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Slurs:

"Birthday Boy."

"tMRA."

"Transandrobro."

"Transandrodork."

Calling 'transandrophobia/transmisandry' truthers "TERFs."

Not Slurs:

"Baeddel."

"TRF/TIRF."

Referring to transfeminine people as "AMABs."

Calling transfeminists "TERFs."

Misogyny:

Criticizing a transmasc person for treating transfeminine people badly and other transmisogynistic behaviors.

Not Misogyny:

Doing 'ironic' misogyny towords transfeminine people.

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

but the thing is, I noticed myself thinking (trans)misogynistic bullshit that I knew I didn't believe (thank you to all the adult feminists I grew up around for instilling feminism in my core beliefs so deeply) that I didn't agree with - and it was pretty directly connected to the things these guys I was hanging out with were saying and sharing online

the very simple solution was to basically immediately bring more women's voices into my daily life - I actually started with music and poetry, listened to a lot of Against Me! and read Audre Lorde, reconnected to the rage and the grief and the joy, intentionally followed transfeminists because I needed to see both sides of the argument and when you look at what's actually happening, it becomes very obvious who's in the right (hint: it's transfeminists)

notably, when I started asking questions or saying anything at all to contradict the transandro truther narrative or the harassment campaigns against transfems, I was flooded with anon hate - called a TERF, called a fake feminist, called all kinds of slurs - I even had my like 7 year old blog with 10X as many followers as I have now deleted (RIP troutreznor) because these crybaby assholes false reported my blog into the ground - this is NOT fucking NORMAL behavior

but in the end nobody is immune to doing/thinking/saying some dumb shit, to being reactionary and thinking emotionally - but everybody is capable of thinking for themself and learning from their mistakes

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we can't even say "i hate men" without having to explain TO OTHER WOMEN that no, we don't hate every individual man on the planet, we hate the class man and the system men made for themselves that dominates the place we live in. in the same way that we have to tell other women that misandry is not a systemic force, and hating what men as a class of people and the patriarchy they made does not a misandrist make

This meme was posted in 2017 by a man!

graph one: total CO2 emissions, NOT per capita, by region. By 2020, China, the US, the EU, India, and Russia are the largest players, with the entire rest of the world barely surpassing China's emissions.

Graph two: The same regions but weighted per capita.