M Zakharuk @ IMAGO OUT NOW
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They/them. Writer of lesbian SFF & horror, graphic designer. Nonbinary lesbian. 🔞, 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇮🇪 Latest: IMAGO: A DYSTOPIAN GOTHIC
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It's kinda telling that it's customary to say "I am ASAB" as opposed to "I was ASAB," which makes far more linguistic sense but you can't do a little bioessentialism that way, can you
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If you, a tmasc, dislike a trans woman—her words, herself, her ideology—and your response is "why are we fighting, we should be making out instead, we should be fucking instead!" What you should actually do is go to a harassment prevention seminar
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as yes, lesbians, famously not seen as deviants
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Having gone through a transmedicalist transition process (psych ward, whole 9 yards), I firmly believe that any process which seeks to govern sex—which people get to have what sexual characteristics and why—are all coercive. This includes tying transition to gender
This thread is going to be about non-binary people's right to access bodily transition, lesbian genders, and how much I love my wife.
It will begin with a TikTok I remember, from a person whose identity I can't verify, but whose story is very important to discuss.
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I'm all for smashing the binary (personally invested and all), but trying to do that while ignoring misogyny is a bit like calling for border abolition while ignoring decolonisation
Whats a position on trans/lgbtq people that will get you like this?
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"Why don't you like me? Why don't you fuck me? Why don't we <graphic depiction/description of sеx acts>" You sound like every shitty cіs dude ever. I've heard this exact thing a thousand times. No you being trans and/or nonbinary doesn't make it any better
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I would merge my consciousness with this woman if she asked me to, wdym "would I," I would commit several (many) crimes
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Everyone from Freydis Moon's circle is crying how this could've possibly happened, but I remember how a bunch of trans women and a lesbian of colour mildly criticised you and you launched a harassment campaign that echoes to this day
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The reason transition should be universal & decoupled from gender isn't because it doesn't alleviate gender dysphoria—it does.
It's because you should aspire to more than simply being less miserable.
You should aspire for liberation. You should aspire for wholeness.
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if some lesbians on twitter don't like you, it's okay. it is not Feminism to like you, specifically
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"Monosexual" is not a very useful term. As a population category, it's incoherent. In discussions of things unique to bisexuals, it's much clearer to say "non-bisexual" because that is what you mean, rather than allude to some mythical common denominator between gays & straights
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Okay, I wanna talk a bit about Safe Men and emasculation 🧵
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Much like we didn't fuck our way to equality during the sexual revolution, we will not nonbinary ourselves to equality, because ultimately patriarchy is about asserting an exploitative relationship and your rebellion against it is in how you relate to others, not to yourself
nonbinary people's trans politics being good or bad is always directly proportional to how many trans women they're in community with.
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The idea that Gen Z is somehow uniquely resistant to propaganda is quite dangerous. You're only resistant to propaganda that doesn't appeal to you. If you convince yourself that your judgement is infallible, you're only that much easier to mislead
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Okay, so this (written by a transmasc individual) struck me as understandable but not particularly coherent. So I'd like to 🧵about the phenomena that could contribute to a tmasc forming this particular sentiment
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There's a genre of transmasc online that hangs out almost exclusively with other transmascs yet sees fit to make comments like "Why don't trans women say/do X? Why do they do Y?"
Bro you don't know what they do. You heard what they do from a friend of a friend. Stop
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@saltysauerkraut
funny also how the top image is hyperstylized, with characters made to look like bobbleheads—no one actually looks like that at all—and the bottom one is realistically proportioned. "but they AKSHUALLY look like real women" yeah no shit
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Where AGAB-thinking fails to account for the social realities of gendering, """socialisation""" theory forgets that patriarchy doesn't just have Men and Women, it also has a third gender gender: the Freak
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@DeathMeetAuthor
i wanna write a normal response to this but my brain is just a powerpoint of Aylin screenshots rn
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I see ppl draw Tifa from Final Fantasy with muscles so often that seeing actual game screenshots is a jumpscare
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Sometimes, fanon is right
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I'm gonna be honest, half the time "sapphic" means next to nothing. It's grating to hear it applied to books that just happen to have FMCs
At times it feels like ppl say sapphic by way of euphemism, because "lesbian" is too much somehow
@conKatenation
@lavendersbook
I have had it described to me as "sapphic Song of Achilles" so learning this is really funny and really sad.
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Gender dysphoria is not unique to trans ppl. Cis ppl also experience bodily dysmorphia in relation to their sex/gender, as well as discomfort & friction w/ gender roles. The division is rhetorical & meant to alienate trans ppl & struggle from the wider majority
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I feel like a lot of identity disputes of the "can X be Y" ("e.g., can bi women be lesbians") variety arrive at a friction between two definitions: identity as self-definition, and identity as statement of shared community/experience
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You're pathologic tone-policers, and you wonder why you attract anti-blackness. You can't take a woman saying sth slightly mean, and wonder why you attract misogyny. You goaded my friends into incandescent rage, screenshot them, and went, "Look at these aggressive dykes!"
