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the thing with egg discourse is a lot of you are convinced it's progressive to say: "i believe cisgender people can be meaningfully coerced into being transgender and this is a problem worth taking seriously."

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every so often I come across a kink post about like being kidnapped and tortured or held at gunpoint or begging for ones life for sexual purposes and I understand its going for a very haggard frail thing being taken advantage of vibe but in my mental image it really just comes off the same as that picture of wolverine strapped to a nuke

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Don't trans men and cis women also face transmisogyny?

Cis women and trans men may face transmisogyny to various extents.

Transmisogyny targets people for a relationship between imposed gender or "sex" (which is a social construct, but a social construct that is being enforced) and gender or gendered expression. It targets women and people who are seen as proximal to womanhood but who are supposed to be men according to societal demands, which usually means people who were AMAB. It targets a transgression away from "maleness" towards "femaleness".

If someone else gets mistaken as having that relationship between "sex" and gender/gendered expression then they may face transmisogyny (despite not being intended targets according to the internal logic of transmisogyny).

It's analogous to how a perisex person may be affected by intersexism or like a non-disabled person may be affected by ableism.

"TMA" (transmisogyny affected) and "TME" (transmisogyny exempt) are non-literal terms used to distinguish between those who are and aren't primary targets of structural transmisogyny. I've written about these terms before.

The reason we use umbrella terms like "TMA" or "transfeminized" is that there are a lot of disparate "identities" that count among the primary targets of structural transmisogyny, which makes using identity-based langauge unsuitable for discourses about transmisogyny.

A cis woman getting mistaken for a trans woman might get kicked out of the women's restroom and a trans woman who gets mistaken for a cis woman won't be etc. but "how strangers perceive you" is just a very small part of how transmisogyny is actually targeted. I would argue that the overwhelming majority of situations in which transmisogyny is enacted do not involve this kind of potential for incomplete information.

Transmisogyny imposes a hierarchy wherein non-transfeminized people are empowered by the disempowerment of transfeminized people.

Some non-transfeminized trans people seem to be uncomfortable with the notion that they could have culpability in the oppression of transfeminized people (because they themselves are severely oppressed by the patriarchal impositions of sex/gender), so they use "transmisogyny can affect everybody" (a technically true statement) to deny that the distinction is necessary or useful, to deny that transmisogyny creates a power structure that largely benefits non-transfeminized people. (I would consider that transmisogyny denial.)

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yes I'm at Wendy's yes my cunt is out

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ive been thinking about this meme template for a few days now and it just such a snapshot of the state of misogyny. these men cannot so much as express an opinion without imagining a girlfriend who they're emotionally neglecting

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These comments are funny tho, he ain't a transwoman (no space) he's a sexual deviant. Wow this representation is awesome!!

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the twitter callout kids yearn for the kiwifarms

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You're my favorite cis+ poster tbh, awesome work 🔥

do not call me cis+

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The more I see people talk about addiction in general, there are a few things that stand out to me.

1. Damn near no one has any clue what the fuck addiction actually is. No, your kid is not "addicted to their phone", that isn't how any of this works. 2. There is a deep, deep obsession with figuring out exactly what items/activities are "addictive" (using faulty logic found in the first point). 3. The reason for said obsession is not based in any care for said addicts, but in a sense of moral superiority. Most folks I see talking about X, Y or Z addiction are barely containing their bloodlust, and yearn to call anyone who smokes a cig or watches porn a Degenerate who Must Be Put Down. A lot of the time, they don't bother to hide that either, they just say that.

And that really is the rub isn't it? All of it boils down to finding a new, and expanding, group of people to kick. To secure your place in the hierarchy, you must find someone below you and make sure that they know it. It is all a bit bleak tbh.