i'm just trying

"i suggest forcefem"

"Men are not oppressed."

the only man that isn't oppressed is the white man that conforms to every level of masculinity and heterosexuality and heteronormativity. if he's too odd or strange or "unmasculine" he loses some of his privilege too.

this is kind of a weird issue so like. BEAR WITH ME

The capitalist nation state is using various instruments and methods to create the profile of a citizen that has never existed before in history, explains Öcalan: “This citizen’s real aim in life is to have a car, a family (to find a husband or a wife, to have one or two children), and to own a house; in other words, to become a daily standard consumer. The meaning of sociality can be easily brushed aside for menial selfish ambitions. The citizen’s memory is wiped out and consequently it is detached from history as well. History is thought to be nothing but all about chauvinistic national clichés. The citizen has no philosophy and does not believe in the existence of any other philosophy of happiness than narrow pragmatism. In appearance, the citizen looks modern. However, at issue is the individual of the “herd of citizens,” “mass society,” or, indeed, lack of individuality that has been created and prepared to work for the most obscure aspirations (such as fascism) which are hollow and devoid of substance.” According to Öcalan, this type of citizen played a central role on the road to fascism and is the subject of many famous novels. One example in this context is the novel “The Conformist” by Alberto Moravia, which tells the story of a man who becomes a compliant civil servant under the new fascist government in Italy. Öcalan considers nation states and societies that produce this type of citizen to be among the greatest obstacles to democratic modernity. Therefore, a central task of democratisation and anti-fascist practice is “to analyze the nation-state and the society that produces such a lack of individuality (where the individual is considered non-existent) and to raise egalitarian, free, and democratic individuals (free citizens) who can construct the democratic civilization.” In his remarks, Öcalan also rejects the dominant understanding that the middle class is the basis of a republican and democratic regime. Rather, this depiction is a “narrative of liberal propaganda”. The “middle class has played the key role in the negation of the republic and democracy.” For Öcalan, the middle class is the reservoir from which fascism, not democracy, draws: “Just as the relationship between fascism and the nation-state is structural, the relationship between fascism and middle class is also structural.” In this context, liberal democracy essentially relied on the middle class, and he describes the nation state as the “modern god of the middle class”: “It lives in its own mentality and passion with the dream of reuniting (through attainment of task and benefit) with this God. A position within its bureaucracy or monopolies means salvation.” Capitalism uses the liberal bourgeoisie and the middle class in its fight against democratisation and social justice by making concessions and creating illusions, pointing to the lower strata of society and keeping the middle class in constant fear.

One thing I hear a lot about is that trans women and transfems who support the ideas of transunity do not have a space to discuss transmisogyny, since the main transmisogyny tag is overtaken by users who engage in lateral transphobia and are often hostile to these trans women and transfems.

Personally, I think using the term anti-transfemininity could be useful for the same reason as anti-transmasculinity. It emphasizes what is being targeted (perceived transmasculinity or transfemininity) while leaving room for transunity's basic idea that all forms of transphobia involve misogyny, misandrogyny, and misandry.

#I genuinely wonder where they got lost if they think ‘access to AFAB housing’ is *male* privilege tbh#yknow. group of people who by are by definition not granted the sex marker of male on their birth certificate#and if our birth certificate and legal sex ID was changed to Male then#maybe. and hear me out here. maybe that would make it difficult. to get into. AFAB housing. whoa.#maybe this is why the term AFAB privilege began to circulate lmao#bc there’s no way of arguing this as male privilege that doesn’t come across as some form of absurdist satire

Insane to me that disabled people will say: "Hey, your glorified idea of revolution is going to get us killed" and then be treated as collateral damage or a necessary sacrifice. Like, yeah, the systems in place now are oppressive and literally based on eugenics, but a Revolution™️is not going to save us. How are we supposed to trust you (abled people) to put good systems in place if you're ready to kill us to get rid of the old one. That's not saving people. Treating disabled people as if they're ridiculous for not wanting to die and pointing out how bad a revolution would be for us is insane. You're actually a horrible person if you do this.

Ah, the exact people I’m refuting have found the post.

Hey so you know how people always talk about transmasc erasure? Coming across that paper on Tumblr discourse on transandrophobia reminded me of something.

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.