#ive seen so many transmascs and trans men parroting ''anti-fujoshi'' rhetoric like yall are not helping anyone but the ppl who want us dead

[itshomobirb]

"fujoshi discourse hurts trans men and transmascs" yes this is absolutely true

"but fujoshi means a dirty cishet female fetishizer" uhm no, actually it's pretty racist to redefine another culture's term for your own argument--

"cishet girls need to stop fetishizing* mlms"

buddy. please. stop using fucking strawmen that haven't existed for years, or are teenagers that don't know any better. if you're talking about irl homophobic behavior against people, then talk about that -- the problem is the irl homophobic behavior, not their preferences of fictional content. also that's literally exactly the same rhetoric terfs use to misgender all the trans/nonbinary & erase the non-straight people that enjoy slash/BL/yaoi. not to mention, a lot of people have described how that's the first queer content they were exposed to and it ultimately helped them realize they weren't cishet.

plus... it's not exactly the woke statement you think it is when you start putting limits on who can consume/create what fiction. that creates an environment where queer authors and readers are forced to come out to you, a complete stranger, so you can give judgement on whether they're morally allowed to create/consume such content -- and so many queer people have already been the victims of harrasment campaigns because either they were in the closet/not publicly out as queer OR everyone conviently tried to erase their identity as they were "obviously cishet." did y'all forget the whole part where we shouldn't try to "root out fakers" in the queer community since that'll only hurt actual queer people, in your quest for moral superiority over fiction?

everyone goes on about having gaydars and being able to clock other trans people in public, but someone writes a queer story you don't 100% relate to or enjoy and suddenly they're just a dirty little cishet fetishizing woman. yup, that's totally not an argument terfs and conservatives use to justify things like...oh, i dunno, calling all trans men and transmascs "confused lesbians" and denying hrt. or, "oh protect the children!" like when will y'all realize that's just a dogwhistle they use to justify censoring queer content in any form? i do not care that some fictional pieces feature things you find gross, such as rape or incest or underage people having sex. someone reading a slasher novel or watching a horror flick doesn't suddenly make them a murderer. being grossed out is not and should never be a measure of morality -- again, see terfs and conservatives. y'all think you're so fucking woke but then y'all parrot the same goddamn arguments people use against us, just with a shiny coat of "morally woke" paint.

*the definition of fetishizing they use varies between "has a gay couple" to "gay couple has sex" to "gay couple has non-missionary, non-vanilla sex that doesn't ask for consent every 3 lines" to "work features gay people not being perfect people" to "work features taboo subjects & gay people and they think that's a plain-faced statement of morals of the author"