Neither the fact that Black cis woman athletes may be forced to take hormones or else be barred from competing, nor the fact that something that could be termed gender dysphoria is common amongst cis women (worth noting that said experience is distinct from "gender dysphoria" as medical or pathological diagnosis or category imposed on trans people who navigate medical transition), nor the fact that non-trans-women may be mistaken for trans women at various points in their daily lives, makes me eager to abandon "transmisogyny" (qua "a form of marginalisation analysed as combining aspects of transphobia and misogyny to yield something 'greater than the sum of its parts,' experienced specifically by trans women and transfeminine people") as an analytical term—not because I am yielding to the orthodoxy of whatever version of queer politics, but because I believe it to be a useful model for explaining or understanding reality.
"No one else is ever mistaken for a member of the marginalised in-group designated by this term or experiences anything that could reasonably be considered overlapping with their experiences" is just not a standard that terms or models for understanding and theorising marginalisation are usually held to. And when you consider that the experiences of trans women do not consist solely of the three things above named (with a difference—since they are barred from competing even if they're taking hormones), but also include the aforementioned sorting into a pathologised category to be normalised into a specific idea of "femininity" through the biomedical institutions of capital*; social and economic exclusion, precarity, or disposability especially as related to accusations of aggression, predation, or invasion; patterns of misogynist abuse founded on the vulnerability created by said precarity—that some of these things cannot be "mistakenly" applied to cis women and that it is the combination of these things that is being referred to—
—and when you consider trans women's marginalisation as arising from or otherwise being put to a specific purpose (a readily social ostracisable or 'acceptable' group at which to levy the excesses of abuse otherwise directed at cis women, in the same way that the houseless and impoverished create a pool of excess labour to keep workers down, is an example of a hypothesis I've seen forwarded)—
—it becomes clear that "transmisogyny" is a useful analytical shorthand, that the effects it describes are not solely reducible to analysis that could apply to cis women or to trans men, and that there is no sense to abandoning or redefining it (e.g., to include trans men since they are on the receiving end of both transphobia and misogyny).
*If any given combination of hormonal and surgical intervention were available anywhere, for free, via an informed consent model, I would not have a problem. Here I'm referring to medical gatekeeping whereby you can only get specific interventions of a specific type in a specific order and only by talking to a psychiatrist and only if said psychiatrist diagnoses you with "gender dysphoria" and they'll only do that if you present them with a specific version of normative heterosexual femininity &c. &c.
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someone asked me not long ago what kind of fic of mohg i would like to read and i gave some not particularly good answers because i have a hard time putting things into words, but i think what i would like to see more than anything is other characters wanting to save mohg - to recognize that he too needs saving, and to see him as worth of saving instead of just a lost cause who's beyond saving and who can only be put down, an obstacle that needs to be destroyed for the protagonist of the fic to get what they want
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your favorite character being largely disliked by both the stans and the antis is actually so devastating. where am i supposed to go
there are three main opinions about mor in this fandom:
1. she’s fine bc she’s feyre’s bestie but you don’t really care about her personally (probably bc she’s queer because the stan girlies used to LOVE mor when moriel was semi-canon. i remember. i was there)
2. she’s fine but annoying bc she ~lead azriel on~ (main opinion on the acotar subreddit). never mind that if this was true, it would be as a result of a retcon, because again, pre acowar, moriel was going to be canon. sarah made mor sapphic because we were asking for more lgbt characters. (again. i was there.) and besides, i frankly don't think it is true, because azriel is the fucking spymaster with a million chances of knowledge at his fingertips and mor spent 80% of her time at a gay bar so idk how he couldn't have fucking known?
3. or she’s the fucking worst because she was. idk. mean to nesta. you know who else was mean??? and people love that about her because it's a result of trauma, it makes her flawed and relatable? literally nesta T_T this is not anti nesta i just don’t get it.
4. she's the fucking worst because she… supposedly lied about eris? ?? i'm not even going to begin to unpack this. why y'all IMMEDIATELY take the man's side and think what he's saying is bible… i don't fucking know. learn to decenter men in your life my friend. sometimes women ARE telling the truth even if they're basic or pick mes or whatever.
mor’s traumatized as hell and definitely has as much to back up her occasional cattiness as nesta had to back up her literal life long bullying. but few people will give her a feminist reading. few people will analyze how sarah wrote her story or what that means. few people will even give her credit as a real villain. she’s just an annoying pick-me bitch and that’s the end of it.
think about the lack of grace rhysand gives nesta. think about what that might mean for mor, to whom rhys (and his friends) was a sort of savior, because her life in the hewn city was that bad that somehow dealing with rhysand is better. that was who she grew up with; that was what she was taught to see as good because at least it wasn’t keir.
not to mention that her life is shaped around her survival via her desirability to males. ESPECIALLY as a sapphic woman can you imagine what that would do to her psyche?
but no. no fan posts about her. no headcanons. nothing nada. just me and the mor week posts and the occasional obligatory stan reference bc she's part of the main cast.
i understand being annoyed bc of the double standard in canon between her and nesta's heavy drinking, but even then i see posts all the time about "i would love rhys if it weren't for the narrative's worship of him!" and none for mor because she's just a ghost. she's nothing to anybody. despite being A MAIN CHARACTER!
not to mention but like. generally positioning yourself perpetually in opposition to the paradigm rather than just having values whether they're popular or not is not a great way to go about things. i completely understand liking eris regardless of what he's done - i am a tamlin stan despite the fact that he was very well abusive in acomaf - but the fact that there are antis out there who are so convinced mor is lying, or who want sarah to write that storyline, is so digusting to me. women in groups you don't like, political sides you don't like, women you think are annoying - they still deserved to be believed. don't give into respectability politics. come on now.
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INDIVIDUAL WIZARD HEADCANONS (2 / 4)
『 ANAGAN 』
-) Back in the early days he got caught constantly, the amount of time this man has spent behind bars is almost embarrassing. This is partly due to him not having mastered his magic at the time, but really it's more recklessness and impatience than anything else. Almost lost a leg once too.
-) He's the only wizard of the group who dislikes being reminded of his age. Hearing the full number out loud, or even just thinking back too far makes him feel weird. Also activates an instant case of phantom joint and back pain.
-) Grew up in a fairly non-magical area, with just a creature and a plant now extinct in modern times. That's not to say the existence of magic as a whole was unknown to him, like he knew about fairies, just hadn't seen or interacted with one before. Anagan's own magic didn't make itself known until after he left home, he still doesn't know if his family was even aware of the magic in their bloodline and at this point it's way too late to ask.
-) His moderate fear of heights has left him almost completely incapable of flying. It's more like a sad form of floating with a general loss of basic coordination. Anagan's content with that though, as are the other wizards. They figured forcing flight practice wasn't going to get them anywhere. Except maybe an audiologist.
-) Has the easiest time connecting with humans and actually enjoys being around them, usually. Maybe it's his social skills, maybe him looking the most ''normal'' plays a part in his success, perhaps he's the only who even bothers, either way he's having a good time.
-) Frequently traveled across the planet with his super speed, just to have a meal with one of the other wizards. Yes, he's a firm believer of 'magic isn't always needed', and yes, he looks forward to getting some time away from his friends, often being the first to leave- But lunch? That's important and doesn't count.
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