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20 it/they poly bisexual mixed race autistic

They call me Johnny Six-Bowls. No, I don't smoke weed, it's - yeah, I know. It's cause when I cook I need a buncha those little bowls to put my stuff in. You know, cut up veggies and stuff. What's the word. Mise en place. Yeah. So I gotta have a bunch of em with stuff all prepped before I start. Elsewise it's all chaos. Anyway. You here to duel? Or should I give you head

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i care btw. i care abt the song ur listening to or the bug u saw or how u just got outta the shower or how ur happily hanging out w ur friends or how ur kinda sad or how good was the meal u just had or ur fav character from an indie game nobody knows or if u chugged down some water. i always will

To me, there are several different species of car/truck guy.

Materialistic truck/car guy who has a $50k+ new vehicle he does not need for work, he can barely afford and he purchased as a status symbol and expects everyone to be soooo impressed by his smalldickmobile? Sucks. Horrible guy. Makes it his entire identity. Financially irresponsible, usually an asshole driver and parker because nothing matters but his vehicle, usually extremely vapid and unpleasant.

Shitbox car/truck guy who really loves his 15+ year old piece of shit vehicle and is keeping it on the road through thoughts and prayers and is attempting to soup up his 2002 Chevy? Down to earth, resilient, usually capable of helping you with your car problems because he has had every car problem imaginable, humble, often much more interesting than materialism car guy.

It’s the same for vintage vehicles too, the guy who bought a fully restored muscle car just to show it off sucks ass but the guy who has spent 5 years slowly rebuilding a ‘68 Chevrolet Chevelle he found rusted out on Facebook marketplace is a car guy I can respect.

everyones always like oooohhhh australias so scary and full of killer spiders but yknow every continent has its equivilent of killer spiders. europe, for example, has the british,

Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.

A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.

Here’s her latest post about it.

[Transcript: So as you all have likely heard I was forwarded a letter from the FBI informing me that my work and my platform and everything I’ve built over the past three years has to go, um, for propagating what they are calling ‘radical gender ideology’. Um, this comes from Trump Executive order, um basically saying I’m a propagandist for domestic… september eleventh… thing. Um, I would… I— I’ll just say, point blank, short period. I have no intentions of stopping anything. Maybe to my detriment but I’ve never been the smartest one. That’s— all I’m gonna say on this.]

Just as I was writing that transcript she posted this—

[Transcript: So I was told and informed that it’s probably in my best interest to tell all of you where you can find me in the event that I get deleted because having a platform is probably the only thing that will keep… everything okay, if you will. So I will provide the links and ads to my TikTok, my Substack, my Bluesky, the like. You’ll be able to find me there in the event… y’know. Y’know.]

TikTok: @ bundleof.styx

Bluesky: @ bundleofstyxx.bsky.social

Substack: @ bundleofstyxx

Whenever people generally talk about drug addicts they seem to like totally miss that they’re talking about someone with a medical condition.

Yeah maybe some people do bad things because of their drug addiction but plenty of people do plenty of bad things in the name of the bad circumstances of their lives. It doesn’t make their actions right but it also doesn’t make them worse than a sober person smashing something because they’re extremely stressed or stealing or attacking because they’re extremely angry.

And sometimes yes a drug addict’s condition is their own fault. But so are lots of medical issues. Should a person not be given a cast for their broken leg because they shouldn’t have been climbing that tree? Should a doctor just let someone die of a stroke because they shouldn’t have been eating that much salt?

No, that’s rediculous. And yet that’s how a lot of people want to treat drug addicts.

If you’re addicted to something you deserve the same amount of support, care, and sympathy as a person with any other chronic condition. You deserve healthcare. You deserve to be treated with dignity. Divorced from your other actions or flaws or strengths as a person. You deserve to live well and be as healthy as you can be with your condition. Whether you want to stop being addicted or not.

Genuine question — what is misogynistic about the term transandrophobia? I've only ever seen it used to describe the unique social and societal challenges facing trans men but the way you post about it makes me worried I've missed a dog whistle or something. 😅

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"what's misogynistic about the new mens rights movement? what's misogynistic about gamergate 2.0? what's misogynistic about a bunch of guys claiming they're just as oppressed if not more so than women, and saying that feminism is 'infighting' and that all women need to shut up and make themselves sexually avaliable to them?"

you serious?

