Hey there! I'm Alice! I'm 32, I'm a bunny girl, a robot girl, and a slime girl.and I am Not Normal about Bridget. Profile pic by @arocinema. She/her and They/them pronouns for me, non-binary transfemme. Poly. I will block TERFs on sight (yes that means "gender critical" too)
thinking abt that time in one of my art classes when the prof put up a silhouette of L from death note and said “this is not an effective design bc you can’t tell who this character is from this shape”
and everyone in the class went like “yes we can that’s L from death note”
This actually illustrates an interesting point about character design: it doesn’t begin and end with physical traits. Body language and movement are so key to how we recognize people visually.
found this video at <2000 likes and i NEED more people to see this because. yeah.
Transcript:
“Maybe I like looking trans “oh your voice is too deep” Maybe I like having a deep voice. Maybe I’m not your femme fantasy. Maybe I’m my own fantasy. I love looking trans. I fucking hope that when I walk down the street, they say, “look at that transsexual!” And just maybe someone will see me and think, “hey, I can live that way, too."”
Controversial opinion: Trans women are not “male women”.
Hope this helps!
Turbo-nuclear take: “Trans woman” is not a different gender from “cis woman”.
Take at which we can achieve nuclear fusion: “woman of color” is also not a different gender from “cis woman”.
If women of color are so “masculinized”, if we are so Indelibly Associated with Maleness, then why are we hypersexualized and treated as disposable sex objects by a white-hegemonic patriarchal culture? Does our fetishization as “highly submissive” register as particularly male to you? Does the proliferation of beauty industry trends fixated on commodifying our features and making them surgically available to white women seem like we are being distanced from womanhood?
If “trans women face so much pressure to change their bodies”, why do clinics stonewall and refuse to prescribe us the treatment we desperately need, and why do doctors UNDER-PRESCRIBE HRT to us, or refuse to cover top surgery for trans women?
Think, Tumblr, think!
I will state, plainly, that this site is so transmisogynistic, even its acceptance of transfemininity is transmisogynistic.
Tumblr hates women. Hates women and womanhood. It views being a woman as boring, un-hip, conformist, regressive, and ‘patriarchal’ or 'male gaze’.
Every time I see a post that is transfem-positive, it is almost always couched in casting trans women as Male Women, as avatars of gender-ambiguity, as a “masculine womanhood”.
Best of both worlds, eh?
You are The Misogyny Site, and even your supposed 'acceptance’ of us is poisoned swill.
And you will never unpack or do anything about the rampant transmisogyny on this site for as long as you are dominated by a culture that insists on womanhood as something to abhor and distance yourself from at all costs.