I hate to break kayfabe, but I am unfortunately allergic to people misunderstanding my intentions and I wanted to talk about why I think transmascvoicesproject posts the way she does and why I made this satire blog.
To do that, first I need to apologize. I feel like some of my posts, especially the submissions, did cross the line from satire into just mocking survivors. I've gotten a few anons about it, and yeah, it's not sitting right with me. I want to be more careful with how I'm satirizing transmascvoicesproject because I think at a glance, especially if you only know of her blog in passing, this blog seems much more mean spirited than intended, and I'm sorry about that.
Despite what some have said, I didnât make this blog to ridicule rape survivors. I started this blog because I used to give transmascvoicesproject the benefit of the doubt. I tried to be charitable, and I tried to assume the best...but after a certain point, I was so frustrated with her posts and unwillingness to look inward or admit any wrongdoing whatsoever, that I needed to vent that frustration. And judging by the amount of followers and level of engagement this blog has gotten, I know I'm not alone in that frustration.
If you want to be uncharitable you could say that I didnât make this blog to mock rape survivors, just to mock one specific rape survivor. But I never want to mock her for what sheâs been through. My problem is how she isâintentionally or notâusing her trauma as justification for a hate campaign. If she had made an actual transmasc counterpart to mousidyâs TVP, I wouldâve felt it was shitty and in poor taste, but I wouldnât have made this blog.
The resounding perspective seems to be that she is a troll or crypto terf. Which, you know, makes sense since pretty much everything about her blog seems custom made to stir up a reaction. But based on what she's posted about herself, I think she's genuine. Sheâs around 21, spent a good chunk of her formative years online, is traumatized, and has some unconscious biases that she hasnât dealt with as a result of all that. She says she's anti-terf and pro-kink but then immediately contradicts that with her posts. I don't think this is proof of her being a troll, just proof that she hasn't fully interrogated or introspected on her beliefs. Anyone can say that they disagree with terfs, but it takes work to actually unpack those beliefs. You can't just talk the talk, you need to walk the walk. At the risk of being reductive, she very much posts like a teenager.
And not to psychoanalyze but its also clear that she's internalized this idea that her trauma experience is universal. Speaking directly to you now transmascvoicesproject: I'm sorry that you felt shunned and isolated when you disclosed your abuse, but that is very much not what happens to the vast majority of people. There is no grand conspiracy to silence dissenters of this supposed "transfem supremacy" within the queer community. People criticizing you or making fun of you is not the same as being silenced. And whether you realize it or not, you're using people's submissionsâtheir trauma!âas a way to deflect these facts. No one is hating/harassing you for giving these survivors a voice, they're doing it because in between actual submissions you are calling trans women rapists, refusing to listen to other survivors, and accidentally promoting ideology you claim to disagree with.
You've built herself into an infinite feedback loop of: wanting to help survivors but then being transmisogynystic, getting push back for it, then seeing that push back as proof that there's an effort to silence you for "platforming survivors." Functionally, you are trapped in a thought terminating cliche, your blog serving as a cult of one. Any criticism becomes proof that there's a concerted effort to sweep transfem abuse under the rug. Please, if you want to be anti-terf, if you actually want to be an ally to your sisters, take some time to think about what you actually believe and why. Do your actions support those beliefs or go against them? I hope one day far in the future you look back at all this and cringe. I do want the best for you.
This whole process is being sped up by the crypto-terfs in transmascvoicesproject's inbox: they've realized what I mentioned earlier, even though she says she's not a terf, she hasn't actually unpacked her biases. "All transfems are rapists" will get a resounding "no!" from her because that's clear terf bullshit, but if an anon says that "lots of transfems behind closed doors call transmascs 'rapefabs'" she'll take that at face value. You know how the average conservative will agree with leftist policy as long as the person talking isn't using those scary "woke" words? That's exactly what's going on here but in reverse. Whether intentional or not, she wants this transfem supremacy thing to be true and so she will ignore any fucking red flags if it affirms her belief.
I worry that some of the backlash she's received (gore, death threats, etc.) may only be serving to reinforce her unconscious beliefs. I'm not saying stop criticizing her or making fun of her posts, but I do think we need to be careful about how we're doing that. Terfs deserve ridicule and harassment because their mind is made up already. There's no use in wasting energy finding the perfect riverdale gif to take down the administration, you know? The only option is punching back. But if I'm right and she's not a troll, at a certain point we're just treating her like lolcow and that fucking sucks at best, and at worst pushes her towards becoming a mask off terf.
Look, I don't want to stop posting here. Maybe I'm full of myself and making excuses but I do hope that this blog and its exaggeration of her beliefs has helped at least a few people realize whats actually going on under the surface of her blog.
Oh, and if you've made it this far transmascvoicesproject, no I am not mousidy lmao. You are like, unhealthily obsessed with her. You know there are other people on this website, right?
Anyways, serious post over. I could be talking out of my ass, who knows! But thanks for reading. Appreciate y'all đ«¶
Wait shit, no, I mean uhhh, transfem bad, secret rot, etc., etc.