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mystery-incorporated-whore

queerness in the global north really has become a white gated community and it both saddens and terrifies me immensely

mystery-incorporated-whore

the fact that transmisogyny is so deep and ever present that no one can even comprehend why trans women are so willing to go to bat for the "social undesirables". and are just frothing at the mouth to ruin her life when she does so

mystery-incorporated-whore

I'm hungover as shit and not wording this well. someone who's read more theory than me please help me say what I'm trying to say

mystery-incorporated-whore

ill do it. ill rip the bandaid off and say the dirty word

I have my own thoughts about "pedophile liberation" that I've been trying to examine and reify since this whole bullshit started, but there are two base assumptions that have literally always been clear to me and it blows my MIND that other queer people aren't reading the obvious fucking writing on the wall

1) paraphilias exist. people have them. our psychological framework to categorize and understand them is racist and ableist and sexist and transmisogynistic, but whatever you want to call them and however you want to analyze them, people are going to have them. they aren't going away

2) as soon as you have designated a group as "okay to kill", any person can be killed by being labelled as part of that group. rights disintegrate and ESPECIALLY rights for those that the social and political hegemony take issue with

the writing on the wall is in big red text you motherfuckers. get your heads out of your own asses or go join the fucking nazis

ndnbutch

it’s one thing to call yourself anti-Zionist and reject people who are outright and openly and brazenly genocidal. but if you’re serious about giving a shit you have to reject liberal Zionism and half-measures too. The only true anti-Zionism is a total rejection of the very existence of Israel as a state, and any and all rhetoric that would validate that existence. And when you lean into this you’ll find most people, even the ones who might call themselves your allies, even perhaps some very big and prominent orgs, will not follow you there. they will choose not to. and especially as a Jew, you will lose a shit ton of community over this. and it’s all worth it and it all pales in comparison to what’s being done to Palestinians in what is said to be our name. Obviously.

pocket-deer-belly

gonna be real! a lot of the criticism towards miss forcefem's ideas feel like semantic pedantry

pocket-deer-belly

i don't think you can blunt a weapon used to incite violence upon minorities without mentioning, defanging, and to some extent reclaiming the word they use to hurt people. i don't think this amounts to "adopting the paraphilia framework" if anything i think it subverts it.

pocket-deer-belly

you see the difference between "chaser" and "pedophile" is that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with having sex with transfems. having sex with children is sexual abuse though, which is why a distinction between an attraction to children and the abuse of children is an actually useful thing to talk about.

mexicast

Transfeminism is like communism in that once you learn the very basics about it you begin to see the destructive, normalized, universal violence that it is up against. and exactly how necessary it is for the survival of everyone you love and everyone on the fringes on the world

jursapphic-park

Racism is the same way. Once you see how much it has and is still destroying lives, once you see how normalized racialized violence is. Once you know the history of how white supremacy has destroyed countless lives and cultures around the world, you will want nothing less than to see that institution destroyed. For the sake of not only your racialized friends and family, but to all racialized folks all over the world who are affected by the evils of white supremacy.

shamebats

"Because I Love You" by Lex Marie.

shamebats

She spent hours upon hours just beating the canvas with a belt...

gay-milton-quotes

when you look at the finished painting, you can almost see letters - but there aren't any. It's all noise. a lot of adults process this sort of beating by insisting there is a lesson in it. with the title and artist statement in mind, it's like they're trying to read a message of love written in that chaotic canvas.

cheesebearger

the people who deliberately misunderstand youth liberation really piss me off as an adult who was once a kid who wanted to run away and, while literally running away from home, realized they had nowhere else to go but back home. nowhere. no where! the only place i could go was back home to my abusive parents. youth liberation is creating a society wherein i, as a child, would have had a safe place to go that was not my home, where i could prioritize my and my brother's safety.

youth liberation is what helps children get the medical support they need, even if their parents are neglectful.

youth liberation educates the child so that the child has the necessary language to speak on their own behalf, as an agent of themselves with autonomy over themselves.

youth liberation demands we treat all children as what they are: future adults, who at all times have the right to autonomy over their body, and a right to a life free from abuse and exploitation. it would deny parents the ability to force (in the case of intersex "correction" surgeries) or deny medical care, deny them the ability to isolate and control their children through regulated forms of education like in homeschooling, and would instead give that power to the child and the child alone.

youth liberation is not only about preventing abuse before it happens, by demanding that children are treated with respect and as full agents over themselves, it is also about creating a supportive society that allows children to escape abusive situations to a community-based safe space.

