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The passage of the seasons - Summer defeating Spring

A trans man who passes may access some surface-level male privileges (e.g., being taken more seriously in a work meeting, walking down a street with less harassment). However, that privilege is entirely contingent on stealth and passing. The moment his trans status is known via an ID, a medical situation, or a slip, that privilege evaporates and is replaced by a visceral transphobia. Unlike cis men, trans men do not hold systemic, institutional power over trans women. They cannot write anti-trans legislation, control medical boards, or enforce gendered bathroom panics.

Trans women bear the brunt of a violent intersection of transphobia and misogyny that makes them hypervisible, fetishized, and disproportionately targeted for fatal violence.

Trans men, conversely, often face erasure, infantilization, and dismissal.

The conflict arises when trauma gets misattributed. For some trans women, the invisibility trans men experience looks like safety and social acceptance. Resentment builds when they see a trans man moving through the world without the constant, aggressive scrutiny they face. But this conflates passing privilege with cis power, which are entirely different social currencies.

Cis society does not protect trans man as men (because it doesn't truly see them as men more often than not), and the patriarchy does not grant them the immunity that cis men enjoy.

This makes them a socially acceptable target within certain queer circles. For a traumatized trans woman, it is psychologically safer to project their anger onto a marginalized peer who cannot fight back with systemic force, rather than confronting the terrifying, structurally protected cisgender patriarchy.

Tumblr thrives on binary morality and trauma-sharing. Nuance, like saying trans men can hold misogyny but are not structurally oppressive to trans women, is lost in favor of viral, black-and-white accusations. These spaces often flatten intersectionality, forgetting that a trans man also experiences misogyny pre-transition and continues to face gynecological/medical discrimination post-transition.

This infighting is horizontal hostility. When an oppressed group cannot effectively fight the vertical power structure (the cis-hetero-patriarchy), they turn inward and fight each other over crumbs of perceived safety or privilege. The real winners of this infighting are the cis politicians and institutions writing the legislation that harms both trans men and trans women.

Performative self-flagellation over being white is not a substitute for doing serious introspection about the ways you have been complicit in or rewarded by a white-supremacist society, nor doing the work to dismantle white supremacy.

Senator Mitch McConnell was found unconscious before he was rushed to the hospital last month.

Punchbowl News reports that the former Senate majority leader, who is retiring after his current term ends in January, lost consciousness at his Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14, before a dispatcher sent over an Advanced Life Support ambulance. Journalist Desiree Townsend posted a recording of the call from the emergency dispatcher Tuesday afternoon to X.

The audio has not been independently verified, and McConnell's office has not commented on it. On that day last month, a spokesperson for the 82-year-old said that McConnell was "receiving excellent care," but didn't elaborate further. On June 22, his office issued a statement saying he was "working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery." And this Tuesday, one of his staff members said that he was recovering and working with staff.

But his office has not said anything about his condition or prognosis, nor if he is still in the hospital. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said June 15 that McConnell "is clearly dialed in to what's going on. He's following along with stuff we are doing this week up here. Very much so."

Is that still the case? This is the second time McConnell has been hospitalized this year, having spent eight days in the hospital for flu-like symptoms in February. And in the past three years, McConnell's health has severely deteriorated.

In March 2023, McConnell fell at a dinner event at Washington's Waldorf Astoria hotel and fractured his rib while suffering a concussion. He suffered another fall in July, and in public appearances that year, froze mid-sentence twice, dissociating for 20 to 30 seconds each time. The attending physician at the Capitol later declared that McConnell hadn't suffered from a seizure, stroke, or movement disorder, and was likely dehydrated or experiencing the aftereffects of his concussion.

In December 2024, McConnell would fall again at a Senate Republican lunch, spraining his wrist and cutting his face. He also tripped and fell in a Senate building October 2025 while walking with an aide's help as a reporter asked him questions.

Obviously, this has already been pointed out by Black people in the fandom, but I wanted to bring it up because I’ve had a few asks about that song specifically that I’m not comfortable with answering. I am extremely happy that Jax is canonically transfem because even though I’ve never watched the show, I’ve witnessed people’s excitement about it, and I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, but I’m also not going to pretend like the racism doesn’t exist because that’s not the kind of blog I’m running here. Any other song could’ve been used, and perhaps there wasn’t much thought put into its choice; I’m sure it wasn’t a deliberate act of malice, because from an outsider perspective that song seems to fit perfectly, but that ultimately doesn’t make it any less harmful, especially given the context surrounding the production.

