General Fuckery

being presented with accoutrements and signs of social recognition that are legible to us in said societies as “female” due to their association with skeletons we’d parse as CAFAB in the same cultural tradition

and the take is “it’s a gay man”

And yet people don’t wanna listen when you point out that part of transmisogyny is assuming that trans women are just weird men

Baldwin: I know it sounds a terrible thing to say… I would not be a white American for all the tea in China, all the oil in Texas. I really wouldn’t like to have to live with all those lies. This is what is irreducible and awful. You, the English; you, the French; you, the West; you, the Christians—you can’t help but feel there is something that you can do for me, that you can save me. And you don’t yet know that I have endured your salvations so long that I cannot afford it anymore, not another moment of your salvation. And that I– I– I–

Interviewer: But I’m not saying it’s–

Baldwin: I can save you.

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality