@venusintransit re: the whole amount of social capital and choosing what to say thing
yeah, I get you. Specifically, I get wanting to keep some status on here so that you can reach out to other mtfs, maybe even to keep a level of interest in the ideas you’re putting out, etc. It makes sense, especially if you’re someone who wants to try to do good among other mtfs who are pulling some bs.
Personally, my entire thing is really just that I gave up caring who gets pissed with off what I write, or keeping tumblr social capital, arond the time that my views fell out of tumblr-favor.
Like, if I was going to be hated by almost all my supposed friends, who had been in tumblr-style popular viewpoint, queer blogosphere with me, if they were all going to ~call me out~ and turn their back on me for it, then why give a damn what anyone thinks?
I had been trying to maintain social capital the way we all had been - by posting in fear of losing your friends and reputation on here (which for a lot of people was their only lgbt support system, period) - and then I realized when by views started changing that I had already basically lost all that, and wouldn’t have it as soon as I stood up for myself and against what I had learned to think.
So it was like...why try to join some other group, yet again (radfems, Truscum v.2: The Nicer Non!-2012-extreme-harassment-of-teen-ftms Version), and learn all their rules, and be a good little [insert whatever labels their framework uses for someone who’s socially like you - "trans****,” “Real dysphoric transsexual(TM),” “gnc female,” whatever - here]? Why join someone else, and copy them and use all their language/framework, and then feel afraid to leave lockstep with their ideas, when I had already been fucked up by one group? That would have felt like Ultimate “~sheeple” status (fedora_athetits.jpg)
so just...lmao. yeah. Different strokes for different folks.
