okay so rewatching hbomberguy’s new video, James Somerton has:
- Called ND Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar women so he can make a point about how queer women have it easier
- stolen an Asian transmasc person’s very personal essay on Mulan and queer Asian identity
- stolen from Alexander Avila, the One somewhat well known transmasc video essayist
- Lied about English courts letting Radclyffe Hall “live her happy life” because perceived-female queerness wasn’t legally persecuted, when in actuality, they were charged with obscenity and had their work destroyed
clearly a man whose very normal and chill about transmascs and anyone he sees as a woman i think
& the point Harris makes at the end of the video about James benefiting from queer erasure adds to this. Literally a cis guy taking transmascs’ work– in a field where transmascs have barely any visibility– and capitalizing off of their effort without giving them any credit. in one case, literally taking a person’s essay on Asian transness, cutting out all of their personal stories and experiences with the subject, and claiming he, a white cis man, thought it all up himself.
Mega fuck this dude. You could’ve used your platform to lift up transmasc voices and perspectives but instead you just stole from them and then turned around and complained about how queer people seen as women have it easy.