* You feel your sins glitching on your back.
tw chromatic aberration / eyestrain
my tumblr dashboard hasn't gotten the updated UI yet so hearing more and more people I follow gradually post about the nightmare they're currently living just feels like I'm in the first fifteen minutes of a horror series where Troubling News Stories are starting to crop up on the radio and on blurry background TV sets
oh okay. so when you say "marginalized people classed as masculine/men (even temporarily) can have their gender weaponize against them especially by privileged people classed as feminine/women, so it's important to be aware of how sexism/genderism against men et al is used by systems of oppression" you clearly hate women and are an MRA. but if you say "tme" and "tma" it's actually completely different and good gender analysis. 👍
the point of the screenshotted post itself isn't bad, it's just. annoying seeing very similar conversations take place around privileged victimhood vs marginalized predatorhood & gender. but apparently we can only discuss that in the sole context of transmisogny, and we can't connect how this treatment is consistently applied to anyone who can be gendered as male or masculine. when it comes to transmisogny/anti-transfemininity, we're not even suggesting thats solely why it happens– but ALL trans* people can get this treatment because we are seen as having the worst traits of both genders as a way of punishing us, and when we need to be portrayed as predators, they rely on sexist/genderist beliefs about men/masculinity.
I would like to share with you all some absolutely raw advice my mom gave me about my anxiety today
I saw some dumb shit on reddit and after being down voted to all hell made some memes to express myself
You idiots… did you really think that I could be assassinated? Did you really think that a simple knife in my back would kill me?
I did. I think it pierced one of my lungs. I have no idea how I’m still alive. The attempted assassin has been turned to ash. Good think I got healing potions. No idea how he got in… welp, time to make sure nobody ever gets in without my knowledge again.
here's to the people who HAVEN'T "always" known they're trans. here's to the people who didn't realize it as a kid or a teen, but later in life. here's to the people who didn't know what being trans was until someone else introduced it to them.
i didn't realize i was trans until i was exposed to the term 'transgender' in my college's pride group. i didn't have a word for the feelings i was going through, so it took me a lot longer than others to realize what was going on. it's alright if that's you, too. you can realize it at any point in your life, doesn't matter when you realize it, you're still trans.
reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck
her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability...
i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.
they were HOLDING HER SURGERIES HOSTAGE TO COERCE HER TO RESIGN
fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving
i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.
Me: Thing A and Thing B are both good and maybe true for different people
Person: how dare you call me Thing B! I'm Thing A! It's insulting to be called Thing B!
Me: okay but other people prefer Thing B and therr is enough space for both
Person: no! I'm Thing A! You're calling me Thing B!
Me: if Thing B is untrue for you, you are obviously not Thing B, and Thing B existing doesn't mean Thing A can't
Person: you just hate Thing A! I can't believe you!
Me:
Me:
Me: okay but *I'm* Thing A and some of my friends are Thing B????????? We're holding hands we're sitting in each other's laps we're kissing on the mouth?????
obsessed with the little blue cunt sturtting his shit in the celibacy gif. it's hypnotic
this is a tropical bird of sorts. to me
ONE DAY AT A TIME (2017 - 2020) *gifs do not do this scene justice, so here’s the video posted by @sunflowersrain
its really very funny when people stir up this fake outrage about how transandrophobia is "misusing" intersectionality, and then immediately go "the patriarchy centers manhood so trans men can't be oppressed for being men, only for being trans" like. do you fucking hear yourself
“It is no accident that feminists began to use the word ‘patriarchy’ to replace the more commonly used ‘male chauvinism’ and ‘sexism.’ These courageous voices wanted men and women to become more aware of the way patriarchy affects us all. … Antimale activists were no more eager than their sexist male counterparts to emphasize the system of patriarchy and the way it works. For to do so would have automatically exposed the notion that men were all-powerful and women powerless, that all men were oppressive and women always and only victims. By placing the blame for the perpetuation of sexism solely on men, these women could maintain their own allegiance to patriarchy, their own lust for power. They masked their longing to be dominators by taking on the mantle of victim hood.
The Will to Change, bell hooks (2004), pg 25. Emphasis mine.
“By highlighting psychological patriarchy, we see that everyone is implicated and we are freed from the misperception that men are the enemy. To end patriarchy we must challenge both its psychological and its concrete manifestations in daily life. There are folks who are able to critique patriarchy but unable to act in an antipatriarchal manner.
To end male pain, to respond effectively to male crisis, we have to name the problem. We have to both acknowledge that the problem is patriarchy and work to end patriarchy. Terrence Real offers this valuable insight: ‘The reclamation of wholeness is a process even more fraught for men than it has been for women, more difficult and more profoundly threatening to the culture at large.’ If men are to reclaim the essential goodness of male being, if they are to regain the space of openheartedness and emotional expressiveness that is the foundation of well-being, we must envision alternatives to patriarchal masculinity. We must all change.”
Pg 33. Emphasis mine.
They also are dramatically misapplying & misunderstanding the whole fucking point of the term “patriarchy” (especially as used by visionary/enlightened/intersectional/Black feminists). All the time.