#protection from binaries

[rustbeltjessie]

5. Age 12. I realize, like really realize, that I like (like, like like) both boys and girls. I declare myself a riot grrrl and a punk. I cut my hair hella short; start wearing combat boots, army surplus coats, chains. I want to be Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. I still get told I look like a boy. I also get called a dyke for the first time.

6. It’s the early ‘90s. Queerness and androgyny are somewhat accepted for celebrities, but not for regular people, at least not in my mid-sized southeastern Wisconsin town. If you’re at all gender non-conforming or non-heterosexual, you get called a dyke or a fag or a freak or all three, interchangeably.

7. No one believes bisexuality exists. If you say you’re bi, everyone assumes you’re just a homo too scared to fully come out, or you’re a hetero trying to be ‘different.’ Or you’re just an indecisive, greedy slut.

8. Anytime I get a crush on a girl, I write in my journal: Oh, I like girls so much, I must really be gay. Anytime I get a crush on a boy, I write in my journal: Ugggh, boys are so cute, I must really be straight.

9. I start cutting myself. I start smoking. I start writing zines and slam poetry and I start trying suicide.

10. I get called a dyke and a fag and a freak. I throw my lot in with the other misfits. The kids two, three, four years older, and the handful of others my age who get it. The other queer kids, zine-writers, alterna-girls and boys, kids with green hair or shaved heads and nose rings. Theater geeks and Rocky Horror reenactors, bedroom magicians, thriftstore shoppers, delicate cutters, graffiti artists, amateur arsonists, seasoned shoplifters. Riot grrrls and indie rockers, grungy dirtbag skaters, punks and goths and industrial kids, hippies and hardcore hip-hoppers and suburban Rastafarians and all the kids who don’t fit into any one subculture but just love all of it as long as it’s outside the mainstream.

11. Is anyone in the mainstream? RENT will ask, just a couple years later.

—Jessie Lynn McMains, from Reckless Chants #26: I: Forever New (Protection from Binaries, Pt. 2), October 2022

#jessie lynn mcmains #reckless chants #writers on tumblr #personal essay #gender #sexuality #teen years #bisexual #genderqueer #slurs cw #self harm cw #suicide mention #to anyone alive with a sex drive #tear down the wall #aren't we all? #(i'll stop with the rent lyrics now istg) #my writing #protection from binaries

[funfacts24-7]

And the facts come out about Dagny Benedict that she committed suicide. It gives me no pleasure in saying “I called it” as she was a victim of gender ideology, if she hadn’t been brainwashed into her warped and incorrect view of herself and the world, she would probably still be alive today. She is just another death caused by the vile and toxic nature of gender ideology indoctrination. Teachers(or any adult) that wants to support a sexual agenda with or towards children, are abhorrent monsters. Her death is on the hands of this stupid ideology.

#saying the quiet part out loud #facts #trans facts #cis is a slur #non binary is fake #non-binary is fake #trans is evil #protect children from trans ideology #protect women #nex benedict

[imminent-danger-came]

Anyways. Wukong was WAY too chill with MK being a Moneky. Just like "Yeah hahaha we're both monkies! Isn't that so cool!" the whole entire special. LIKE NO. THAT'S NOT COOL. YOU SO CLEARLY KNEW ABOUT THIS

#''He literally never listens!'' ''That's just how we roll.'' SUN WUKONG I WILL CHOKE YOU MYSELF #LIKE YOU LOVE HIM SO MUCH. #AND YOU ALSO HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF HURTING THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE. #AND I'M WORRIED OKAY #YOU WERE INVOLVED IN MK'S CREATION I KNOW YOU WERE. #Or like. MK's imprisonment should my sweet beloved eldritch abomination theory come true. #BECAUSE. THEN MK IS JUST LIKE WUKONG RIGHT #THEY BOTH CHANGED #BUT THAT REVEAL IS ALSO GOING TO HURT EVERYONE MAN #And I get Wukong wanting to protect MK from this part if himself. From his past #And MK probably doesn't even want to know. #But he has to. #He needs to know. #And he needs to accept it. Otherwise he'll destroy himself and those around him #And I just need Wukong to lie to MK one more time alright. Really bring it all together. 👍 #MK by no means accepted Wukong's past. He was so deep into the binary of ''good guy'' and ''bad guy'' to see that they're all just guys #AND I'M GOING CRAZY #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk rant #imp tag

[auxiliarydetective]

So, I've been dropping hints about OCs I've been obsessing over lately that I haven't properly introduced yet and I can't figure out who to introduce first, so... I figured, in my indecisiveness, I'd finally use the poll feature and let YOU decide, my lovely followers! And these intros come with a special treat, because, on top of the usual moodboard-playlist-combo, I made manips (or, in one case, a gif) for them!

