#being a trans man is awesome

[earlgraytay]

maybe I should write that transmasc passing guide

I've wanted to for a hot second but it'd just be a less judgy version of The FTM's Guide To Passing As A Hot Dude, because the advice in there is good even if it's a bit prescriptive

and I know the author took that guide down a bit back (because it was judgy, kinda meanspirited at points, and eventually outdated) so there might be space for something like it.

[earlgraytay]

#always longing to embody the iconic masculine archetypes which (in their cis-manhood) have never truly included/represented us‚ but should…#there should be art and stories about butch lumberjacks and butch dapper gents and butch sailors and butch farmhands etc#because they're real. half of those are just jobs lots of butch women do#any masculine archetype can be butchified & transified‚ and they should be. it's time ~ @queermasculine

The butch struggle of wanting to be a knight but also a cowboy but also a dapper gentleman but also a farm hand but also a lumberjack but also a sailor

[j-rye]

bun ny bunny bu nny bunny ? @wolfertinger666

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

I’ve been highly confused as to why Michael “deeply openly thirsting on Twitter about David Tennant for half a decade” Sheen is half-in half-out the closet but apparently Wales is absurdly homophobic lmao what the fuck how is a country the size of New Jersey that much of a hater bruh we out number the shit out of you

[uncanny-tranny]

Begging people to learn that fetishization is a specific form of dehumanization that sees the target primarily as a (often sexual) tool for somebody to achieve their own goal. A person who fetishizes somebody will often not recognize somebody's humanity because they are primarily focused on their own desires.

Fetishization is not when somebody likes a person (especially a marginalized group). Fetishization is not when a person in an out group sees a marginalized person as an equal and appreciates them as an equal. It is not dehumanization for somebody to treat a marginalized person like an autonomous person who can make their own decisions.

It leaves a very bad taste in my mouth when people assume that the only reason you can be "into" a marginalized person is that you want to dehumanize or ultimately abuse them. It sends the message that our marginalization is preventing us from "truly" being seen as a person from anybody. You aren't placing the blame on systems of power, you are punishing marginalized people for their marginalization.

[earlgraytay]

Making transmasc friends

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[clowningcrows]

when noah kahan said, “i’m terrified that i might never have met me”……….. yeah

[jenthebug]

I saw my son perform in this semester’s high school play: The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later.

He was wonderful. One of the best. Each actor had a handful of parts, and he seemed to bring each persona to life.

But. It was HEAVY SHIT. Obviously. It dealt with Matthew Shepard’s murder, and public opinion ten years after the murder. A large number of people seem to think it was a robbery, or a drug deal gone bad, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

It is very hard to believe that “something like that could happen here.” So a significant portion of Laramie just…doesn’t.

I’m drinking some tension tamer tea and watching the end of a CU basketball game (we’re ahead of USC, barely) because I need to fill my head with something other than someone like my son getting brutally murdered.

SportsCenter is next. I’m glad.

[t4transsexual]

being a nonbinary transsexual is cool cause then nobody believes u

[mejomonster]

I need to find someone who worded this better but. This is your friendly reminder that a woman can be as masculine as she wants. A man can be as feminine as he wants. A nonbinary person can be feminine and masculine and androgynous and whatever they want: everyone can! Your expression and appearance and hobbies etc do not have to conform within a box to be allowed to exist, do not have to match those rigid lines of societys expectation of gender roles in any way at all for you to Be the Gender you Are. You are the gender you feel you are. Your expression can be and is whatever you want, and does not have to match up to expectations.

[breadboylovin]

dude if something gay doesnt happen to me soon i might actually go insane

[earlgraytay]

Hey, PSA for younger/newer transmascs:

Tumblr has been showing targeted ads for "FTM binders" off Amazon. They look like this:

Do not buy these.

A binder is a piece of medical equipment. If you use one incorrectly, or use a poorly made one, you can really fuck up your ribs. This article from the Cleveland Clinic talks about how to bind safely.

A $14 binder is guaranteed not to be safe. There's a reason reputable companies charge more- sometimes a lot more. They have to carefully design binders so they don't crush your ribs or make you sick.

You know how everyone says Don't Bind With Duct Tape? Don't bind with Amazon binders.

[supersecretnerd]

Ok so these designs are cute as hell, the Internet is just mean

I have too many thoughts about a game I still need to watch

[picklerocket]

Being a beautiful man is so easy when you were born with female anatomy fr. We are so sexy, like Howl from How's Moving Castle Hot. We do have an unfair advantage and it's being prettier than your boyfriend.

[trans-estinien]

people really love to conveniently forget trans men exist when they talk about feminism. or if they dont they make us out as also part of the problem as if we somehow are able to have the same amount of privilege as cis men. absolutely wild

[sammypog]

“don’t restrict yourself!! gender and sexuality are fluid!” you guys couldn’t even handle he/him lesbians