#discours

Misandrists (radfems etc) always go for disabled men, trans men etc. Weirdly enough right?

source : @cheminer-poesie-cressant

livrée d'hiver du noyer à nu ; se pose alors la traduction du discours de ses branches, noyé dans la blancheur de l’espace horizon qui fait page, phrasé après phrasé au milieu des nœuds de ponctuation ; on pourrait lire par instant ce que l'ombre décline de dire à la lumière, la tension d'une inflexion qui parle de don, quelques mots soulignés de mousse jaunissante pour conjuguer les clartés frileuses ; mon arbre est un texte feutré qui amortit le son des mots les plus durs, un velours non tissé qui laisse place aux respirations des pensées les plus ailées

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winter delivery of the bare walnut tree; then comes the translation of the discourse of its branches, drowned in the whiteness of the horizon space that forms a page, phrase after phrase amid the knots of punctuation; at times, one could read what the shadow declines to say to the light, the tension of an inflection that speaks of gift, a few words underlined with yellowing moss to conjugate the timid clarities; my tree is a hushed text that muffles the sound of the harshest words, a non-woven velvet that leaves room for the breaths of the most winged thoughts

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TERFs don't hate men and build conspiracies around this hate to justify it, they hate trans women.

Conservatives and the political machines they've built don't have an interest in upholding the cishetero patriarchy and punishing people they see as deviants, they hate trans women.

"Man In Dress" jokes do not make fun of people existing outside the gender binary and traditional gender roles, they are about trans women.

Like, I'm sorry, I don't want to minimize what being a trans woman is like in this political climate, but I think it's important to not lose sight of reality and fall into conspiracy: anti-trans sentiments and politics are about enforcing strict gender roles and a strict gender binary; the reason trans women are often their primary target is because as "men" (intentional use of quotes there) who reject cishetero masculinity, aka the power to assert themselves over others, they're seen as the maximum expression of this transgression, not because of who they really are, as trans women.

I know the difference feels non-existent most of the time, but if we really wanna liberate ourselves we have to keep this in mind.

I'm not gonna argue that the humor in "Man In Dress" jokes doesn't come from transmisogyny and jabs at queer (particularly gay men) culture: like I said the joke is about how ridiculous men existing outside their roles are, but this stereotype is still a very real an important part of queer culture (like. sometimes I feel I'm going insane. Are we now deciding to ignore the fundamental history of drag?? Is drag transmisogynistic??), and what this trope can do is shine a light on it, pay homage to it, have fun with it, imply a character's queerness, and more. It can be intentional.

Like. this is media analysis 101, what are we even saying?? "The fucking curtains are just blue"??