#regim

[taliabhattwrites]

The Third Sex

After months of research and painstakingly connecting the threads of transmisogyny theory, queer activism, and field-wide epistemic injustice, I would like to present "The Third Sex": my treatise on a third-world transfeminism.

[pangur-and-grim]

my heart can't take this......Belphie now dashes ahead of me in the mornings and clambers up to sit on the scale, because he knows that after medicating he gets half a tube of churu

I cannot emphasize enough that he placed himself there.

[the-lady-maddy]

[writtenfoxscreams]

So, I recently learned about the “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media that has helped Iranians sentenced to die by the regime in the past.

I am now asking you guys for help with that again.

There is an Iranian Jew named Arvin Netanel ben Siona, whose execution date is set for this Saturday. The Iranian Jewish community have tried endlessly to pursue his release, but to no avail.

Please spread his name.

[badolmen]

They don’t even attempt to assassinate US politicians anymore. You notice that? Not since the anthrax scare back for… who was it, Barack? And even that… pathetic. This new generation has no respect for an honest hitman. I’m not sure this new generation has any honest hitman - you see that shit with Boeing? Sloppy, fucking disgraceful - you kill the whistleblowers before they get halfway to a lawsuit. What kind of fucking amateur is doing faked suicides the night before testimony? Goddamn greenhorns. Back in my day someone tried to shoot Ronald Reagan in broad daylight. There used to be bomb threats to Congress. I took out a few union leaders in the utilities sector myself. Today’s generation? Won’t even threaten to throw a punch - not even over on that - what’s it now, ‘X’? They got no guts. None! And they don’t even have poor impulse control to boot! Too much of that - that panopticon anxiety bullshit. “Oh what if I get a called out post???” People used to send the president letters full of bioweapons. In the mail! Today’s generation? Not a chance. All because of woke.

[thatweirdtranny]

there’s a very insidious form of racism in the western left when people act like fascists in nonwhite or nonwestern countries shouldn’t be held to the same standard y’all hold fascists in the US and europe

fascist theocratic regime supporters are just as bad in the middle east or elsewhere as they are in the west and you not wanting to call that shit out is just that type of racism where you think nonwhite people can do no wrong, it’s infantilizing and gross

[sunsetcorvid]

real interaction with my boyfriend yesterday that i felt was very Them coded and had to doodle in MS Paint

[cringefail-clown]

[taliabhattwrites]

The most widespread form of transmisogyny within the queer community is denying trans women epistemic authority.

Which means: people do not believe us on our own experiences. They frequently assume any and all oppression we face must be mild or must simply be anti-effeminacy instead of "real misogyny". We are considered to be exaggerating the material consequences of bigotry on us and assumed to not experience various harms that we in fact do, including medical misogyny, sexual violence, CSA, being infantilized and dismissed, being inadequately represented (since most popular depictions of us are cissexist caricatures and do not authentically portray our lived realities!), and more besides.

Perhaps the most hysteria inducing aspect of this is being told that our testimony is not frequently dismissed, BY PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTIVELY DISMISSING OUR TESTIMONY ON HOW MUCH MISOGYNY AND DEGENDERING AND VIOLENCE WE EXPERIENCE.

We are not "new to oppression". We do not have to be taught what it is like to be feminized and dehumanized under patriarchy. We are painfully familiar with how misogyny operates and experience it regularly, in addition to having to justify even to "our" communities that we do in fact experience it!

That, my friends, is the core of transmisogyny: being dehumanized while being denied the right to even name one's oppression or have it be acknowledged as such!

[frumusetesisanatate]

Mai multe despre pielea mea!

