Actually my trans womanhood has a lot to do with men. Gay men, gender nonconforming men, drag queens, femboys, these groups all inspired me to transition. Yes I wanted to live a life of a woman but I never even realized that was possible before being exposed to gender conformity in men. It provided the basis for me to realize that I too could dress and act in any way I wanted.
My trans womanhood also has a lot to do with lesbians and gender nonconforming women. The lines are blurry in my personal experience. It’s been blurry in our actual real history as a community.
It’s not transmisogynist to recognize and cherish these connections we have to other gender nonconforming people, women or otherwise.
I’m transfem, but my egg was cracked by seeing transmascs living and loving their best lives. Seeing more and more of the full range of human experience showed me that I am not confined to the boxes society put me in.
No no you don’t understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can’t!
I’m not ALLOWED to enjoy it yet, I’m not ALLOWED!!!
no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides “actually, never mind, you’re both awful!” and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched
if you don’t distinguish yourself from a bot, just any sorta indication that a human made the blog, like a funny pfp or description, or even a disclaimer that you’re a lurker, then you’re almost certainly gonna be blocked n reported for spam when you follow people
Having a good URL is no longer an excuse. We shoot on sight, it’s up to you to warn us you’re real.
Emphasizing that this isn’t just a quirk of Tumblr Culture–we’ve had active malignant bot invasions before and we’d like not to have that again
They will like posts as already seen. They will reblog and either rewrite the entire post, or add a spam link. They will comment in the replies. They are already sending DMs.
We shoot first and ask questions later.
BLOCK AND REPORT ALL BOTS. Notes and follower count don’t mean shit here so don’t hold off trying to boost your numbers.
In 20 years we’re going to find out that “no kink at pride” discourse was a CIA psyop to reintroduce more traditional forms of homophobia (i.e. the defense of the innocence of children, Gays as sexually predative, etc) to millennial and gen z aged influencers.
Hoooboy did this post age like fine wine. We didn’t even have the groomer panic yet when I originally wrote this.
not to get emotional about the barbie movie before it even comes out but barbie’s delivery of “what’s going on? why are these men looking at me?” when she and ken are out skating and guys are being creepy makes me so sad. like, it VERY much reminds me of when i was first getting catcalled and i was too young and naive to fully understand what it meant, just that i really did not like it.
TERFs and transphobes do not fucking touch this post I swear to God. misogyny hurts and kills us all. do not take my words as endorsement of your bigoted bullshit.
OK, so, too late TERFs and transphobes have got their grubby hands all over this post so. free blocklist in the notes.
to my trans siblings - i love you. i might be one of you. i’m not really sure how to classify myself. but i stand with you either way, and i’m sorry the shit you go through.
