can I be weird about this for a second?

I'm tired of pretending it's not literally fucking fine to read a character as transfem because they are feminine. why are transfem headcanons the only ones that require a burden of proof to you? don't worry, you don't have to tell me. I already know why.

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

a bra and a hijab are the same thing in many ways

Hijab is not much different from many different hair coverings which used to be extremely common throughout the world. All of those had their own religious connections with them. Hair coverings were often a tool of both religion and "modesty", the loaded gendered concept. Nowadays it's most commonly associated with Islam therefore it strikes out as Abnormal. A bra too serves the same purpose, yet its considered the "acceptable" tool of Modesty with no loaded baggage whatsoever while Hijab is the "backwards" tool of modesty with Evil Baggage. The same concept, when it's Muslim racialized, is Backwards and Violent, yet the violence of the bra, because it is accepted among White people too, is acceptable and invisible

Can you imagine if tomorrow wearing a bra was seen as completely backwards, but nothing else changed socially for women, yet the new policy was to force women to take their bras off in public? What, that sounds like the wrong way to go about it to you because it would be humiliating and misogynistic? Now lets apply that humanity to other people's cultures

Because head coverings are frequently racialized and discriminated against, within the context of its discrimination it isn't harmful to point out its practical uses. But people. Wearing a bra is not globally discriminated and racialized. You do not have to white knight the bra. That isn't the what you're supposed to understand from this post

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.