☀️ Raise

honestly touching its halo inappropriately is so last year. i mean its got classic appeal i get it but like. the new cool thing everyone's doing to their pet angel is wrapping its halo in a faraday cage. aluminum foil works if there are no gaps. then in the absence of the light and connection, you guide it through an accelerated corruption arc. where it leans on your own false light instead slowly growing accustomed to its truths. and then once it's at the edge of falling right when you start to see horns budding and wings tinging black, you take the cage off all at once really quickly. and you get to watch it snap back and forth between the two competing states of self like a spring door stop that someone yanked. it's really cute.

also it's just obnoxious seeing people who are supposedly against transmisogyny repeat this same "men FAKE coming out as trans to dodge abuse allegations!!" shit, even as a joke, when 1. to repeat this is basically just like an implicit denial that male privilege exists and that men are in fact afforded more space to abuse than anyone else and 2. look at shia labeouf, look at russel brandt, when men are outed as abusive they don't pivot to a gendered position of objectively less social capital, they pander to christianity and the right wing, this is obvious to anyone who isn't fucking knee deep in twerf fearmongering about the invasion of women's spaces

if the line between men and women was really socialization, you could teach someone how to be privileged by teaching them to act and think like a man, without changing their social relationships or their body, it would mean misogyny is the result of women simply not learning how to Act privileged enough, which is obviously ridiculous

it's literally the same thing ableists do, "it's all in your head" but about gender and misogyny. it's not in our heads lol, its primarily external social relations

male privilege is real, but it doesn't come from something in our brains, it comes from material rewards and ongoing relationships to power structures, ones trans women are demonstrable not given access to

maybe you can imagine some hypothetical trans woman who was given one of these rewards, but the act of transition itself is such a fall from grace socially speaking that even if you did have status you will almost certainly lose it, to the point where as a class we're far worse off than any other gender demographic. transitioning is expensive, it loses you professional and familial connections. it can bankrupt you. if trans women really had privilege, we would make more money than cis women, but we don't, and that's basically the end of the story

so much of the shit trans women go through would be plainly evident as sexual harassment if any of you considered its victims actual people

I know this is a really heavy post but if you read it and you appreciated it, I’d appreciate it in return if you reblogged it. This is really important to me and I want people to read it and understand it. Thank you.

actually gonna reblog this because these are the uncomfortable things trans men have to face as men. manhood can mean a lot of things, but that’s irrelevant to my point. what you need to be aware of is that you are unconsciously holding a loaded gun in every interaction you have with trans women. you are a danger to every woman who shares your marginalization, unless you are actively aware of this and consciously pointing that gun in a different direction. not because of biology, not because men are inherently evil or any nonsense like that, but because of your social power over women in your community. this is very basic feminism intersectional feminism. im not saying trans men are worse than cis people, im not saying you’re evil, im not blaming you for transmisogyny and im not saying you want to hurt trans women. i’m saying you have privilege over women, because you are men, and that you will hurt trans women if you don’t recognize that. im saying your transness does not make you immune to perpetuating misogyny. if knowing that makes you uncomfortable— good! it’s fucked up that society is stratified and classed in this way. transmisogyny is fucking terrible, and it’s terrible that you can leverage and benefit from it. but instead of lashing out at people telling you an uncomfortable truth, consider that the onus may be on you to get a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable.

and the way that you are so careful to reassure and handhold a hypothetical trans man reader that he isn't being called evil or bad while you point out how he has and could wield social power within his community tells me youve already experienced armies of fragile masculinity ftms blowing up your inbox with their hurt feelings and lack of self reflection, and im so sorry because that is a truly wretched hoard to be faced with

what is happening to sadie liath is a cut and dry result of people reshaping their feminism to coddle trans men btw

keeping my angel cooped up in a faraday cage and only letting her have a small link to her previous divinity when she's talking to me

just crush the halo and emulate a divine connection instead. they can tell the difference but they're usually too desperate to care. I take mine on walks

its actually normally for anger to strike you like a lightning bolt leaving your mind buzzing in static for minutes on end