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Never underestimate me. (dialogue made using this script generator!)

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I'm tired of transness being seen as something depressing and oppressing. I hate how much I myself felt that I needed to hate being trans in order to be validated, and how much that feeling was pushed by mainstream media and trans media alike phrasing our entire lives as some massive soulcrushing struggle.

I'm tired of trans joy being underappreciated, about our existence being so dependent on oppression that we insist that we are being oppressed by eachother.

I'm so, so tired of our identity being viewed by the world and ourselves as an issue, as a pity or a problem, I hate those posts about taking pity on transfemmes and those posts vilifying transmascs. I hate the avoidance or ignorance of intersex and enby issues, I hate that we can't seem to accept even eachother yet degrade ourselves to try and make the world accept us. The way we sell pity as our main argument for our support, making our situation seem worse and worse, terrifying and depressing people of our community.

Please, try to find joy in yourself and your identity, focus on the things that make you happy to be trans, find people who make you happy to be trans, Understand that while being trans in our current society might not be easy, being trans as a whole is still a thing of joy and growth. please remember that, don't take this shit from everyone.

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they should invent tech issues that other people have experienced and solved

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Since clearly the cis white deer dumbass isn’t going to quit talking over trans men and then using trans women as a shield for himself, I feel like I should make a reminder for everybody.

Hating trans men is not helping trans women, no matter how hard you dress it up in faux transfeminist ally clothing. Driving a wedge between trans men and trans women just hurts us all. Not to mention putting nonbinary people in a very awkward position, to say the least.

Trans men and trans women have a lot more in common than gender essentialists would like you to believe. No, really. You know how we keep (rightfully) complaining when someone says something only happens to trans women when a lot of trans men have had that happened to them because they’re trans men? Yeah. I’ll let you connect the dots on your own there.

And if you’re cis, you cannot support half the trans community and not the other half and then call yourself an ally. You might as well support none of us at that point because either way you’re a transphobe. It’s kinda like how you also can’t exclusively support the trans people you think are hot, you know? Wait, I think I might know why this cis man only supports trans women while shitting on trans men… 🤔

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Today I found out that that alleged 18th Century woodcut of a woman saying "come out you bitch, I'll maul you" that's been doing the rounds is apparently 100% legitimate, and the reason nobody could source it is because the screenshot gets the title wrong. It's evidently from The new art and mystery of gossiping (the popularly circulated screenshot misspells "mystery" as "mastery"), and the full text is available here:

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saw someone criticizing the transfem werewolf metaphor and comparing it to how zootopia (badly) sets up predator vs prey as a race analogy and i feel like i should clarify

the transfem werewolf metaphor works because people assume werewolves will be predators to humans, when in reality, real wolves are just. not really all that dangerous to people

and yeah you could argue that a lot of werewolf mythology involves them being violent but thats part of the metaphor! how many people do you think got their impression of trans women absolutely ruined by someone telling a story of some trans girl and calling her a child predator or a big scary man in the woman’s bathroom? because it’s quite a few!

the metaphor works because, much like werewolves, there’s really no reason to assume that trans women are dangerous to anyone else except what people (who have had their fear weaponized) say about them

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“Patriarchy hurts men too” is not the same as saying “men suffer the exact same structural treatment as women,” and you really shouldn’t need my ass to tell you that.

Moreover the idea that maleness magically insulates someone from any structural discrimination is farcical. It’s a South Park level misrepresentation. Patriarchy is inherently racialized. It is a method of class warfare, of war on deviance. To say that men aren’t hurt by patriarchy is to entirely deny the notion that men can be complete, rounded beings.

That notion, by the way, is central to the very idea of patriarchy. Benefits and suffering under structural oppression are not and never can be quantified as zero-sum attributes.

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weeee ahab and starbuck and pip in the outfits i draw their book counterparts in yayyyy wee

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving.

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Tumblr is good for creative types because the tag system lets you be truly deranged about how much you like it without feeling as Exposed as a Comment Section

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ALSO. Don't settle for an abusive partner just cause shes a lesbian and that makes you feel seen as the woman you are. Easier said than done I know. But I notice trans fems in abusive relationships is often framed as 'boyfriend abusing her' but anyone can be abusive. I've seen so many trans girls be abused by their cis girlfriends and they think 'well at least she sees me as a woman' no you deserve better than that! There are better women out there for you!

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Rhetorical question: Is this a TERF or a crab in a bucket trying to get validation on the value of the TMA/TME binary?

Why are you doing the exact same "some specific lived experiences are strictly gender locked and we have to make extreme assumptions about it to expel the appropriators" bullshit TERFs do?

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Many reasons why I'm not on-board with the whole misandry thing that seems to be getting popular among the types of trans women who get big around here, beyond just the fact that I think making assumptions based on gender is bad on principle or the fact that it gives off a bitter sort of energy in a lot of posts.

It's also that in my view there is not really much of a meaningful difference between men and women, especially at the individual level human relationships operate at. Whatever combination of traits you associate with women also exists in some men, and vice versa. The same actions don't become different based on the gender of the person doing them either. A lot of this stuff just strikes me as profoundly sexist, and not even strictly in an anti-men way but also in the sense that it once again reinforces the predator/prey binary of traditional sexism, as radfems always do.

It also highlights and centers gender in a way I find extremely off-putting. I don't want to get any kind of special treatment just for being a woman. I don't want people to assume I am "safer" or more morally upstanding based on gender. I truly don't see myself as being on a different level from cis men (or cis women!) in any way, at least not more so than I do from humans more generally.

I profoundly dislike it when gender is treated like a definitive quality of my life that should color everything I am and everything I do, even if this is done "benevolently".

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Yeah, a lot of women are also perverts. It is known.

"I'm no better than a man" yeah, you're not better, but that's fine. As long as you're not sexually harassing people or anything you're not doing anything wrong and neither is that guy.

"You don't get it listening to anime music is a red flag when a boy does it and I was not a woman yet-" I think you can listen to anything you want regardless. How do you even come up with this kind of gender binary?

Just stop doing gender norms. Stop artificially limiting your freedom and inventing reasons to shame yourself over harmless behaviors or feelings. This is not a christian Minecraft server.

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Trans inclusion is incompatible with radical feminism.

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