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 But if you ask people who think about things, the answer is vague. Killing a hibernating bear would just feel… impolite? You can’t fucking shoot a man when he’s sleeping, that’s just fucking rude. It’s just not the right thing to do.

 Long before hunting laws were established in Finland, you couldn’t kill a sleeping bear, and what commands you is something older than law: tradition. Even at a time when hunting was a matter of life and death, and a bear fighting for its life is mainly a matter of death, you just didn’t kill a hibernating bear, you have to wake it up first. Hunters risked their lives, the lives of their brothers and everyone in the hunting party, who were friends, family and men that they loved, to give the bear a fighting chance.

 In the modern time, the hunting season of bears is in the summer, for the warmest summer months. There are many reasons for why they are allowed to tread safely in autumn and to sleep in peace through the cold months, almost all of which are rational and scientific, and do not touch the old traditions.

 Old faith says a living thing has many souls - henki, luonto, itse. Plants only have one - the one that wills them to grow. Animals have two, both the spark of life and nature that enables them to act. A human being also has the third, one that makes them a person, personality, itse, literally “self”. But the soul that travels in your dreams is not the soul that defines a human - animals have that one as well. When your dog runs in her sleep, her soul is elsewhere, where a dog is needed.

Trans women have made it pretty clear they wouldn't like trans men (or even some nonbinary people) to use the term transmisogyny to describe a lot of our experiences. And that's cool, even tho trans men and masculine folks definitely experience intersecting things from transphobia and misogyny, I agree that it's most apt for trans women to use the term.

So we have our own term now, which includes not only transphobia and misogyny as it is experienced by trans men/mascs specifically, but also the general anti-masculinity and anti-transmasculinity that is pretty apparent in queer spaces.

I dunno. I think we should be able to talk about how "men should die" really hurts to hear as a trans guy. I think we should be able to talk about our experiences being labelled as a gender traitor for simply existing comfortably in a way that allows us to continue to live. I think we should be able to talk about the rates in when we are raped and assaulted and murdered at the same rate as other queer demographics. Every trans guy I know could give multiple life experience examples, and seek out genuine support as a human being trying to process those experiences, and the end result is just "shut up you're a man" ???

All this vitriol for people in your community who are just trying to FINALLY discuss our experiences and the ways they relate and differ from each other. This isn't a "let's see who has it the worst and who has it the best" conversation, it's just a, "hey sometimes as a trans man I feel very isolated both outside and inside the community because of transphobia, misogyny, and anti-transmasculinity, and I would like to talk about it for once" conversation

And there will still be people who hear that and say "good, suffer for the crime of being a man" and somehow think that's just??? Good and well adjusted??