Trans people of all stripes, when you write your insane discourse, why do you have a need to shorten phrases so much?
“It specifically refers to tendencies among tme trans people to use their agab as a shorthand for their precieved innocence mostly to the detriment of transfems and themselves, as the comic illustrates.”
Why couldn’t this be:
It specifically refers to tendencies among transmisogyny exempt trans people to use their assigned gender at birth as a shorthand for their precieved innocence mostly to the detriment of transfems and themselves, as the comic illustrates.
Tumblr character limits are fairly large, this isn’t Twitter, what the hell are you doing with all that time you’re saving anyway?
Not to mention the, frankly befuddling, trend of these acronyms getting completely detached from their actual meanings and being used nonsensically.
For example, I have on several occasions seen the acronym ‘TERF’ being used for random transphobia that has nothing to do with 'Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism’ which is what that acronym is supposed to mean.
I understand that writing a four word phrase every time can be annoying, but if it prevents nonsense takes, why not do it?
This is, I think, a problem with acronyms in general. I mean:
“poc artist”
Person of color artist? What?? Obviously we should just say 'artist of color’ yet the obsession with acronyms (like we’re sending SMS messages or something) seems to persist.