I feel similarly about how United In Grief by Kendrick Lamar became a popular TikTok sound for people to make funny jokes about something going wrong when the original lyrics are specifically about Black grief. Or about the new trend of “the saxaphones are getting louder” taken from Boyz N The Hood, which is a movie about Black-American experiences that a lot of (white) people using this sound likely haven’t even seen.

of-fucking-course she's going to be suspicious of them! this is the town she loves, and she doesn't want to take down the old guard, just to replace them with a new batch of rich vampires. she cares so much for the people of purpee, and building community, and she's absolutely in the right for questioning the motives of these new people, who are buying up equity in a lot of the towns amenities. and asking hj to invest his money into the credit union-you guys understand that she doesn't get that money right? she's asking them to actually put down roots in purpee, and to show her they're here to stay, in exchange for her help and cooperation.

1 - You seem to not know much about Credit Unions (a lot of people don't!) because this was a highly, deeply, respectful, reasonable ask to make. So here's a little information to educate you on the basics of how these things work:

When you decide to manage your money at a credit union, you aren’t just a customer; you join the credit union and become a member. A board of directors made up of volunteers manages the credit union.

Credit unions offer many of the same benefits and products as banks, but because they’re owned by members, a credit union may provide greater access to personal services and community interaction. Also, many credit unions offer lower interest rates on consumer loans and sometimes higher deposit yields (although some online-only banks might offer higher savings yields).

The primary difference between banks and credit unions lies in ownership, governance, and financial incentives. Banks are for‑profit institutions owned by shareholders, while credit unions are member‑owned, not‑for‑profit financial cooperatives.

Banks are typically owned by private investors or public shareholders. Strategic decisions—everything from pricing to product development—are evaluated through the lens of profitability and shareholder value. Credit unions, by contrast, are owned collectively by their members. Each member has a vote in electing the board of directors, regardless of how much money they have on deposit.

The board of directors at a credit union is responsible for overseeing the credit union’s operations, making strategic decisions, and ensuring financial stability.

A Credit Union is owned and operated by its members which means that it is run by people who have financial stake in its success for everyone with money in the CU. If a millionaire takes a role of responsibility for running a Credit Union, their money needs to be invested in it else all they're doing is making decisions for other people's money and not ones that impact their one. Kind of a big no, in addition to being contrary to how the whole concept works.

2 - It is extremely interesting of you to call a very Brown, very Indian American woman:

"so self-righteous and pretentious, with this fucking stupid savior complex that just because she HAPPENS to have magical powers as a witch she can strong arm everyone around her. like yeah i understand where she's coming from but that understanding isn't an excuse for her to be a fucking asshole."

While saying about her white partner in your tags:

"amelia on the other hand love her to bits"

Obviously I do not know you as a person and your blog only has your pronouns so I don't know your skin colour or your background and how much of this is internalised about people like you or how much of it is externalised about people not like you, but your post bleeds with misogyny and racism.

I am begging you to do some thinking about why you would have that kind of response to a person of colour who is magically in the know enough to know how dangerous vampires are, works at the gosh darn food co-op in her town, and is dedicated to protecting her community as much as she can from both supernatural and mundane forces, would insist on the rich vampires who have shown up and are sinking their fingers into her town prove that they're actually invested in the community and aren't just going to screw everyone she cares about over.

HJ wasn't in the wrong for hesitating, he has a lot he's going through and he's deciding what he wants - it was reasonable for him to hesitate. And it was just as reasonable for Maya to be spooked by his hesitation and take his flippancy as a sign of him not being trustworthy about the matter.

Calling Maya a "fucking asshole... with a fucking stupid savior complex because she HAPPENS to have magical powers as a witch" for...not trusting the rich, magically dangerous interlopers from a big city - who she has consistently done her best to compromise with and meet with an assumption of positive intent - says a whole lot about how you view not just women/women with darker skin, but ones who have the audacity to not just smile and cave to a white man main character in a story.

The genocide of the native people and Manifest Destiny.

Endless imperial conquests that continue to this day.

Racism, segregation, and slavery that still happens today.

The suppression of civil rights groups and organized labor.

The constant oppression of minorities.

The cult of American Exceptionalism and romanticized militarism.