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Somewhat tangential but I've found that if you're transfem and nonbinary and want to be a radical genderpunk people take it as an excuse to masculinize you. You say something like "I want to be seen equally sometimes as male, sometimes as female, sometimes as neither" you quickly find that it doesn't actually happen. Everyone hears that and defaults to seeing you as "failed male faggot." If you ask for she/they/he pronouns you get 90% he. Even if you ask for she/her you still get 10% he 40% they. When you give TME people the option to gender you in masculine terms even slightly they just start to do it all the time and completely reject the validity of your womanhood. You learn pretty quick that from the transmisogynist gaze, it's easier to accept you as some nebulously degendered oddity than to accept a trans woman as having a legitimate claim to womanhood.

the worst part about progressive americans is that they live incredibly close to the source of some of the most interesting movements and works in anti colonial history in latin america but they just invent their own idea of anti colonialism from scratch to just mean whatever. between the monroe doctrine and big ag + mining corps you have a laboratory of imperialism on your borders and migrants from those countries regularly in your neighborhoods. like you'll brag to europeans about access to pupusas but know jackshit about el salvador fr.

im just saying this from being indian where a lot of post colonial thought is often stuck in regressive upper caste hindu nonsense, has little interest in multiracialism or thinking deeply about indigenity etc getting to talk to bolivians and brazilians and mexicans was so useful and important to me.

the thing is I just don't think intellectual labour is a special class of labour. I just don't think someone who created an intellectual product like a manuscript deserves the rights to extracting rent forever from physical copies of it more than the person who maintains the printers. I will just never be convinced of this.

and yeah h/t to @phenakistoskope there's already many types of creative intellectual labour that do not give you entry into the bourgeois class regardless of how independent and rich you are like what makes "creation" more inherently valuable than editing or typesetting or being a sound recording engineer. why is that not accepted as intellectual work with rentier benefits?

i forgot Most people are not always in the state of cowering in the corner like a scared dog. y’all just be doing stuff

Black people who have any form of hair at all deserve 1 million dollars.

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

You need to start going to metal concerts and offering estrogen to any men you see by saying it’s drugs.

if you lose interest in a trans woman when you find out she has a vagina then die

we're not sex toys we're people 👍

oh noooo you can't fit her into the "tranny shemale futanari dickgirl" sexual archetype OR the "pure, Natural cis woman crafted by god" sexual archetype? you have to respect her as a person rather than as a sex object? fuuuuck that must be really hard for you I'm sorry

it's funny that both trans and cis women alike are reduced to our genitals, but with trans women it's especially extreme. transness is thought of as infinitely worse than cisness in every way, so why would you ever desire a trans woman if not to play with her one unique feature? and if she doesn't, or can't, put out, what's the point of her? what value does she even have? she's just a sex toy, you can just throw her out

Annoyed with a video essay about misogyny in fandom spaces because the person making the video was saying "men" when they meant men, but they were saying "AFAB people" when they meant women. Quickly. What Demographic Are You Excluding By Saying This. This stupid fucking video essay was supposed to be about misogyny whilst excluding an entire demographic of women that does very much experience a lot of misogyny in fandom spaces (and everywhere else for that matter).

No-one wants to admit we are subject to misogyny. They would rather sweep it under the rug and misgender trans men in the process.