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hey trans ally it’s genuinely awesome that you’re sharing informative and positive posts about trans women but can i ask a quick question about why the only time you ever share a post including trans men, mascs or non-binary people it’s when they’re being told to shut up and stop making everything about them even when part of a conversation that’s supposed to include them in the first place? i just found it interesting. anyway, i hope you’re also normal about trans women and not just being performative to cover up your exclusionary worldview or anything bc that would suck.

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

That German shorthair pointer is sure pointing.

i bring a sort of “you should maybe interrogate your so-called ‘preferences’ to make sure they’re not literal textbook examples of severe unconscious bias” vibe that my woke gay friends dont really like

really a good tool for any aspiring critic or creator to develop is the ability to ask yourself - and answer honestly! - whether your disdain for something comes from a place of (perceived) wasted potential or bitter anger that anyone else dared to create something less than perfect while you were too paralysed by dissatisfaction to even attempt to do so yourself. because if it's the latter, then you'll save yourself a lot of time and stress in the long run if you start to recognise just how much of what's holding you back is your own insecurity.

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors