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yardsards: One thing that a lot of transmasc people

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One thing that a lot of transmasc people struggle with before they fully realize they’re trans is the question of “do I hate being treated like a woman because women are treated like shit, or do I hate being treated like a woman because I’m not a woman?”

and one method (though not entirely foolproof) to figuring that out is asking “would I be upset if another girl was treated like this?”

like, I’d be just as mad if some dude said “you can’t do math because you’re a girl” to a female classmate as I would if he said it to me

however, I never got uncomfortable at waiters calling my female friends “m'am”, I was only uncomfortable when they called *me* that

and obviously everyone’s feelings are different and there’s tons of variables at play, but if you find that there’s a lot of the second scenario going on with you, there’s a good chance you’re not entirely cis

ghostwunk: ghostwunk: Shit Straight People Just

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Shit Straight People Just Dont’t Get: Gay men are not attracted to men the same way straight women are, and lesbians are not attracted to women the same way straight men are.

I saw a popular post go around a long time ago that talked about the sexualization of women in comic books vs the lack of sexualization of men and they said how “straight women and gay men aren’t attracted to to big tough rough buff men, that’s a male fantasy.” And it kinda reminded me of how straight people think we experience attraction the same way as them, and say with how bi people are attracted to the same gender/genders too.

Like no offense but a lot of things mlm find attractive in men, straight women would find unattractive. A lot of things lesbians would find attractive in women, straight men would find unattractive. Also vice verse, which show in straight romances and anime where the sexualization of women is never meant for wlw in the audience.

It’s not that we’re “desperate gays” so we just have to go for feminine gay men, butch lesbians, bears, more body hair or muscle, fat, etc. Its just that being attracted to those certain things whether in appearance or mannerisms, is literally part of gay culture.

Like this whole idea that mlm experience attraction the same as straight women and wlw experience attraction the same way as straight men is just a way to compare mlm to women and wlw to men and to further split apart solidarity between us. Also for lazy straight writers to give us content that doesn’t match our needs or culture. I really wish straight people would stop this misconception.

This post includes trans mlm and trans wlw. It harms us even more so.

ceramicsun: “Imagine first a Soviet observer

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“Imagine first a Soviet observer considering some of the events of American history: The United States, founded on principles of freedom and liberty, was the last major nation to end chattel slavery; many of its founding fathers — George Washington and Thomas Jefferson among them — were slave owners; and racism was legally protected for a century after the slaves were freed. The United States has systematically violated more than 300 treaties it signed guaranteeing some of the rights of the original inhabitants of the country. In 1899, two years before becoming President, Theodore Roosevelt, in a widely admired speech, advocated “righteous war” as the sole means of achieving “national greatness.” The United States invaded the Soviet Union in 1918 in an unsuccessful attempt to undo the Bolshevik Resolution. The United States invented nuclear weapons and was the first and only nation to explode them against civilian populations — killing hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children in the process. The United States had operational plans for the nuclear annihilation of the Soviet Union before there even was a Soviet nuclear weapon, and it has been the chief innovator in the continuing nuclear arms race. The many recent contradictions between theory and practice in the United States include the present [Reagan] Administration, in high moral dudgeon, warning its allies not to sell arms to terrorist Iran while secretly doing just that; conducting worldwide covert wars in the name of democracy while opposing effective economic sanctions against a South African regime in which the vast majority of citizens have no political rights at all; being outraged at Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf as a violation of international law, while it has itself mined Nicaraguan harbors and subsequently fled from the jurisdiction of the World Court; vilifying Libya for killing children and in retaliation killing children; and denouncing the treatment of minorities in the Soviet Union, while America has more young black men in jail than in college. This is not just a matter of meanspirited Soviet propaganda. Even people congenially disposed toward the United States may feel grave reservations about its real intentions, especially when Americans are reluctant to acknowledge the uncomfortable facts of their history”

— Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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