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Like 85% of tumblr users hate and loathe embarrassment based comedy with every fiber of their beings, but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure their audience that the embarrassing scenes are skippable.

Lots of people dislike tragedy but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure the audience that the death and grieving scenes are skippable.

Stop trying to pass off self-censorship as “accommodation.” Stop trying to pass off pandering as “inclusivity.”

And even if that were not the case. Do you really think that someone who gets to a sex scene and decides they don't want to read it isn't going to skip that scene anyway? And if sex at all is a dealbreaker, do you really think a promise like that will stop someone from putting your writing down and moving on with their life?

If a trans man weren’t a man, he wouldn’t be trans.

His claiming of man as his gender is the exact thing he is being oppressed for.

This is how intersectionality as a framework is supposed to be used to look at this, not, “man doesn’t add another oppressive force.”

And before I get, “but if man doesn’t add an oppressive force, how can the oppression be intersectional. Isn’t that just transphobia now?”

That’s still a huge misunderstanding of intersectionality, and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to be the one to help here.

But simply, the best try I have, is that the patriarchy and sexism still create something else which oppresses trans men that isn’t “just transphobia”. It targets them specifically for claiming manhood, as well as for anatomy they may have been born with as trans men which society uses to see them as being not men, and social knowledge of them “having been a woman”…

Manhood doesn’t add protection for trans men except in the extreme circumstance of being absolutely stealth (as in you’ve managed to have a life where no one you have to interact with for the rest of your life will ever be able to figure out that you’re trans, and you’ve cut off anyone who knew you pre-transition).

And it fascinates me that people like to claim that non-passingness means that trans men will be seen as precious little girl flowers who are cherished. Because often we have mixed sex characteristics. And intersex people and trans women talk extensively about how having mixed sex characteristics is dangerous. But we’re never thought of as having mixed sex characteristics, only as perfectly stealth or pre-everything. And why is it that stealthing privilege is considered for trans men, but not trans women?

Oh, because women are oppressed anyway so they can’t be safe really? Okay then why are pre-everything trans men so safe? If a person who is assumed a woman is actually a trans man, that’s someone who will be treated as harmless and beautiful, and if that person assumed to be a woman is actually a trans woman, that someone will still be at the mercy of misogynists? How does that work? Are we really doing a fucking “they can always tell”?

Or maybe it’s that a trans man can state that he’s a man and the oppression would stop? I can tell you that the opposite is true; that asserting you’re a man when someone has assumed you’re a woman and is mistreating you for that, only gets you treated worse. And again, why is this something only available to trans men? Can people not lie to try to be safer? Is that not what stealthing and closeting are to a degree?

it;s about Valerie Amaranth who is the prettiest and cutest girl in the entire world. She turns into a magical girl and sometimes I throw her and her friends into the torment nexus but it's okay 🙏🏽

ART FIGHT ATTACKS DUMP!!!!!

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It's not right that we never hear about people who take T to end up androgynous outside of context of "these are bad shallow transition goals, they're not taking being trans seriously". And it's even worse that we never hear about people who take E to be androgynous, because the dominant narrative is that they don't exist and any depiction of them is a mockery of binary trans women. It all also has an implication of greater safety/privilege sprinkled on top. As if it works like that for literally any trans person at all.