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If I was a knight would you let me swear oaths to you be honest

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Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying

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here is my new tenna fanart

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don’t forget your pills!

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dni i can’t hold a conversation

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Two Gay Little Animals Have a Baby

(+6 extra pages of Bit's adventure will be exclusive to the printed book as thanks to supporters of the book :D)

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you are the version I made up to get mad at, and the original you is in my head. there was an accident

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grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode

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does anyone want to do thisbwith me

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*tied to a chair,.spitting up blood* heh..... youre gonna need to brush my teeth a little harder than THAT to get information out of me

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Caught a normie struggling in one of my snare traps and wordlessly slit its throat

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My dog's really a study in Buddhism. He can see my muffin wrapper and he's miserable. Crying. He needs to eat my muffin wrapper so bad.

I get up and throw it away. He forgets about it immediately and happily goes to sleep.

You are not sad because you do not have a muffin wrapper, my beautiful boy, you are sad because you want the muffin wrapper.

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the subtle and delicate cuteness of the chickpea

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a beautiful beegirl who runs a candle shop and she is. shes um. shes beesed to meet you.

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It's really clear that a lot of people fundamentally refuse to see trans women as women, even when they swear otherwise. It's really depressing, and it's been upsetting to watch this rhetoric become more and more accepted and mainstream in the trans community. It's TERF rhetoric that is passing as progressive "nuance".

It's painful. It is actively making the trans community less and less safe for trans women.

It comes up when discussing gender roles - when I speak about my experiences, it is as a woman/girl who was violently forced into the role of man/boy, who experienced much of the worst aspects of patriarchy and misogyny due to that unique position (among other factors such as race, disability, etc.). When transmisogynists speak about gender roles, they talk about men/boys who were raised as men/boys who then "come out as" trans women, who experience male privilege based on their presumed social status as men/boys and "male socialization" - despite many trans women & transfems having described a gross lack of (or conditional at best) privilege and an abundance of violence even since long before they figured out they were trans or openly labelled themselves that way.

It comes up when discussing internalized ideas of masculinity and femininity - When I reflect on my experiences with these, I notice that patriarchal ideas of masculinity and femininity were forced onto me as a method of control over my body and my self, as a way of repressing my femininity and womanhood, as a way of slowly killing me. I acknowledge that I have issues to work through, and that this is not a struggle unique to me or to trans women as a whole, and that every other group also has to grapple with internalized ideas about gender. When transmisogynists talk about these concepts, they talk about trans womens' supposed "toxic masculinity" and misogyny as well as our apparently exaggerated performance of womanhood and hatred of men, positioning us solely as aggressors and oppressors. It is a way of positioning us as close as possible to cis men, specifically and especially extremely misogynistic and predatory cis men with an inauthentic "pretend" concept of womanhood which we supposedly use to penetrate and pervert the "purity" of femaleness.

It comes up when discussing oppression, when discussing transition access, when discussing privilege, when discussing hypervisibility and invisibility, when discussing inner-community discourses and issues, when discussing relationships, when discussing media and representation, when discussing genitals and sex, when discussing fetishization and pornography, and so much more. I could go on for a long time talking about the differences between how I as a trans woman experience and view these things and how others portray my experiences and use it to harm me and others like me.

Many people, including people who talk about how much they love trans women (or at least our assumed penises...), do not even accept the premise that we navigate society & systems of oppression as women.

We really haven't moved past the idea that trans women are somehow men, whether it's that we supposedly "used to be men*" or "are treated as men" or "act like men" or are "socialized as men" or have "male anatomy" or experience male privilege or so on and it shows and it's extremely disappointing.

*Note that I am aware that some people identify themselves this way, I am speaking to the more general trend of seeing trans women as a whole this way, not to individual identity.

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