When you see a really good post but there’s some form of guilt tripping to reblog it added on at the end
(ID: A screenshot of Marge from the Simpsons looking dismally at the camera with one arm raised. A caption underneath her reads “It’s true, but I’m not reblogging it.” End ID)
it drives me a little crazy when people ignore that jk rowling is transphobic towards trans men. as if she didnt write a 3600 word essay on how we’re delusional autistic girls who don’t know what’s good for us. as if one of the first times she dipped her toe into public transphobia wasn’t her complaining abt the phrase “people who menstruate”. essay long posts abt how her actions have harmed trans women and jewish people and people of color and fat people and many other people- which is true and important to talk about- but not a single mention of trans men. it’s odd
for the past few days I've been waking up to the sound of a small animal in my bedroom, messing with plastic bags and such on the floor, but in a way that I had literally no idea what it was. It sounds about the size of a mouse, but it doesn't scurry in bursts like a mouse - it moves continuously. when it walks over plastic, it sounds like slowly deflating an air mattress into a bag of tissue paper.
now that I own the house and I have to pay to fix this stuff, it's extra disturbing; especially since I can't find any evidence of damage in the rest of the house. a squirrel already destroyed some of the soffit to get into the roof earlier this week - what new horrible thing is here now?
these are the people you affect when you talk about trans men being annoying, or unclean or ugly. or when joke about trans men "switching sides" or being traitors to femininity. when you say trans men only transition to reap the benefits of being a man, and we just want to sit at the boys table to have free reign to be misogynists. that women are inherently more good and kind. or when you say that trans men arent real men, just confused afabs who are going through a phase, but we still want to retain our "victim status". even when you say these things around company that you believe are all girls, you may be enforcing to someone that they're not loved or safe. you're telling them that you hate the true self that they have been hiding from you.
to the trans men still in the closet: you dont have to choose between a life of being loved or being yourself. you can and you WILL have both. so many people in this world will love and cherish that man thats waiting inside of you, waiting to shine out of you! people will adore him, and you will adore him! you will love yourself, and you will be loved. don't spend all your life wondering what that could be like.