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Charlie, 23. It/She/He.
butch dyke. tme & white. marxist. transfeminist. # 💉 - 9/9/24 my "cat badge" was free & ive never spent money on tumblr
The widespread opposition to transfeminism by trans men specifically is to me one of the biggest vindications of transfeminism and of the fact that trans women are women, and trans men are men. Even while being trans, trans men are men and act according with regards to benefitting from patriarchy, and on top of being trans, trans women are on the recieveing end of that oppression on account of being women. No difference from the common retort from like 10 years ago (and more) some men levied; "I'm not a feminist, I'm pro-equality".
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!!
^you must be heisenberg because you're fucking cooking
even i am bored of complaining about yankees on here methinks we just need to start launching missiles atp
you're what, nineteen? so you're gonna need to take nineteen hits. no yeah, that's how it works. listen, you wanna be chill or not? then do what i tell you. blow it out the window, so mom doesn't catch us. door's locked. you're gonna need to sit down after, there's room in my bed for you. and for christ sake, take that prude sweater off, it's like eighty in here. i'm your sister, man, i've seen your tits before! it's fine! take it off before i rip it off myself. there, god. you're such a pussy. oh? there we go. first hit, how's it feel? you don't need to hold it. wow, nice and smooth! i expected you to hack up a lung, if i'm honest. good girl.
keep going.
when i say "girl" it's not gender neutral, it's because everyone is a girl to me and I'm maliciously misgendering you to fit you into my vision of the ideal world
it always seems as though whenever i talk about the political content/context/etc of art i am relentlessly met with 'wow, so you just want all art to be politically pure and correct' by people who, themselves, clearly want that, as evidenced by their extremely aggressive reaction to the suggestion that whatever cultural product they like is not uniquely and flawlessly 'anticapitalist'/whatever other watchword by which we might understand 'politically, spiritually edifying, virtuous to experience'
idk sometimes i kinda wonder if such a thing as a unified "trans community" even exists. and i *definitely* wonder if such a thing as a unified "queer community" is real.
saying this with the usual caveat of I'm Not Personally Responsible For "Dividing" the Supposed Community," i'm just describing division that already exists. but
idk with how often trans women are scapegoated and personally discriminated against by other queer people, with how clearly other queer people benefit from and exploit transmisogyny.
it'sss getting harder and harder for me to see a truly unified struggle here. "they treat us all like faggots" being a sort of abusive mantra, "no one will ever treat you better than we do, we're all you're getting so you should be grateful for what you have"
sometimes it really does feel like a massive hoodwink, like the surface level similarities of our oppression are being used to draw false equivalence. to keep a convenient underclass around.
it just really seems like a whole lot of people's idea of queer liberation doesn't include trans liberation. (and that a lot of people's idea of trans liberation doesn't include transfem liberation)
no one is free until we're all free of course (it'd just be nice if that was being told to others for a change, rather than used to scold transfems for talking up about their mistreatment)
When turning to trans communities, I should first clarify that what I have in mind is not any one entity called ‘the transgender community’. The notion of a unified community is one mostly appealing to career politicians, who are fond of imagining they might be able to interact with an entire tier of potential voters, through taking a single ‘representative’ out for lunch. In reality, trans people are prised apart and mutually alienated in much the same way as any other group: differences in class, race or ethnicity, and gender position still ensure that even a pair of trans people in the same city might be unlikely on various grounds to even meet.
—Jules Joanne Gleeson, How Do Gender Transitions Happen?
How do you have so much time to post on tumblr when you’re so busy kissing your uncle?
you sent me incestuous anon hate on tumblr of all platforms as if half my followers aren't getting hard reading this as we speak. And she's my aunt. Get it right next time
i'll fuck my mom next if it makes you a happy little pervert
little wayne