Went on a transandrophobia truther blog and instantly saw this ..
1) love the slight of hand where he says "being trans" instead of actually identifying any positionality or god forbid mentioning WOMANHOOD as a type of positionality in his post which allows him to call trans women men and completely disregard the experience of the closested trans WOMAN. Telling that your argument hinges on "after transitioning to a man I am exactly the same as a woman undercover as a man"
2) just say you're not on T and you don't know anyone who is. Like as someone who's passed as male on an off for my whole life and now fully passes as male all the time thanks to T I low key snorted reading this... Liiike let's be for real here passing as a man (and doubly so if u are binary and have the pronouns to match) and passing gives you privilege out the fucking wazoo and I literally think about it every time I leave the house, meet new people, take blue collar jobs, interact w people on public transit, walk around at night, go to gay clubs, bond w male overseers, look for roommates, etc. This is obviously extremely racialized as much as it is gendered, but there is literally not a single "privilege" I had as a girl (that was assumed to be a guy 50-70% of the time) that I lost as a guy.
3) Also how do trans men "inherently defy patriarchal manhood" I literally know a trans guy who went to jail for domestic violence against a woman like trans men are incredibly capable of accessing and enacting patriarchy and thinking ourselves justified in accessing patriarchal homosociality. Like we are literally becoming men and we don't just magically exit the patriarchal society because we aren't the men at the top of the make food chain.... a la R.W. Connel. Being trans men means we lose some for being trans but we win some because we are men. Like gay men are frequently denied their masculinity but it would be dodo brained to act like gay men have no male homosociality they can access or that no gay man has ever accessed male homosociality. Like if u believe that you actually don't know any gay history Attttt Alllllll 😭 like genuinely. We also earn more money per dollar than women in our same gender modality, that doesn't sound like "inherently defying patriarchal manhood" to me that sounds actually like a pretty typical social positionality for oppressed and marginalized men. Like in my own friend groups, at school, and in my music and promotions scene being an (openly trans) man actually has granted me actually a lot of homosociality that I can draw on.
The problem with enstars is that it's a silly lil idol rhythm game and then you get into it and it swallows you whole and you end up with people going '....wait, phone calls?'
THE LEVEL OF PARASOCIALISM ENSTARS HAS IS INSANE. got me talking about these characters like theyre real people to my friends. got me saying shit like Sorry guys i gotta stop playing for now i need to go exercise with adonis and theyll just be like ? what?
Jadzia: "I know that, and i believe in that. But i also know. I love her, Benjamin"
Benjamin: "I know you do. If i were in your position, I'd probably be just as ready to throw away everything for the person i love. But i would also want to be sure that i was ready to pay the price."
Jadzia: "You're right. I need to be sure"
Benjamin: "But if you're sure, if this is what you really want... I will back you all the way."
Jadzia: "I've lived seven lifetimes, and i have never had a friend quite like you."
Namibia has issued a statement criticizing Germany’s unwavering support to the genocidal occupational state Israel.. To add context to why this statement in particular is so powerful is that germany committed a genocide in Namibia 4 decades before the holocaust (& which Germany only acknowledged two years ago)
Support is more than a few pride emotes. Support is more than a supposedly strict anti discrimination policy. Want to show your support? Start by not muting a queer person who is left to defend themself due to your incompetence in moderation.
I was playing gw2 the other day trying to do an event by myself and having the struggle. I'm in a guild whose tag is "LGBT" so it displays that next to my character name.
Anyway some rando runs by, stops, yells "I HELP LGBT" "LOVE IS LOVE", helps me clear the event in silence for 5 minutes, then yells "LOVE WINS" before running off into the distance. Honestly one of the funniest random MMO encounters I've had