Aplicarea lotiunilor tonice

Cea de a doua operatie care urmeaza curatirii este aplicarea lotiunilor tonice. Ele sint necesare, chiar in cazul unui ten uscat, deoarece stimuleaza functiile biologice ale pielii si activeaza circulatia singelui avind totodata si o actiune tonica asupra muschilor. in cazul tenurilor grase, pentru curatirea obrazului de impuritatile depuse pe el in timpul zilei si pentru inchiderea porilor, se folosesc lotiuni cu proprietati degresante. Unii specialisti indica aplicarea cremei nutritive si apoi frecarea usoara cu lotiunea tonica, deoarece considera ca in generai lotiunile sint putin astringente si inchid porii, fapt care conduce la absorbtia dificila a cremei. Dupa curatirea si stergerea obrazului cu o lotiune tonica, vom aplica In fiecare seara o crema nutritiva (de noapte). Crema se intinde pe obraz cu miscari usoare atit pe fata, cit si pe git. Odata cu intinderea cremei vom efectua si un usor masaj. Folosirea unei creme de buna calitate, inofensiva si potrivita tenului pe care se aplica, intirzie formarea ridurilor, pastreaza tineretea si fragezimea pielii. Folosirea cremelor este indicata in general pentru toate categoriile de piele si in mod special pentru tenurile uscate, deoarece ele inlocuiesc lipsa secretiei naturale de grasime a pielii. in cazul unui ten uscat, crema se pastreaza si in cursul noptii, in timp ce pentru un ten gras nu se recomanda aplicarea de crema seara, dupa curatirea obrazului. Indiferent de natura tenului, portiunea din jurul ochilor, care prezinta o sensibilitate deosebita, va fi unsa cu crema grasa, hranitoare si va ramine astfel si in cursul noptii. Pentru a evita formarea ridurilor, in aceasta regiune, este bine sa aplicam o asemenea crema, imediat ce ne-am intors de la lucru. Din punct de vedere cosmetic hranirea pielii se realizeaza prin: — Activarea circulatiei sanguine si limfatice, care conduce la un aflux sporit de singe si limfa, aduce substantele nutritive necesare metabolismului celular; acest lucru se realizeaza prin diferite mijloace mecanice si fizice (masaj manual sau cu ajutorul diferitelor aparate) — Absorbtia cutanata propriu-zisa, adica patrunderea in straturile profunde ale pielii a componentelor din cremele cosmetice.

Protejarea pielii

A patra operatie din ansamblul ingrijirii tenului este protejarea lui. De obicei, cremele protectoare se aplica dimineata dupa curatirea si stergerea obrazului cu lotiune. Aplicarea unui strat fin de pudra este recomandata in special, in cazul tenului gras, datorita calitatilor sale absorbante si protectoare, dar si in cazul tenului uscat, daca inainte de pudrare se aplica o crema grasa sau o cold- crema. Acestea se folosesc inainte de fardare.

 Regimul alimentar in functie de piele

Alimentatia joaca un rol deosebit asupra sanatatii pielii, eruptiile urti- cariene fiind o consecinta a instalarii unei stari alergice datorita anumitor alimente. in permanenta trebuie sa fim preocupate de buna functionare a tubului digestiv. Constipatia va fi tratata, conform indicatiilor medicului si evitata, deoarece neglijarea tratamentului duce deseori la un ten iritat, congestionat si chiar presarat cu cosuri. Lipsa de vitamine din organism si in special lipsa vitaminei A, duce la uscarea si la descuamarea tenului, fapt pentru care in asemenea situatie se vor folosi pomezi si lotiuni cu vitamina A si alimente bogate in aceasta vitamina. Unele persoane prezinta o sensibilitate speciala fata de anumite alimente ca: fragi, capsuni, oua, ciocolata etc.; se impune suprimarea lor din alimentatie. Aceasta intoleranta sau hipersensibilitate, numita alergie, se manifesta prin inrosirea si congestionarea pielii, aparitia urticariei si eczemei. Daca dorim sa avem un aspect placut al tenului, alimentatia noastra trebuie sa cuprinda carne fiarta sau fripta, legume crude sau fierte, fructe crude sau fierte. Daca suferim de afectiuni digestive trebuie sa evaitam prinzurile copioase, mincarurile picante, mezelurile, vinatul, ciocolata, alcoolul. De asemenea masa trebuie luata intr-o atmosfera placuta, linistita, asi- gurind si o masticatie buna. Read the full article

[spicymancer]

Shoes or No Shoes?

[mcqraw]

[johnbitchsociety]

I feel like both internet liberals and leftists have a tendency to reverse-Great Man Theory Ronald Reagan at the expense of any insight into the history of his policies or the conservative movement that led up to him.

