featuringbees
featuringbees
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avery, they/he nb, tme, 27, professional hater except when i am full of love (@transmisogynists leave me alone i hope you die!!!)
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featuringbees · 23 hours ago
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ultimately the best way to prevent abuse is to organize society in such a way that everyone's needs are met wothout having to rely on a parent or employer or boyfriend or any one individual. obviously wont stop, like, manipulation or so on, but the ability to dangle basic needs over someone's head is one of the most powerful and consistant tools of abuse out there. if someone is able to just leave, and know that they will have access to food and shelter and clean water and education, that will enable so, so mamy victims of abuse to do just that.
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featuringbees · 23 hours ago
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I just don’t understand how anyone could find freckles ugly. They’re so cute. There are women out there who wear makeup that hides their freckles every day, and I think that’s a tragedy
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featuringbees · 1 day ago
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in order to unlearn racism u have to be willing to accept that u are racist. it’s not a bad thing to want to change for the better. it’s not a bad thing to say hey, the way i’ve been acting is racist and i don’t want to be racist anymore. when people of color are telling u ways in which u have been racist, it’s actually not cool to brush it off and say, well i didn’t mean it that way.. u actually have to make an effort to stop doing those things if u want to be able to actually say ur anti-racist. u can’t just say ur not racist because u don’t wanna be seen as racist. that’s not how unlearning racism works.
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featuringbees · 2 days ago
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featuringbees · 2 days ago
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It's never going to be subversive, radical, anti-hegemonic, counter culture, or anti-status quo to suggest that lesbians can be attracted to men.
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featuringbees · 2 days ago
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in order to unlearn racism u have to be willing to accept that u are racist. it’s not a bad thing to want to change for the better. it’s not a bad thing to say hey, the way i’ve been acting is racist and i don’t want to be racist anymore. when people of color are telling u ways in which u have been racist, it’s actually not cool to brush it off and say, well i didn’t mean it that way.. u actually have to make an effort to stop doing those things if u want to be able to actually say ur anti-racist. u can’t just say ur not racist because u don’t wanna be seen as racist. that’s not how unlearning racism works.
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featuringbees · 3 days ago
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ultimately the best way to prevent abuse is to organize society in such a way that everyone's needs are met wothout having to rely on a parent or employer or boyfriend or any one individual. obviously wont stop, like, manipulation or so on, but the ability to dangle basic needs over someone's head is one of the most powerful and consistant tools of abuse out there. if someone is able to just leave, and know that they will have access to food and shelter and clean water and education, that will enable so, so mamy victims of abuse to do just that.
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featuringbees · 4 days ago
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featuringbees · 5 days ago
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the thing is that most men hate women in general and treat any woman they're close to as an exception. his girlfriend is not like the other girls, his female friend is just like one of the boys, his mother is a saint among women. this is a normal and expected outlook for a man to have, to the point that highlighting all the ways that he hates women in general as being hateful and not just normal has been one of the major projects of feminism.
so when i as a clearly frustrated feminist and a trans woman say "i hate men" i think it's actually very easy for all the men in my life who already understand everything ive just said above (because they're feminists) to understand what i mean by that, and to get that they can represent exceptions to a general feeling of sexgender class resentment. it's really only the men who do not understand the first goddamn thing about feminism or who are completely hair-trigger ready to jump in with white-knight high horse man-defense-league bullshit who object to it.
pretending that you don't understand how i could have men as close friends and family in my life and still genuinely feel that i hate men in general as a category and a social class is just engaging in the same old kind of "first day on earth" willful obtuseness that is characteristic of so much men's rights bullshit and has been for literally ever
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featuringbees · 5 days ago
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How do non transfems benefit from transmisogyny?
It privileges their discursive positions when transfeminized people make competing claims, for example.
First it must be understood that many transfeminized people find themselves in precarity due to the economic discrimination and social isolation they are subject to, which makes them vulnerable to exploitation for straightforward material reasons and severely limits what they can and cannot do.
Then, much like how misogyny makes it very difficult for women (or misogyny affected people) to be taken seriously when engaging with cis men, transmisogyny makes it difficult to be taken seriously when engaging with non-transfeminized people.
Transfeminized people are seen as unserious, untrustworthy, deeply irrational and biased. They're crazy, they're angry, they're throwing tantrums, they're childish, they're selfish and self-centered, they're liars, they're driven by emotions, they're narcissists, they're manipulative, they're inauthentic, they're irresponsible, they're pathetic but threatening, they're lashing out because they've had their overly fragile feelings hurt, they're secretly motivated by perversions and fetishes, and above all they're cringeworthy.
There are a number of transmisogynist myths or images that people can use against transfeminized people (or that transfeminized people can inadvertently fall into in people's perception) that make it easy to dismiss them by attributing unacceptable motivations to them. Regardless of what they say, it's up to others to decide what they really mean, and it's usually not very charitable.
Transfeminized people hate men and people AMAB because they're compensating for having been AMAB, they hate women and people AFAB out of jealousy, The things they do they do for perverse reasons, the things they say have secret perverse meanings, the opinions they hold they hold because they think that these are the kinds of opinions women should hold or because they haven't let go of their male ways of thinking. They are a bundle of contradictions and lies and artifice with no authentic core. Their femaleness or femininity is a ruse that must be compensated for with extra vigilance and suspicion to guard against the evil it's masking.
