Hey! I love tumblr! But sometimes I really wish there was a way to sort through blogs a little bit easier on the app. Like a way to sort between reblogs and original posts. Idk, it sometimes drives me insane when I’m looking for something on someone’s blog, and they reblog like 20+ posts a day.
I was literally about to rant about the emotional abuse I’ve received from my alcoholic mother, and then this was the first post on the dashboard. It’s so weird because I’m finally coming to terms with the fact that I have a shitty mother, and almost all of what you just described was her.
i think there's an instinct some people feel when receiving gender-based abuse by cisgender women to say
"oh, it's complicated, because she's very abusive, but she just wanted what was best for me!"
no, she wanted to abuse you, and being abused was not what was best for you.
"oh well, yes, she policed my gender presentation as a trans guy or nonbinary person but she was frightened of me receiving detrimental effects from society"
she WAS the detrimental effect. she did that.
no one is protecting you from the sword by slitting you open with their own dagger. that's not how this works
cisgender women who attack trans people don't want to protect us. they're hurting us because they want to hurt us
saying they do it to protect us is just part of the abuser's playbook - and it plays on the gender essentialist lie that women can't abuse, that if their actions hurt you they didn't mean to, or they meant the best for you
cisgender women aren't protecting you when they model eating disorders or criticise your body, nor when they verbally abuse you, slutshame you, physically touch you, when they police your meals or criticise your behaviour, when they HURT you
"oh but she said she did it to help me"
of course she did. how else better to convince you to let her keep doing it? how else better to convince herself that she has every right to do so?
Honestly, some of my most recent interests have been cringey af. That doesn’t stop the fact that I like them. Idk, I just follow wherever my brain takes me.
I have ADHD, and whenever someone tells me not to procrastinate, I immediately think of the fact that I procrastinate going to the bathroom, and eating on a daily basis.