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deltarune begins by discarding the appearance and name you choose, then immediately proceeds to show the protagonist being called the name their mother likely chose for them. at school, they encounter susie, an outcast who's treated as a deadly monster (even by her teacher) despite the fact that she never follows through on her violent threats. kris and susie are then forced by their teacher to go into the closet, a dark place whose residents are oppressed by wider society. there, they meet ralsei, who initially covers his entire face and body with a cloak and tells them with an air of resignation that he's been waiting his entire life to meet them so he can fulfill the role of the prince of darkness that's been forced upon him. it's difficult to read it as anything other than a transfem allegory, and I struggle to imagine the kind of cognitive dissonance it would require to understand it as anything else

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another funny thing about having been forced to spend so much time with men growing up while clearly not being one of them: there is a special tone of incredulous panic that men reserve for when someone they feel should be on their side in the everyday politics of gender is failing to hold the line and giving the game away. it gets to be familiar. "no no no cmon man you'll ruin it!!"

i'm reminded of this this morning as a beloved transmasc mutual of mine is getting eaten alive in their notes by fellow transmascs for daring to put their epistemic weight behind the idea that trans men experience male privilege. the intensity and especially the tone is not one of people having a principled disagreement, it's the same old familiar tone that anyone who's ever failed to play along with the joke in the boys' locker room has heard before -- people who benefit from patriarchy furious that "one of their own" would dare break kayfabe and give credence to feminist thought

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Centering your politics around actually Real material structural oppression instead of Vibes and Being Mean will have you realizing so much discourse is fucking stupid. I can't give examples without being drawn and quartered but I'm communicating to you telepathically right now

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ppl who argue in support of the term transandrophobia and say it's like. intersectionality. don't understand what intersectionality is ABOUT. like what it was CREATED for. it's always been a term used to describe the intersection of different kinds of oppression. terms like transmisogyny and misogynoir ARE describing intersections of oppression. what intersection is transandrophobia supposed to describe. what forms of oppression are intersecting here. answer me quickly or I'm deploying my mechanism.

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AND ALSO. it completely ignores that the medical system treats intersex people afab differently than it treats trans women. the medical system wants trans women to not transition. to be "male" to never get on hrt or get top surgery/bottom surgery et cetera. and the medical system wants intersex people afab to physically conform to the gender norms of Being a Woman by pushing hormones and surgeries to correct intersex traits. which for a nonbinary intersex person like myself CAN be dysphoric and traumatic! but it's a fundamentally different experience than what trans women go through.

making my own post because i want to but the idea that an intersex cis woman has to transition to being a woman and is therefore a trans woman is genuinely a poison to both transfeminism + intersex activism i'm so serious. like saying this As an intersex person. it's possible to be cis and intersex just as it is possible to be trans and intersex, and actual intersex trans women should not be thrown under the bus by saying that intersex cis women are ALSO trans women?? it's such a warped idea of what being a trans woman is + is kind of generally used to say that not fitting societal norms of what a Woman Is makes you not inherently a woman. which is harmful to intersex women AND trans women. because like. why are we playing into societal norms like this. idk

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and also generally like why are we conflating not being Feminine with being a trans woman it's really fucking strange to do this. don't be a transmisogynist please i am not asking

making my own post because i want to but the idea that an intersex cis woman has to transition to being a woman and is therefore a trans woman is genuinely a poison to both transfeminism + intersex activism i'm so serious. like saying this As an intersex person. it's possible to be cis and intersex just as it is possible to be trans and intersex, and actual intersex trans women should not be thrown under the bus by saying that intersex cis women are ALSO trans women?? it's such a warped idea of what being a trans woman is + is kind of generally used to say that not fitting societal norms of what a Woman Is makes you not inherently a woman. which is harmful to intersex women AND trans women. because like. why are we playing into societal norms like this. idk

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making my own post because i want to but the idea that an intersex cis woman has to transition to being a woman and is therefore a trans woman is genuinely a poison to both transfeminism + intersex activism i'm so serious. like saying this As an intersex person. it's possible to be cis and intersex just as it is possible to be trans and intersex, and actual intersex trans women should not be thrown under the bus by saying that intersex cis women are ALSO trans women?? it's such a warped idea of what being a trans woman is + is kind of generally used to say that not fitting societal norms of what a Woman Is makes you not inherently a woman. which is harmful to intersex women AND trans women. because like. why are we playing into societal norms like this. idk

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anyone else who has the bright idea "hey if an intersex cis woman grows a beard, does that mean she has to Transition Back To Womanhood, making her a trans woman?" is getting blocked. jesus fucking christ.

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"im gonna kill myself" [remembers that suicide jokes scare my loved ones] "and im taking you with me!"

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ppl online will try so hard to make it sound like men r oppressed just for being men and not like. for being part of a marginalized group. it makes me laugh.

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no i dont think women starving themselves and reconstructing their entire faces with makeup and plastic surgery is feminism and female empowerment

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If you see this post you’re legally required to tell me at least one trans woman headcanons you have for a canonically male character, I never get to see transfem headcanons like that, give me them, and for equality of my own please know estrogen could have saved Insector Haga and Dinosaur Ryuzaki I will not elaborate, also Yuya.

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me talking about spinal disabilities with people who say shit like “at least you don’t sublex your vertebrae like me!! I dislocate my vertebrae every day!!!” :

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*holding zealous arcane fans gently by the hands* me hating the decisions of the writers doesn't mean i want your blorbo dead. i understand that she/he is important to you, but they are not real people to me and have no agency outside of the pen stroke of the writers. shhh, shhh, it's okay, neither jayce, cait, vi, or jinx made any actual decisions. they are narrative tools and nothing more and that's okay. season 2 was still ass and we'll both just have to live with that, won't we. shh, it's okay. look, pretty fanart.

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prison is fucked up regardless but the fact that you can do a prison sentence for copyright infringement is especially insane to me. you deserve to lose your autonomy because we might have potentially made money from that thing. i imagined you did a crime against me so now one day you'll have to hear your son ask his mother who you are.

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like every two months we have a new post saying 'actually [minority identity] men have it just as bad as [minority identity] women, saying otherwise is a radfem talking point' and like. idk when people are going to stop credulously reblogging them, without thinking about the fact that they're essentially arguing that there are segments of women who don't experience misogyny. but I hope it's the same day everyone actually learns what 'intersectionality' means beyond a progressive buzzword to label your YA romance lit as