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7 years ago someone posted this-

And 5 years a different user posted this-

Like, if a Muslim woman were to open up about any abuse she faces (whether from a spouse, or a parent, or someone else in the community) one of the first reactions she may get is ‘Islam abuses women. Islam is a bad religion. Islam is backwards, its behind, its abusive, we need to get rid of it’.

This initial extreme reaction is just making Muslim women afraid of opening up about abuse.

We know that if we mention any abuse, the automatic response (the expectation) will be to give up our religion and our beliefs. These feminists care about us, but only if we conform to that expectation. Otherwise, we’re brainwashed, we’re complacent, we’re part of the problem. Muslim women end up being unsupported by everyone around them, including the very women that claim to want to help abolish abuse against women.

This applies to queer Muslims too. By calling the entirety of Islamic society queerphobic, you indirectly let queer Muslims know that they are not welcome. And they're not. They end up in a state where they are not welcome in their homophobic societies nor in the communities that claim to be 'queer-friendly'. They have to build their own spaces, and then still end up getting constantly attacked from both sides.

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.” 

A man starts complaining about how “the mobility aids are taking up too much room in the aisle” about me and two older folks (in their 80s+), a man with a cane and a woman with a seat-type walker, in the disability seats. He starts trying to get the attention of the woman with a walker by calling her “man” and “sir”, even going so far as to get up and shake her walker to get her attention, to try to tell her to fold it up.

Multiple folks instantly jump to her defense about how “she’s a lady, that’s obviously a woman” and I tell him to stop complaining/touching mobility aids of people in fucking disability seats.

He swaps to me and spends the rest of the ride apologizing for misgendering the woman to the people around him (“I respect women all the time!!”), swapping between threatening to attack me or talking about how I need to “keep that shit (dressing as a woman) at home”. Nobody reacts beyond giving him disapproving side-eye and telling him to “shut up, you’re disturbing everyone” with no reprimand of his transphobia this time.

This is the difference between transmisogyny wrongfully and temporarily levied at TME people and transmisogyny directed at trans women. TME folks get protection whereas for TMA folks the average extent of care is the annoyance/inconvenience to other TME folks.

Pig tails, bracers, sticking their tongue out to concentrate, pointing their feet in, babbling at me for hours about all their favourite things