Alex

Like, JK Rowling is an awful person who is a woman, Coco Chanel was a nazi and was a woman. I shouldn't expect either of these people to be good people based off their gender and lived experiences because they are people and they're just as capable of being awful like everyone else. Terfs aren't suddenly devoid of being victims of misogyny when they spew terf shit.

So tell me why, trans men and mascs are held to this standard? Why must we do our best to be perfect little ken dolls while the rest of you get to be people?

I feel a cough coming on, because I work in a drug store, and all of my customers are sick. I always feel a little bit sick, now. I can't afford to eat well enough to keep my body healthy. Cough medicine is worth two hours and 20 minutes of work. Our store probably bought a case of cough medicine for they price we're selling one box. If this cough gets worse, I might have to call out, which will cost me more than the medicine in the long run- but that doesn't give me the money to buy the medicine right now. I stock a case onto the shelf. I don't buy any.

A mom wrangling three crying, sick kids enters my line and sets two types of children's medicine down, says they're both on sale and thank god for that. I ring her up, and she gets very quiet, because she misread the sign, and her total is twice as high as she was expecting. Her youngest screams in the cart, because she's burning up with fever. Her mother very quietly asks, please, she's so sorry, if I could please take the more expensive one off her total.

I agree, I move the box below the counter, and when she's not looking, I slip it into her bag. I pray as hard as I can that if she notices the "mistake" she says nothing, because I so desperately want her to have that medicine. The store has lost profit at the cost of a child's health. I don't bat an eye. This is a terminable offense. If I'm presented with the same situation tonight, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

The myth of evil employees stealing from the company falls apart the second you realize the company would shoot you dead to make a profit. This isn't two equal players, one of whom is stealing from the other. This is someone fighting for survival versus someone fighting to make an extra million. It's not equal.

me: *never becomes less tired*

if you search a trans womans blog and the only posts she's shared on trans masculinity or nonbinary people are negative...that's a red flag

if you search a nonbinary person's blog and their only posts about trans men and women are negative...that's a red flag

a) John Harvey Kellog would despise this ad; the mere proximity of bondage-play to his brand name and beloved anti-porn flakes is unforgivable

b) John Harvey Kellog would enjoy this ad, because it shows a young woman forsaking the temptations of the flesh in favour of eating a wholesome and nourishing bowl of cornflakes

So now I'm super uncomfortable because we're at a group for all types of queer people. Yall know I'm queer too and at groups like this, I try to make a point to queer it up because I'm safe to. We havent met, do you even know how I identify?

If you knew anything about me, you'd know that at the time my wife and I got married, marriage equality had only been legal for about a year. Legally, we were no different than any queer couple. We didn't know that we'd be able to be legally married. At the time, I couldn't legally change my gender marker in my state (the law at that point was you had to have 'irreversible surgery' to change your gender marker). Just because I am a trans man does not mean that there was some switch that flipped and instantly put me on level playing field with cishet men.

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.

originally i was gonna caption this like “transmascs cant even be silly and fun with our genders and pronouns without someone calling us sexist” or something because this is something sooo many trans(and cis!!!) people do but i was curious and i clicked on their blog and immediately saw

and i just like :/ ok so some people just really like mocking trans men and mascs for literally nothing. and then moralize it. and react by saying “i proudly hate trans men” as their blog header because its irony or edgy or something. idk. i just dont think its funny.

I'd rather hangout with the straight palestinian grandma than the queer zionist who keeps insisting that the death of palestinians is the one way ticket to queer liberation