting women. "White men are saving brown women from brown men" is a famous phrase used to describe this! [Loose citations: Ratna Kapur, Nira Yuval-Davis, Talal Asad].

The idea of looking at how gender intersects with oppression to examine men's oppression isn't new, it isn't some quirky new tumblr thing, it's one of the very basics of intersectional feminism! And saying that recognizing how trans mascs are oppressed for being trans AND masculine is somehow transmisogynistic is just wrong. It's mostly not trans fems using the word transmisogyny in that way, it's people who very vocally identify as transmisogyny-exempt. People are using the term for virtue signaling, to say "hah at least I'm not like those OTHER people," instead of using it to analyse how trans fems are affected by the interplay of transphobia and misogyny in a way that specifically affects them.

Gender is inseparable from oppression.

[cascowriteswords]

when i complain about having a headache and feeling nauseous and my wife asks if i've eaten or drank anything all day 😡😡😡

[rvexillology]

I see this specific flag everywhere (in Canada) with welcome or open written across it. Does it have any specific historical or culture relevance?

from /r/vexillology Top comment: I'm pretty sure it's borrowed from the USA, where these flags are also ubiquitous. It's bright, American colors with bold text - just an easy way for a business to send a short and eye-grabbing message.

[fulviavincit]

Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.

Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918

[notmuchtoconceal]

maybe my uniform kink really did begin with chris redfield's unbelievably firm & tight ass

[thetangibleghost]

Do u think ur mom would let us have sleep overs?

Do you think we could have one sleep over?

My parents dont care but it wont really count as a sleep over.

Bike to me.