In feminist and activist spaces they're outsiders, guests that are tolerated, but who should not pretend to speak from lived experience. When their experiences are more similar to those of cis women than the imagination of the listener allows, they are telling lies aimed at validating their gender. When they're argumentative or confident, they're male socialized. They're taking up too much space, they're too loud, they're speaking over those who face real oppression. Their unacknowledged male privilege must be compensated for by prioritizing the standpoints of others. Their claim to being subjects of feminism is a courtesy afforded to them - if they awkwardly treat it as more than a formality they are making light of its real subjects. They are eternally unable to comprehend the positionality of a misogynized subject firsthand, their task is to listen and learn, not participate.
People have no qualms about applying regular misogynistic myths to transfeminized people either. And because transfeminized people are imagined as occupying the social position of cis men, blatant misogyny aimed in their direction barely registers as misogyny.
Transfeminized people are seen as intrinsically sexual, their existence an open invitation for sexual harassment. When they object to it, their objections read as inauthentic, as unjustified malice directed towards the harasser. Transfeminized people are imagined as being incapable of experiencing sexualized harm, their transfeminized nature itself stands in for consent.
People AFAB (as opposed to non-transfeminized people in general) benefit from various bio-essentialist assumptions that compound with transmisogyny in their interactions with transfeminized people. Sexualized violence, for example, being understood as something that people AMAB do for bio-deterministic reasons (as opposed to something that cis men primarily do because patriarchy empowers them to) benefits those who wish to enact sexualized violence upon transfeminized people with impunity. Many do not take seriously the proposition that people AFAB could have the motivation to enact sexualized violence, or they believe that their own past experiences with misogyny and sexualized violence would prevent them from enacting it upon others, regardless of the actual power relations involved (otherwise transfeminized people are imagined as occupying a social position equivalent to that of cis men).
It's easy to convince people to side against transfeminized people because many people find perceiving them viscerally unpleasant. Fiction uses images of transfeminized people to invoke revulsion, transfeminized people do that by existing. It doesn't take much to frame them as a problem in need of a solution.
Conflicts with transfeminized people often practically resolve themselves in the other party's favor. Transfeminized people are easy to root against, they're born to lose. That's something they have to account for when they engage with others and it severely distorts the way they interact with the world.
If you understand how Johnny Depp benefited from misogyny in his trial against Amber Heard because misogynistic biases distorted the public's perception of Amber Heard, you understand how one would be able to benefit from their opponent being viewed in the funhouse mirror of transmisogyny.
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featuringbees · 5 days ago
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Get your pussy up get your money up. You’re gorgeous btw
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get my pussy up,,,,,,, get my money up,,,,,,,,,
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featuringbees · 5 days ago
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GOD i can't fucking do ANYTHING WRONG (throws beer bottle at the wall but it bounces off and lands perfectly right side up)
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featuringbees · 6 days ago
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featuringbees · 6 days ago
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"as important as the series was to me as a kid, jk rowling's actions are indefensible and it's time to cover up my tattoo" (nuck tats that read WOLF AIDS)
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featuringbees · 6 days ago
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if you see one parent more often than the other, answer for the one you see more often
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featuringbees · 7 days ago
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gonna repeat what i said on another post earlier this week:
a specific term like transandrophobia co-opts intersectional language. there is no intersection between transphobia and "androphobia" or misandry. transmascs (like myself) experience transphobia, but the transphobia that we experience is not because we are transmasc specifically, it it because we are transgender. no one is meaningfully discriminating against men because our society is based and revolves around patriarchy which prioritizes men over women constantly. transandrophobia seems to have emerged as a way to be an "opposite" to transmisogyny, which is an intersection of transphobia and misogyny directed at transfeminine people. from what i have witnessed and experienced while being transmasc and most of my close friends being transfem, is that while i do face transphobia, i do not experience the same things as my transfem friends, and transandrophobia has been a tool to take attention away from trans women and transfems who want to talk about their specific experiences at this intersection that discriminates and often abuses them both within and outside of queer spaces. i am relatively early in on my transition, but i have yet to have or hear about an experience that trans men and transmascs experience that is not also experienced by trans women and transfems and that happens because people are discriminating because they are being seen as a man, and not happening because they are 1) transgender and experiencing transphobia 2) being misgendered as a woman and are thus being targeted by misogyny 3) marginalized on a different axis such as race or disability
even if this is something i am wrong about, there is still no meaningful intersection between transphobia and misandry/androphobia, because we live in a patriarchy and society is catered to men. especially in queer spaces where trans men are often seen as men before the rest of the world might see them that way (aka before passing) you can read hundreds of stories from trans women on this website alone who experienced specific discrimination and often violence because they are at an intersection of being trans and being a woman in queer spaces.
the need to Also talk about trans men/mascs when trans women are talking about the discrimination they face is blatantly denying trans women space to talk about their own experiences and derailing it with "What About Men". this is one of the main problems; that this discussion about transandrophobia did not emerge out of a vacuum, it emerged because trans women started to speak more about transmisogyny within queer spaces and trans men either didnt like that there was something that didnt include them (ie, anger about the terms TME and TMA that acknowledges that they are exempt from systemic transmisogyny in the same way as cis men and women), or didnt like being called out on transmisogynistic behavior.
I don't even think this should be a "rent-lowering gunshots" type of post, but here we are: "transandrophobia" plain-out does not exist. The word "transmisogyny" was coined to discuss the intersection between transphobia and misogyny, and "androphobia" or "misandry" do not fuckin exist as structural forces in the slightest. Men are not punished for Being Men, and trans men are men, plain and simple. The word you're looking for is transphobia, please just block me if you disagree with very literally any of this. K bye
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