Anyways, without further ado:

#yes movie!kit deserves a seperate intro from show!kit #it's a very different character actually #k'rala is a huge sweetheart you'll love them #an icon who thinks the gender binary is illogical #iris is an agent of chaos but also a sweetheart - everyone loves her #if anything were to happen to her (it does) the whole camp would go feral #especially charles #varsha took one look at hyde detransforming into jekyll and decided #that's my poor little meow meow and i will protect him with every fibre of my body #philomel's main motif is that she's usually in-between crowley and aziraphale in shots #which should tell you a few things about her and their dynamic #also she posed as the goddess venus during roman times #and she may have been involved with sappho and/or ovidius but you can't prove it #anyway tag rambles over #the a team 2010 #oc: movie!kit #star trek #tng #oc: k'rala #star trek oc #m*a*s*h #m*a*s*h oc #iris winchester #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #lxg oc #varsha devi #good omens #good omens oc #philomel

[string-cheese-cake]

Nobody asked but white supremacy is the reason why white women are obsessed with true crime.

So when chattel slavery was becoming cemented in the United States and other European areas, the idea of biological race and racial hierarchy emerged to justify the generational enslavement of Africans and the genocide of indigenous people. Africans and other non-whites were labeled as less developed, more susceptible to their "primal urges" and committing sex crimes and therefore needed to be controlled by white men. Specifically to protect white women.

White supremacy is typically framed as necessary to 'protect' (read: control) white women, the mothers of the next generation of whites. They must be protected from "sexually voracious black men" (read: miscegenation and mixed race children). So white supremacy operates on the myth that white women are constantly under threat of sexual violence and must be protected by white men.

That myth becomes baked into the public consciousness, many unaware of the origin or even that the idea is there. It even becomes less racially based, but there is still a common belief that white women are inherently vulnerable to violent crime. Especially among white women. To be fair, it's difficult to not internalize an idea that you are not exactly aware of but is still seeped in every interaction and bit of advice. Don't wander off, don't talk to strangers, don't go out alone or late at night, cover your body, hold your keys between your fingers, take self defense, watch your drink, don't be under the influence. Your body is soft and valuable and delicate and you must protect it.

This idea of vulnerability is reinforced in the news media, which chooses to focus on stories which fit this particular narrative of white women's vulnerability. Missing white women syndrome. This subconscious belief has saturated society. White women develop an outsized fear of death by violent crime. So what do they do? They embrace it. They eat up stories of families like theirs and the deaths of women like them.

It's been suggested that experiencing that fear of violence in the controlled environment true crime provides can be cathartic, somewhat like watching a horror film. There is also a sense of justice and closure felt when the perpetrator of that crime is punished.

In conclusion; White women love true crime because it's a coping mechanism for their deeply embedded fear of violence which was established and is upheld by white supremacy.

#statistically white women are the least likely to be victims of violent crime. they can be and all victims need support but white women are #just not as vulnerable as society makes them out to be. and it becomes the standard of behavior and treatment for women of all races #women don't need control and protection they need empowerment and for men to treat them like goddamn human beings. #i kno im using binary language but u tell me how to better word this. the binary is fake tho. all the little stranger danger things got to #me. walk away from the street don't walk too close to unknown men I'm not afraid of my community!!! no one should be!!!! #we should not fear each other. i understand that violence and assault are real things that happen to people all the time but it's much more #likely to happen to men and women of color. they deserve love and support and real effective change. and white women shouldn't have to #be afraid and feel vulnerable. we need legitimate efforts to address and prevent random violence #not fearmongering and the offloading of responsibility onto potential victims. anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk #why am i talking #maybe I'll use this one day #i wrote this at 2am don't @me. i am right tho. i also like me some ethically filmed #true crime content. it needs to be tasteful though. and people need to be normal about it.