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@An_Aria_Blooms
It's kinda turned into this bioconservatism wherein whatever features you were born with are A-OK but seeking to change them is not--not NB, not progressive, or just some undefined "wrong"
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"But I didn't mean— " I know. Everyone knows. You didn't mean to, and you threw a racist & transmisogynistic tantrum anyway. That's called prejudice. Congrats on your second braincell.
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You shared GamerGate and stalker conspiracies like they're gospel, you tried to ruin their livelihoods, all because someone subtweeted you. All because you had to confront, for a moment, you weren't perfect baby angels
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To add to the "ruinous hormones" thing: you already have hormones. Every person* has every type of sex hormone, always. The risks associated with HRT are, generally, the same as having an abundance of that hormone.
You're not avoiding anything by not taking HRT except HRT itself
The anti-science fearmongering about hormones in some online queer corners-that are oddly reminiscent of the language promoted by GCs (of HRT being this mutilating, 'untested', life-ruining technology)-is far closer to transmedicalism than simply wishing to alleviate suffering.
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It's rage-inducing that some 40-page white-tears screed was deemed so much more important than critique of a racist, transmisogynistic book, that it persists to this day, a decade later
Yeah so this is the book that I 'hatefully attacked', named in Mixon's report as one of my 'victims'. In it, no word for 'trans women' or 'transgender women' is used. Instead, the author uses this one and ONLY this one. CN for a racist, transmisogynistic slur.
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Every time someone claims "birthday boy" is a slur, I try to imagine a skinhead hurling it at me in the street and burst out laughing
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In light of the recent HRT & transmedicalism discourse, I wanted to share my own experience with HRT & access to it
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I feel like the whole AGAB-clinging, poorly-understanding-socialisation thing, when done with good intention at all, is a floundering attempt to put into words how other people externally gender us and what treatment that causes
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Ultimately you're forced to justify your body. A transsexual body will never be acceptable enough, so there will never be justification enough.
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If you accept that you must justify your self and your body, both will be carved to pieces and examined for fault. Only those found acceptable will be returned to you. You will never be allowed wholeness.
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Ngl this woman was Death Note's most memorable character for me, absolutely hate what they did to her she lives in my heart forever
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But non-transitioning nonbinary people aren't the problem. The problem is that transition needs to be justified to begin with. And it is justified via gender, by placing the fulfilment of gender as more important than the right to change sex.
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A society that hates transsexuals will always try to find a way to stop them from occurring. To wit: have you noticed how often, when nonbinary people are mentioned/depicted, they're so often non-transitioning? Even A/I, one of humanity's ugliest mirrors, will tell you so
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I know there are friends & colleagues of Moon that didn't participate in this. I believe them when they say they were used and mislead. I'm sorry this happened to you
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If you want to be a lesbian on T, you can just do that :)
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How many gay ppl first came out as bisexual—while knowing they're not—purely to pacify that same sentiment?
The issue is not bisexuality, of course. Nor any other queer sexuality. The issue is that the status quo will find a way to use your own self against you if you let it
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The "you could not survive lesbian dating" post is of course correct, but also, every time I have the misfortune to witness straight courtship, it's like seeing two aliens bang their heads against the same wall while yelling, "Why isn't this working?!"
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You needn't look farther than the Cass Review to see how the fact that not all trans ppl *need* medical transition is used to justify the idea that none of us should have it at all.
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Because make no mistake: the idea that transition is necessitated by gender incongruence is cut from the same cloth as the diagnosis of transsexualism. It's an ameliorated version of the same. That was its purpose when it was created, and that's what it is
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I'll echo Andrea Long Chu in saying that for trans activism, that is an error. From the Cass Review to the transmasc T-is-poison guys, everything demonstrates: to place change of gender over change of sex is to weaponise nonbinariness against transition
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—and they were total abolitionists of all medical gatekeeping. But they took what they could get at the time, of course. It's a shame to find that the more progressive countries have seemingly stopped at what trans activists at home considered an intermediary step.
