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neil young loves transgender people isn't that awesome?

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Neil Young 18 settember 1969

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this website is increasingly going down the shitter as it becomes more and more openly transparent that if you hold beliefs that go against the zeitgeist of the average white liberal fandom blogger you are just straight up at risk of having your entire account permanently nuked. the thinnest skinned people on the planet have made this place their home and would honestly rather there was not a single person outside of their exact demographic posting here if it meant they never had to see anything that caused them a single second of discomfort. digital redlining. and yet there is fucking nowhere else to post! so who knows what to do really

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I dropped a shit load of acid at a bernie rally in like 2016 and at one point he mentions trump so everyone boos, and I forget about the rally and im like Wtf is that noise? So I turn around and just see a gigantic crowd of people booing me

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Reports indicate that after having exhausted all possible discussion of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Breadtubers will be reading a second book. The veracity of these reports is still unknown.

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what the fuck is this

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How would you explain in simple terms that androphobia isn't real and that painting it and wrapping in trans colours doesn't make it any less non existent? Right now all I have is anger. Because how do you tell some tguy or transmasc that what he's experiencing isn't "hatred for men", but rather regular misogyny and transphobia? I'm so tired of this nonsense. And I'm transmasc so it makes it worse. I really feel isolated because it feels like most guys out here have wildly internalised misogyny and can't fathom that they're being oppressed because society views them as lost women lol

You aren't being hated because of your masculinity in and of itself; you are being hated because you are transgender. You violate the gender binary, and so you are attacked and oppressed. This transphobia can manifest in hatred for your masculinity, but it cannot be understood as related to "androphobia". I don't think that saying society views trans people as "lost women" or "failed men" is particularly helpful; rather, we're all violations of the artificial gender and sex binary. Don't misgender us in an attempt to define social dynamics.

Were you a cisgender white man, the qualities you have that society considers "manly" would give you structural advantages. Were I a cisgender woman, the qualities I have that society considers feminine would continue to target me for oppression. Structurally uplifting cis women helps me in turn; there is no way to structurally uplift cis men, because they are already the top of the gender hierarchy. Structurally uplifting trans people, of course, helps us both.

You're angry, and not for no reason; there very much are issues that transmasculine people suffer. Cis MRA groups were angry about the draft, about disabled men, about the criminal justice system- and disability rights and an abolishment of the military and carceral systems are real, valid causes! But MRA thought directs that anger towards feminism. MRA subreddits had posts about men expressing very real isolation and ableism, side by side with blaming women like Anita Sarkeesian and the early metoo movement for their problems. Here on tumblr, we see TMRAs condemning any terminology that allows transfems to describe their oppressors an participating in harassment campaigns against outspoken trans women.

Spend some time asking yourself; who are you angry at? Who's telling you to be mad at transfeminists?

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oh I see. it was the crime of wanting. that's why I deserve it.

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on the anglophone internet people will claim to have read marx and be marxists and then point at any market economy and say "it's capitalism. since there are markets and currencies that means its capitalism. capitalism is when theres markets"

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ironically "stripping the original creator of the ability to make a livelihood from their work" is something that only copyright law is capable of doing

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Hi, if anyone has the money to spare, I'd like a little help in donating to this family who is trying to secure money to escape danger in Gaza. The border crossing may open soon, which would give them a chance to get to safety. I am short on money on the moment after some unexpected emergency expenses so if anyone could spare anything, both they and myself would be very grateful. Link here:

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Heyyy buddy heard you were having a really tough time recently so I thought I'd stop by and kill you with this hatchet

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i hate to admit this but i think if i were in a bad mood and spongebob were around i wouldnt be able to navigate that situation with the patience or grace it demands. and i worry he would blame himself

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*lesbians turning to their favorite male singer songwriter after one beer* ive always wanted ,, to get you pregnant