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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

so it all works up to the empathy boss - a bush era edgelord millenial trans girl who thinks she's Max from Sam & Max and is inherently unworthy of love

and then to turn off anonymous submissions when you get flak, filtering out so many people who might have had stories to submit, only to respond with the weakest arguments to so many extremely good, well-thought out explanations of why this is an incredibly dangerous idea, just platforming extremely good arguments for why your thing shouldn't exist and offering half-baked slop as counterarguments, until the blog ends up being 95% responding to backlash

He's also claiming he had put them in the pinned which is an outright lie. As it was pointed out by many people, the pinned is a word for word copy of the transfem voices overview, except for TME and TMA being swapped. And it does not contain his pronouns

However as @rocketdrifter points out in the replies, how would a project focused on trans* voices that is allegedly run by a trans non binary person forget something as crucial as putting pronouns in bio.

Several people have before suggested that the project is not actually run by a trans person, and to be clear I do not believe that has to be the case. I have known plenty of transmasculine people who would fit almost every criterion of this blog. But there is definitely enough material for someone to work with here to construct such a theory. The inclusion of cis voices, forgetting to put pronouns in bio, and the fact that the entire project is fundamentally primed for accruing a cisnormative transmisogynistic base for muddying the waters

I'm not the first one to point this out, but it is not a coincidence that this project appeared after mousidy put transfemvoices on hiatus due to overwhelming targeted and general transmisogynistic harassment. As soon as she did that, all submissions from transfems stopped, but submissions from transmascs started rolling in. Some of those even decided to show their ass when mousidy talked about them while keeping them anonymous. And if you check the blogs of those people, it becomes crystal clear that the point of those submissions was at best, sealioning a trans woman making a transfem specific project, but it could be read as an attempt to drag her into "transandrophobia" discourse to socially murder her and the project. Whether this is an organised effort or not doesn't matter, in fact it being done by several unconnected individuals all acting on their own would still not make any of this remotely a stretch. Because we've seen this story happen time and time again. Had this tactic not worked (which is observedly hasn't) the next thing people would do is try to connect her to another already socially murdered trans woman through literally any kind of link to paint or as a danger to society by association. It's the same playbook that has been used not just by transmispgynists on this site, but by people and organisations in the real world, including those purporting to be queer. Every single trans woman experiences this sooner or later either directly or as an open threat constantly looming over her head and is exactly why projects like transfemvoices are so important - they tell girls that not only what they're experiencing is transmisogyny, but that they are not alone in this, and in fact share this form of abuse with almost all, if not every transfem in history. And it is exactly why these projects are a threat to transmisogynists and why they have to tear them down or make them not about trans women. It is the same sort of threat that feminist theory on sexual harassment pose to those seeking to exploit vulnerable women. And trans women are some of the most vulnerable women in the world. So many girls have stories about the threat of being rapejacketed or pedojacketed used against them to force them into submission, including but not limited to sexual context. I personally know too many trans girls to whom it happened - me including.

me internally: your entire profession is built on the hegemony of white beauty standards, you make your money by making women feel bad about their natural bodies and charging them for the privilege of conformity, you are decidedly part of the problem and I'm just as bad for helping you perpetuate it, in a perfect world neither of us would be in this room today