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using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

i think people just dont know what oppressor class means

its important to allow yourself to accept that you are (most likely) part of an oppressor class, and that its not by itself a value judgement, it means you passively enjoy the benefits of it and also that you have opportunities to take active advantage of it, being cis, being white, being able bodied, being a global northern, those are all oppressor classes, you cant say they arent because it would make some of them who arent all of them sad

which is to say, yea i think men are an oppressor class and that trans men are men

so do you "love trans women" as in you like to fantasize about being fucked by a Scary Predatory Tranny, or do you love trans women?

transmisogynistic stereotypes are not heavily sexualized by coincidence. they're designed to be psychosexually powerful. the things that make them tantalizing are the things that make them so dangerous for trans women

fruitful endeavors…

i swear to god if people don't start understanding that responding to doylist critique of a piece of media with watsonian exonerations is not an actual rebuttal

somebody saying "hey i don't like that the only gay man in this story is a weird pervert and it portrays gay sexual promiscuity as a moral failing and character flaw" cannot be rebuked by arguing about how the character's backstory or personality traits explain their behaviour. the choices made by a writer are all fundamentally mutable; somebody saying an author's choices should have been different is not going to be persuaded by an argument that takes those choices as immovable fact

like the most obvious examples are obviously south park and basically every single seth mcfarlan show, but you can see a similar pattern in rick and morty, even if most of the right-wing messaging is unintentional and the result of poor writing. despite being very progressive in most ways, the simpson and futurama are not immune to this either as racist, transphobic, and homophobic ideas have creeped into them mostly via the influence of broader cultural attitudes. king of the hill is hard to get a read on, but overall i think it manages to avoid this problem for the most part by being about a conservative man learning to change with the times and accept more progressive ideas. i think the only other exception really is bob's burgers unless you want to start getting into adult oriented action shows and indie animation, but that's outside of the scope of this post

OH not to mention the pervasive fucking ablism in pretty much all of these shows excluding maybe bob's burgers (i might be forgetting something, but i can't remember anything noteworthy off the top of my head)

i'm the first depressed person to be lazy for real

I think a lot of transmisogyny stems from this idea that people are really scared to see a dick. The reason bathrooms and locker rooms and hot springs keep being flash points is because these are all places where if a trans woman is using them, it's possible you might see her dick. A lot of transmisogynistic humor revolves around being traumatized because the subject saw a woman with a penis. And look, to a certain extent I sympathize. I'm not a fan of dick; I dont want this thing either. But if you want to be an ally to trans women, I think a big important step you can take personally is to examine your own reaction to the scenarios I described above, and recognize that a dick is just a body part a girl has sometimes. Seeing it as inherently sexual and/or traumatizing is a major wedge conservatives use to justify their rhetoric