lucy dacus performing bread and roses at zohran mamdani’s inauguration today!
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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.
go!
Mass of void in a flesh husk wants top surgery.
Or
I find Karl Heisenberg RE8 and Movie! Mike Schmidt gender.
Sometimes purple, sometimes green, what the hell is “just blue”?
schoolteacher
devastated yet fashionable possum
frenzied denim vest wearing pomeranian (bi-color coat, possibly feral)
Privilege and oppression are descriptions of actual, material conditions, not ontological positions.
The trans community has decided (generally speaking), that gender identity is personal and autonomous. We agree that gender identities, roles, and presentation can be opt-in. This what we mean when we say trans men are men, trans women are women, nonbinary people are nonbinary.
However, society as a whole, does not agree with this premise. The hegemony does not believe that gender is opt-in, it believes that gender identity, roles, and presentation are decided for you upon being assigned a sex. This is the fundamental premise of transphobia, and sexism more broadly.
This is why it is not a contradiction to say that trans men are men, but do not experience male privilege. Because privilege is not based on one's personal ontological positition - it is based on one's material conditions. And the material conditions of trans men (as a class) are that of a class oppressed by misogyny, and not benefited by male privilege.
The same is true for trans women, and other trans and nonbinary people. The material conditions of trans people, in general, are that of an oppressed class not benefiting from systemic male privilege.
[See the first link in my pinned post if you need sources].
In short: You can both genuinely believe trans men are men while also acknowledging they do not experience male privilege. This is not a contradiction, because the hegemony has a different set of standards than we do.
And, some trans men do experience conditional male privilege in certain situations. This is just the "passing privilege" debate all over again.
Such cases are incredibly rare and situational regardless. Much like "passing privilege", not getting met with potential danger based on how you look, isn't a systemic privilege, it relies on a person's subjective perception of gender and gender roles/conformity.
They both would require true uninterrupted stealth which, I would say, is impossible. If your social security number hasn't changed, a background check can out you to your employer or healthcare provider. anyone in government will need to know that anyway. You'll have to out yourself to doctors or elaborate when they check your data and see your dead name show up because of that SSN issue. Outside of that, hiding a chunk of your experiences is miserable. Having to erase yourself to be treated as "one of the boys" would be, and is, incredibly miserable, I would consider it only slightly better than the closet.
If there truly is, even one "(white) cis passing (probably het or bi in a het relationship) trans man who's entirely stealth and passes", I'd be surprised. Because true stealth is an unachievable thing systemically.
That SSN thing I mentioned earlier? Happened to me, the pesel # gave my dead name and not my actually legally changed name when my blood was being tested in a lab. (I say pesel cause that's basically the polish SSN) I had to elaborate the mishap to a different doctor, though I'm not stealth.
(all of this is /not mad toward wolvesandvoices, this is an addition to an addition and not intended as argumentative)
there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh
Do you want to hear about white-throated sparrows?!
Of course you do, they’re fantastic. They come in two models, one with tan head stripes and one with white head stripes. But the gene that controls stripe color also has a bunch of other effects! It’s a supergene!
To briefly sum up a grueling amount of fieldwork by people who were probably not getting paid nearly enough, basically the tan-stripes are nurturers and the white-stripes are fighters, across both males and females. White-stripes chase away intruders more, tan-stripes bring more food to the nest. Tan-stripe females bring more bugs to their chicks than white-stripes, white-stripe females are more aggressive and sing more.
There is a reason Jordan Peterson picked lobsters, not sparrows, to get all MRA about, because the sparrow ladies are ALL about the tan-striped males. Sexy nurturing tan-stripe males are immediately grabbed up by the more aggressive white-stripe females (who are also dead sexy if you’re a sparrow.) Then the remaining birds pair off, so you get tan and white couples reproducing in virtually all cases—nurturing male with aggressive female, hyper-aggressive male with hyper-nurturing female.*
And this is good!** Because it turns out that they can have a tough time if they don’t mate across stripes—white x white sparrows often come out undersized if they come out at all. There was some cool recent genetic sequencing and one particular chromosome is way funky, inverted, and scrambled in the white-stripes. So now every white-stripe has a funky chromosome and a normal one, and every tan-stripe has two normal ones.***
This is all really unique and means that white-throated sparrows effectively have four sexes, because they now only reproduce with a member of the opposite stripe and sex chromosome, and their offspring may be any one of the four sexes. The stripes have essentially become a second sex chromosome.
The geneticists involved think the funky chromosome probably showed up as a weird import from somebody gettin’ jiggy with another sparrow species. Presumably this created a hypersexy female whose white head stripes brought all the boys to the yard, and very unusually, that bred true.
Is that cool or what?!
*No word on whether there is a resulting sparrow tradwife media genre.
**Leaving aside the impact on the emotional health of the non-sexy sparrows.
**A population solely of tan-stripes can reproduce safely, they’re just not that into each other.
I reblogged this a minute ago but I’m going to reblog it again, because I want to add another non-binary bird species: the ruff.
First of all, look at it.

That’s a male ruff, specifically. You can see how they get their name. The females don’t have that fancy collar. They just look like sandpipers, which is what they are.

Like other sandpipers, these are wading birds, but they live in wet meadows and marshes instead of by the seashore. During the breeding season they gather together and the males hold territories, called leks, in which they display to attract females.
At least, some of them do.
Some male ruffs do not display in leks. They have plainer, often white, neck ruffs, and they sort of wander around the display grounds courting the females wherever. The interesting thing is that the territorial males tolerate this. Research suggests it’s because females are more interested in a display ground that has both kinds of males. The ladies like variety, it seems.
But it gets even more complicated. In 2006, a third male form was discovered. This form is extremely rare, and doesn’t have male display plumage at all. It looks just like a female ruff in the field. The other birds, however, can tell the difference, judging by their behavior. These female mimics travel with other males when the sexes split for the winter, and during homosexual mountings (which are common, as they are in many other animals), they often top.
What’s really interesting about these ‘cryptic males’, or faeders, is that they are apparently super sexy. Seriously. Females and males both prefer mating with them. And it’s believed that, like the satellite males, the presence of a faeder attracts more females to the area, which benefits all three forms.
And the thing about these forms is they are fundamentally different from one another. The plumage and behavior differences last throughout a bird’s life, and are determined by genetics. They are functionally three different genders - one of which shows natural intersex characteristics. All three can breed with females, and females are more interested in breeding when all three are present. They know that diversity is the good shit. Which makes them much, much smarter than TERFs.
tiktoks with vine energy pt. 19
Sorry for posting tiktoks on main but this was articulated so well it made me get up and pace
Sorry for posting tiktoks on main but this was articulated so well it made me get up and pace
film is going viral for her beauty and natural skin tone:
here is the radiant thai honey skin, so stunningly beautiful, no need to edit or whiten the skin excessively. the honey-tan skin is gorgeous, absolutely eye-catching.
viral tweets: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29
viral tiktoks: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
she also made it onto the news: 1 | 2
film's response:
don’t mind me i’m making a pinned post
Hi, I’m Tako.
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- I’m old (30+) —genderqueer fil-am —I’m an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-neoliberalism —this is an anti-terf, anti-cop, anti-zionist, anti-genAI, anti-settler-colonial blog —this is a freak-positive blog (not-sorry to the puritans) —I have a podenco —I will overshare things about myself in the tags —This is where I reblog random stuff like shitposts, cute animals, whimsical things, some fandom stuff, etc.
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my attempts at organizing here are not great sorry
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uhhhh i think that’s all for now …?



