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Being marginalized does not stop you from being bigoted against other marginalized people. I wish more people realized this.

For example, I'm disabled. I've always been disabled. But there was a period of my life that I'm not proud of where I treated other disabled people terribly.

For example, as a young teenager, I stopped being friends with a girl when she opened up to me that she was incontinent. I could handle that she was partially paralyzed and used a wheelchair, but the second she told me she had a gross/"cringe" symptom, I judged her.

The only friend I still talk to from those days is someone that my friends and I treated badly because of her disability. Me being physically disabled myself didn't stop me from enacting bigotry on other physically disabled people.

You being part of a marginalized group does not stop you from hurting others either.

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Having memory loss is the weirdest thing. I find all these strange treasures in my possessions, like a nice note from a friend (who I had no idea cared enough to write me this note, and I'm so touched). I found this fancy notebook with my initials on it and thought it was a gift that one of my partners bought, but no, apparently it's something I bought myself.

Having memory loss means I'm always discovering myself and always reinventing myself. At first, this was really distressing. But you know what? I kind of like it.

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stop fucking calling it the "transandrophobia community"

you dont call things the fucking "transmisogyny community" or the "homophobia community" or the "biphobia community" or the "queerphobia community"

we are literally just putting a word to the oppression that trans men/mascs go through. its not a fucking community, its an observation of the world and a way for people to discuss a systemic problem.

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Also, I called my sister today, and we had a good conversation, mostly. But then we talked about how she recommended a book called "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" (or maybe the other way around?) to my non-binary partner.

And she said that my partner didn't like it because they don't "believe in" hormones giving people of different genders different personalities.

Why are all other cis people so bizarre? I am angry and stubborn, and ambitious, and a lot of other qualities that are deemed "masculine." I have very high estrogen.

Estrogen doesn't make women all act the same way. Testosterone doesn't make men all act the same way. I'm so tired of this.

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Saw an ad for a t-shirt that said "you're lucky women want equality and not revenge."

It made me think, because not only is this slogan threatening revenge against men itself, but also, like, I'm sure the person who wrote the slogan has heard of radical feminists. I'm sure they're aware that there is a segment of women who very much does want all living men to pay for the entire history of patriarchal violence.

Besides that, pop feminism is all about turning the tables on men. Every woman celebrity who's the slightest bit edgy has adopted the persona of a domme who spits on men. It's seen as cool for women to "want revenge."

As a girl who actually does want gender equality, I vote we retire this slogan. Feminism shouldn't be about giving (white, cis) women ultimate power over men's lives, because nobody deserves that power.

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it should go without saying that 'queer' is not synonymous with 'anti-man' and yet it has to be said anyway. for some reason.

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“Transandrophobia is just trans men and mascs waving around their AFAB status like a radfem while saying men are oppressed like an MRA. It’s pure entitlement.”

Meanwhile trans men and mascs are dying from treatable diseases that aren’t being caught because they’re being denied medical care at obgyn offices or being forced to birth children because of lack of abortion care even in places where abortion is legal.

Just like. I don’t know.

It’s completely true that our requirements of certain types of medical care come from our anatomy. Bringing that up isn’t the same as radfem rhetoric.

It’s also true that our oppression as trans men and mascs by-way-of these denials of service is made worse if we look like men. Bringing that up isn’t the same as MRA rhetoric.

Could people actually engage with trans men and mascs issues as they are, instead of projecting things about cis women and cis men onto us?

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The contradiction of trans masculinity:

Being painted as a sexual predator, while being the group most at risk of being victimized by sexual predators

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Backpacking in the Porcupine Mountains Michigan's UP, September 2024

linktree / instagram

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reminder that the terf/fascist venn diagram is a circle

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The contemporary queer insistence to call almost any lesbian who isn’t a 1950s housewife a butch is really ignoring how hot and incredible femme muscle girls are…

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"antis invade OUR plural tags all the time" WHY ARE YOU IN THE OSDDID TAG???? WHY???

you can't even argue that it's just a "plural" tag??? ITS THE TAG WITH THE NAME OF THE CDDS IN IT???

i don't wanna see anyone ever say "endos don't invade CDD spaces" bc tell me why yall are in the tag specifically for the disorders (don't actually. i don't care about your opinions 💕)

(🐇 and 🍓 but mostly 🐇)

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cis girls should be able to knock up trans girls

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