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Nautilus Cup. Nautilus Shell with Gilded Silver (1602) This decorative cup comes from Utrecht, a Dutch city famous for its silver metalwork. Wealthy collectors kept rare luxury objects like this in private display cabinets to show off their wealth and love for art.

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This is a really good example of how TERFs disguise their attacks against trans men, and why it’s so harmful to consider TERF attitudes towards trans mascs as infantilizing.

The post is made to appear sympathetic to the man they are mocking. “Look at this poor ‘girl’ and how he’s mutilated himself” sounds sympathetic, especially to trans people who are subjected to aggressive, direct attacks on their identities and humanity.

But this performative sympathy is just a front so that TERFs can enjoy being cruel without appearing as the aggressor. This allows the audience to still enjoy the pleasure of engaging in cruelty while dressing it up as pity.

This plays into the broader tactic TERFs deploy with trans mascs.

Rarely ever do they confront us directly the way they do with trans women.

In fact, because they see us as women, their primary objective is to make sure we are never ever heard at all, so that they can maintain the narrative that none of us would ever transition of our own free will.

Instead, they poison the well. They talk to our “handlers”. Our parents, our doctors and psychiatrists, our husbands, boyfriends, our pastors.

The veneer of sympathy is not to appeal to trans men. It is to appeal to those they see as having ownership over us. When trans men fight back against this, the malice comes out in full force.

The "point" is of course that the target is unable to fight back in any way - it demonstrates the bullies' social power (because the target could only fight back by physically removing themselves from the situation, running, locking a door etc, which would be further proof of the target's outcast status - "I tried to show her how to do her makeup and she RAN OFF like a FREAK, GROSS" or to physically fight back - "She PUSHED ME when I went to put makeup on her, she's violent and dangerous!") And reinforces that the bully is a morally "good person" (because "she just wants to help!! Why are you so ungrateful?!?!") In the case of the adult terfs with a trans man or transmasc target, the only ways that he can fight back will again make him look either "violent" or "hysterical" or both, making him the bad guy.

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