i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

all the “peer pressure is bad” education we give kids is practically useless because all it cares about is telling them that Drugs Are Evil rather than the much more useful lesson of ‘the person who responds to you saying you don’t drink by telling you they’ll find a way to get you to is also going to be shitty about all your other boundaries’.

god forbid you teach kids that their consent should be respected rather than about the inherent immorality of all the sinful actions of their peers

I polished both my Taylor design and Lisa's.

As you may have noticed I like giving characters clothing that reflects the larger world around them... I also think Lisa would wear a shirt of their rivals as a mocking gesture :9

Bonus: Skitter.

situation dire. i've been saying 'huzzah', 'alas', and 'tis unironically for like a year now. harmless so far.

however. i hath noticed i now mark half of my goodbyes with 'i must away'. it's spreading

Dear Lord please not this post. I promise I'm cooler than this

everyone be quiet. marsha with her snoopy.

insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense

I really think the only reason any version of separate but equal actually works for cis women is because white, cisgender women are like the only marginalized group that the white supremacist patriarchy actually considers a core part of its fabric

the rest of us are treated as disposable trash, and I greatly doubt that any facilities the patriarchy could be strong-armed into creating just for us would be meaningfully "equal" in any way. and all this just cause you don't wanna pee within 20 feet of us at walmart

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

There's a reason why I prefer to call it transemasculation. Transandrophobia as a term doesn't even cover the 'why' behind the oppression of transmascs, which leads transmascs who start using the term to end up thinking that their oppression is due to some bullshit about misogyny being inherent to agab, like you said. In reality, it's due to transphobes trying to trying to remove their maleness and return them to being "vulnerable women" in some way. Transandrobros are literally perpetuating their own oppression by believing what they believe.

Talking about transandrophobia doesn't lead them into transmisogyny, they talk about transandrophobia because they're already transmisogynists. This isn't surprising, the transmisogynist & bioessentialist views underpinning transandrophobia as a concept are normative. And when faced with criticism from a marginalized group the easiest thing to do is to double down and use your privilege to dismiss them, so obviously they get worse the moment they encounter any sort of opposition.

Yeah, though I didn't mean to imply they didn't have any latent transmisogynistic prejudice prior to falling down the transandrophobia pipeline. I do however think it's something of a mix of both. They talk about transandrophobia because they're already transmisogynyists, AND transandrophobia lead them into more virulent transmisogynistic and bioessentialist beliefs.

phenomenom thats been bothering me that i could only express via an mspaint reverse boomer comic

There's a reason why I prefer to call it transemasculation. Transandrophobia as a term doesn't even cover the 'why' behind the oppression of transmascs, which leads transmascs who start using the term to end up thinking that their oppression is due to some bullshit about misogyny being inherent to agab, like you said. In reality, it's due to transphobes trying to trying to remove their maleness and return them to being "vulnerable women" in some way. Transandrobros are literally perpetuating their own oppression by believing what they believe.

Okay, fuck, that's actually a really good term for the phenomena. Because that's exactly what patriarchy wants out of transmascs: to forcibly and coercively re-gender them. Because so much of patriarchy is aimed at sidelining everyone with a uterus into a reproductive resource, an aim thinly legitimized by ideas about the feminine, female, woman, girl, et cetera. That's not a program that transmasculinity fits into, resulting in violence of all kinds against transmascs to buy conformity.

Contrast this with the de-gendering that patriarchy inflicts on transfems, who are denied any legitimacy or humanity as punishment for, A, actively identifying with womanhood, a category that must always remain undesirable, and B, "betraying" manhood, a category that must always remain unbreakable and misogynistic. A failure to be a misogynist man makes us traitors. Our uselessness to the reproductive regime denies us even the faint protections of womanhood. And because we are denied a category, a humanity, we are denied language and knowledge and frameworks with which to speak of and understand our own oppression; epistimicide.

And these are two very different phenomena, so for a long time it's made very little sense to me to use blanket "transphobia" as a term; it feels like it ultimately plays into that force of epistimicide, generalizing and vaguely deferring any specific discussion of what transfemininity means and how it's oppressed, and at the same time not adequately attacking the roots of oppression against trans men. I'll be borrowing "transemasculation" as a way to talk about these things. Thank you for the addition to my lexicon.

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

Tumblr users will see you complain about misogyny and be ok with not liking dogs and go into your inbox and misgender you