Gender?Sometimes

Not because I don’t have respect for the major accomplishments and organizing of that era, but because, to me, it is completely ridiculous to suggest that they’re hasn’t been a “women’s movement” all along.

As long as there have been men being misogynistic, there have been women trying to take action against it. It has just been more or less successful, depending upon the era and cultural context.

Buddy ask the average White American how they feel about gay and trans people, since we're taking the census and the piss. Hell, look at the people in charge currently pushing anti trans and anti queer legislation and tell me how they identify. Look at the racial demographics of our last election and tell me who you think is out here going rah rah for the gays and theys.

The audacity to suggest that my entire community is homophobic (I.e., you spend zero time around Black queer and trans folk) but somehow yours is worthy of a closer, more nuanced look... Really some OG white supremacy, actually! "Those savages, they don't understand things like gender and sexuality, they're just angry uncultured brutes!" -mentality shared between 1700s race scientists and 2026 You, apparently.

This is why “trans exceptionalism” just fails. There’s little that distinguishes white LGBT people from one another when it comes to race and this was very much an issue cis gays had very recently with racism as well and it took several years to quiet that racist discourse.

Perceptions of blondness is fairly culturally specific and in regions where people tend to be darker in hair and complexion, what we consider “brown” in a more white dominated nation will be considered blonde. Not sure if that is universal or just specific to that part of Latin America, but it was the first time I was confronted with the idea that I would appear “non Aryan white” to white people and “ultra Aryan white” to non American non white people.

It was an interesting perspective shift. Because I grew up in this context, I would not consider myself blonde past age 3 which was the last time my natural hair was bright and yellow. But it’s hard to deny to people with thick nearly black in color hair that yeah my hair that’s several shades lighter is a totally different unrelated color and is not merely a much lighter shade of their hair color.

Our concept of what counts as dark blonde vs light brunette hair is very different from the way these are perceived by people from white dominated countries, especially the further away from the Mediterranean type of white they are.