Sentient Meat

the post that its in response to is about how insane it is that some of the most transmisogynistic caricatures of all time are from incredibly popular horror movies. i know we as transfeminists have talked about this extensively. but outside of transfem circles... it really hasn't been talked about? like at all?

most tmes (including way too many trans tmes) will look you dead in the eyes and say "wait, i had no idea that the guy who sings that he's a transvestite from transylvania in a movie made by a guy who hates trans women was actually about his horrible shitty views on trans women!"

or even worse, they'll pretend you're insane for even thinking that their stupid movie could possibly be transphobic. after all, how can it be transphobic if the city's pflag has an event where they play it every Halloween?

it being "talked about extensivel [between us]" doesn't mean "everyone is aware of this"

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

That completely misses the point.

Even in a world where people let people into shelters according to their gender identities-- as a trans man, I would not feel safe in a men's shelter. Cis men are responsible for a disproportionate amount of physical, emotional, and sexual violence against trans people, including trans men. Being correctly gendered does not magically make that environment safe.

If I absolutely had to seek emergency shelter, I at least have a place I could realistically go without being surrounded by the demographic most likely to target me: a women's shelter, even if that would require being misgendered.

Trans women don't have that option. A men's shelter is not simply "the equivalent in reverse." It's an environment where they're both women and trans in an environment surrounded by their worst oppressors, making them especially vulnerable to harassment and violence. And in many cases, they may not even be admitted.

I'm sure Mousidy can confirm, but the amount of posts that start/end with "I'm sorry if this doesn't quite fit" or "I'm sorry if this is too long"/"not formatted correctly".

This study is being done by Dr. Lisa Littman, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, and J. Michael Bailey. The same people behind the “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” and other Transphobic pseudoscience. Do NOT give information to them via ayagdos, they have a long history of retractions and reported misconduct.

Report this ad wherever you see it. The fact that staff allows this kind of shit yet still turning a blind eye to everything else is just pure hatred.

Burden of Proof:

incel culture

terfism

gamergate

calling feminists nazis (funnily enough, that the first to teach them to say "transandrophobia" ended up being a proud nazi doesn't bother them)

Interestingly, it has not developed:

Charlie Kirk was not a victim of State violence. no, I don't think its okay to live in a world where it is okay or the norm that people go around shooting each other because they don't like what someone else has said, BUT that was never being said. it's also disingenuous as fuck to boil Charlie Kirk down to that. you are acting like a petulant child and I bet money it's because you had a racist phase and feel "well I don't deserve to die"

because all y'all know how to do is center yourselves or fundamentally misunderstand the goddamn principles you claim to hold @criticalriverboating

Proceeds to use critical theory to justify their argument over reality.

Also the argument itself is wrong, what was ironic is that he got killed while making a pro gun argument. The shooter wasn't even black and race had nothing to do with it period.

She told me "you can be a lesbian", words I think some small part of me that knew I was a woman had been wanting to hear from another woman for years. I was confused as I was hopeful, and asked what she meant.

She said "men can be lesbians". And went on to explain how if trans men can be lesbians then cis men should be allowed to "identify as lesbians" as well. Reaffirming my manhood even as she comforted me and twisting a rhetoric of bioessentialism and male entitlement into simply pure male entitlement.

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she's desperate to stay in this world that she sees as false, where she's a funny cartoon character and she can still brush off the pain she causes as silly cartoon antics

the despair it leaves us with, the satisfaction it denies us, leaves us to yearn for things to have turned out differently. it leaves us thinking about what could have been done, what decisions could have been made, what different circumstances could have prevented the tragedy? dissatisfaction drives us to act

hi everyone, sorry to do this again every month but the situations keep piling up and my health situation keeps getting worse and worse every day.

my name's vi and i'm a disabled trans woman from south america, i have extensive nerve damage and my health is declining to the point that every day i see my teeth fall out of my mouth, i live with an also disabled mother who is undergoing treatment for cancer and her needs are barely being met.

if you've looked at the news as of late you probably have at least an idea of how things are in the region, but particularly where i live, the average wage can't even hope to cover the medication and healthcare needed for an elderly cancer patient and a disabled chronically ill woman, it can't even reach enough for groceries or transportation.

i know we're all struggling but if you see this please help out, every little bit helps, you could be the difference between keeping us afloat or not, even just by reblogging.

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I felt like experimenting with adults was safer, in the sense that they were safer from me than people my age. I'd been taught over and over again that I could hurt people with sexuality, that I was being punished to prevent me from becoming someone who would hurt people. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

I wanted it. I sought it out. I felt powerful and in-control, nobody tricked or forced me into doing anything. I can tell you a funny story about having a threesome when I was 18, the husband insisted that we wrestle and I choked him unconscious twice in five minutes. fully asleep and snoring, I put him in the recovery position and made small talk with his wife while we waited for him to wake up.

I'd been talking to both of them, and a bunch of other adults in that community, since I was 15. it was the only place that I felt desired, they treated me like a kid but didn't think less of me for it. I don't have an uncomplicated Law and Order: SVU episode plot to give you, I can only tell you that I felt bad for that guy after that. I didn't mean to humiliate him, he never did anything like that to me.

it took me many years into adulthood to understand that I was trading sexual access for social access. I don't even really think that was necessary, nobody asked me to do it, I just wanted to feel something besides shame. I didn't know that I could be valued for other reasons, yet. the adults in the room should not have let that happen, they failed me, but honestly? I think the adults in my house failed me a lot harder.

everyone fixates on the sex, but to me that has only ever been a symptom, not the problem. have you seen people jokingly refer to things like being 13 and emotionally supporting a 35 year old woman through her divorce on World of Warcraft? that's a symptom of the same problem and it was more harmful to me, personally, than any of the sex.

and yet we can joke about it, because it's not about sex. we don't use scary words like "groomed" and "molested" even though that's how grooming happens. why?

I found out, years later, that a girl I thought was in her early 20s was lying about her age so that she wouldn't be excluded. she was too scared to tell me that we were the same age, 16 at the time. we would talk for hours, watch movies, and she'd change in front of me sometimes. she specifically told me that she did that because she felt safe with me, I was so proud of myself. she was my age that whole time and I just didn't know, I spent years thinking of that as part of the grooming. and it was.

two decades later and I'm here, looking around at the hypersexuality of queer/transfem spaces (not inherently a bad thing) and wondering, "do you know that you don't have to do that to be loved?".

on a cultural level, we don't have anything approaching a good understanding of these dynamics, much less how to avoid harm. there will never be a simple answer.

we have to engage with the complexity, we have to learn to talk to each other about these things.