#so we arent oppressed for our maleness but for our transness and our failure to adequately embody patriarchal masculinity or femininity
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Oh ok wait i think i finally got it ok
#grahambles#this is about like 'transandrophobia' as a useful term#and also how like gender and the patriarchy work.#like sometimes i forget how complicated some of the nitry gritty ideas are#but i did a few days of thinking and i think i have a conception of it#not actually posting a take.#at least unless its super polished#but like basically. yes the transphobia transmen and transwomen face is different#however trans men arent opressed for being men#maybe a better way of putting it is tbat trans men are opressed for being trans men#or that the way trans men experience transphobia is tied to the patriarchy (because the gender binary and patriarchy are inherently linked)#but trans men are oppressed in the way that patriarchy sees us as 'not man enough'#so we arent oppressed for our maleness but for our transness and our failure to adequately embody patriarchal masculinity or femininity#idk if im wording this well#basically its like how the racism black men experience is colored by the fact that they are men but they aren't oppressed for being men#their maleness allows them to attempt to approach patriarchy in a way black women areny allowed to#in a similar way trans men experience the social pressure all men experiemce to fit the idealized patriarchal man#and that ideal man is a man who has and enacts power over women#even if the world beyond doesnβt accept a trans man or it sees him as a woman he will still be influenced by that social pressure#trans men don't want to be excluded from manhood so we may attempt to approach power seeing it as masculine#of vourse we will still be excluded from holding this power because we will be excluded from manhood#however we can still access this power a little.#idk if this makes any sense#and i do think trans men can access patriarchal power sometimes but not in tge way cis men can#this is rambly as hell thats why its staying in the tags#these are half formed thoughts
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