[anyadarkseid]

🧎‍♀️SIR

[haveihitanerve]

Okay but hear me out- the robin training is harder than Batman’s. Im not saying that means the robins are better or stronger than batman, im just saying that he needs them to be strong and fast and work harder than him because they are children. If one of them falls he can catch them. If he falls, he needs them to be able to catch him, or at least still get away. He cannot get hurt in battle and then his little ten year old sidekick cant get away because he cant lift bruce. He needs the robins to be strong enough to keep up with him, so their training course is harder. Also all of them are out for blood so he needs to train them fast because otherwise theyre going on the street unprepared so the training has to be hard and fast

[taliabhattwrites]

I don't think there is a significant or notable number of people who believe transmascs are not oppressed.

I feel slightly insane just having to type this out, but this is rhetoric you inevitably come across if you discuss transfeminism on Tumblr.

The mainstream, cissexist understanding of transmasculine people is the Irreversible Damage narrative (one that's old enough to show up in Transsexual Empire as well) of transmascs as "misguided little girls", "tricked" into "mutilating themselves". It is a deliberately emasculating and transphobic narrative that very explicitly centers on oppression, even if the fevered imaginings misattribute the cause. As anyone who's dealt with the gatekeeping medical establishment knows, they are far from giving away HRT or even consults with both hands, and most transfems I know have a hard enough time convincing people to take DIY T advice, leave alone "tricking" anyone into top surgery.

Arguably, the misogyny that transmasculine folks experience is the defining narrative surrounding their existence, as transmasculinity is frequently and erroneously attributed to "tomboyish women" who resent their position in the patriarchy so much they seek to transition out of it. This rhetoric is an invisiblization of transmasculinity, constructed deliberately to preserve gendered verticality, for if it were possible to "gain status" under the sexed regime, its entire basis, its ideological naturalization, would fall apart.

Honestly, the actual discussions I see are centered around whether "transmisogyny" is a term that should apply to transmascs and transfems alike. While I understand the impetus for that discussion, I feel like the assertion that transmisogyny is a specific oppression that transfems experience for our perceived abandonment of the "male sex" is often conflated with the incorrect idea that we believe transmasculine people are not oppressed at all. This is not true, and we understand, rather acutely, that our society is entirely organized around reproductive exploitation. That is, in fact, the source of transfeminine disposability!

I know I'm someone who "just got here" and there is a history here that I'm not a part of, but so much of that history is speckled with hearsay and fabrication that I can't even attempt to make sense of it. All I know is that I, in 2024, have been called a revived medieval slur for effeminate men by people who attribute certain beliefs to me based on my being a trans woman who is also a feminist, and I simply do not hold those views, nor do I know anyone who sincerely does.

If you're going to attempt to discredit a transfeminist, or transfeminism in general, then please at least do us the courtesy of responding to things we actually say and have actually argued instead of ascribing to us phantom ideologies in a frankly conspiratorial fashion. I also implore people to pay attention to how transphobic rhetoric operates out in the wider world, how actual reactionaries talk about and think of trans people, instead of fixating so hard on internecine social media clique drama that one enters an alternate reality--a phantasm, as Judith Butler would put it.

Speaking of which--do y'all have any idea how overrepresented transmascs are in trans studies and queer theory? Can we like, stop and reckon with reality-as-it-is, instead of hallucinating a transfeminine hegemony where it doesn't exist? I'm aware a lot of their output isn't particularly explicative on the material realities of transmasculine oppression despite their prominence in the academy, but that is ... not the fault of trans women, who face extremely harsh epistemic injustice even in trans studies.

The actual issue is how invisiblized transmasculine oppression is and how the epistemicide that transmasculine people face manifests as a refusal to differentiate between the misogyny all women face, reproductive exploitation in particular, and the contours of violence, erasure, and oppression directed at specifically transmasculine people.

You will notice that is a society-wide problem, motivated by a desire to erase the possibilities of transmasculinity, to the point of not even being willing to name it. You will notice that I am quite familiar with how this works, and how it's completely compatible with a materialist transfeminist framework that analyzes how our oppression is--while distinct--interlinked and stems from the same root.

I sincerely hope that whoever needs to see this post sees it, and that something productive--more productive dialogue, at least--can arise from it.