#but its almost impossible to maintain a group of transfem friends without at least a couple of people posting stuff like this
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I'm sorry but the fucking addendum where they clarify that they specifically *are not* saying what you are extrapolating from their phrasing is IN THE SCREENSHOT. and the reputation that trans women on tumblr have for being extremely aggressive toward transmasculine people is because of the constant scrutinizing of any perspective that doesn't explicitly frame them as the ultimate victim in every situation for any opportunity to demonize the person expressing it. I understand that y'all are traumatized and justifiably skeptical of outsiders but this is so wildly counterproductive. y'all cannot expect other people to always be willing to put in infinite effort to cater their every expression to your sensibilities and yet constantly be belligerently hostile to them. more than anything else you are hurting yourselves.

awesome example of transmisogyny in action: the concept of transfems who hate transmascs is positioned as an objective reality; the concept of transmascs who hate transfems is positioned as an assumption (read: not a reality) by “transradfems” (which we can here understand as a label applied to those uppity man-hating (trans)feminists, who no longer warrant diminutives like “tiny” and “niche” and “online” but are instead a spooky contingent with a shiny new word to describe them as)
#if any this post gets any responses i am already anticipating them being similarly dismissive nitpicks#it just makes me sad to see people i know amd care about post this kind of stuff because i have been in this exact place before#and i had to make a conscious decision to remove myself from it#but its almost impossible to maintain a group of transfem friends without at least a couple of people posting stuff like this#and nobody ever really calling it out from the inside because theyre scared to alienate people
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