[neverendingford]

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#tag talk #fuck. I might just be a straight woman. #like. I like men. and the more I transition the more I vibe with binary womanhood. #sure I don't like getting shoved into restrictive femininity. but I vibe with womanhood as separate from femininity. #anyway. I might be straight. and In ten years it's very possible that being trans becomes a much less huge part of my life #because it will stop being something that I do and something that I wish for and simply something that I am #yeah yeah whatever hi my name is Reggie and I like men #I just. as much as I don't like certain restrictive gender roles I find myself slotting very comfortably into others #and I realize that my idea of gender and their roles was very much shaped by my female role models growing up #and a lot of the disconnect and distress when growing up was due to not being able to follow the path everyone else did. #all my girl friends were growing up into women and I was stuck on the man track. #and being gay was the closest I could get to being myself #but I'm closer than I've ever been before to being able to live my truth as myself #still not gonna shave my legs unless it's sometime in the future for a very specific event. #I like them fuzzy. they make me feel cool. #I like having some cultural masculinity still. I just don't want to be defined by it #talking about my binary trans experience is always a little weird because I'm aware of how binary I'm describing things #and I get that if my words were used to describe someone else's experience it might end up sounding hella transphobic #but these words are for me. they're my experience. they're my life not someone else's. #and this is how my identity works. #it's like how feminism protects the right of trad wives to be trad wives. #we just gotta recognize that just because one woman wants to be the designated dishwasher not every woman feels that way. #anyway. I might be dating a guy by this time next week. he's cool so far and we kinda got match-made by a mutual friend #we watched Redline tonight and it's hella good #he's really cool but I feel like I've got something to provide and to bring to the relationship. so we're still on peer-level I think. #which is new. usually I'm way ahead of the other person. maybe my fault for fishing in the bad fish barrel #the emotionally damaged and burdened fish barrel.

[rawrsatthetree]

Idk who needs to hear this, I know I do, but if you have a coochie and are Non-binary. You are not a woman. You are not just an confused girl or woman adjacent. You don’t owe any one gender ambiguity or neutrality. Your tits and hips do not make you less non-binary. You are non-binary not a woman. And if women try to push you into their spaces or treat you like just one of the girls tell those bitches to get back to the kitchen because you are not one of their “girlies”

#shit has been pissing me off lately #oh we’re doing she and they night 🤪 cause that basically the same thing anyways 🤪 #we’re so inclusive 🤪 #ok I’m gonna make you wish there was a cis man there to protect you from me #and what if a non-binary person that has a beard and is balding rolls up? #do you still want non-binary people in your space??? #or do you just see female non-binary people as women??? #makes me feel so dysphoric #nonbinary #gender dysphoria #gender queer #trans nonbinary #not bg3

[christinareedy-love]

STOP TRANS VIOLENCE

Dear trans youth, carry pepper spray, don't hesitate to spray attackers in the eyes, then run like hell. Stay Alive.

#share this post #share #please share #help if you can #stop trans genocide #stop trans hate #stop trans violence #trans rights are human rights #stop killing trans youth #stop the hate #stop killing kids #stop murdering trans kids #stop murdering trans children #trans awareness #nonbinary #non binary #protect lgbtq youth #protect trans kids #protect trans kids from genocide #protect trans youth #protect trans lives #nex benedict #hate crime #oklahoma #anti trans violence #trans rights #lgbtqia community #lgbtqiaunite #lgbtqia rights #protect lgbtqia+

[ziracona]

I want to replay DA2; I miss my husband Anders so much and it was so fun but. Literally how will I ever make it past All That Remains again. The first pass nearly killed me. But I can’t beat Act 2 without it. But I can’t go through that again. But I have to replay DA2. But I’ll die. But I-

