#i understand that ‘misandry’ isn’t an active axis of oppression in the same way misogyny racism and the like are | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

doritoprincess · 3 years ago

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ngl i get that it’s a bit of a touchy subject for a lot of trans women on here but at the same time i cant help but feel a bit uncomfortable with how quickly we seem to shut down transmascs trying to come up with terms for their own feelings of oppression because we seem to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to certain terms

#like #i understand that ‘misandry’ isn’t an active axis of oppression in the same way misogyny racism and the like are #but at the same time i cant help but think we’re clinging so tightly to the idea that misandry is a term only used to silence women that we #inadvertantly end up coming off as majorly condecending to transmascs who may use that word to describe thier own oppression #and this isnt even to say that i disagree with some of the points i see other trans women make about this #like yeah transmisogyny is sort of the core where most transphobic and terfs are aiming at #but at the same time i see people getting really angry and defensive about transmascs ‘tone policing’ trans women and its like #idk dont you think what we’re doing right now is sort of tone policing?#like i cant be the only one whos sorta made uncomfortable by how quickly we jump onto transmascs trying to articulate their own oppression #by going ‘you cant use that word because it takes the framing of our opression away from us who are more oppressed objectlvely’#idk man i feel like were just sorta looking for ways to not have to think about how transmascs or really even other cis men feel about stuff #and ive never really found that to be a good way to initiate discourse #idk man ive kinda seen this floating around as a Discourse Topic and its been making me think about stuff #anyway you shouldnt reblog this but ill leave the replies open in case anyone has anything to chime in with that i may be overlooking

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