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TheGreenMeridian

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Jew(ish) trans man living in Iceland. OP is a Zionist. You must be at least 25 years old and/or have been in the workforce a minimum of 3 years before sending me anon hate.

moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker "judas" for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in "jeudis," and say quietly to himself "french thursday...?"

There is something so insidious and gross about the dumbing down and cutesfying of language.

“Unalive” “grape” “sewer slide”- no.

If you’re using a word like grape for anything other than the fruit, actually grow up.

Dead. Murder. Rape. Suicide.

These are serious topics. They aren’t cute. Talk about them seriously and in an adult manner.

you may think it took the terror fandom a lot of effort and dedication to become the #1 producer of erectile dysfunction fics but let me tell u. it wasn't hard

Anonymous asked:

i recently found out 'baeddel' is considered a slur, so i'd replace it with trf since that more seems to be what you're aiming for

“Baeddel” is the self identifying term used by trans women who adhere to a specific ideology of trans woman supremacy. It’s a form of radical feminism, arguably intertwined with the terf ideology, but being as it’s very specifically about trans women’s inherent superiority, it cannot be called “trans exclusionary”. The idea of the word being a “slur” is, iirc, an inherent part of baeddelism, in which it’s claimed that the word “bad” was originally from the word “baeddel” apparently meaning what would now be termed “intersex”, which apparently somehow refered exclusively to what would now be termed trans women, thus making trans misogyny the oldest and worst form of hate. Hence them “reclaiming” it and adopting it as the name of their ideology. Using it to describe people who adhere to this ideology is no more a slur than “terf” is, less so even given that terfs get pissy about being called terms and baeddels chose the word for their own ideology.

All of this, incidentally, is something you could have found out with minimal googling.

This framework is, also, fundamentally similar to how leftist antisemitism operates. Were considered white so we can’t be oppressed, therefore anything real oppressed people say or do to us (in this case Muslim Arabs, and frankly I’m hazarding a guess that black antisemitic groups such as NOI being lionised by the left is also a factor here) is both justified and something to emulate.

Who the fuck told cis people they were allowed to say this??

I mean i know trans people, who say transphobic things towards transmascs and think they can't be transphobic because 'they're trans'. But @princessefemmelesbian is cis.

Genuinely we need to start drawing lines with cis people again, no matter what side of discourse you're on. This is something we should understand beyond transmasc/transfem term conversation.

I don't care what side of discourse you're on, no cis person is allowed to speak this way about a group of trans people.

Natural end result of an activist culture that a) has deemed trans women thee moste oppressed group, b) considers oppression a moral state, in that the more oppressed you are the purer you are, c) considers the angriest and cruelest voices among an oppressed group the most valid because to say otherwise is tone policing/centrism/liberalism and d) thinks any cruelty towards groups deemed unoppressed is a form of praxis.

So. You end up with the baedels and their successors being pedestalled and treated as oracles, and thus parroting any shitty thing they say is “centring oppressed voices” with the added bonus of it also being “punching up” because trans men are men and therefore fair game for any and all mistreatment.

You can gleefully call us shrimpdicks and terf wannabes as much as you like because it’s centring trans women to do so. And you can completely ignore that the current anti trans strain in many societies is heavily built upon the idea that trans men are tricking cis girls into mutilating themselves because nothing against us counts as oppression, because in this framework we’re fundamentally not oppressed by virtue of being both men and a target for a group that is oppressed.

Australian vocabulary is interesting, because everything sounds goofy in a way that makes you feel like they don't take anything at all particularly seriously. Someone logs on tumblr in australia and makes a post like "damn my cousin got bing-a-bong babadook'd" and then there's seven posts arguing with OP about whether that's a normal expression or not, and while OP learns that nobody else anywhere else says that, everyone else learns that that's the australian term for when you're driving a lawn mower drunk as hell and accidentally run over a child.

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