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I think you can and should call out transandrophobia without being transmisogynistic.

You can also call out transmisogyny without being transandrophobic

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I FUCKING LOVE HAVING A COMPLEX RELATION WITH THE INSTITUTION OF GENDER

WE MADE IT UP AND NOW IM MAKING IT WORK FOR ME IN THE WAYS THAT MAKE ME FEEL WHOLE AND TRUE

I AM DEFINING MYSELF FOR MYSELF

I AM FREEING MYSELF FROM THE CONFINES OF IDENTITY AND PERSONHOOD THAT WHITE SUPREMACIST COLONIALISM HAS CONDITIONED ME INTO, LIMITING MY FREEDOM THROUGH FORCED TAXONOMY OF BODILY SEX I FUCKING LOVE BEING FREE AND TRULY FUCKING BEHAVING LIKE IT

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fucking idiot voice: masculinity is always rewarded forever in everyone that’s why all women in government are gnc and why so many movies have a “tradfem->tomboy” arc and why whenever a trans guy comes out his family is so happy he’s not a stupid girl anymore.

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“Do you buy all your murder weapons at Home Depot? God, you’re butch~”

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as foundational as my toxic homoerotic teenage girl friendship was and still is to my personhood i have a deep unfulfilled yearning to understand what it was like to have a toxic homoerotic teenage boy friendship where you were assholes and pretended to hump in front of everyone because it was funny and made gay jokes about each other and never analysed any of it. i feel like i missed out

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The second you start blaming transandrophobia on transfems you’re no longer trying to actually understand your own oppression you’re just being an asshole.

Transfems are not your enemy, bigots are. Fight with your sisters, not against them.

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are we far enough out of the 2010s that I can say that a lot of what was getting framed as intentional queerbaiting in the big Tumblr Popular shows was definitely just writers making homophobic jokes bc they thought the idea of a character being gay was funny rather than any attempted implication that a character might be gay

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Everybody stfu, I am Ending the ‘is Yoshikaru romantic/platonic/etc’ debates by introducing y’all to Quadrant Shipping.

The alien species of trolls in Homestuck have been socialized to experience 4 different types of for the most part nonmonogamous romance*, but only 1 is relevant to the Yoshikaru debate - Moirallegiance.

Moirallegiance - Also called the Diamond Quadrant, the Pale Quadrant and Redrom Conciliatory, it’s similar to the idea of human platonic and queerplatonic relationships. Moirallegiance is the closest thing to a soulmate - a complimentary pair built on mutual protectiveness, affection and respect, sharing opposing traits the other lacks within themselves. Where one partner falters or lacks, the other is there to pick up the slack. The word combines ‘allegiance’ and ‘moira’, meaning the Greek concept of a shared fate/destiny. Moirails are expected to learn and improve from each other’s strengths and weaknesses.

It is also the responsibility of each partner to “pacify a partner who is dangerous. It's not all about being platonic soul bros forever” and “pacify the other, to function as the better half” because if the other was “left to their own devices, they would present a serious threat to society, or even to themselves.”

In a healthy moirallegiance, “the two partners in a strong pale relationship will serve to balance and complement each other's emotional profiles, and thus allow their other relationships to be more successful.”

One popular misconception about Moirallegiance is that it is purely platonic simply because the two people in the relationship don’t have sex and because it’s the closest thing humans can understand it as, but this is not true, it is defined canonically as a romance - an intense one at that.

Other bonus information - the closest thing Quadrant Shipping has towards human romance is Matespritship. Also called the Heart Quadrant, the Flushed Quadrant and Redrom Concupiscent, this focuses on strongly positive emotions and sexual reproduction. The word combines ‘mate’ and the French word ‘espirt’ meaning ‘spirit/soul’.

While humans might feel emotions like adoration and idolization towards their romantic partner, matesprits feel a sense of pity towards theirs and want to be of help.

(*Quadrant shipping isn’t a binary either, this shit gets canonically messy very fast)

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God it is fucking disgusting that the main targets of that blog are non-white people who have now been chased off the fucking site. Like you’re not fucking slick. Transandrophobia and racism go hand in fucking hand, and don’t you ever tell me again that transandrophobes aren’t fucking dangerous.

Look at this shit. White people have been making posts recently about how tumblr chased off its poc userbase, well you better fucking stand up and speak out about this now, because they’re still fucking doing it.

I’m pretty much the only white person they named, and they got my name wrong. I’m the only one who got off lightly. That hasn’t escaped my notice. A fucking teenager from the global south was doxxed just for posting about their oppression, and had to deactivate because of it. What the fuck is wrong with this place. This is incredibly shameful and I hope it’s not fucking forgotten about any time soon.

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“To turn the other cheek” also means to not engage with debate perverts and ragebaiters

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love queer christians so much y'all really are the Fruits Of The Spirit

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Something about Our Lady of Guadalupe just speaks to me. The choice to appear to an Indigenous Mexican man rather than a Spanish colonist. The way this factors into the initial disbelief when Juan Diego shares what he has seen— the subtext of the Blessed Virgin wouldn't appear to someone like you. The fact she appears as Indigenous and pregnant, identifying herself with the oppressed. "Am I not here, I who am your mother?"

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shauna hallucinating jackie meaner than she is and jackie hallucinating shauna sweeter than she is.

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“Gigi, we come from a strange tribe, you and I.” -genderqueer closet case and bipolar alcoholic novelist Ernest Hemingway, to his bipolar alcoholic transgender daughter

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I think there is a lot to be said about the way women who are in positions of power via something like whitness, cisgender status, ability, economic class etc. etc. — use those positions of power to abuse non-white men, trans men, disabled men, homeless/working class men, etc. as a form of "payback" for their treatment at the hands of men who fit the patriarchal mold (i.e. white cis abled upper class etc. men) because it's easier to hit a vulnerable person than confront the actual, systemic root of the problem — but I really don't think the people of Tumblr are ready for that conversation.