Rose Rock Blues

1. Men are systematically privileged over women.

2. Men love to take advantage of that privilege while simultaneously denying that it exists.

Here's how that works:

say you get a text from your internet provider, let's say it's Comcast (whom i hate). So you have this text that says it's from Comcast about your bill with a contact number and a clickable link -- could be real, could be a scam.

Don't touch anything about this text. Open a web browser and look up the customer service number for Comcast. Or get the number from the bill they send you. However you do it, get the contact info for Comcast from a trusted source, like an official phone directory or the Comcast website itself.

Get in touch with them using that information.

So. Let's run the example both ways it could go.

If it IS a scam: you reach out to Comcast and tell them you were contacted about a problem with your bill, they look you up in their customer database, and they tell you there is no problem with your bill.

If it's NOT a scam, you do the same thing, they look you up, and they explain the problem. In this case, neither Comcast nor the employees involved give a single shit whether or not you clicked the link in the text vs. going through their official website.

This works the same for the your bank, the IRS, Amazon, political causes, charities, everything.

If it's not scam they'll be like sure, here's the reference number. Then you follow the instructions above, call the separate number you find yourself on a reputable website and give that person the reference number. And they'll help you resolve the issue.

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY*

here's the lgbtq tag trending as it does regularly due to pornbots catfishing using the same stolen photos from the same trans woman on the same trending tags page

remember the year in review? this was one of the featured tags

here's tumblr staff stating that making death threats towards trans women isn't a violation of the ToS or user guidelines

type of shit you can just say to trans women on this website. same person btw

here's tumblr staff terminating me for appealing the explicit flag on a post immediately before accepting said appeal and then terminating my already terminated blog to change the termination reason to something i can't appeal when I appealed the termination for explicit content

here's tumblr staff doing the exact same thing a second time

here's tumblr staff flagging SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY REBLOGS of a year old post with 15,000 notes as sexually explicit despite it not actually showing anything

here's SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY REBLOG of a post with gifs of two fully nude people fucking center frame being flagged as sexually explicit and the same gifs in the trending tags thumbnails

here's tumblr letting people blaze sissy hypno captions even though anything actually mentioning trans women gets denied

here's tumblr giving my original blog of 13 years a special kind of mature flag that automatically marked every single post i made as mature content separate from the actual content label

here's one of the pictures of the PMMM gachapon toys from the photoset of them that someone reported as CSAM that tumblr terminated me for - one of the two surviving images from it, from back when they actually bothered to moderate posts instead of just hitting the nuke button without looking

here's tumblr instantly denying my appeal for these terminations before I even get the email where they assure me they will carefully review it

here's tumblr terminating me 5 times in the weeks it took them to remove a burner blog and a single post encouraging people to mass report me and harass me forever over completely fabricated claims

here's tumblr flagging my already mature-flagged blog as mature out of the blue 15 minutes before dropping the age verification shit

and here's the episode of the anime that I posted a screencap from that they flagged as sexually explicit, denied my appeal on twice, and then marked my blog mature the first time for posting - available for viewing on youtube with a TV-14 age rating

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Hoo boy. This sure is a question! I'm gonna try breaking this down a bit.

Shinigami eyes is more useful for the red marks, not the green marks

The marks ARE community sourced, so it's not impossible

Honestly, though, that doesn't sound very likely! I think you're probably hearing talking points from people who don't like it when people push back against transmisogyny

I'm not sure how much you've been following the discourse, but there's this ongoing argument about the concept of "transandrophobia" as a counterpart to transmisogyny.

Transmisogyny is the intersection of two different kinds of sexism - oppositional and traditional. Traditional sexism is the idea that masculinity is superior to femininity. Oppositional sexism is the idea that male and female are rigid and mutually exclusive.

Trans men obviously suffer from transphobia and discrimination, and in the lens above, they are victims of oppositional sexism constantly. However, they are also beneficiaries of traditional sexism; there are advantages that trans men specifically have over trans women, even if access to those privileges is limited.

You can also understand transmisogyny as the unique phenomenon that arises from the intersection of transphobia and misogyny. In both of these understandings, "transandrophobia" is an unhelpful and counterintuitive idea, as it asserts that there is a unique form of discrimination levyed against men, which is a distinctly anti-feminist idea.

People who push back against this are generally not trying to deny the countless ways that trans men are discriminated against, rather, the misunderstanding of feminist ideas that allows "transandrophobia" to exist is something that allows people to shout down trans women trying to talk about our own oppression; it's a shallow desire to claim "transmisogyny for boys" which is, again, anti-feminist.

Some of what you're seeing is likely part of that debate - feminists discussing the ways in which feminist ideas are misinterpreted.