isn’t it delightful playing easy?

maxwell || bisexual || he/him || lover of men, all sorts || multifandom || really normal about all my interests

[telltale-h3art]

introduction post yahoo !

hullo my name's maxwell/whizzer, he/him

i'm a disaster bisexual n i love writing n reading and lots of other stuff too yea. i'm probably gonna start writing fanfiction soon so yah.

any of my rambles or other such personal stuff are tagged under #maxwellsays

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current hyperfixation: falsettos + in trousers + fight club!!

[clumsypuppy]

🍎

[spicymochi]

chiikawa and friends

[marblellous]

happy adler acquisition day everyone on global

redraw of this

[martyryo]

my tyler headcanon 👉 tyler head cannon 👇

Hyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo 😈

[megustamemes]

Sofa sitting positions

[rights-for-redshirts]

I found it

[mygfturnedintothelawofcycle]

This has to be like an ancient relic or something

[little-whats-her-name]

OH MY GOD THE ORIGINAL

[bad-faith-misinterpreter]

hey i knew a person who thought all men are scum and horrible people and who was really into forcefem as a way of "saving" people from patriarchy, and i just wanted to know if that was okay?

no???????

i subscribe to the feminarchy but like men arent inherently bad and trying to force somebody who is clearly a man into a woman just to fit your political beliefs is fucking stupid. im making my sister a girl because i know they would be happier, not because i hate men.

[neutral-faith-interpreter]

Unfollowing over this all men are inherently evil and bad and must become girls immediately.

[bad-faith-misinterpreter]

you will be boiled

[bad-faith-misinterpreter]

BTW im steadfast on this ^_^ If you genuinely think that all men (cis or otherwise) are evil I don’t trust you. If you sincerely believe that there is a group of people out there who were born with hate in their hearts and want to hurt you, I suggest you re-evaluate why that is.

I sincerely believe that ppl are innocent until proven guilty unless they align themselves with an identity centered around causing harm to others (Nazis, self admitted & proud pedophiles, white supremacists) in which case they may not have committed harm but I am entirely within my right not to want to interact with them. It does not matter if you believe you can be “ethical” about these beliefs. It does not matter if you believe you can be “a good one”. I do not trust you around the people I care about and in the community I am in.

Believing that somebody is inherently evil because of who they are instead of what they do is frankly disgusting. If you think men and pigs and monsters just for being men, you are in essence a radical feminist, transgender or not. I do not feel safe around you. You have designated an entire group to be evil and unsafe because of something they cannot change, and that in itself is awful. Frankly, racist too.

Men are not your enemy. Masculinity is not your enemy. It may not be for you, but it is not the enemy. It is the people who harm you that are, and people who cause harm can be anything. If somebody is hurt by women all their life, it’s no excuse to deem all women as abusive monsters. If somebody is hurt by men, I believe the same to be true.

You are allowing yourself to be ruled by fear. Do better.

[thefairytaler]

So here's what happened on Reddit:

A transmasc posted about how transmascs and trans men are often invisible, how our issues are dismissed, and how resources, especially medical ones, are almost always written with non transmascs in mind. They posted this both to r/Trans and r/lgbt.

A moderator of r/Trans responded by telling them to “stop bitching.” That’s the word they used. That’s the level of respect trans men get. Transandrophobic by the way, don't call trans men bitches.

The comment was deleted, quietly, after backlash. Then the entire post was removed. When asked why, a mod responded that the post was “playing oppression olympics,” and took the time to go through and dismiss each of the original poster’s points, including saying that trans men being sexually assaulted isn’t “unique to transmascs” and therefore not an issue, and claiming that access to testosterone isn’t any more restricted than access to estrogen, which is a straight-up lie, because T is a tightly controlled substance in most places and E is not.

The original poster was banned for three days.

Then a separate mod made a post saying, “nobody asked us our side of the story,” which is wild because people absolutely did, publicly and repeatedly. Users also started reporting that they’d had supportive comments removed or had been banned after disagreeing with the mods, some of those claims are still unconfirmed, but given the general behavior, it wouldn’t be surprising.

Then r/Trans locked down entirely. No new posts. The conversation was forcibly ended.

Some people posted about it on r/FTM, many of those posts were mass-reported, automatically removed by Reddit’s automod, or quietly buried. Meanwhile, r/lgbt also removed the original post, with no explanation.

One of the r/Trans mods eventually posted an “apology,” which was really just a soft-scrubbed PR post full of noncommittal language and distancing. They said they didn’t mean to call a trans man “a bitch,” they just used it synonymously with “complaining,” and they didn’t think about the implications until later even though the first post was about microaggressions just like the mod committed. They did not apologize for anything else, not for wrongfully banning people, not for accusing a transmasc venting like any other user of playing oppression olympics, nothing at all. They said they’re on break and can’t do anything about it. They said, and I quote, “please don’t be mad at the rest of the team.” even though the rest of the team are just as culpable for not stopping their behavior.

They also added that trans men are “a welcome part of the community” and tried to point at moderation history as proof. Because apparently we should be grateful that people occasionally get banned, every so often, for implying trans men aren't oppressed at all, wow, thanks, that is like below the bare minimum, cool.

The current state of things is: r/Trans has over 600,000 members, and trans men and transmascs were silenced, banned, and told to shut up for bringing up their own oppression. And the subreddit is locked down. There’s a mass exodus happening to the new sub, r/trans4every1, but let’s be real, the damage has already been done.

Now let’s talk about what this actually means.

This is not “just more Tumblr discourse.” This isn’t some random blog saying they don’t like transmascs. This isn’t a Twitter reply guy. This isn’t a niche zine or a spicy personal take. This is a massive trans-focused subreddit with over half a million users. It's easily one of the largest public facing trans community online, maybe even the largest, I've certainly never found a bigger one myself. And the moderation team made it crystal clear: they do not want transmascs to feel safe or welcome there.

This is what transandrophobia looks like on a slightly larger internet scale. When it’s in the hands of people who get to decide who gets heard and who gets deleted.

And for anyone who’s still stuck on “well they apologized” listen: trans men are told all the time that we’re being too loud, too angry, too entitled, too manly, too feminine, too confusing, too “binary,” too "Nonbinary", too much. We’re told that we’re “oppression olympics-ing” just for talking about our lives. And now we're getting banned and locked out of the spaces that claim to represent a huge portion of online trans people.

This isn't just online drama. This is a bellwether. And if it isn’t setting off alarms in your head, it should be.

The way transandrophobia manifests in online spaces absolutely bleeds into real life, into medical gatekeeping, into poor data collection, into the erasure of sexual violence against transmascs, into advocacy groups that write us out of the picture, into educational materials that treat us like footnotes, if they include us at all.

And if you’re sitting there thinking, “well it’s not that deep,” you’re part of the problem.

We need to start being more honest about this: Transandrophobia is real, it is widespread, and it is growing. We need to stop giving people the benefit of the doubt when they’ve shown us they don’t want us in the room.

And frankly?

We need to start making TRFs [Trans Radfems & transmasc-exclusionary feminists alike] deeply uncomfortable being open about their beliefs. We need to make them afraid to be TRFs, the way they’re trying to make us afraid to exist.

The same way we don’t coddle fascists. The same way we don’t tolerate TERFs. We need to stop tiptoeing around transandrophobia.

Because this growing wave of transandrophobia is going to kill people. Full stop.

Protect trans men. Protect transmascs. Protect your siblings; all of them!

Edit because I forgot to add it:

Another thing worth noting is that not only was r/trans deleting and banning any users and posts talking about the situation, they were deleting any posts talking about transmasc issues or transmasc positivity full stop.

Even when those posts had nothing to do with the current issue. They were being silenced. They were being actively erased, in a trans space.

[lesbonoi]

[gone789]

please don't leave me again

[gone789]

will she ever find her knights?

[stilesisbiles]

Reminder: Bi Visibility Day is September 23. Remember to leave cookies out for Freddie.

[stilesisbiles]

Tonight!

[rainbowbarnacle]

[friendlyfrankenstein]

this is a good tradition and must be maintained

[timkontheunsure]

Got the biscuits ready and alcohol.

[guerrillatech]

[segamascott]

like to charge reblog to cast obviously

[beenielx]

Why do I keep seeing ppl argue over if michael rupert or Christian Borle was a better marvin like they're both brilliant why are we turning it into a competition stop fighting and appreciate both of them 🙏

[hntrgurl13]

BURN IT!

[hntrgurl13]

[hntrgurl13]

I’m just gonna keep adding to this…

[sushi1056]

deactivated

So thoroughly nuked that there isn’t even any record of their original blog url

[ivys-garden]

The Forbidden Knowledge

[original-blog-deactivated]

This bitch gone lmao

[no-one-offical]

More notes for my coffee! Thank you again Tumblr! ☕

[helpmemiku]

this implies that you drink notes of broken posts

[a-random-ufo]

zooms by

[forgetful-nerd]

By god—it’s back!

[ask-crammaster-ham]

here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”

if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo

ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (; 

ft John:

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 12th of september, 2017.

[joeyclaire]

happy birthday thomas jefferson miku binder