Art Sideblog

gora means somthing along the lines of fair skinned, or outright white

pakoda or pakora is a fritter made with various vegtables in a gram flour batter and then fried

reasoning: bro waited millennia for his prophesied they/them liberator. also his cunt ass robes. also you can make him wear a maid dress

If neither you nor a reader can make an Unhinged Powerpoint about it - the characters, the lore, the whole thing, whatever - you must re-evaluate it in some way.

TERFs don't recruit by right out the gate going "trans women are perverted men who want to gain access to women's spaces to rape women and girls, and trans men are just poor confused lesbians brainwashed by the transgender agenda into mutilating their bodies." If they did that, they would never recruit anyone. No, they start small. First they start with very normal feminist talking points then, as they get you listening, they start turning up the heat a little bit. They build up to it, they get you to agree with them at first and then trick you into continuing to think they're reasonable. Believe me, I have seen this happen. I have seen TERFs literally discussing the efficacy of this method in getting young people to join them- the medium they specified was Pinterest, which is where I've seen this happening the most. They prey on people who don't know what to watch out for, get them agreeing, and then start getting more and more radical until the victim is agreeing with genuinely heinous shit. That's how they do this. I've seen it before, I nearly fell down this rabbit hole before. I know where this starts.

And what I am seeing from transandrophobes mirrors that exactly.

It starts the same, similar talking points and everything- literally I have seen TRFs using TERF rhetoric either word-for-word or nearly so. The talking points used to recruit people into this are almost the same, just trans-inclusive. And then it starts building up. I've seen people falling down this rabbit hole in real time and let me tell you, it almost never starts with "forcefem all transmascs," it's always something that's easily agreeable, trans men not belonging here or there, transandrophobia not being a thing because androphobia isn't a thing, "basic feminism-" it starts small. And then it starts building. And next thing you know you've got someone agreeing with "bomb that kills all trans men." It's exactly the same.

It starts the same. You get someone agreeing with mild stuff, then you build up until they're agreeing with major stuff. It's classic extremist tactic, and seeing something like this in any movement is a massive red flag. I am seeing it in people becoming hateful towards trans men and transmascs. This is how TERFs recruit, it's how cults recruit, it's how extremist groups recruit, and now it's how transandrophobes are recruiting.

people act like I'm exaggerating when I describe it as a hate group, but it really is. they have gotten to a point of not simply threatening to doxx people, but fully actually doxxing people, multiple, plural. the violent rhetoric has gotten worse and worse, and the overton window has been shifted so far right that they can say things like "kill all the transmascs" and people barely bat an eye. it's normalized. I get that things have always been pretty bad around here, but I really truly don't believe that a decade ago (let alone as little as a couple years ago) somebody could've said something like that without people reacting with horror at such a statement.

it's like watching a slow train wreck.

and a common retort I get whenever I say things along these lines is, "but they seem like they truly believe the bullshit they're spewing" and...yeah, so do TERFs. and white supremacists. and eugenicists. and various other hate groups who say overtly genocidal or covertly genocidal shit. sometimes hate groups are disingenously not believing the things they're saying, but a lot of them are in it because they really do think they're doing the right thing. I have no doubts that a large amount of TRFs think that they truly are valiant transfeminists battling their mortal enemy or whatever. a lot of TERFs really do think that trans people are a danger to them as 'fragile defenseless women' etc.; that doesn't make the harm any less damaging, and it doesn't make them immune from responsibility for their actions.