VoidPiano

FAR TOO MANY THINGS ARE GOING ON ;-; I wanted this to be a silly lil blog where I could just interact with stuff n reblog I like. For the most part, that sadly isn't the case anymore. Political dumbass, trans stereotype and overall silly little thing :3 Racists, bigots, transphobes, homophobes and fascists will get shot (no exceptions) Pronouns are She/It If you want to ask a question I don't mind (I'm not very serious a lot of the time, but here I take that role on more often than not)

[byjove]

Nothing makes me angrier than the “Minimum wage jobs are intended for teenagers, of course adults can’t live off the wages, they should get real jobs.” bullshit. Not only are you pro child labor but you’re pro underpaying children for their labor? Also, there are so many teenagers out there working to survive and pay rent and support themselves and their families and these jobs are fucking brutal. Pay them what they deserve.

[melindamagpie]

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot.

She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

[melindamagpie]

Update from Miss Major's partner: "Miss Major is at home on hospice. She is comfortable and surrounded by love."

Donations and good wishes still needed. Anything above and beyond the needs of her care will go to continuing Miss Major's legacy through Oasis, the retreat for trans people she built.

More details here: Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

"I would want my legacy to be: If it ain’t right, fucking fix it, whatever it takes,” Miss Major Griffin-Gracy said. “I’d want to be remembered for trying to do the right thing and care for all people.”

[fulltacs]

[ralfmaximus]

Keep talking about Epstein. Make conservatives afraid again.

[seongpinkhwa]

never thought i’d be saying this as a nepali person but the rest of the world has a lot to learn from nepal when it comes to revolution lol

[seongpinkhwa]

young people literally spent two days showing the full force of their wrath against a horrific, corrupt system run by politicians that embezzled away every single cent of citizen money. they protested, and when the cops turned to violence, they did too. many of the biggest and most corrupt politicians (including the prime minister) were forced to resign, had their houses swarmed by crowds of furious people, were beat within an inch of their lives, and had their money thrown out onto the streets.

real, actual change is on the way in a country plagued by exploitation and poverty and corruption for DECADES because the population rallied together behind the sheer force of the young population and their anger - so much so that it’s being called the gen z revolution. THIS is how revolutions come about when every attempt to use peaceful means is met with bullets and suppression and social media bans in an effort to shut people up. and i think the west has a lot to learn about what true revolution and true progression is, because the way that our political discourse is so weak and watered down and pushed to be ‘friendly’ and ‘understanding’ is so pathetic at times. THERE IS NO NEGOTIATING WITH YOUR OPPRESSORS.

[seongpinkhwa]

'all forms of political violence is bad' read it and weep losers

[guerrillatech]

[segamascott]

like to charge reblog to cast obviously

[animentality]

[thewitchoftheweed]

We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

[infectiouspiss]

kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say something as simple as "no child deserves to be hit" and people will crawl out of the woodwork to explain why they should be allowed to beat a 6 year old for spilling some water

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say "i think it's weird that adults literally have control over when children are allowed to use the bathroom" and up pops a teacher to say that when they're not shouting at the kids they teach, they're trying to stop them from hiding in the bathrooms

you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things

you'll say "i think kids should have bodily autonomy" and in comes someone who pierced their babies ears before it was even 24 hours old, frothing at the mouth because their kid wanted a haircut and thats somehow an insult

[infectiouspiss]

children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt.

[transmaskulinavan]

every time a cis girl becomes a trans man is a good thing actually. the whole world should celebrate. if you came out as transmasc recently and someone had something to say about not needing more men in the world you should make them feel like shit about it. you dont deserve that. your becoming a man makes the world a better place - no ifs, no caveats, no exceptions. you being a man is a good thing because you are trans. you are not abandoning women, or abandoning feminism. you dont now have to dedicate your existence to defending women and being a selfless knight. you dont have to spend every social interaction trying to be as quiet as possible so you can be one of the good ones. you dont have to make yourself small. you get to be angry, sad, excited, horny, tired, scared, you get to expect comfort and rest and patience, just as much as you did before. you haven't betrayed anyone. you are a man now. we're so happy that you are.

EDIT: THIS POST IS ABOUT TRANS MEN AND TRANSMASCULINE PEOPLE EXCLUSIVELY. IT IS NOT A GENERAL TRANS POST. DO NOT DERAIL, AND GET OUT OF THE TAGS TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU EXPECT TRANSMASCULINE PEOPLE TO BE DOING FOR OTHERS. MAKE YOUR OWN POST.

[transmaskulinavan]

y'all are losing the plot. let me make myself abundantly clear:

i do not believe transmasculine people should have to unilaterally defend all women. i believe transmasculine people deserve to be defended and vulnerable, because they are at significant risk. in fact, i believe cis women should be more concerned with defending trans men. i believe that transmasculine people are too pressured to repress their vulnerability and not talk about their problems in favor of ending every thought with 1000 caveats about how it's obviously actually about women and all women always have it worse no matter what, and that they feel pressured to put themselves at disproportionate, unnecessary risk of transphobic violence just to avoid being called a gender traitor.

in addition, this post is not about women. it is about trans men and their rights, and their lives, and their needs, and the fact that they deserve to center that.

likewise, i believe that transmasculine people need language to describe a framework of how systemic transphobia affects them specifically, and that that systemic transphobia goes way deeper than just what i discussed in this post. frankly it's kind of insulting to claim that this little positivity post is all there is to it.

so i will state again: this post is about TRANS MEN. DO NOT FUCKING DERAIL!

[theconcealedweapon]

Working Class Conservative: "Why is everything so expensive?"

Minimum Wage Worker: "I work two jobs and can barely afford to live."

Elon Musk: "I have more money than the minimum wage worker will make in literally ten million years."

Working Class Conservative: "Well, there's the problem. The minimum wage worker has too much money."

[bdbdbdbdmn]

"malgendering is a word trans men are using to not have to take accountability for being men" you're making it sound like being a trans guy is equivalent to rape lmao you're out of touch as shit.

and friendly reminder, being men is what makes them queer/trans/lgbt. this is like if we had to hold lesbians accountable for banging/being in relationships with chicks because being a lover of women puts you in a position of power over them, not being banged by/in relationships with men is privileging, and society values liking girls (while failing to mention that it's only valued in cis guys). if you feel the need to hold a queer person accountable for... being queer?... you've fallen for anti-lgbt propaganda.

[xmimikyuusx]

I'll say it 1 million time, if you ever see someone saying "masculinity is bad and men are rapists" does not matter what their pronouns are or what genitals they have or even how nice they say it, that's a radical feminist baby and if you give a single shit about trans ppl you block them.

[depsidase]

[biteofboredom]

"protect the dolls" is wonderful but if that's all you have to say in support of trans rights, then you are not a trans ally. do not forget trans men and people outside of the gender binary in your activism.

supporting trans women is amazing. it's necessary. never stop. but i want to see people showing up for other trans people in the same way.

[depsidase]

[self-made-sir]

If your first reaction to trans men talking about their problems that they have in the queer community is "it's what you signed up for when you came out," you are part of the problem.

No one signs up to be bullied and harassed for being themselves especially when they are a part of a community that is supposed to be accepting of who they are. Just because they are different from you, does not give you a pass to put down their struggles.

You wouldn't tell a trans woman to stop talking about the things she faces and you wouldn't tell her that it's what she signed up for, so why are you telling that to trans men?

[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!

[kittenscratches]

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.