#every day I look at DA2 replay and All That Remains is The Horrors™️ bouncer guarding the door #dragon age 2 #like that quest traumatized me. I think I’ve cried every time I explained it to so #someone. I… but I want to replay. I miss my husband and I miss my friends. I loved the letters updating you on quest outcomes years later. I #love Bethie I love Mom I love Isabella and Merrill I love the Arishok fuck I miss him. I mean I don’t regret my /choice/ because it would be #the epitome of unfair for Isabella to pay for the second selfless act of her life on a scale to rival the first. but god I regret having to #end where we ended and I know he did too. DA…is a tragedy… anyway I miss the looming terror of trying to protect my husband from pulling a #Zero Requiem I miss Aveline’s stupid bad flirt quest I miss that time Anders said ‘her kind will betray u tho when it’s u or demon. blood #Mages do that.’ and I went ‘no way she’d never’ and immediately Merrill tried to kill me for a demon but later said ‘I’m sorry 🥺’ so we all #forgave her bc. Merrill. baby sister number 2. I miss the insanity. I miss Bethany killing 30 Templars on her own in 4 seconds while the #rest of us just stared like ‘tf the wardens feeding her??? infinity stones?!?’ I miss people telling me about their lives I miss being #recruited to help the mage Underground Railroad I miss Hawke’s stupid sassy comments and making our w Anders. I miss the love I miss having #a least 3 companions who cared and asked about my welfare. #instead of just using me for therapy. I miss being punished for my decisions instead of random no win choices that shouldn’t be binary in #the first place. I miss being rogue girl flirt eldest daughter syndrome. I miss the VAs for my companions. I miss-

[the-poppy-outie-effect]

"How will we explain queer people to kids oh no what will the kids thi-"

Bitch.

By the age of 5 I had a blanket understanding queerness so strong I was bringing up transition to the flamboyant kid on the playground (Damien if ur out there I hope ur doing well) because I'd walked in on my mom watching RENT once, Glee was a regular staple in our household, and Oprah had a trans guest for an episode. I had zero questions and zero notes.

Like, did I understand everything? No! What I got, I got loosely, and there was probably a significant amount of harmful stereotype mixed in with my knowledge, but I wasn't deeply scarred or whatever, it was just another thing I learned about that week. D-a-y spells day. People can trans their gender. Naptime is after lunch. Like... kids don't care about your queerphobic crusade, they just want to make sure you got the scooby-doo shaped fruit snacks you feel me

#shut up beck sorry beck #queer #pride month #protect queer kids #transgender #gay #and then i turned out gay and trans but that was correlation not causation yk? #anyways. ive been thinking about this for awhile #like i was a VERY accepting child and i genuinely dont know how that happened in my household? #damien from grade school i hope youre doing well #i think about you all the time #if you turned out queer. well. i called it/j #straight up the only reason i didnt know i was trans as a kid #was that i didnt know the binary didnt matter #i was like 'wow being a girl sucks.' #'im def not a boy though so. we're gonna ignore my fucked up gender cuz its prob normal' #spoiler alert- it was Not Normal

[funfacts24-7]

Everyone agrees that Dylan Mulvaney is a talentless, ugly, rude man. Why is he still in the media? He’s so irrelevant it’s laughable.

That hideous man cosplaying as an ugly woman just needs to get off the internet and stop mocking real women everywhere.

#saying the quiet part out loud #facts #trans facts #cis is a slur #non binary is fake #non-binary is fake #trans is evil #protect children from trans ideology #jk rowling #protect women #dylan mulvaney #Dylan Mulvaney is a man

[fullhalalalchemist]

URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 TUMBLR’S NSFW BAN HITTING THE ENTIRE INTERNET THIS SUMMER 2023

April 28, 2023

I’m so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

What is the EARN IT Act?

The EARN IT Act (s. 1207) has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country.

This is the third time the Senate has been trying to force this through, and I talked about it last year. It is a bill that claims "protects children and victims against CSAM" by creating an unelected and politically appointed national commission of law enforcement specialists to dictate "best practices" that websites all across the nation will be forced to follow. (Keep in mind, most websites in the world are created in the US, so this has global ramifications). These "best practices" would include killing encryption so that any law enforcement can scan and see every single message, dm, photo, cloud storage, data, and any website you have every so much as glanced at. Contrary to popular belief, no they actually can't already do that. These "best practices" also create new laws for "removing CSAM" online, leading to mass censorship of non-CSAM content like what happened to tumblr. Keep in mind that groups like NCOSE, an anti-LGBT hate group, will be allowed on this commission. If websites don't follow these best practices, they lose their Section 230 protections, leading to mass censorship either way.