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Of the system that, uh, let's say treated me, it's not controversial to say. There's a reason we fought against pathologising transsexualism. So sure, remove the psych ward eval with its pointless EEGs and invasive inspections for lack of intersex-ness.—
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But the ones that yapped along to harassment? Why do you wonder how you could've been friends with Moon? Like calls to like
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This song and dance should be well familiar in its other form: weaponisation of bisexuality against queer desire. How many bisexuals came out to their parents and had them latch on to the fact their child might still end up in a "normal" relationship?—
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Idk I feel like saying "if you want to present masculine & masculinise your appearance, you have to sit with the boys" is exactly what relitigating the "old" butch/ftm border means, as opposed to a tmasc butch saying he isn't a man
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Telling your GP "I feel like X" is a kind of progress. But is it true progress—or is it reduced procedure? Instead of wasting 2 weeks in a psych ward mumbling through the since-I-was-a-little-kid spiel, you're doing the same thing in an office and you can go home faster. Yippee
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There's nothing "complicated" about this at all, you sound like every salty dude ever
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If only you had an ounce of introspection. Maybe one day you will, but you already took years off my friends' lives—for *nothing*
Hell doesn't burn hot enough
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My debut novel IMAGO: A DYSTOPIAN GOTHIC is out today! Caught in a deadly conspiracy, a student must uncover her town's secret before it devours her.
💀dark academia
🩸violent tmasc lesbians
❄️arctic horror
📚linguistic magic
Perfect for fans of Babel and Baru Cormorant.
🔗⬇️
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What "AGAB" and "socialisation" also feature is a kind of staticity, whereas social gendering is always dynamic. You can get third-sexed today and not tomorrow; some people are more likely to experience it than others, but no one is truly exempt
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Which is particularly painful to witness as a nonbinary person that has, does, and has always wanted to transition
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The moment you start saying someone is "inherently" incapable of something, you are already wrong
bioessentialism is bad guys!!!
(unless i'm using it to explain how i couldn't possibly be a misogynist)
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Ppl are quick to paint Bee as some cult leader of trans women, but she must not be very good at it, since she allows non-transfem folks like myself into her evil "Let's help each other publish books" cult.
Perhaps she's just a steadfast friend & trans ally. PERHAPS
Btw Bee is a ride or die for me she has stuck with me through so much bullshit and always had my back. She has given that same level of support to many, many other trans women too.
It’s insane that ppl read ill intentions into her good will. She’s helped a lot of ppl out of hell
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I make no light of activists that worked to reduce the procedure I had to go through. What I had to weather was in fact the better version of the prior protocol. Here's the thing though: I know the ppl that worked on this,—
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When an alpha podcaster is saying real men can't buy Bud Light, what is he doing if not threatening other cis men with degendering?
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trans people encompass a vast array of individuals in every respect, from identity to culture to physiology. they can look and feel like literally anyone. if you claim you're not attracted to any trans person, not a single one, you're either making uninformed assumptions or lying
@ZakharukMatt
how is it « sucking » if its not what youre attracted to? theres nothing wrong w not bein attracted to trans people.
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@lavendersbook
the eternal struggle of showing a butch and having straights jump on like "oh?? a new man to slobber over????"
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"Radfеm" becoming synonymous with "TЕRF" is a GC victory, hands down.
Usually we recognise a progressive veneer for conservatism as only veneer, yet with feminism, the inverse happened: conservatism was equated with the feminism it used as a sheepskin
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Anyway here's a decent short article about transphobia against transmasculine people that doesn't shit on trans women
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First, why it's not coherent. For one, as
@talia_bhatt
noted, have you been around cis gay men? They form a sizeable chunk of the queer community and definitely have no problem with being masculine or attracted to men. If they do have a problem with something it's the opposite--
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Because we are gendered on a multitude of disparate mosaic pieces that should all cohere to M or F, and when that coherence is not reached, we are third-sexed, degendered, judged by the standards of all genders yet given none of their rewards
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--accepting effeminate gay men, not feminising trans men, being normal-er about bi men. So when you say "queer community has a problem with mascs," you must've forgotten about cis gay men.
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1 is in fact patriarchal in nature. It commits several fallacies native to patriarchal thinking:
a. That it is PIV sex &/or attraction to women that is the source of misogyny rather than the broader sexual, reproductive, & domestic exploitation of the woman--
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If you haven't had the opportunity to socialise outside of enclosed online spaces, well that's okay, it happens. But no one's putting a gun to your head and telling you to make statements about a population you've only seen in quote-tweets!
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You can be queergender or you can be cis or whosoever you want—and yes some of those are more subversive than others— but ultimately it's about the communities you do and don't participate in
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This isn't to suggest everyone suffers equally, but to say that failure to recognise a persistent social pattern means you've preemptively failed at solving it. Because you're gonna talk yourself to someplace stupid, like pretending that trans kids are treated the same as cis
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There's no force-transing craze you need to fight; T is not the juice of evil that'll turn you into a hulking man-beast; it's not too late to take E and its effects are not "weaker".
