To be clear, this isn’t a bit. This is what they actually did. “Its too late” is the new “Climate change isn’t real”… And its still a lie!
Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it’s “too late”.
So I wanted to put this together not because anyone needs to see all of this stuff, or read every word here, but because I think compiling these kinds of posts is useful when we’re talking about transmasc issues in the community.
There is, frankly, way too much for anyone to go through and dissect here. It’s exhausting, and it stressed me out just trying to find the posts to make this. I’m not going to go through everything here and point out why it’s all wrong. I don’t have that kind of time.
What I’m saying is that there is a problem.
Not that the problem is worse than anyone else’s, not that it’s the only problem, not that nobody else has problems on par with or even worse than this.
But there is a problem.
Transmascs are made to feel unwelcome- intentionally or not. There is dwindling space, there is less and less room for our voices. Less support for our perspectives. Less compassion for our experiences.
There is a hostility growing, an assumption that trans men are inherently violent people- are the oppressor. That we must be stopped, that we must be kept out of the community, that our oppression doesn’t matter or worse, doesn’t exist.
I lay this out for you because I want it to be clear why I and others are trying to build space for a healthier community for transmasculine folks; spaces that support and validate them, that are compassionate, trusting, and understanding (without allowing room for misogyny or transmisogyny). I want it to be very clear why I make the posts that I do, why I think it’s so important to change the broader understanding of transmasculine struggles and transphobic oppression.
I’m exhausted after compiling this. A lot of these posts are recent; this year, or within the last few. Some of them are older. Some of them are from my own inbox, or comments off my posts- and I left many of the posts I found out, too, prioritizing the ones that make sense without the surrounding context and the ones that contain their entire message, stated, and easy to understand. These posts are from other trans men, trans women, nonbinary people- from within our own community.
I just want folks to understand that this is something that exists, that people believe, and that can and does permeate spaces in ways we might not see right away. This is important. This matters. This isn’t okay.
So, I’ve mentioned this before but back in the day, I was deep into tumblr feminism/sj spaces and it fucked me up as much as any intensely culty environment will fuck anyone up. But hands down the biggest issue it caused me was making me feel guilty for bristling at ‘women and non-binaries’, and having social dysphoria. I wasn’t supposed to identify more with men’s experiences, because that made me a fundamentally bad and harmful person. I wasn’t supposed to find the term ‘shrimp dick’ horrifically offensive and dysphoria inducing because it was trans women saying it. I wasn’t supposed to want horrible, evil testosterone. I certainly wasn’t supposed to EVER mention times my obvious gender shit put me in unsafe situations.
It’s been a long ass time since I was down that rabbit hole and honestly, while I’ve shaken most of the other hardcore SJ stuff off (like, I know longer think I have believe whatever anyone says if they tick enough boxes), the anti trans masc stuff has really stuck with me. In 4 days I’m going to my first appointment with the trans team in Reykjavik and I’m excited and terrified for all the normal trans reasons but I STILL feel guilty, even if I recognise it as unnecessary guilt. I STILL feel like this is something I’m not supposed to talk about, and that I’m not supposed to feel a connection to other trans masc people without vetting them to make sure they’re sufficiently self-flagellatory for being the wrong kind of trans.
Hell, despite using a different name than the one on my birth certifcate for the last decade, I’m only just looking into getting it changed on my passport because when I first started using my name, I was in this fucked up pit of tumblr and I felt like I was somehow appropriating transness by wanting a more androgynous name. And I felt insanely self conscious about having picked something with an ‘ay’ sound in it before I realised that names like that are something to be mocked and used as proof of what a shitty person you are.
This kind of blatant bigotry is fucked up in the extreme and it fucks people up in turn.
it costs zero dollars to be niceys, and friendly. it costs two dollars fifty sense for a ice pop from the ice cream truck. do you want me to spot you? im happy to because i love ypu
People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.
For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.
The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.
the funniest thing abt hannibal fans on this site is the way ppl will post screenshots from the show and be like “HIS SLIME 😍😍😍” and the picture is mads mikkelsen looking like this
btw palestinians have been saying this would happen for 130 days and all leaders in the world have brushed us off. everyone refused to listen to us when we said they were going to kill our people regardless of where they stay. we have been saying again and again, they will gather these people in the south in order to kill them all at once.
وين نروح ؟؟؟
palestinians in the north of gaza are getting killed for staying, but those leaving to the south (which was called a “safe zone”) are killed on their way there. those who got to the south are killed by snipers and, now, carpet bombing. palestinians can’t even go to egypt anymore . they are killed before they get there.
i love when by the time the story starts The Incident is already well in the past, and yet you can feel The Incident in every word every character says and the past keeps welling into the the present like blood through the cracks of dry and broken skin
Whatever your sympathies on the Gaza situation, please stop using this as a justification for anything, because it’s not true.
most recent election in Palestine: 17 years ago in 2006
age of suffrage: 18
∴ minimum age now to have voted then: 17+18 = 35
Palestinian population: ~5 million (Gaza plus West Bank, per CIA World Factbook)
…of which, people under 35: ~3 million
∴ ~ 60% of current Palestinians could not possibly have voted for Hamas
And
in the last election, 44.45% voted for Hamas (who were then using the name “Change and Reform”)
turnout was 75% (per Palestine’s Central Elections Commission)
∴ 34% of voters voted for Hamas
ASSUMING that vote share was equal by age, AND that the age breakdown was similar in 2006, THEN 13% of the current population voted for Hamas
∴ 87% did not vote for Hamas
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I really hate even engaging with this argument because it almost gives it legitimacy. Israelis voted in a genocidal government - that doesn’t mean that they could be genocided.
When the Nazi government was voted into Germany and started their genocide if France in retaliation had decided to genocide all Germans that wouldn’t be acceptable either.
It doesn’t matter who voted for what, it doesn’t matter who was old enough at the time. What matters is that it is Never Ever acceptable to mass kill families, children, civilians, destroy infrastructure and carpet bomb homes.
Let’s stop engaging with these manufacturing consent arguments and start calling them out for what they are: justifications for genocide.
this is a good point, well made.
My thinking was: factual rebuttals are faster than ethical rebuttals. “They voted for Hamas!” “No, that’s false.” There’s no comeback to that.
Ethical rebuttals are a better way, because they help people learn how to be a better person. But they’re difficult and some people mentally filter them out, automatically.
(The Germans didn’t vote in the Nazis either, by the way.)
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Now more than ever, as there are people trying to drive a wedge between us, we must stay strong together and support each other as much as we can. All our LGBTQIA+ siblings deserve love, safety and the same rights.
Found these tags on my last hand-drawn post inspiring:
I’m so good at art.
This doodle made me laugh too much so now this is the Fred this week
THE ONE PIZZA…!
THE ONE PIZZA IS REAL!!!!!!
A scan of the old Friday Fred expansion from the GUYS system. I don’t think this is Friday Fred’s first appearance, but I could be wrong. It’s definitely an off-model design.
Fred is Going Corporate
He can’t stay this small forever…
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬Nu är vi här Fred♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬CaramelDansen♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
We need you to roll up a most radical Friday, Prince.
OK this week I am doing a roundup of the Freds which got lost in the shuffle.
“its friday!!!1!! fuck yeah!!!1!11!!!!! dumping out all of my old markers just so i could find a blue one that looked kinda like the shade of blue of freds hat and also wasn’t missing its cap and dried out was totally worth it!!!1!!!!5!!”
“I drew this on the whiteboard at my scool it took forever becase i couldnt find any other pink or magenta markers.”
Found these tags on my last hand-drawn post inspiring:
I’m so good at art.
This doodle made me laugh too much so now this is the Fred this week
THE ONE PIZZA…!
THE ONE PIZZA IS REAL!!!!!!
A scan of the old Friday Fred expansion from the GUYS system. I don’t think this is Friday Fred’s first appearance, but I could be wrong. It’s definitely an off-model design.
