#mspecphobia

[man-squared]

I just remembered that one time a "battle ax bi" on instagram tried to tell me that pan people not only didn't exist (and their existence was biphobic) but that we stole their culture of finger guns and puns . . . like in a way that was like "no one can do this but the bis."

[demiaroacejadeharley]

Exclusionists weaponize Bisexual people to project their hatred towards Mspec people the same way TERFs weaponize cis women to project their hatred towards Trans people.

[dragynkeep]

this fandom ignores the fact that RWBY is in reality aroace, im not surprised they erase Yang bisexuality. And before you lesbian yang truthers come for me for saying Rubys aroace. She has yet to show any romantic OR sexual interest in anyone. Id argue theres Penny but tbh it seems more queer platonic then romantic, and before you aphobes come for me or this blog. QPC Nuts and Dolts is amazing and wonderful. Anyways Rubys aroace and Yangs bisexual deal with it.

i was gonna make the joke that i don't even think mkek knows what aroace is but then i remembered they explicitly erased that from the ndgo team after telling the creators that one of them was too fat to model the girl after so. hmm.

but yeah no, i totally agree with aroace ruby & while i don't have a concrete sexuality down for yang: it's clear that in canon she is mspec. she's shown attraction to both men & women, & neither can be invalidated because there's no context behind them to do so. she flirts with boys in front of her sister in response to ruby saying that taiyang wouldn't like all the boys, & she's now in a poorly done relationship with yang.

there are plenty of lesbian characters for them to prop up as canon rep, they don't need to be mspec-phobic to yang to do so. epsecially when invoking tropes that hurt actual mspec people or push forward those stereotypes.

[bxdtime-ceai]

While we're on the topic a lot of you guys have taken "it's not my responsibility to educate you" and used it to simply get out of having conversations. There's a difference between educating someone on something you experience exhausting you versus just wanting to throw words at someone and stop the conversation before they can reciprocate or ask questions

[gay-jewish-bucky]

me: *has been an active member of the queer community for over a decade, has run queer organizations and fought hard for representation, took a long time to figure out my gender and sexuality and finally found comfort in polysexual (along with id'ing as aspec)*

my sister, a month into id'ing as bi, already an exclus/bab/pro-respectability politics queer: any non-bi mspec label is inherently evil and biphobic and you need to admit to me that you're biphobic and change your label because i know more about your identity than you do and i get final say on how you label yourself

[stressedjester]

I still see so many people getting away with headcanoning multisexual characters as gay/lesbian and I really hate it 🧍‍♂️

[creaturebeeing]

Cishetlessfashion is a transandrophobic blog and mspecphobic report them

[cobwebbed-crow]

Why, on twitter, is it socially acceptable to openly hate MSPEC people for their sexualities?

[liminalcathag]

i feel like i unlocked a thought

i joined a random discord that had such a wildly straight vibe that i was shocked that a chunk of the people were bisexuals. they didn’t give a shit about any of the community stuff. they felt straight. they acted straight. they got onto me for not joining in on convos about men. they were really weird when i talked about liking women.

i was like ah. i understand. the fabled bisexuals everyone complains about being too straight are just assimilationists, just like the gay assimilationists i also can’t stand. that’s what everyone is secretly complaining about.

they’re being biphobic by specifically assuming assimilationism of bi people, inherently, which i was aware of being a thing, but it��s funny to understand in action.

like oh this shit is why some lesbians complain about needing a lesbian only space, bc they think all bisexuals are like this. creepy lol

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

Hey…

Can we talk about how all but one points here are “group A that needs x gets y forced on them and group B that needs y gets x forced on them”…

except for disability, which is just “group A faces z, group B faces z too”?

I know you didn’t mean anything malicious! I am absolutely, absolutely not attacking you here

But this *really* showcases the falsehood of this binary

(also like. Again. My adhd-bipolar-migraines-nerve damage post (this one (link))

There absolutely are things like this with disability, of course! Like both visibly and invisibly disabled beings having their own sets of problems which “contradict”, and more.

Thank you so much for this post, and hope you’re okay with me adding this.

Tumblr needs to understand that two groups with what are considered to be different or even opposite experiences can actually face the same issues, often within the same social systems.

Systems can have parts language forced on them when it is detrimental and other systems can have people language forced on them in the same way.

Bi people get told they'd be better if they were gay and gay people get told they're better if they're bi

Physically disabled people are told its to difficult to accommodate their needs and so are neurodivergent people.

Binary trans people get called by "they/them" while nonbinary people are told that "they/them" is to confusing as a singular pronoun and only he or she is acceptable

In our experience often the people who are doing the shitty thing are the same people in both cases. As easy as it would be if everything was nicely paired opposits where everything that happens to group a is the opposite for group b life doesn't work like that and acting like it does causes hurt and miscommunication all around.

[sacabambapis666]

LMAOOOO just found out that a neopronoun blog i was following was aphobic/mspecphobic 💀💀💀💀

[man-squared]

People who perpetrate aphobia, mspecphobia, and/or transandrophobia just steal and borrow from each form of bigotry.

Half of these arguments have already been portrayed in one of the others. Yall queerphobes are unoriginal, and your bigotry stinks like shit. Come back when you have something new.

[demiaroacejadeharley]

Exclusionists need to stop weaponizing Bisexual people and Trans people as a way to justify their panphobia and their queerphobia towards Omni people, Ply people, and other Mspec people. Biphobic and Transphobic Mspec people do exist, and they deserve to be held accountable for being shitty toward Bi and Trans people. However, Exclusionists shouldn't be using that as an excuse to shame Mspec people for labeling themselves as Mspec and try to guilt trip them into identifying as Bisexual. No one should be forcing people to identify as a label they're not comfortable using as long as it's not for the wrong reasons.

[bxdtime-ceai]

Tbh a lot of -phobia language on tumblr has made it a lot harder for a lot of you guys to have genuine human conversations. If your first instinct is to yell "that's xphobic!!!" or "that's xphobia!!!" and nothing more then I have one question for you: do you know that your comment is doing nothing and going nowhere? Wild how so many ppl online cannot have actual conversations on difficult topics to save their lives

[transbeeduo]

Love when i look at stimboards and see one that looks really neat! And then the DNI criteria is like “IF YOU HAVE EVEN SEEN A MSPEC PERSON I AM GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR SPINE” ok man cool i just wanted to see cool slime

[dragynkeep]

I once had a friend who said that Yang only said that in episode 3 because she was suffering from comphet, even though that isn't a thing in RWBY.

RWBY FNDM please remember that comphet can only exist because of homophobia, which does not exist in Remnant. No homophobia = no comphet, so the argument is deader than CRWBY's self respect.