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Vyse 🥂✨

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In typical fashion I did a pinup of my truesona

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The videos referenced are the video essay about Blade Runner 2049 by @ladyknightthebrave and an interview between Adam Savage and Matt Parker about his book "Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World"

go give them a watch they're super cool!

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Maid 2 Fish. play now

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the council will now decide your fate

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Eating the water

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study

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sketchbook

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nina is so much stronger than me bc if a pretty band girl did that to me i would've combusted on the spot

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thing that happened to me today

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Moldy/unmoldy doomed yaoi or yuri?

you got it boss, here’s your doomed strawberry yuri

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Transandrophobia's burden of proof

I have said in posts before that I do not believe in "transandrophobia." To someone merely taking this word as a neolatin construct, it might seem incredibly cruel. How could you say that trans men are not hated? I assure you I do not believe that trans men are not hated. I believe quite firmly in transphobia and the ways it affects trans men. This transphobia has defined my entire life. I would go as far as to say that, by virtue of establishing transmisogyny, binarism, and intersexism as fields of study, academia has naturally established trans men as the group whose experiences most define "transphobia." However, when I say that transphobia is a great word with which to describe our experiences, I tend to get asked,"What's wrong with trans men making our own word?" Well, this my attempt to answer that question.

What often gets lost in our day to day use of social justice terms is that these words are not originally or primarily intended to validate individual experiences. We often use these words hand in hand with words borrowed from therapeutic practice, words meant to assist individuals in healing from common experiences. Transandrophobia seems to take a therapeutic approach to its neolatin construct. i.e the goal of the word transandrophobia is to put words to and validate the autobiographical narrative of trans men. In my EMDR sessions, it does not matter if what I remember is completely accurate to history or data. What matters is that, through forming a narrative thread from my memories, I am able to make peace with my life. The concept of transandrophobia equates the healing intent of therapy with the analytical intent of social sciences. But transphobia, transmisogyny, and other widely accepted constructs of systemic bigotry, are not intended to heal our personal narratives. They are theoretical frameworks.

What is a theoretrical framework? This seems to be the biggest miscommunication occurring online. A theoretical framework, also called a conceptual frameworks, is a system of concepts intended to support and frame research and data. Emphasis on the research and data. Feminism, critical race theory, queer theory, all of these are intended to be ways to make sense of massive amounts of data. A way to turn clumps of numbers into statistics, and to turn those statistics into theories, and eventually to turn those theories into things you and I could use to explain our personal traumas. They are proveable, they are trackable, and they do not exclusively validate the experiences of the individual. If you present an anecdote to person forming critical theory in these fields, their job is to turn that anecdote into a single data point and see where it fits in a broader sociological context. In short, they do not bend to your personal narrative, your personal narratives should bend to them. 

This is difficult to deal with emotionally. As people, we generally want to preserve our own sense of inner goodness. If a feminist presents the fact that 92% of sexual assaults are committed by men, that might make me feel demeaned as a man who was assaulted by a woman, or feel disgust at myself for being part of this demographic. I have to change my personal narrative to account for this proveable fact if I don't want to reject it. I have to think about how I want to cope, how my own subconcious beliefs might be impacted by these proveable realities. The same can be said when a transfeminist informs me that 83% of all trans murder victims are of trans women. For as much as these frameworks comfort me, they also challenge me. Being a good ally involves constantly pausing to consider that you might be the perpetrator of something that goes completely against your sense of good and evil.

I've seen some trans men take the approach of rejecting these statistics. They conclude that nothing is reliable, all the statistics on trans murder are simply so inaccurate as to warrant throwing them out completely. This road can only lead to conspiracism and science denialism. I encourage any trans man who wants to defend transandrophobia to do so in the way that accepted theoretical frameworks have had to. Without conspiracies and denialism, without P-hacking, without treating "a need for our own word" as superceding the need for systemic analysis.

Now that I have established that misogyny, racism, transphobia, ableism are statistically proveable facts of life taken from longstanding theoretical frameworks, I'd like to ask the transandrophobia believers to prove the need for their SPECIFIC framework. Not with anecdotes, not with hypothesis that are formulated with your ego in mind, but with the level of effort put forth by your opponents. Specifically, I request that you remove all feminist theory and transgender theory from your premise. These are already supported, after all. They have offered their hypothesis on your oppression. You do not have the burden to prove either transphobia or misogyny. You do have to prove the unique variable you've introduced: androphobia.

So that's my challenge. Remove all variables from proven structural oppression and prove that pure androphobia exists. Prove that cishet rich white men are expressly disadvantaged by their male status. Then, prove who is the beneficiary of this systemic structure. At that point, we can begin to believe that there is a systemic intersection between "transphobia" and "androphobia." (No, proving the intersection of "transphobia" and "misogyny" is not the same. It does not prove the premise of your own neolatin construct either literally or figuratively, and trans women have already invented a field of study that proves that this intersection can not be described as unique to trans men)

If you happen to find papers purporting to prove the oppression of cishet rich white men indepedent of all other variables, read them over! Then, check out the author of the paper. See whose company you're keeping and conclude for yourself still want to be in this movement.