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I find it incredible how they desperately want to say that we, trans men/transmasculine, when we create terms to describe our oppression, are "silencing women," "abusing women," etc. Simply because they want to give visibility to what we suffer every single day, but which is made invisible because society sees us as women.

i want you to take a second and think about what you wrote. recognize that both you and i are transgender. both face similar oppressions. but you are a man. you benefit from the patriarchy. you have privilege over women in the same social group and same marginalized identity as you.

effectively, you being trans and me being trans isn't especially relevant for this discussion. so right now, we're just going to ignore that. we're going to ignore how society sees us. because this is an intra-community deal.

men have privilege over women. plain and simple. misogyny exists. misogyny permeates every part of my life. because i am a woman. again, this isn't "how society sees us". this is how it is. this is real life. im not basing reality on what transphobes want.

now what you are talking about right now is a "unique form of oppression that only men face". remember, we're ignoring the fact that we're both trans. this is intra-community. you're claiming that men are oppressed because they're men. you're claiming that some equivalent to misandry or androphobia is a real thing that exists. you're claiming that men are actually not privileged, but you instead are actually victims.

read what you said again.

now try and tell me it doesn't literally just read as the exact same shit sexist antifeminists "meninism" types say. tell me it isn't "being accused of rape is actually worse than rape". tell me it isn't "men are the real victims of patriarchy". tell me it isn't "if your feminism doesn't center on men, its not real feminism". tell me it isn't the exact same misogynistic bullshit from a decade ago.

think about what you're saying because you come on my post and say it

Another way of thinking about this: Do we need a specific, unique word for the way effeminate cis men are mistreated under patriarchy that pretends it has nothing to do with misogyny? Would such a word further or hinder the goals of feminism?

Because yes, effeminate cis men are mistreated under patriarchy, and their experience is different from the experience of cis women who are mistreated under patriarchy, but this is not some unique form of oppression that is unrelated to how women are oppressed that we simply can't explain in any existing terms. It's actually quite easy to explain in existing terms: Effeminate cis men are mistreated because they are seen as more womanlike and therefore inferior to masculine men. The root problem is just misogyny. To label it as "misandry" or any other such term because the subject is a man is to deliberately obfuscate what is happening and why it is happening, and it insidiously downplays the prevalence and severity of misogyny within our society.

When a trans man is mistreated on the grounds of being trans, that is simply transphobia. When a trans man is mistreated on the grounds of being perceived as a woman or as womanlike, that is misogyny and usually also transphobia. The experience of a trans man being mistreated is different from the experience of a trans woman or a cis woman being mistreated, but in this sense, the mechanisms and root issues are the same, much like in our effeminate cis man example.

The reason transmisogyny is a term that exists and makes sense is because there are vectors of oppression that we face that trans men and cis women simply do not face. Trans men and cis women are not seen as biologically "abuser-coded" interlopers who are inherently a danger to the lives of everyone in their immediate vicinity. Trans men and cis women are, at worst, treated as women. Trans women, however, are treated either as men or as women, based primarily on what would be more harmful to us at any given moment. We are subject to (nearly) every part of misogyny, but we are also denied inclusion in the category of "woman" and painted as threats, predators, and abusers due to our perceived maleness, and we are routinely pushed out of so-called women's spaces and into our own spaces (which are typically much smaller and have basically no visibility or resources) as a result.

A good example we can look at is domestic abuse shelters. Trans people, especially trans women, are at especially high risk of facing domestic abuse. However, the vast majority of women's shelters turn away transfems where many of them will accept transmascs. This is a massive problem because it is taking resources away from some of the most vulnerable people in our society and forces them to choose between male-dominated spaces which are generally very dangerous for them or not seeking any help at all.

Trans men are not subject to this kind of treatment, the kind of constant, systematic isolation (including from queer communities) and deplatforming and pedojacketing and Kiwifarms-style harassment campaigns from within the queer community that trans women have to put up with. Trans men do not need to worry nearly as much about whether or not there will be any resources to help them anywhere when they are abused. Trans men are not frequently made to feel terrified to interact with absolutely anyone who isn't another transmasc in the way that trans women are frequently made to feel terrified to interact with anyone who isn't another transfem.

You will also notice that while transmisogyny is a term that is used to describe the unique ways in which trans women are oppressed by all levels of society that other groups aren't subject to, the idea of transmisandry exists first and foremost as a cudgel against trans women. That is, at least, the only context this toy has ever seen the word crop up in. It has never once seen a post where a trans man has talked about experiencing transmisandry at the hands of a cis person, but it's seen hundreds of accusations of trans women being transmisandrists.

The takeaway in all of this is that "transmisandry/transandrophobia" is, at best, a smokescreen that serves to downplay the severity of misogyny and transphobia and misrepresents why and how trans men are oppressed, and at worst, rhetoric intentionally weaponized against trans women to portray us as mean, hysterical bitches who need to shut the fuck up.

honestly the best explanation of it I've seen.

I just need to keep repeating to myself that my dad didn’t get a stable job until he was 36

I had a moment a few months ago that was like

Me: I (27) feel like I ought to have my life together by now.

Dad: I didn’t graduate with my masters until I was 30 and you already have one. I think you have time.

The best thing I can tell you, an 18 year old, is that everyone is confused all the time constantly. Nobody knows what they’re doing ever. As you get older you just get better at pretending like you know what’s happening.

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