Autism Wrath

If claims that trans men have it worse than trans women make you mad, that's understandable! I see your point. But when the conversation is that transandrophobia is an actual thing trans men and transmascs suffer from, saying transmisogyny is worse is not a reasonable argument and completely unrelated.

Before I started getting involved in those spaces, I felt very odd about how I was being treated within my community as a trans man both irl and online. I felt excluded and only acknowledged as a man during discussions of patriarchy, essentially erasing how I have suffered at the hands of the patriarchy.

It wasn't until I discovered what transandrophobia was that I finally found the words to describe what I was experiencing. I had never felt so seen.

I then went on to discover that there is a group of trans people that genuinely believe transandrophobia is not real and that if you "believe in it" you are an MRA. (Which is grossly watering down what actual MRAs are. They literally advocate for violence against women.)

If you think that trans men have just made up their oppression to use it against women, you are transphobic and are not in touch with reality.

There is NO "death of the author" with JK Rowling - she controls and continues to profit from her IP, and uses that money to fund hate groups.

It isn't about cancelling problematic media, idgaf. We're capable of reading books we already own with a critical eye.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

Just to try and help out and spread the word, there are two chrome extensions I've found that might be able to help.

Seizafe: This extension scans youtube videos and warns you if they contain things like flashing lights that could cause a seizure.

CogniShield: This extension (supposedly, it has like no reviews) dims the screen to a safe level if flashing lights are detected; it can also be used to limit volume. It might help.

As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."

Fuck her.