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Some arguments transphobes make are almost funny to me now - this lady on a friend’s Facebook is like “umm actually the stat about how only 1% of people experience regret transitioning is wrong because 70% decide to stope hormone treatment after 4 years” and I’m like you think stopping a medication because it accomplished the intended goal means that the person regretted it ?? I’m gonna put you in a jar and study you like a bug

Wait no ONLY 30% discontinued after 4 years that is even more silly

Also the whole “fuck trans people” and then “wow I never said anything about trans people I just care so much about poor confused children actually who want to die for some unknown reason”

Some arguments transphobes make are almost funny to me now - this lady on a friend’s Facebook is like “umm actually the stat about how only 1% of people experience regret transitioning is wrong because 70% decide to stope hormone treatment after 4 years” and I’m like you think stopping a medication because it accomplished the intended goal means that the person regretted it ?? I’m gonna put you in a jar and study you like a bug

Wait no ONLY 30% discontinued after 4 years that is even more silly

The tags on my whiteness post said to me that white people (at least those that are racially aware) and colonized natives perhaps have more in common than most people think. Or at least more than they talk about it in public.

Not that they’re the same. Misogyny and transphobia are not the same, but they are both veins of oppression in a patriarchy. Similar.

In the same way, that empty hollowness white ppl feel where your culture should be is not unlike what I feel as a native, from what I’ve read of your accounts. Learning your ancestors chose whiteness and safety and comfort over culture and identity. That now you have nothing because of the colonization and assimilation your grandparents experienced when they got to the USA. Because of whiteness. Because of the power it has even just as a concept in the US.

We experience these for much different reasons and at least your loss bought you privilege.

… but they aren’t total opposites either. A hollowness where you know rich history used to be? Having culture but feeling a disconnect where you know More used to be? Feeling like you only have scraps of the culture your family used to have? Clinging to what you can get your hands on? Feeling like it’s so detached that it’s not really yours?

I get that and I bet I’m not the only one.

The USA’s habit for white supremacy, racism, and colonization hurt all of us.

And it will benefit all of us to discard the systems those things built. They’re still there and still hurting every one of us.

We can build a future that benefits us all instead as soon as we all start working on that together.

But we can’t do that if some of us refuse to admit the system is what’s hurting us. If we refuse to acknowledge that even with perfect politicians our Systems would still prevent progress because they are built on outdated and white supremacist ideals we’ll just continue to suffer together under those systems instead.

We can’t keep attacking each other just because some of us refuse to look at the ideologies fueling our current reality.

oh my god thank you for saying this OP, this post made my morning

so many people talk like that feeling of rootlessness is just a… failure of white people to appropriately cope with life being difficult, because we’re coddled

and like… it’s NOT that we’re not coddled! in many ways that we don’t see until we realize others don’t get treated the same way… that’s true! I’m not trying to say we’re not, or that I don’t get why to an indigenous person or other POC it can just be “wow *rolleyes* gtfo.”

It’s that whether or not that pain should be there, it IS, and people will act out of pain if it’s not acknowledged

the usual recommendation is to figure out which European culture we’re tied to and key on that

and that HELPS, yes

but it doesn’t get rid of the feeling that, like, other people feel strongly connected to something, and there’s a sort of ache or emptiness that you’re not, or you’re not sure you are

but you aren’t supposed to mention this, because again, it’s taken as weakness

rather than as something that a lot of humans experience when groups are formed for reasons of power rather than affiliation, or when people are forced into a group by their oppressors

and something that it’s okay to lament, sometimes, even if your ancestors were being colossal, horrific dicks at the time

When straight society invented the sissy, the faggot, the equivalent in almost every language, to intimidate men and trans women into compliance, they unwittingly created a new gender. It's a lesser, or at least separate class of man, or in many cases not a man at all. Created as an nebulous threat, the possibilities of what it means to be one became endless. Either weak or brutishly strong to the point of unfair advantage, neutered or hypersexual, ignorant bimbo or cosmopolitan intellectual, starving underclass or ostentatious elite, victim or villain, powerless but powerful enough to be a threat to society just by existing. People who would never admit to seeing gender on nonbinary terms still intuitively recognize and treat this class as a distinct, socially recognized gender with its own signifiers. Despite the cruelty behind this category, its defiance of convention makes it alluring even to people who hate it. Those who embrace their faggotry are not putting themselves into a box but tapping into their limitless potential.

i like that judaism sets 120 years as the ideal amount of time to live cause its like long enough it feels like immortality but short enough that it would be before all the Horrors of immortality actually set in

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I don't think it says anything about this in the Bible specific-like but I feel like covering Jod's beautiful planet in hideous advertisements has got to be some kind of sin