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Transfems debating between each other what terminology transmascs should use to talk about their own struggles just comes off as disrespectful. Like if I, as a white-hispanic motherfucker, started policing what terms black people can use to describe their oppression I'd get fucking laughed at on the street! And rightly so!
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@AppleAmps absolutely. Cuz it is. It’s denying them their collective autonomy, in favor of policing who can use the word “misogyny,” bc us white folk usually don’t like admitting that most men are affected by misogyny because most men globally are not white, & as such, their identities are watered down by the patriarchy & deemed “wrongly” masculine.

So not only is the “trans men aren’t affected by misogyny” shit a complete fucking lie, because like, anyone who says that does NOT know any trans men personally oh my god— & like. It is simply not fucking true. All transphobia is rooted in misogyny, in some form or fashion.

And I do not get why folks get their panties in a bunch over trans men needing their own words to describe the transphobia they face. I swear to god it’s because they don’t wanna address their biases against queer men, that were formed because of their bad experiences with nonqueer men, or are projections of their own insecurity in their identity (feeling “not fem enough” & rejecting masculinity so hard that they end up externalizing said rejection.)

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@AppleAmps I think a lot of it comes from the taking the wrong idea from “the gender hierarchy & entire gender-sex system is bad” phenomenon. Being against gender-based oppression so much that you end up doing said oppression against queer men in your communities, because you confuse lateral sexism for punching up.

Not saying “you” as in you, Amps, but as in like a generalized “you.” The concept of a person holding these commonly held behaviors.

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@AppleAmps also, not saying you have to agree with me! Just voicing my take on the issue.

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I mean I agree with enough of it to feel alright about boosting, so, y'know.
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@AppleAmps white Hispanic awk hi five! (?)

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@MxVerda
Yeaahhhh, hi five! 🖐️🖐️
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