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I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

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I love his silly twirling

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also like i just want to say i think theres a huge difference between a tme person lauding a Tranny Joke as like, General Queer/Trans Rep that makes their favorite movie/show/etc Good, and a transfem going "this was bad and harmful but i still see myself in this character so ill treat her with the respect her narrative didnt give".

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TMA? TME? What's that?

This is a question I get a lot on my posts talking about transfeminism; I intend to make this a masterpost with which to send people if they are genuinely curious.

What does TME/TMA mean?

TME- Transmisogyny Exempt

TMA- Transmisogyny Affected

More specifically, TMA is a catchall term for people whose experience being assigned male and transitioning to a feminine gender or presentation has made them the focus and primary target of transmisogyny. TME people are everyone else.

But isn't everyone affected by transmisogyny in some way?

In some way, yes. But TMA people are, by definition, the ones who are the primary target, and the ones who cannot escape it. A trangender man might be mistaken for a trans woman on the street and accosted, yes! However, his interactions with family, the legal system, other queer people, and any partners are going to be affected by transphobia, but not transmisogyny, because these people see him as outside the "MtF" category. This is the core of transmisogyny and why transmisogyny as a term exists separate from transphobia.

Why not use transfeminine/transmasculine?

Where I'm standing I'd like to be able to use those words with the rough understanding that they are related to one's relationship to assigned gender and transmisogyny, but there are people who do not feel that this adequately describes their identity (ie transfem people who were AFAB). I'm taking these people on good faith, but I still want to be able to discuss what TME/TMA is discussing.

Isn't this just reinventing the gender binary?

It's describing a preexisting one. The White/POC dichotomy is not "reinventing race science", it's describing how the society built on that lie affects people. Someone who uses the word "nonblack" probably knows that racial categories are artificial, but is still affected by anti-black racism, and deserves the language to talk about it. Understand TME/TMA the same way.

Also, to be clear, cisgender men are TME. It is not just restating your AGAB.

What about intersex AFAB people?

Intersex people who were AFAB and transfeminine people have a lot in common, yes; our bodies frequently resemble each other, and the bigotry against one will often be used against the other. But anyone who was AFAB can use that assignment to differentiate themselves from transfeminine people and benefit from transmisogyny in this way.

If you are intersex, I imagine you may have met perisex trans people who state that having transitioned, and thus having a body that does not match the idea of "Male" or "Female", makes them stop being perisex. It's that but the other direction. If you are NOT intersex, I do not trust that you are asking this question in good faith and should probably unfollow certain people.

Okay but what about people who are sometimes affected by transmisogyny?

They can exempt themselves by being cis men/afab and so are exempt. try to understand these words not as literal exact terminology, but as the best we have right now to describe a system of oppression. white people aren't literally white, and tme people don't literally never experience transmisoyny

If it has so many problems, why use it?

Every term used to discuss marginalization has problems. "White", for example, is a category that can include or exclude Ashkenazi jewish people depending on context and usage; the border between cis and trans is one that has edge cases. But these terms are important for describing oppression and helping marginalized people! It would be absurd to completely abolish them, wouldn't it? It's the same with TME/TMA.

I fundamentally disagree that this category of people you're talking about deserve or need a word to describe their oppression, or that they have a unique relationship to that oppression.

Well. You're wrong, so

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I noticed in the scene with susie after the shadow mantle quest. the same sprite for flinching(when killing 8bit susie and ralsei) is used at first to seemingly look at susie, and then it snaps to the regular sideways head sprite. I'm also noticing krises skin is a lot different when theyre flinching. goner? or just an oversight? the flinch sprite might only really work when the lights from the screen shine

here it is in that context. it might just be a bit of a blooper. but either way, lil bit interestin

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were you perpetually and exclusively praised for what you could one day become, instead of what you were, leading you to a lifetime of feeling like you were not only never good enough, but that the best thing about you was a future that would never come, that constantly felt like it was slipping away? Did you become so afraid of closing doors, of losing that one good thing, that potential, that you stagnated at the crossroads until your life began to rot around you and the asphalt ground to gravel and the roads grew ever rougher, the doors closing one by one even as you tried in vain to keep them open, instead of choosing a path and committing to a direction for your own progress? Did you watch the best thing about you, the one thing you were praised for, slowly collapse in your arms as you tried desperately and hopelessly to save it, finding yourself kneeling in the ruins of your unexplored promise, looking for a way out, and wondering if there was no where else to go? no way forward? When someone tells you they're proud of you, that they love you for who you are, that what you are is good enough, do you cry? do you struggle to believe them? do you have to try your damnedest just to make yourself hear the words? Do you wonder if, one day, you'll learn to be happy with who you are?

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ive listened to the voices nobody is safe this crt tv is dangerous please heed my warning

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aight this question is too niche to google.

someone whos camab and identifies as a woman is a trans woman

likewise, cafab, trans man.

if someone is genderfluid, where their identity shifts.

if said genderfluid person is cafab and their fluidity aligns with woman for that moment, does that make her trans or cis?

my logic brain is saying that trans and cis are only descriptors of who was assigned sexes at birth and not a value judgement and as such you can be genderfluid and be cis one moment and trans the next,

is this insensitive in some way im not aware of? I dont have this experience and i dont know much about it.

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congrats on the divorce

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characters apologizing for things they have no control over. mumbling sorry while losing consciousness. feeling ashamed of a bleeding wound. embarrassed when an infection sets in. deep seated feverish guilt when they need to be carried, when their legs won't keep them upright anymore and they lean heavy on a friend, slurring apologies..........

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(Deltarune Chapter 3 Spoilers)

So. About Ramb.

Excerpt from the "Grillby's Rogues' Gallery" Newsletter comic:

I can't even begin to guess at the implications of this.

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is art i draw am excited for everyone to play deltarune!!

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I colored them :3

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MY SILLIES!!

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has. has anyone done this yet

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My friend pointed out the Deltarune chapters settings are like the reverse of undertale

chapter 1 - king's castle

Chapter 2 - The Core

chapter 3 - Mettaton's show, hotland elements (watercooler)

chapter 4 - waterfall (lots more water and blue and gerson)

so later snowdin and the Ruins being the last chapter makes sense bc of how much delta-runage is in the original game. Just a fun observation.

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