Section 230 is foundational to modern online communications. It's the entire reason social media exists. It grants legal protection to users and websites, and says that websites aren't responsible for what users upload online unless it's criminal. Without Section 230, websites are at the mercy of whatever bullshit regulatory laws any and every US state passes. Imagine if Texas and Florida were allowed to say what you can and can't publish and access online. That is what will happen if EARN IT passes. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of Section 230 because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” and LGBT online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal’s EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230. If this bill passes, we’re going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms. This will include anything related to LGBT content, including SFW fanfiction, for example. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Tumblr, all of them will be completely gutted of anything related to LGBT content, abortion healthcare, resources for victims of any type of abuse, etc. It is a right-wing fascists wet dream, which is why NCOSE is behind this bill and why another name for this bill is named in reference to NCOSE.

NCOSE used to be named Morality in Media, and has rebranded into an "anti-trafficking" organization. They are a hate group that has made millions off of being "against trafficking" while helping almost no victims and pushing for homophobic laws globally. They have successfully pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. That's how SESTA passed. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The EARN IT Act will lead to mass online censorship and surveillance. Platforms will be forced to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, aything related to abortion, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSAM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please. The same way that right-wing groups have successfully banned books about race and LGBT, are banning trans people from existing, all under the guise of protecting children from "grooming and exploitation", is how they will successfully censor the internet.

As long as state legislatures can tie in "fighting CSAM" to their bullshit laws, they can use EARN IT to censor and surveill whatever they want.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of “protecting kids” to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids. Blumental doesn't care about protecting anyone, and only wants his name in headlines.

It will make CSAM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works – without fear of liability for any “failure.” Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on “obscenity” as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill? EARN IT is actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don’t know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the “make child pornography worse” bill, but here we are.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

EARN IT Act was introduced just two weeks ago and is already being fast-tracked. It will be marked up the week of May 1st and head to the Senate floor immediately after. If there is no loud and consistent opposition, it will be law by JUNE! Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. There are already 20 co-sponsors, a fifth of the entire Senate. This is an uphill battle and it is very much all hands on deck.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

[phone] connects you to the congressional hotline. Here is a call script if you don't know what to say. Call them every day. Even on the weekends, leaving voicemails are fine.

2. Sign these petitions!

Link to Petition 1

Link to Petition 2

3. SPREAD THE WORD ONLINE

If you have any social media, spread this online. One of the best ways we fought back against this last year was MASSIVE spread online. Tiktok, reddit, twitter, discord, whatever means you have at least mention it. We could see most social media die out by this fall if we don't fight back.

Here is a linktree with more information on this bill including a masterpost of articles, the links to petitions, and the call script.

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven’t seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

#earn it act #internet censorship #restrict act #us politics #net neutrality

[rebellum]

I ran out of fucking tags in my rant agsbrkglhlhlhlh part 2:

#stress how much its primarily on tumblr that for some reason ppl are prioritizing trans fems over everyone else. like everywhere else #except for r/traa reddit has the opposite problem where transfems are pushed to the side just like other trans ppl are #the only time ive heard of something similar happening was trans meetings and panels etc in the 90s-idk early 2000s? maybe into the early #2010s? it was a weird issue there too #but like. irl in my personal experience its just. not an issue. like the infighting has to do with binary trans ppl ignoring nonbinary ppl #and with perisex trans ppl ignoring intersex ppl #(in trans spaces i mean) #there isnt this weird privileging of trans fems over other trans ppl in other spaces. #its like ppl on tumblr read a headline saying 'please listen to trans fems' and took that as meaning 'only listen to trans fems. but not #all of them. or most of them. just that tiny minority who think other trans ppl have privilege over them. yeah just listen to like these 30 #trans fems and more importantly listen to the non trans fems who support them' #monkeys paw ass situation #its just so WEIRD its like ppl lost critical thinking skills and the whole idea of intersectionality #like if 2 ppl are in front of them and one is a white abled perisex middle class trans woman american and the other is like a cis child #from a wartorn country who cant access education and who has to walk 3 kilometers every morning for water #and they were told to give 5 bucks to one of them #theyd be like you know who needs this? the white middle class american. cause shes trans so she matters more than anyone else. #its so BIZZARE to think that way like jfc just accept that you can care about MULTIPLE groups you dont have to prioritize trans fems in #order to support them and listen to them and protect them #you can care about multiple groups including your own group #anyways tldr transphobic trans ppl on tumblr are weirdly racist

[cock-holliday]

A lot of trans spaces hate masculinity soo bad it’s unreal. I knew an AMAB nonbinary person who, to those who had never done the gender rodeo before, looked strikingly like a cis man. They were big, broad, with a thick scruffy beard. They dressed masculinely. It was clear by talking to them for even a second that their masculinity was incredibly queer, but to most people they wouldn’t read that way, even with pronoun pins displayed proudly on their chest.

