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cotl fandom do we fw long fur narinder or should I kill him immediately

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White gays are all about "listen to trans people of color!! We wouldn't be where we are without them!" until brown/black/mixed race trans men like myself try to talk about our issues facing both transphobia and racism and also dealing with the racial prejudices white society have around POC men existing then the same white gays will start pulling out every ethnic slur against you once you bring up the fact that minority men can face oppression unique to how their manhood intersects with their race cis or trans cuz God forbid white people not be the center of attention for once

Who, between Narinder and Shamura, should have dreads and who should have twists?

I'll keep the dreads for Shamura, but Narinder's hair is gonna need a lot more thought so it might not be twists. Thanks for the input tho!

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Sure seems like the transphobia that these "white westerners" talk about occurs in non-white, non-Western contexts as well

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ugh originalshipping is so incredibly based because the childhood friends -> jealousy-induced bullying -> isolation/reflection & pining therein -> vacationing together in your 20s train of events is so funny to me

there's this well-meaning but I think quite misguided Thing where someone transmasuline whose transition has left them looking, for lack a better term, very conventionally masc - bearded, muscular, liable to be assumed cisgender - will be held up in an argument that essentially goes "lmao you dumbass terfs really want THIS GUY to use the women's bathroom???" as if it's inherently absurd that someone who looks that way would use the women's bathroom. and these tend to get passed around quite a lot to cackle at the stupid terfs who want huge hairy men in women's bathrooms.

and like, let's get one thing straight: no, of course they don't want that guy to use the women's bathroom. they want him to die or detransition; that's their actual goal. they want him to not exist as a trans person. let's just be clear on that.

but the thing that actually bothers me is that this rather steamrolls over the fact that for every transmasuline person who looks like that, there are also transfeminine, nonbinary, and intersex people who look like that and want access to women's bathrooms, and setting up their presence as some kind of absurdity really isn't doing them any favors. nor is it helping the less "passing" trans people who want to use men's bathrooms! this is in fact reinforcing the idea that public bathrooms are a space to be policed based on appearance, that you only gain access to if you can look a certain way.

which is absurd for many reasons, including that it's a fucking bathroom. people are there to piss. ideally anybody should be able to piss next to anybody and we could stop bothering with gender separated bathrooms at all, but in the meantime let's at least not take part in actively encouraging people to decide at a glance who's allowed to piss where.

It's not really a sound reason to say trans men/mascs shouldn't have a word we coined that goes over the nuances complexities of how we're treated in society because " if you do that you're rejecting feminist theory".

1. If your theory doesn't properly account for the lived experience of several groups of people, why should we accept it? You're not collaborating with us and discussing with us on how to improve that theory, you're just saying "this is how it is and you should just shut up you whiny man baby"

2. Transandrophobia theory is and always has been a part of intersectional feminism. Acting like discussing the rights of marginalized men is anti feminist is transphobic, racist and ableist. Men's rights have always had a place in feminism as outlined by marginalized feminist men in cooperation with feminist non-men.

White feminism doesn't account for the experiences of poc and centers white cis women, many people don't accept this framework and that's seen as fine because it does not actually work to dismantle the systems at play and only functions to uplift white women to a place of privilege over other marginalized people. Cis feminism/terfism doesn't account for trans people of course and centers cis women as the only people who experience gendered marginalization worthy of rights. So trans people have come up with our own theory because ignorant cis feminists and terfs will not collaborate with us to develop their feminism inclusively (by design of course because they're hateful bigots). Additionally much of the queer community currently does this to trans men, so we've coined our own word.

We've always been open to collaborating, we've made concessions over the years, listened to other marginalized people telling us what we can and can't do and it always ends in our violent erasure. Enough is enough. Let us speak for ourselves and if you can't actually engage and collaborate with us without shutting us down your feminism is unhelpful and outdated.

I have some ideas, but I had a pretty bad one (by bad I mean lol wouldn't this be fucked up)

What if Tyren did try to hook up with Baal to get at Narinder? Wouldn't that be crazy? I've heard he's the type to do it, idk I haven't read the fic yet!

Man I'm just making Baal suffer lately! I'm sorry pookie, I promise I love you! 🥺

What if this makes Baal scared of Jasper (bad ending)

But also what if this just pisses Baal off and he throat chops Tyren before Jasper or Narinder can even say anything? (good ending)

Sorry for infodumping about my special interest out of nowhere, you said a keyword and it activated my unskippable dialogue

I have some ideas, but I had a pretty bad one (by bad I mean lol wouldn't this be fucked up)

What if Tyren did try to hook up with Baal to get at Narinder? Wouldn't that be crazy? I've heard he's the type to do it, idk I haven't read the fic yet!

Man I'm just making Baal suffer lately! I'm sorry pookie, I promise I love you! 🥺

Alright alright, have your cats

Choose a dress color for him btw

Cult of the Cat

And Forneus showing off her boys as kittens

Bweh