#and that's not even to mention the snarky 'actually' to talk over the transfems in the post. just tell us to shut the fuck up with your
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beyond-a-name · 18 hours ago
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"both sides", "petty squabbles", "actual problems", when the "petty squabbles" are about how trans women are actively demonized by other people in the community, and this is framed as "both sides" "going at each other's throats". transfems being murdered and sexually assaulted and shunned even by other queer people is framed as not an "actual problem", like it's all nonsense that we're supposed to just get over
that invalidation, levelling, and aggression painted onto trans women standing up for themselves is exactly the perfect kind of example of this sort of thing. just the DARVO playbook paraded out and dressed up in liberalism
and it's neatly rounded out by a reminder of the force we're under, that if we don't just get over it "they'll kill us either way [if you don't shut up and take it]". what disgusting priviledge such a statement comes from, to see we're both under the boot (and to pretend its weight falls equally) and to say it's only our job to change because you know you have the power to not have to, to tell us to do the work while we're being murdered and isolated and you sit comfortably complicit in our deaths and misery. to ask us to be meek for you to save your own skin when you excuse all that is done to us
if you actually give a fuck about solidarity or community or "infighting" or whatever the fuck, then stop throwing transfems under the bus or demonizing them for standing up for themselves. stand up for us for once.
"infighting" is a dogwhistle
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