Free access to HRT means more freedom to gender expression and identity, not less
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Some trans ppl here get very defensive & escalatory the moment a lesbian of colour says anything, but their audience never notices because they can't tell lesbophobia & racialised misogyny from business as usual
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It is famously soooo difficult to find a trans woman happy to explain in great detail exactly how E HRT works and what you should and shouldn't do
Amazing to just drop this with no introspection. Gleefully admitting that the writer of the video has no personal experience with oestrogen HRT, but not feeling the need to correct that. (Lecturing trans women to not be sexist was crucial, however.)
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Interesting how ppl like to reduce trans experiences to either "completely stealth, got HRT and surgeries, all docs done, functionally cis" or "cannot transition in any way, deep in the closet, functionally cis" to win an argument
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I'm sorry but if you, today or ever, read the Mixon "report" and thought, "my god, she's onto something," you are a useful idiot that doesn't understand how racism and lesbophobia manifest
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Disclaimer: I am transmasculine. I have lived experience being treated as an androgynous masc girl and as a young man exuding a somewhat-socially-acceptable level of queer particles. I have gone through some medical transition. Make of that what you will
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Saying that a trans man experiences not transphobia but misandry is the same as saying a rich woman experiences not misogyny but reverse classism
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Another thing is an aversion to subversive masculinity specifically. Anti-butchness, homophobia against gay men, anti-transmsculinity--all distinct, yet joined in one sentiment: "How dare you pervert manhood?"
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I feel like there's a growing trend of ppl approaching the construction of their books ass-on-backwards. Trope maps, tiktokable moments--all that's for marketing, which is a different job than writing
I was listening to this podcast and the host was talking consciously plan to make an effort to put "tiktokable moments" in your books. And it didnt sit well in my spirit. I know this is a business and writing to market is expected but I think for me that is crossing a line.
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"Trans man lesbian" is an oxymoronic and regressive term, and here's why 🧵
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What is a tradwife tiktoker suggesting when she says women must submit to their husband if not threatening independent women with getting third-sexed?
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@bloomfilters
someone on this site once said americans couldn't organise their way out of a paper bag and, yeah
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Taking hormones is not "medicalising" your body, you absolute buffoon
@savroge
. Is it still "medicalising" if you're taking, say, birth control? If you're treating menopause?
@womanofkemay
I'm impressed that despite repeatedly referencing the current transphobic and moral panic-ridden political climate, this video still goes out of its way to reify the denaturalizing and dehumanizing language ("medicalized") that trans healthcare is stigmatized through.
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Biphobia's features—equivocation to promiscuity, being perceived as not real or serious—comes first and foremost from the patriarchal concept of sexuality. Not from other people being monosexual. The common denominator is brainworms, not the number of genders attracted to
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But something about my behaviour signalled masculinity, and so I was judged as if I wanted to assume a boy's place--even as I was *also* judged for performing a girl's role poorly
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—to suggest that the person making the presumption is being trans- or homophobic. To say that expecting less misogyny from a man is emasculating is to assert that it is, to some extent, a man's right to exercise misogyny
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When I was a kid, I'd often get bullied or ridiculed for not being physically strong enough or stoic enough, even though I never passed as a boy and those standards, allegedly, shouldn't have been placed on me
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Performance of masculinity is supposed to, in a patriarchal society, signal who the patriarch is. When you signal masculinity while denying the tenets of the patriarch, or while being branded a woman, or while also signalling femininity, you become an aberrant threat
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So, Safe Men. The idea that particular kinds of men are safer than others when it comes to misogyny and sexual aggression, typically applied to queer men, especially gay and/or trans men.
There are two ways of framing this:
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--either out of decency, insight, compassion, or even self-interest.
1 means "I expect you to be as weak as a woman." 2 means "I expect you to be better than other men."
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—in which sex is an instrument before it is anything else
b. That men that are somehow adjacent to women—that are far enough removed from Real Men—are like women, and since women are seen as incapable of meaningful violence, these men too must be incapable
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So yesterday I published my essay on discarding manhood as a transitioning transmasc person. Today I want to highlight some points in plain terms & add some that didn't fit the scope of the essay 🧵(1/2)
For this week's TSI piece, I'm proud to present a powerful piece from
@ZakharukM
, discussing the struggle to consolidate a transsexual identity while buffeted by the forces of medicalization and gender polarity.
Read:
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@An_Aria_Blooms
Very interesting how trans women are funnelled into being femboys and transmascs into being feminine and non-transitioning. Very interesting
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2. These men are safe because they have lived experience that would push them to reject patriarchal edicts &/or have more sympathy for women as persons hurt by the patriarchy. They're safer because they're more likely to treat a woman like a person
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Emasculation is in fact a deprivation of agency otherwise granted to men and usually withheld from women. I, personally, object to the idea of framing it as harmful to only men because I believe everyone should be granted agency. Deprivation of agency = de-personing
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