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endless gifs of rhea - 188 / ∞ rhea dragging buddy edition
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Someone being a communist who's a Marxist is a lot like being a physicist who's a "Newtonian." Because yeah, it is an accurate model of systems on a large scale, and the predictions made from it are often pretty accurate. But we've also known for a long time that it is EXTREMELY incomplete at modelling the system, because it's way more complicated than that. If someone dismisses relativity because it's not how Newton described the world, that person should not be listened to. Same with Marxists.
fascinating way to put it anon
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Another physical disabled person who's played Katawa Shoujo, genuinely it's good and I'm honestly sad to think that some shitty transandrophobic tankie using Rin Tezuka as her pfp might turn someone off to giving it a fair chance. It's not perfect, certainly, it's a product of it's time and it shows, but I have to agree with the other asker that I always felt like it written from a place of love and wanting to do right by the disabled community.
Last I checked the game is still entirely free, so there's really no risk to giving it a shot, if you don't like it then no harm no foul, you're not giving money to something you didn't enjoy and can just uninstall and call it a day.
hell yeah
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Katawa Shoujo has its flaws, but it also has a character who has experienced profound physical and mental trauma straight up call out the main character and say "you are not treating me as a person, you are fetishizing Healing Me and feel entitled to Fixed Me as a reward" and the only way forward with her is to acknowledge that yeah, that IS what he was doing. Just acknowledging that that's a thing that happens, which is very rare in disability rep, earns it a LOT of leeway.
that does sound good!
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i think the thing that a lot of people overlook that makes "sex-based oppression" kind of an inconsistent concept is that... white cishet patriarchy... needs (white cishet) women. a major pillar of sexism is that a woman or any person afab not being available as a wife & babymaker is offensive to cishet patriarchy.
it's not as simple as patriarchy prioritizing men over women, thought that's part of it — women have a designated role in cishet patriarchy, and any woman who doesn't play that role (because they're a trans woman, for example, or a person afab who isn't a woman at all, or they don't want or can't have children, or they're nonwhite...) is treated as an active threat to the hegemony, because in a way, we are.
yeah it's very messy and difficult to talk about in one particular way
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As a fellow gendered anachro displacement haver, I especially love when you reblog old store and mall photos! Out of curiosity, do you remember a store called Imaginarium? It was a learning/science focused toy store, but he stores were notable for having a small door next to the regular door for young kids, often in a cartoony arch shape. Seeing mall photos made me suddenly nostalgic for it, even when I was older than the store's demographic, walking past the two doors made me smile.
I have never lived near anything fun like that at all tbh. A big part of my anachro displacement is that I've not been able to have experiences like that.
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Hi Velvet. I have a conspiracy theory
I honestly kinna believe that the white folks living in expensive “queer bubble” big cities in the US (Portland/Seattle/etc) may very well have their own openly transmisogynistic ‘queer subcultures’ where transmascs are centered/victimized/etc when they absolutely shouldn’t be & dudes get away with trying to improv a racist misogynistic power imbalance in their favor because it ‘affirms their genders’ to be rabid transmisogynists or some shit. I know that’s a big oversimplification but I just feel like I keep seeing a correlation between condescending-ass transandrophobic transmascs that come into the #tags to lecture strangers on their supposed Male Privilege & then inexplicably tagging their posts like ‘#btw i live in sanfran and got away with being a transmisogynist for 80 yearrrrs🥴’. And I’ve seen the Funnie Tiktok Skits about how shitty the queer communities in big cities can be towards transfems & especially discriminatory towards nonbinary people on the basis of assigned sex when it comes to housing. I’m kinda inclined to believe their experiences while also acknowledging mine can be true all the same, which, of course, is never a mutual feeling. It’s just, like, weird.
None of that is to say that The Transmasculine Monolith should be held accountable for this phenomenon, either. I think it’s just. A good handful of slightly more privileged transmascs punching sideways at those of us who often aren’t lucky enough to live in a ‘queer safehaven city’. Idk am I reading into this too much
lmao correct a majority of transmascs into this shit are happy to admit that they've been wildly transmisogynistic for ages
non-binary self-identified TMEs are more likely to be simply misguided
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honestly TRFs buying so hard into radfem horseshit makes a lot of sense to me, considering their perspective on "what drives how society treat trans people".
specifically, their apparent view of it as Literally Just Misogyny. their attitude seems to be that hatred of trans women is motivated by like- "these people chose to be women, so it's even more acceptable to hate and mistreat them!", and therefore trans men must be loved and accepted because "these people chose to stop being women, so they're cool now!"
an assumption that the experiences of trans people invert depending on their gender- if trans women experience a sharp increase in mistreatment on coming out as trans, that must mean that trans men experience a decrease! if trans women have a hard time passing, that must mean trans men have an easy time! the experiences of people of "opposite gender" are opposite!
like yeah no wonder they decided "radfem ideology but ctrl+h sex -> gender" was the way to go if that's how they think.
it is kind of funny that their whole shitty attitude of like "trans women like cool and punk and rebellious stuff but trans men like wimpy and feelsy and soft stuff" is more or less just bog-standard biological essentialism, though.
Yeah, apparently "transitioning toward masculinity" is always rewarded. And ofc, "transitioning away from masculinity" is an excuse by exorsexists to misgender non-binary people AMAB, because TRFs do not believe in gender completely unconnected to the binary and refuse to accept that some people AMAB are neither cis men nor "transfeminine."
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"The world is cold and gray and wet, and I am heavy-hearted." –Sara Teasdale 🍂 // all photos are mine 🌙
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speaking of communists and larping im in a food not bombs chat and earlier today they had a 3 hour long argument about whether or not using queue barriers (to help organize the line and prevent fights from breaking out over cutting) was "against the spirit of anarchism" and some of them were genuinely arguing it was better for it to be a free for all where individuals have to fend for themselves at the hot serve than making sure everyone got fed. absolutely embarrassing behavior.
Anarchists are typically well-meaning and I have no hate in my heart for them, but I don't get it.
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pdb is doing the "i couldn't possibly be a chaser, I'm gay" shit like he's not a very obvious transmisogynist and like cis het men who are chasers for trans men because they see the power imbalance as an easy way to manipulate someone into detransition don't exist
I don't think he's a chaser, but I don't think he actually considers trans women women and he's just siding with people he sees as allies in his quest to be a misogynistic asshole to those he does consider women.
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just saw someone's bio that said "before you speak to me i want you to think about if you hold systemic power over me (Ex. TMA/TME) and if you would speak to me this way if you didn't" and like oh my fucking godddddd.
i am begging y'all to go outside. make some friends. get a hobby. smoke some weed. go to the club. play some board games. make a delicious grilled cheese sandwich.
if you said that to any cis person IRL you would sound ridiculous and you KNOW that, which is why you can ONLY say it to The Evil Tee Em Ees.
also i have never in the run of this discourse ever seen a single white trans person check their privelege (which is what that bio is basically asking people to do before engaging with her blog) before engaging and immediately dismissing and disregarding things that black trans people have to say about their experiences.
im so sick of TRFs acting like (primarily white) transfemmes are God's saddest and most oppressed little meow meows. can we be so for real. white transfemmes please check YOUR privelege before you start demanding black trans people coddle your feelings about being the most oppressed.
lol yeah like hey dumbass what if you hold power over them? but some truly do not consider that a possibility
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