imcoolwerecool

[imcoolwerecool]

hello! as a transmasc fanfiction writer who does not plan to get pregnant but does want to have children in the future i would like to have a genuine conversation about this.

first things first: i'd discourage people describing fanfiction writers of omegaverse, or just in general, as 'cis women' because, lbh, you don't know. we've got vague numbers based on polls of fanfic's general demographics but unless you ask each individual omegaverse writer their trans status you've got no clue. this just as a transmasc writer with a ton of transmasc friends who adore omegaverse and write it pretty damn frequently. genuinely i have more transmasc omegaverse writer friends than i can count on my hands. (like, part of the appeal is that male omegas can have whatever genitalia we want them to have and their status as male is narratively never questioned. it's escapism!)

and more importantly: i understand the frustration. it is very easy to look at omegaverse and find hypersexualised, feminine and weak omegas, and big, strong, macho alphas (it's generally a problem that bottoming is conflated with being the girl, and topping with being the boy), and it is something that needs to be addressed. the problem of using 'intersex x' tags to refer to omegas with dual genitalia is also a fairly big one, and i agree fully that that is a gross misrepresentation of intersex people and their bodies, and creates a sense of erotic mysticism around intersexuality that is very harmful. so YES, there are problems and we need to fix them.

however. i do not think these problems can or will be solved by correcting or removing omegaverse stories. fanfiction is only a tiny, Tiny portion of most people's daily lives, and it is almost always written by the already marginalised as escapism and social commentary. to compare them to a pretty huge hentai category like f*tas feels a little bit like the whole plastic straw debacle. we've got bigger fish to fry, and the best way to combat harmful stereotyping, i think, is to create proper societal awareness via sex ed and big media representation.

it IS important to address harmful stereotypes, and it's a good idea to at the very least gently prod authors you think are doing so to make them aware of how their stories might be interpreted. but it's not something inherent to the omegaverse genre or even really that common in my experience? (but maybe i'm just good at filtering these days) and again, omegaverse is not something only cis women write.

i am open to polite/respectful discussion, again, so if you want to counter my points feel free, but i hope i've explained a bit why i and some other trans men i know, often gay trans men, don't feel the same way about omegaverse as a whole.

i cannot speak for intersex people and i will not try to. while i may have sought out a lot of intersex voices to learn more about their lived experiences and feelings about how society views and treats them (and this is how i know about the 'intersex x' omegaverse problem, bc an intersex person expressed disappointment about wanting to see intersex omegaverse variations & stories but instead just got given dual-sexed omega porn) i am not intersex to my knowledge and will not claim to be.

we've somewhat covered how f*tas are transmisogynistic caricatures which are used to fetishise trans woman and intersex people without putting a name to them, and still overlooking their oppression.

I wonder if we're ready to talk about omegas and mpreg...

[imcoolwerecool]

the main problem with this argument is that creating any category that gets their human rights creates avenues for anyone to get their human rights stripped just by virtue of being added to that category. just look at the prevalence of trans people & sexual educators being called groomers and rapists in the US and UK, a mentality which is being spread quickly to other parts of the world.

in theory (serial) rapists get convicted and incarcerated in the current system, but in practice, as you have noted, many if not most of them walk free. changing incarceration as punishment to chemical sterilisation will not change this fact. conviction rates will remain abhorrently low because the problem lies in the pathway to justice and lack of prevention, not in the decided punishment.

but MOST importantly, chemical sterilisation will not prevent rape from happening. there is explicit evidence that it doesn't do anything to prevent reoffending or prevent a first offense. i'm dead serious. this is because rape is not a result of 'sexual deviancy' or 'aberrant desire', but of desire for control and punishment. 'unattractive' people are raped, like the elderly and the disabled (i am aware how this sounds), and a straight man can rape a man or boy without being sexually attracted to them.

in fact, a significant number of intentional acts of rape don't result in ejaculation at all (almost 10%). chemical castration would do to perpetrators of rape what cutting off a hand does to thieves: very little.

I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.