Fred is Going Corporate
He can’t stay this small forever…
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬Nu är vi här Fred♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬CaramelDansen♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
We need you to roll up a most radical Friday, Prince.
OK this week I am doing a roundup of the Freds which got lost in the shuffle.
“its friday!!!1!! fuck yeah!!!1!11!!!!! dumping out all of my old markers just so i could find a blue one that looked kinda like the shade of blue of freds hat and also wasn’t missing its cap and dried out was totally worth it!!!1!!!!5!!”
“I drew this on the whiteboard at my scool it took forever becase i couldnt find any other pink or magenta markers.”
Story of my life people. You know what’s real ? The struggle.
Happy Pride Month ♥
this right here is why ‘queer’ is an identity, not a slur
QUEER IS AN IDENTITY, NOT A SLUR
PuttheQbackinLGBTQ+
it’s not pride month but i will reblog the SHIT out of this any time. queer pride babeyyyyy
we’re here, we’re queer, and too confused to pick one of those other labels so you better fucking get used to us because we’re not gonna get less messy, bitches.
kids are so fucking funny. we made pride flags with the elementary schoolers and a fifth grader added a gray stripe to the progress pride flag and when i asked him what it was for he said “for the emos”
It’s gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.
Naturally everybody will think it’s fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it’s real
There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable “don’t speak ill of the dead” discourse about those celebrations
Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that
The Republicans (after they’re done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They’ll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.
There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won’t, he was a traitor insurrectionist)
The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.
Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.
Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.
When I see people sharing so much of their kids’ lives, I think about that one time my child told a joke, I shared that joke with ONE FRIEND in a private conversation, and my child said “can you please ask me next time, before you tell people something about me?”
And, yes, I absolutely should. So I apologized, and now I ask.
“I love that video of you, can I show it to a friend?”
“Can I tell a friend about how clever you were just now?”
“Can I share this in the family group chat?”
“Can I show your art to grandma and grandpa?”
And it’s not like my kids don’t like when I share their jokes and puns and fun moments. They love it! But they want to have control over what I share with people. Even without their faces or their names. Even people we know and trust.
whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”
This is important, even if it doesn’t work with your blog theme REBLOG IT!!!!
Women need to know this, not all of us have ever been told what we need to look out for!
yeah reblogging especially for my transmasc fellows who (like me) might be real uncomfortable with their chests and not know what to watch out for because we try to avoid this kind of thing (just me? okay)
Cis Men need to know it too. They can get breast cancer even though the odds are lower.
Palestinian banks could be cut off from the Israeli banking system starting next week following a decision by Israel’s finance minister to cease dealings between the two financial institutions, according to a report on Thursday by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has two days to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss reversing plans by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to isolate Palestinian banks from both the Israeli and international banking systems.
The Palestinian economy is based on the Israeli currency, the shekel, making it reliant on ties to Israel and its financial dealings with the rest of the world must go through the Bank of Israel and Israeli banks.
This is why you should spend less time posting OnLine and more time posting on the quest board!!!
Example:
Seeking a brave adventurer to fetch me one 5lbs bag of all purpose flour. Reward: A batch of fresh homemade snickerdoodles.
This could be the world we live in, but alas! You squander your time on this mortal plane! Imagine the baked goods we could have shared! Perhaps… in another life.
started ranting abt this to a friend… i’m still so irritated that they didn’t include this
It also emphasizes how different this is from the magic we’ve seen from her before. Like, it was a major, albeit comedic, plot point that her water walking spell doesn’t even work if your hair is too dirty. She isn’t super particular about hygiene just because she likes to be clean, or thinks it’s icky otherwise, this is a serious practical concern that her magic doesn’t work as well without that purity. A difficult spell, requiring precision and with high stakes for failure, you would expect her to spend an hour beforehand fastidiously sterilizing everything involved like she’s about to do brain surgery.
But this isn’t that kind of spell. This spell is playing by an entirely different set of rules. This is magic that was created by, and for, people who are soaked in blood.
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