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Actually I'm not done talking about Elliot Page. You know that tweet that's going around that goes like "I always thought he was a terrible actor and hoped he would get better after transitioning but he is still bad" and people are touting it like it's peak ally behavior and I really don't get how they can't see how it's blatently an excuse to shit on him but woke? He's not a bad actor. He's never been. Even if you thought so before, how would you judge the difference? He's been in two badly reviewed seasons of the umbrella academy and five minutes of the odyssey, because transitioning just so happens to be bad for your career? Moot point bc he is not and people are just foaming at the mouth to be cruel to him without being accused of transphobia and it's clear as day.

It takes a special kind of cruelty to laugh at how “transmascs never contribute anything and whenever they make something it’s stupid and cringe” in a world where, even once we overcome the massive institutional and interpersonal barriers of sexism and transphobia that make accessing knowledge-making and art-making practices, institutions and communities extremely difficult, the burden that is placed on transmasculine people to only ever represent or reproduce ourselves if what we have to say is simultaneously different enough from other “more important” demographics for it to be allowed to be said by us (and not them) and also identical enough to the experience of those demographics that it is not considered treason to say it, effectively up bars us from ever producing culture.

Can we be nicer to people who are on the aro/ace spectrum who aren’t aroace please? Aroallos and alloaces and aplatonic folk and cupioromantics and those who want queerplatonic relationships and those who don’t and aros who date and aces who have sex and people who don’t fall on the “sex-favourable to sex-repulsed” line because they feel like it doesn’t describe them well enough and greyromantics and demisexuals and those in polycules and selfshipping communities and those who fight for aro/ace visibility and those who don’t and those who haven’t fully come to terms with their identity yet and this community is such a beautiful place can we see it beyond “uwu innocent aroace doesn’t know what sex is” please god I am begging you

story where a princess is “cursed” to never find love but she’s aromantic so she really dgaf about that shit and it’s the least important thing in the book