i think many trans men struggle to reconcile their manhood with this distaste towards men that accumulates as you’re exposed to misogyny when you’re read as a woman throughout your life. but instead of using that to advocate for women, speak out against misogyny and become the man who challenges his friends and colleagues to be better, these guys try to remove their accountability and culpability in perpetuating misogyny by using their transness as a get out of jail free card. obviously there’s nuances to be considered — there are many trans men who are percieved to be gnc women and treated as such, not all trans men are on the same playing field when it comes to how you’re read and treated by those around you. but ultimately it’s what you do with that, and when you start derailing and dismissing the voices of (especially trans) women who see through your privileges, hypocrisy, and bullshit, that’s on you and it really just reads as a classic misogynist invalidation of women’s voices and experiences. do better
تخيل الفنان البولندي إيجور دوبرولسكي شكل إعلانات الشركات العالمية التي تدعم الاحتلال في حربها على غزة. فقد جمع هذا الفنان الصور المأساوية للحرب ووضعها إعلانات في شوارع وارسو رسالة منه لمقاطعة هذه العلامات التجارية.
[ID: tweet from @/kushiteDictator on X that says:"I never want to hear “internal conflicts” while referring to African struggles out of your mouths ever again. 6 million Congolese are dead and many still die for your cobalt and coltan
Thousands of Sudanese are dying for your Gold and uranium
“tumblr made me feel bad for being a man :’(” listen, no one’s holding you here, you’re free to log off at any time and enter the rest of the world where mediocre men are praised for anything and everything they do
like honestly it reeks of “tumblr is making me aware of the crap men do and demanding that i take responsibility and work on my misogyny & that makes me uncomfortable :/”
and instead of, ykno, working on yourself so you can look at those posts and go “that’s true, men do that and i do my best to unlearn this behaviour, call it out in others and otherwise support women” you hit up random women to console you because owning up to anything is outside of your male comfort zone
and if anyone wants the truth on what i said about the aroace headcanon and ableism?
this is it:
again: it’s never been about the aroace headcanon itself.
i cannot stress this enough: i do not care. i cannot police you.
what I’m saying: examine your biases. stop and ask why it’s the heavily traumatized guy or the canonically gay boy or the heavy-set disabled boy that get headcanoned as asexual most often.
there’s a thread of bias in fandom choice; all i did was ask y’all to examine it for a minute 💀