Beep boop bweep welcome to my facility

They don't need to be or feel human to prove their kindness, faithfulness, trustworthiness, generosity, mercy, openness, love and all that we deem good and precious.

The hornyposting.

And like, I get it. There's always been attraction to the artificial and the created. Objectum folks are cool as hell. Robots appeal to so many different kinks. I am absolutely not trying to shame anybody's sexuality here. I want to make it abundantly clear that I understand why it happens.

But it is really, really uncomfortable when it's tagged with community terms like robotkin, it's not at all tagged as being sexual, and it's extremely off-putting to find more robotkin hornyposting than I can find robotkin discussions. I'm already trans, y'all, I get objectified and fetishized enough without this identity being subjected to it too.

It's extra complicated because a lot of the hornyposting is done by trans women, and I know that. They have every right to reclaim their sexuality however the hell they want. Where it gets hazy is when it's people only ever hornyposting about trans fem robotgirls. Is this just your thing online but you're actually normal about trans women/are one yourself? Or are you objectifying and dehumanizing them (in the shitty way, please don't come in like, "maybe they want to be nonhuman objects" because that isn't what I mean)? I don't know but I do know it's in the tags and it's kinda skeeving me out as a trans observer because I can't tell the intent much of the time and I'm literally left unable to tell if the tags are full of transphobia or not. This is possibly just a me problem, but it is a problem still.

It's very much like puppyposting in that there's nothing essentially wrong with it, but it's still kind of becoming an issue that bears discussion. I've had a robotkin meme post take off and do numbers, and someone along the way took it and reinterpreted it as a force fem robotgirl hornypost.

I felt violated, honestly. Only a little, but that is what I felt. Someone took my words, meant to be a light-hearted joke about wishing there was a way to transition to robot, and made it into talking about how it's good actually to be taken away and feminized against one's will.

I'm trans masculine. I spent most of my life dealing with being feminized against my will already and I did not like having someone twisting my words to praise something violent that was done to me, however silly they were meant to be. I understand the target audience of that kind of fantasy, I understand that it's a fantasy that lets you do what you want with plausible deniability. I get the appeal. I know that whatever you post publicly, the public will do whatever with. It still felt like I needed to take a few showers. I still don't feel good posting anything that isn't long-winded essays, just in case it happens again. I have not felt so incredibly misgendered since the time the director of a trans support group kept calling me she/her because 'oh sorry there just aren't that many trans men here, it's habit.'

The difference between the puppyposting and the hornyposting is that puppyposting is fairly self-contained. There's not a lot of motivation on a "heehee I'm typing with my widdle pawzies" post to turn it into anything that it isn't. It's all over the tags, it's not many people's cup of tea, but it's fine otherwise and you aren't likely to get the Fetish Surprise Special.

On the other hand, go ahead, skim the #robotkin tag, sort it however you like. Count the number of times #robotkin gets combined with #robophilia and #robotfucker. Nobody else has to deal with this, as far as I can tell, except maybe some fictionkin.

I don't really know what the solution is other than to block a ton of tags and people. Obviously I'm not going to advocate for telling people they can't be sexual in whatever way they choose because that goes all the way against my own ethics, but I do wish that it would actually be labeled more consistently since a lot of it isn't. It's hard trying to find any kind of info posts here when so many of them are fetish material instead and it's exhausting having to constantly guard against assumptions (even from other robots!) that my identity is just a fetish. Like, don't put that on me! I don't put that on anybody else, so why is it okay to put that on me? I cannot think of another category of alter/nonhuman that gets so often assumed to be a fetish. It's tiring and it's really gross. At least one of the other top posts in #robotkin is someone else complaining that it feels really bad to see mostly hornyposting. It's not even just me who's tired of it.