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There’s a very good chance this will be egg on my face for assuming any of this discourse to be in good faith but I’m going to try to be as kind about this as possible. I think there is a contingent of people on this website who think “transmisogyny” is just a Special Word for the Type of transphobia transfeminized people face, and that is why they’re often quite angry about not having their own Special Word for the type of transphobia other trans people face (ie “transandrophobia” or “transmisandry”). This is also why they seem to often interpret “transandrophobia isn’t real” as “trans men are not oppressed.” The thing is that there IS a word for the oppression trans men face—it’s “transphobia.” Because transmisogyny is not just transphobia against a specific subset of trans people; it describes an intersection of two axes of oppression.

Intersectionality theory comes from the inability of legal frameworks to conceptualize multiple forms of oppression at once towards the same individual, and therefore the conceptualization of all members of an oppressed class as only oppressed in that way. When transfeminists talk about intersectionality in this context, they are saying that conceptualizations of transphobia tend to understand manhood as the default experience of transness, and cannot account for someone being both trans and a woman (ie both a target of transphobia and misogyny, as well as a unique force at the intersection of those two forces).*

While I’ve become quite tired of a lot of “what about the men” arguments, and I am not particularly concerned with having a Special Word, I do wonder why “transemasculation” hasn’t caught on here. To me it seems like a pretty useful term to describe the specific experience of transmasculine people as it intersects with misogyny. We do, in fact, have language for the misogynistic degendering of men! That word is “emasculation” and can be used without claiming that “androphobia” or “misandry” are coherent social forces independent of transphobia.

* When certain people talk about the “visibility” of trans women, and conversely the “invisibility” of trans men, they are most often talking about media representation, which does not accurately reflect the legal and academic state of trans liberation and how transphobia is theorized. In educational and activist spaces, where discussions of transmisogyny and intersectionality will be most relevant, transmasculinity is far more likely to be platformed as the definitive experience of transness, and trans women often report being excluded from discussions about transness as a whole.

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My friend just sent me the greatest home listing I think I have ever seen

I mean, check out this beutiful riverside home! Double garage! Upstairs access from the outside! Lets check out the inside

Open concept kitchen, nice, nice

Oh, the whole Floorplan seems to be open concept. Okay! That floor is a little odd, but not a deal breaker.

That bathroom could use an update

Need to change out that curtain

Okay, let's go take a look at the back yard!

Oh

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dess helps hometown's goodest christian boy discover the joys of being emo, with interesting results

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i love drinking coffee

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Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

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so my guitar teacher has been really trans positive since i met him and seemed interested in learning about trans people and that in itself doesn't mean anything but the other week he complained about his bald spot and how he thinks he's rather skinny but that also doesn't necessarily mean anything but anyway today he mentioned he really liked totally spies when he was younger and that also doesn't have to mean anything but

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When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

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"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!"

Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

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People keep saying “don’t be diabolical, be anthropological” and I’m just so confused. What is that supposed to mean? No really what the fuck do you mean?

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hey sad lonely tgirl i love you

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ok but if your dog wasnt a secret werewolf why did my silver bullets work on it

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The destruction was not enough for them, the lives that were lost were not enough for them, the genocide and famine that ravaged us and our children were not enough for them????

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idk what the discourse is here but here's a brief summary of twitter for the past 3 months

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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replace one word of your url with bitch

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drew this post as a comic because its so fucking funny to me

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“oooh i need junji ito to write me an essay” okay so youre a little baby so youre a little baby waby who needs mommys help