genuinely gobsmacked that a white guy called me “trans girly eva braun” because my puerto rican girlfriend politely asked him to stop spreading misinformation about who is getting deported & being intellectually dishonest about why. and he assumed that my fiancee was me because he saw her pinned post about my immigration fund. and now he’s posting vile transmisogynistic creeds about how nobody wants to donate to me because im ugly and just spend all my money on makeup and clothes. and now he’s calling me a sexual abuser because somebody said something to the level of “she’s not gonna fuck you bro” in his inbox and, of course, he is blaming it on me.
unless something’s changed since he started having his temper tantrum, he categorically wasn’t getting sent death threats and sexual harassment. what he called death threats (later eugenics, later nazism) is somebody sent him “fix your heart or die”. what he called sexual harassment is somebody sending him “she’s not gonna fuck you”
i think it goes without saying that if you’re publicly lying about a trans woman calling her a sexual predator etc. based on unrelated anons, you are in fact sexually harassing her not the other way around.
I see Tumblr has only become more normal about trans women since I last checked
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.
sorry but i had to go off: transfeminine jesse forces audiences to ask: "what if the entire show is about a girl who never got to be one?" ehich is a far more challenging question than "what if jesse is a trans man?"- because it reframes Everything, from walt’s abuse to jesse’s suffering, as part of a systematic denial of her true self. a lot of the transmasc jesse discourse comes from a place of sympathetic but still cis-normative projection. he’s read as a "soft uwu boy" rather than a girl forced into boyhood. transfeminine readings forces ppl to confront the horror of being molded into something you’re not, which is much more discomforting.
the "Softboi to Man" archetype is a more familiar story. fragile men learning to be Real Men™ are culturally legible in a way that "men realizing they were never men at all" still isn't. transmasculine readings slot neatly into existing coming-of-age tropes, while the transfeminine one Subverts them violently and That is exactly why it’s so much more powerful!!
