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I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

no, transmascs are not “less oppressed” than transfems. we do not “benefit from misogyny” or “benefit from the patriarchy”. we are not inherently misogynistic and we are not the only queer people that need to unlearn the misogyny that everyone grows up surrounded by.

if you sit there and say that transmascs don’t experience oppression or “as much” oppression, that we need to shut up and sit down and not share our personal experiences with misogyny and transphobia, that we don’t deserve for our voices to be heard, or that we deserve to die, you are not an ally. you are transphobic, full stop.

the only possible way for a transmasc to actually have male privilege, the same male privilege that only cisgender men are capable of having, is if he socially, legally and medically transitions very early on, cuts contact with everyone that knew him as a ‘woman’, and lives as stealth 100% of the time for the rest of his life. as soon as you come out to someone as a transmasc, even if you’re transitioned, even if you pass, they immediately stop viewing you as a man. suddenly you’re no longer a man, but a confused woman, a woman who must have transitioned because you didn’t want to deal with misogyny, or because you’re traumatized, or because you’re led astray, or because you weren’t loved as a kid, why don’t you just be a tomboy, you’re just a butch, etc etc.

and god forbid you’re a transmasc that doesn’t fit into stereotypical views of masculinity; “you’re faking it, you want attention, you poor thing, what’s the point of being trans if you’re still gonna xyz”. god forbid you’re a transmasc talking about your personal experiences with misogyny, because everyone knows that men don’t experience that! you’re a man so you’re the exact same as cis men!!/sar

i’ve even seen popular memes/videos circulating that mock young (usually preteen/teen) transmascs specifically. you know the whole “arson/bug/kai, he/they” shit? yeah, that.

saying that transandrophobia isn’t real and that transmascs don’t experience the same hate or oppression as transfems or that we don’t have it “as bad” is a disgustingly ignorant thing to say.

what about all the trans men that are unable to come out or transition due to being stuck in transphobic households? what about the trans men that can’t accept that they’re trans men because they’ve been taught that men are inherently evil? what about the trans men that are no longer viewed as friends to their female friends, but as a threat? what about the trans men that are abused or mistreated due to not fitting into/not wanting to fit into the idea of femininity? what about the countless trans men that accomplished great things (Dr. Alan Heart comes to mind) but are repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered because they were “discovered” to be “women” after they died, despite only living and presenting as male? what about the trans men that are raped or assaulted as a “correction”? what about the trans men that are murdered? what about the trans men that commit suicide?

this is not to say that transmascs have it worse, or that transfems pain and oppression is somehow lesser to ours, but that it is disgustingly ignorant to claim that we don’t experience transphobia, misogyny, abuse or oppression for the simple fact that we’re men/masculine. we should not be comparing out traumas or oppression and saying that some of us “have it worse” or “have it better”. all trans people unfortunately experience transphobia, misogyny, and abuse, and saying that our experiences aren’t important or valid or real is transphobic. if you do not support all transgender people, you are transphobic. full stop. and that trans men/mascs are still just as sacred, valuable and needed in our community.

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

Once I had someone do the whole "that seems so hard, you must be so patient" standard routine. I ask her, "why's that?" You know, why do I need to be some kind of virtuous martyr to watch 90s cartoons with other disabled people for $30 an hour?

And she says to me, with full seriousness and a look of utter dread on her face,

"All the biting."

OK mate. What do you mean. What biting. What are you on about.

"The biting," she repeats, as if it's obvious and I ought to intuitively know what she means. Then she kind of snaps her teeth to demonstrate. "You know?"

No I don't know. What do you mean biting.

"They bite," she says. Eyes wide, dead serious. "The, um, the Slow People. They bite."