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Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Homophobia; oppression is something that you never just magically shake, you never get to just "not be racist/misogynist/etc because X Y Z". It requires a fundamental viewpoint shift. You must be actively anti-oppression. You need to internalize the fact that these forms of bigotry exist in society not because humans are fundamentally different from one another, not because these categories actually matter on some biological level; They exist because someone, at some point in human history, decided it would benefit the ruling class of the period it originates in to villainize and dehumanize the groups on the bottom, and told you as a member outside of that group that you would benefit from going along with it. You need to recognize that race as a category (as we know it) was invented by capitalists and nobility in Europe to justify slavery and genocide. It was invented to justify anti-black, anti-indigenous, and anti-asian harm to the economic benefit of white people. You need to recognize that transphobia is a very new concept, within the last century; that it was created to justify a culture war against progress by regressive capitalists who want to market hatred to you and rob you blind. Once you begin to recognize and internalize that you have more in common with a working class black trans man, or a homeless trans latina, or a poor white lesbian with bright ass blue hair, or a disabled asian man, or any other number of working class people who are the victims of this oppression, than you EVER will with the capitalist class, only then will you start to be truly free of the racism that permeates everything our society is built on. It's a radical deconstruction of the hatred you're trained on. It's radical love for others, it's recognizing that all of the working class is your family. Would you stand by if your sibling was facing hateful rhetoric or bigotry? no? Then why would you do that if your working class sibling is?

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like this is a fine sentiment but i cannot stress enough that this is literally egg jokes for boys. 33k notes i wonder how much handwringing about being creepy and invasive and enforcing gender roles is being done in there. probably not a lot, and probably not by other queer people

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trans men have access to male privilege, just like any other group of queer men. this is the heinously transphobic take that people have been hounding me over btw. like when you see people call me transphobic this is what they're talking about

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Its been so nasty to watch how many trans men i thought were smart and cool and nice and socially aware fall for transandrophobia theory and choose their own egos over trans women. Idk if this sounds performative but I will always drop your ass if you decide to indulge in this shit and I implore you to surround yourself with trans women so you don't go insane in your echo chamber convincing yourself it's totally normal for you to believe trans women who tell you not to be an MRA are "rad fems" and that you should be posting constantly about how trans women are so nasty and evil and tearing this community apart or whatever

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hi! ik its not ur job to educate anybody or anything like that so feel free to ignore this and also kill me forever but if it was possible could u explain the whole discourse around transandrophobia/transmisogyny and tme/tma etc? ive been seeing it drift around for a while but i dont think i have a full grasp on what it's actually about and looking for explanations hasnt helped me

Its a cycle that has repeated in many spaces for many years

1. Women talk about feminism

2. Minority men notice that they are mistreated in society, sometimes in a way that is related to their gender, and sometimes even by the people who call themselves feminists.

3. Men talk about this to feminists. Some feminists make theoretical frameworks that account for the issues, and some do not. Minority feminists point out that those issues are a part of a spectrum of oppression that they also experience, but many try to make concessions to their counterparts' experiences. We're in this together, after all.

4. Minority men now have the choice to accept the intersectional feminist theory that accounts for their experience or reject it. The ones who reject it make a new phrase for their Movement of Men Who Are Oppressed For Being Men. They insist feminist theory is unconcerned with their plight.

5. When minority women in their community refuse to say that the men in their community are free of any misogynistic tendecy, structural privilege, or ability to cause harm, the movement shifts to center all its dialogue around the hostility and cruelty of Minority Women. This is framed as love that is so powerful it even transcends the hate the minority man constantly receives from his beloved minority women. Any minority woman that contradicts this is lumped in with whatever type of feminist theory the minority man can point to as opposing his community, whether they actually support that or not. They claim to support the Correct Feminism and tend to appropriate the language of feminist theory but Reversed.

6. Minority women see the futility of the argument and start to just state that minority men treat them like shit. They stop playing the game. They get mad. They say angry things, even mean things. A couple of them might even say Bad things.

7. Members of the group give up the pretense and just talk about the ontological evil of minority women and how they are the main oppressor of the minority man. They will develop their own talking points about all the structural privileges minority women have over minority men and will use and abuse any woman willing to shill for their ideology. They will probably point to some other community as a tokenized Oppressed Male while ignoring the women in that same community.

7. Eventually, the idea of this being a specific minority issue mostly falls away, and minority men start to point out the ways that even the straightest whitest cissest richest man is oppressed by feminism itself. Assured that no one is below them and they can do no harm, they comfortably form spaces that will accept any man but refuse all but the most servile of women. Their rhetoric trickles down in subtler forms to help get new recruits into their movement. Each new batch of men converted to their way of thinking can simply be blamed on feminism failing to account for them, no matter how hard minority women work to include men in their theory.

Basically a long series of choices where you're able to choose "belief in structural misogyny" or "belief in my own absolute helplessness," and you choose helplessness every time. At the expense of everyone in the world that you have the power to step on

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before I go though, I do wanna point out how crazy extremely normalized transmisogyny and excusing it is on this website that transfems are literally constantly dealing with harassment, threats, and worse from other users of the site, including trans users, just for existing and annoying the wrong people, getting their blogs deleted without recourse due to transphobic mass reportings; but these open transmisogynists who are literally constantly engaging in and organizing this punitive transphobia and hate against transfems and their allies rarely if ever face any kind of moderation action, and never any lasting consequences or acknowledgment from the rest of the user base. the transmisogynists of this website feel so safe and secure in their transmisogyny that not only do they publicly and happily organize this behavior from their followings, but even celebrate when it comes to fruition and they successfully misgender and scare people away from gender experimentation like 2014 transmeds. because “of course it’s just a man lying about his identity to get away with bigotry, why are you calling me a terf? would a terf say that?😂”

every other day i see otherwise normal, jokey posts with tens of thousands of notes from guys like this and have to not freak out because no one else realizes or cares that op publicly sexually harassed trans women, baselessly called a trans woman a pedophile to an audience of thousands out of irritation with her, or worse.

at what point can we seriously start reckoning with the fact that this website, and it’s non transfem user base, have a serious, dangerous transmisogyny problem and start taking literally any actions to recognize and challenge transmisogyny and stand with trans women for once

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count dooku after indulging in his daily milano cookie

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I was in Vyletpony's stream this morning. She's very insightful when it comes to music stuff and I feel honored that I can be a part of "vylet academy" (the periods of the stream where she takes questions about music production), since I'm new to the edm game. As a show of appreciation I painted this fanart for her and said I'd finish it by the end of it's stream. Thank you again :) @vyl3tpwny

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VyletPony has ruined my sleep schedule. I now sleep until 3pm and stay up until like 5am watching her streams.

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sketch commission for moojoshi

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Me discovering tokusatsu

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Sorry gang, no new Kamen Rider OC / Knight Kurai stuff this week probably. My cat Sherbert has been dealing with some Ideopathic Colitis and it's freaking me out trying to keep an eye out for aggression from him (since pain in cats can cause attacks and he's had a history of redirected aggression). Will update asap though!

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Sometimes when I’m making music I’ll stop before releasing the song and go to bed. Then when I wake up I listen to it again and typically I hate it and need to work on it more. I call this the old “wow this is shit” sleep technique. My ultimate jutsu

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comm for @/pappertoot 

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i'm not mad at baby patty for seeking out kinky spaces online anymore & i'm not mad at the internet for indulging me, i was victimized long before then and this was my first step towards clarity