They described themself as “soft masc” and their gender felt very similar to me to so many butches I had met. They toyed with the label themself. Their attraction to women fell under a pretty sapphic umbrella and in plenty of cases were welcomed by queer women, trans and cis alike.

But often they felt more comfortable in transmasc spaces because, as was apparently a cardinal sin in many transfemme spaces, they liked their masculinity.

They got accused of faking being trans. They were implied to be stealing space from trans women. And then accused by wlws of being a predatory cis man invading space to get to women. They constantly had to walk a narrow path to not be seen as something sinister because they weren’t feminine.

Because masculine is seen as equivalent to “man” and “man” is bad. It’s predatory and violent only ever and always.

And over and over and over and over again anti-masculinity folks claim that this stance protects women and transfemmes. But you are never ever ever going to be normal about “women and nonbinary folx” if you hate masculinity so bad! You will never be normal about butches. You will never be normal about transmascs. And you will never be normal about ANYONE who is AMAB. Even the feminine ones.

A trans woman who is a masc lesbian is going to be a predator to you. A trans woman who doesn’t pass well enough for you is going to be a predator to you. A trans woman who LIKES her masculinity or masculine features is always gonna be a faker trying to evilly sneak into your sacred spaces.

Cis women for sure push this shitty narrative, as do trans men and transmascs who think they’re falling on their sword for Women™️ to atone for the sin of being masculine or worse, men; but oof so do trans women and transfemmes who think policing binary gender conformity will protect them.

#antimasculism #anti masculinity #‘masculinity is always rewarded’ #not when it’s women!!! #not when it’s trans people!!! ESPECIALLY AMAB folks #not when it’s someone who is ‘supposed to be’ a woman!!!

[genderqueerdykes]

honestly as a butch, i just gotta say it: that "chivalrous knight in shining armor" crap is objectifying as hell and it's not fun, cute, or validating to apply to us, it provides a burden for us to bear, it makes us paranoid, tired, weary and feel like we're being reduced to a stereotype, or like we're being forced into a mold.

i'm not a knight just because i'm a transmasculine person who looks tough and can theoretically protect femme queers. i'm literally just standing here, being transsexual. i'm not inherently "chilvarous," i don't have any obligation to protect people just because i adopted the label "butch". what if i'm weak? what if the butch needs to be protected? what if the butch is disabled, traumatized, or just scared? i'm a wheelchair user.

why can't femmes protect their butches? why does it always have to be the butch being the chivalrous knight in our yearning posts and poems? why do we have to weave a performative ass narrative of the masculine partner swooping in to protect their defenseless feminine partner? how the HELL is this progressive or subversive at all? this is literally reinventing the binary.

the way the (white) cis lesbian community treats its butches is alienating as all hell. we are not here just to protect other people. we are not inherently protectors. we are not all strong. we are allowed to be weak. we are allowed to be scared. we are allowed to be hurt. we don't HAVE to protect our femmes, if we like femmes at all. not every butch is attracted to femme people in the first place.

butch isn't a lifestyle, it's not a set personality type. it's not a specific set of actions; it's just queer masculinity, that can be expressed by a multitude of queers for a multitude of reasons. it's not one specific set of traits. masculinity is not just found in protecting others and acting tough, it's also in being soft, vulnerable, weak and tender.

just let butches be people, don't turn us into objects before we even get out of the gates. all of this removes the human element of being butch. if the queer community can't afford that, we can't get it from anywhere, because we sure as hell aren't seen as humans by cisheteronormative society.

don't force me to see myself as a knight when i'm the one who needs help just because i'm masculine, or just because i'm a man.

butches need help, too.

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Hot take the Fool’s gender is Irrelevant

#tarot #let them do their funny scriþimbo things #i'm protecting my skrungle from the horrors of the gender binary #the fool is a reflection of you #and all your chaotic glory