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came across a white transman tiktoker who was speaking about his experience with being cut off from certain spaces within the queer community as their transition progressed and a black queer man stitched it with a think piece about the fact that as men, it's essential for him (and other men discussing their experiences in and/or around the post) to recognise why this is happening to them. it is unfair, hard to talk about, and is a very nuanced discussion because your hurt and feeling of ostracism is very understandable and valid but let us be clear that you hold a very specific kind of privilege regardless of your past experiences as transgender now, within the progression of your transition. those past experiences are still able to coexist with the systemic privilege you do now hold. this transman tiktoker stitched (a linked direct response, usually with a clip of the video being responded to at the beginning of the tiktok) a very particular part of this guy's response to him that included a his rebuttal to assumed objections to the point he was apparently trying to make by acknowledging that it's not helpful to disregard this as terf ideology because intersectionalism exists and fucking reported this black dude's response to him. he reported the video. then is trying to claim that his reporting the video is an entirely neutral act (albeit in comparison to a willfully egregious terf-ish white feminist tiktoker's claim that he reported to his local police) 😭 this cannot be real like intersectionality! think about it; you as a white trans man vs a black queer man. holy shit think about the privilege you do have within the fact that you reported his video and it's now gone! i can't fucking watch it!

white transmen vs accountability of their systemic privilege

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white transmen vs accountability of their systemic privilege

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i feel like film photography is the only way to actually capture scale in photos

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albums i added yesterday because i went through my discover later playlist

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The unintentional framing that comes up a lot in twin peaks analysis is that You Get Possessed By BOB Or You Die. This dangerous idea that feeds into an already very scary narrative for abuse survivors that doing harm is inevitable and the only escape is death.

Which isn’t true! Coop has resisted possession multiple times in his life. In his autobiography he experiences possession as a severe bouts of chronic illness, fever etc. His immune system literally fights BOB off. Even when lured into hell, BOB can’t possess him. He gets trapped in his doppelgänger.

What did Coop have that Laura didn’t? A psychic mother who emphasized communication and openness between them. A dad (implied to be a csa survivor) who was extremely aware of the world around him. The Cooper family wasn’t stable and it didn’t last long. And as of Post Canon Shenanigans it’s possibly even less stable than it was initially but the point is: Coop received a level of nurturing in the aftermath of trauma that Laura never received.

Laura Palmer didn’t have to die. She was backed into a corner. She was crying out for help and no one cared. Laura was not doomed to die or become a monster. She needed help.

And when we talk about Coop ‘robbing Laura of her agency' I think it’s important to remember that Laura literally reached out to Coop specifically for help. Laura Palmer did not have to die. She did not want to die. Coop did not purposefully take her choice from her.

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noticing all the ways women cover stuff up or present in a particular way makes me really sad like older women making jokes about needing to suck in their tummies sucks but so does the ultra skinny young adult on my fyp who refuses to bend over to stop recording her tiktok so that her tummy fat doesn't roll in front of the camera and instead bends her knees with a straight back to reach her phone. harrowing!

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looking at my lrb and realising that the kind of skinny you have to be to be pretty in film is crazy lmfao im surprised they have that many skinny people who r good enough at acting around to keep that whole structure afloat

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how do i feel better about it

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the "we don't call people racism exempt" argument is truly infantile and it betrays such a pathetic, childish understanding of politics and oppression. It reveals that you're unable to look beyond the signifier and at the actual signified itself, that you only engage with politics as individual words and not what those words actually mean. We do have categories to describe racism which are very directly equivalent to TME/TMA, and those are "white" and "person of color." Being white has very little to do with the actual color of your skin and everything to do with your material relationship to racism as a system of oppression. Being a person of color likewise has little to do with the literal color of your skin and everything to do with experiencing a certain type of oppression. This is like a 101 level understanding of racism, the bare minimum you need to know to understand how it actually functions. In the same way that the category of "people of color" is full of different groups which have various contradictions between them, "trans-misogyny affected" people are likewise a very diverse group made up of different smaller groups which have contradictions between them. I think the people who say "we don't say racism exempt" understand this but willfully misinterpret it because they are actively trying to obscure and reinforce transmisogyny. Or, if they're doing it unintentionally, then they truly are just infantile liberals who don't understand anything at all.

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brotormobile/brocomotive

brohemian rhapsody

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brothagorean theorem

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preserving this awesome comment before i blocked them for unrelated bigotry

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) dir. Steven Soderbergh

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probably feels good asf to have me like your post