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I've never been made to feel lesser as a trans woman for having not had any of those experiences. Meanwhile there's like a million different artists and movies and TV shows you're just kind of expected to be into if you're queer and people will give you weird looks if you don't show interest or don't like them. (By far the weirdest of these is Hocus Pocus). I think if you want to make a point about consumerism in the queer community, you gotta start from the fact that queer community is pretty consumerist. If you're starting from trans women in particular I'm just going to think you're being a prick.

That's what solidarity means, and oppressing trans women in any way is the real factor dividing the community, not women who speak up about the ways women are wronged. To say otherwise is fucking stupid and not know any of this works

>it's titled Call of Duty

YOU ‼️Understand completely! The wave he was riding at the time was so influential, so institutional, so powerful, that he completely re-defined the concept we have of what WWII looked like. Just the landing sequence changed America's vision of warfare. Each of its constituent parts were immediately parodied and, just as quickly, turned into genre tropes. Hacksaw Ridge is a movie I was sort of disgusted by. Nominally, it's about praising the nobility of a pacifist during wartime. But it was directed by Mel Gibson, who is a crazy pig, so it tries to have its cake and eat it too with gleefully reveling in the cartoonish destruction of human bodies. The pornographic quality of men being hacked apart with mines and mortars and machinegun fire, to behold their misery, is something cut from Saving Private Ryan whole cloth. But in Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson, in his worship of the spectacle of warfare, his jubilant bloodlust, even lifts the somewhat infamous detail of a flamethrower specialist having his fuel tank explode when it's struck by incoming fire. Somewhat infamous because it's now generally agreed upon that they can't explode like that. Much like everything else in that sequence, it is a theatrical fabrication to pull the audience into feeling certain ways, resting on an illusion of authenticity. Now that's just how people imagine the war. The spectacle of misery and brutality is what people expect. It's entertainment. It's pornographic. Americans can't cum unless they see a young man writhe on the ground in agony begging for his mommy. And then Spielberg's movie ends with his decadent, deep-fried sentimentality stating "well all that human suffering and loss of life was 100% worth it. No notes. Bye." This is a 30-year track we were set on by Spielberg. This was crucial for everything that happened, for the specific culture of veneration that sprang up around our military during the global war on terror. This is like a parasite he designed in a lab to inject into our brains and kill the country from within. He just completely, fundamentally changed the way America thinks about warfare. And that's before we even get into him inventing the military shooter! He's responsible for fucking CALL OF DUTY coming around. This dumbfuck, in all his talent, attempting to venerate the sacrifice and glory of The Greatest Generation, created the most fatal cultural time bombs anyone has ever made, specifically because he designed them to be so agreeable. Because of his domestic sentimentality.

and like...? you already identified the reason, didn't you? of course trans women are more likely to develop a debilitating fear of being in public??

the world had proven itself incredibly hostile to her, and though I tried to help her overcome this, it became clearer and clearer over time that I was speaking to her from a place of relative privilege, even as another trans woman. the world really was different for her than it was for me

there is a capacity to understand the idea of systemic harm, but a refusal to engage with the reality of it. the method of analysis is dismissed for the aesthetics of political deconstruction, refusing to face the fact that their beliefs are simply those of the transmisogynystic majority.

and you are being told that this tendency is in fact part of a broader system of oppression of non trans men over trans men. a perfect substitution of anecdote and systemic analysis.

these assholes are beyond parody

surely it'll work this time