#THe WoC the QueeR Men

[gutsinknots]

Girls, women,WOC, POC, afab, LGBTQIA+ adults and kids: start being meaner

And I’m not saying this to be funny, be meaner if it means protecting yourself. Be harsh and unwavering to those who actively voted against your rights

Don’t give them sympathy, empathy or the benefit of the doubt. They sure didn’t give us that

Protect yourself in any way you can.

Plan B has a shelf life of 4 years if stored properly

Be critical of men, doesn’t matter what they believe. Don’t let them have access to your bodies, hell keep them at an arms length

LGBTQIA+ do what you need to do to stay safe. I know most of us already know but; evaluate where you are and the people around you. We are a strong community, we can preserve. Both on love and spite. We deserve to exist and love

Those who voted Trump do not deserve a passive life

Those who voted third party did not heed our warnings, they shouldn’t feel good about themselves

Those who actively decided not to vote are cowards

They should not be forgiven

[textk4kira]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

A special shoutout to intersex trans people, multigender folks, and trans poc 💗 You do not get the love and attention you so rightfully deserve.

[tortoisewithoutashell]

What’s your favorite thing about being queer?

[starlooove]

“There is no fanfic on Stephs treatment I have checked” that’s like the whole point.

[novelconcepts]

Every time I see a show I’ve never heard of get saved while Paper Girls remains in eternal limbo, a piece of me dies in a fit of rage.

[butchlifeguard]

the she/theys vs he/theys and wlw vs mlm posts are symptoms of a larger problem within the queer community 👍

[mxesart]

Xuân Cao Mạnh 💖

im so obsessed.

[oimoi-op]

About your tags on the Lucienne post: oh we usually aren't even half this nice LMAOOO I could be a lot meaner but like. Both our posting about her and also the anger and frustration comes from the same place of love for and fascination with her. There's so much to talk about it's insane

Literally tho like!!!!! she's such a compelling character on so many levels, yet a lot of the fandom reduces her to the "mom friend" or other similarly reductive if not misogynistic stereotypical roles so for me (someone not super involved in the fandom these days) it's so refreshing to see you and others discussing her on her own merits and not just an accessory/afterthought for someone's white slash ship lol

[cruelsister-moved2]

still so inspired from my seminar yesterday with an >80 year old woman who told us about her experiences as a marxist in the 50s and 60s and in the women's movement in the 70s and when we were discussing modern interpretations of folk songs containing sexual violence she started to say something and then cut herself off and was like "sorry I was going to ask how men respond to this but I just realised I don't give a shit what men think, haven't we heard quite enough about what men think about things?" and i think thats the most inspirational thing ive ever heard in an academic setting

[mamaspidershit]

idk i just find the idea of hydra!mj so comforting for some reason? like, you don’t understand people? same

[runin-reads]

I’m a trans guy, but I still identify with the term woman of colour and daughter.

‘Woman of colour (WOC)’ is a broad term and I am sensitive to the fact that different races/ethnicities deal with different stereotypes. However there are no other words I can think of that are as inclusive specific for discussing the intersection between misogyny and racism. And it’s that specific intersection that has played such a huge role in shaping not only who I am as a man, but also how I perceive the world and how the world perceives me. Being perceived as a WOC is so quintessential to who I am that it doesn’t matter how long I spend as a guy, I feel as if I’ll always be tethered to those words.

I was a daughter before anything else, after all. And before I was a brown guy, I was a brown girl. Yet somehow it feels as if I am all of them at the same time.

[officialcojabrown]

[bibuckleykinard]

okay sorry i will delete thing one cause its just petty but man absolutely WILD to be blocking people who interact with hate posts and literally see terfs dni in somebody's bio like,,,,,,,,,,, whose gonna tell em,,,

[theflashjaygarrick]

After thinking about the comic fandom's prioritisation of white male characters I feel like it's a self fulfilling cycle.

Mainstream discourse around superhero comics is all about how white male centric the genre is. The general consensus in fandom is that women don't like female characters because they are badly written and 2-dimensional in most nerd franchises.

And if you go in with that mindset you'll fairly assume that the characters who have the best runs and most interesting stories are the white men. And if you look at fandom spaces and people are waxing poetic about characters like Jason Todd and Tim Drake and acknowledging that characters like Babs, Steph and Cass exist this only will reinforce this perception. So the person getting into batfam go and ask for the best stories about the Batboys or read summaries about their arcs, only seeing these women as background characters in male characters stories.

But the thing is that isn't strictly. I mean I 100% agree that comics are sexist and racist but that doesn't mean that there aren't phenomenal and iconic runs starring and entering female characters (including queer women, disabled women, and WOC). Cassandra Cain and Kate Kane probably have two of the best character bibles out of the entire batfamily in the form of Batgirl 2000 and Batwoman: Elegy. Selina and Babs both have more well received story lines/runs than Jason Todd does.

Great stories with nuanced female characters exist but the assumption they don't means that people don't look for them. So instead they draw upon stories with the Batboys (minus Luke Fox, JPV and often Duke) in their fan art and fan fiction and discussions and accidentally obscure the stories of female characters in the batman mythos even more.

And the cycle continues.

[pineapplesagainstpizza]

Femininity feels like a cage to me nowadays

[ciderjacks]

if I’m honest I have trouble believing it too, even when I say it a million times. That’s what happens when you’re told from birth that every aspect of your humanity, including your oppression, is inherently “lesser” compared to men. It’s by design.

You matter though, and if u keep pushing at the mental blocks that have been created by male supremacy, and u push past the shame and guilt that they want u to feel for simply acknowledging your own experiences— eventually those barriers will crumble.

Misogyny and sexism is just as bad as other forms of bigotry and being an incel or a “men’s rights activist” or any of that other bullshit is just as horrible as being a white supremacist. Should not be a controversial take.