everyone trying to argue youth lib is about "letting pedophiles hang out with children" are not only engaging in some of the most deliberate bad faith possible, they're purposefully ignoring the fact youth liberation would also protect and prevent child sexual abuse, which relies upon children being - to a certain extent - trapped, with no ability to leave the situation they're in themselves, at the hands of statistically family members, relatives, family friends, known babysitters, etc. children can only be trapped if they have nowhere else to go.

csa also relies on poor sex education - in fact, every single assault i faced was due to me not having been taught that what i experienced was assault at all. i was raised in an abusive home, and i came to earnestly believe that a relationship with a man necessitated my allowing him to use my body however he wanted, because that's what i saw growing up. my parents were poor educators, only giving us books they purchased about sex education for kids for us to read alone.

youth liberation is necessary, and any who tries to paint youth lib as evil, as a "pedophile" movement, is choosing to view the collective desire of abused kids and former kids who were abused - their desire for a better world where their abuse wouldn't have happened - as something destructive and negative and that's just disgusting to me. youth liberation now.

hahawishmeluck

i lost a friend to suicide when i was young. she wanted therapy, meds, any kind of help at all. no one would help. it’s not that no one knew either. the adults and especially her mother actively rejected her pleas for help

my friend legally couldn’t get herself therapy or meds (and online resources were not as available 14 years ago)

she was literally counting down the days until she could get herself help. she didn’t make it

youth liberation now.

cheesebearger

god, that hurts to read. i am so sorry for your loss, and for your friend's pain.

youth liberation has the potential to save lives. only by empowering our youth can we build a future that has space for all of us.

aegisofvarda

helpful tip for other TMEs: you don't have to pop up without fail in the comments of every single post about transmisogyny or transfeminism and go "don't forget about trans men in this conversation"

you sound like a bunch of little MRAs when every single time ppl are talking about gender based violence and straight up basic feminist principles and there's always some dipshit in the comments going "but what about men? don't forget about men!"

isuggestgirl

You have to tell that Black "boy" that she can be a girl too.

isuggestgirl

Black eggs and tgirls are more than any other group relentlessly masculinized. It is a weight, a prison that they must fight to escape. You need to be there for the Black girls in your life.

folly-of-alexandria

The idea that I could be a girl was something that I had to build to because of the how heavily the mere thought was an impossibility to me from those around me, especially from white people.

You have to have to let those black eggs know that they can be a girl. I am begging you.

sapphireh3art

you are not safe to be around if you are siding with fascists. "pedos" have been the boogeyman for 75 years now and i'm tired of y'all acting like chasing trans women off social sites does anything to actually help children or prevent actual abuse.

i was a childcare professional for years. the most dangerous people in a child's life is the NUCLEAR FAMILY and other "trusted" adults.

sailatina2-deactivated20251222

Turn that Latino boy into a girl too. And celebrate the quinceañera she missed out on :D

isuggestgirl

You have to tell that Black "boy" that she can be a girl too.

pocket-deer-belly

someone should have that trans woman's back even if she did do all those terrible things you made up

pocket-deer-belly

like it's really not that complicated. trans women are an immensely targeted and marginalized demographic. any (perceived, but also real) fuck ups are going to be judged a billion times more harshly. someone has to have her back even when she does do something terrible because she will be ostracized into suicide if you don't.

aceynk

“otherwise principled tumblr users faced with a problem reasonably resolved with materialism instead crack and resort to moralism”, and 10 other scary and REAL stories to keep you awake at night!

aceynk

this is getting notes recently, so in case it wasn’t clear: this post is about the transmisogynistic harassment of isff, aka. i-suggest-forcefem, aka. suggestrogen. the harassment campaign was and is founded upon the pointed and malicious misinterpretation / bad faith reading of the post she boosted.

if anything i’ve said here comes off disagreeable, i recommend:

1: studying & internalizing materialism & its analysis,

2: studying transmisogyny and the techniques of its violence; recognizing transfeminism,

and finally,

3: returning and reading isff’s post (i know plenty of dipshits on here have “”receipts””, i’m sure you can find it) in good faith.

the original post here was motivated by my frustration with a couple of bloggers i’ve followed for years who have supported these harassment campaigns. do fucking better. if you’re out here trying to claim that the girls defending isff (including isff herself) are themselves predators, you are acting so clearly out of transmisogynistic instinct.

let it be known. if you are one of the harassers or have supported the campaigns, i do not trust you around trans women. you cant be trusted around trans women. grow a spine. protect our sisters.

if you’re tme & trying to start shit on my post, just know I will block & report you without any confrontation or recognition. you will get nothing out of me.

and to the ‘transfeminists’ who have contributed to isff & others’ harassment, you have failed. you have failed to realize your transfeminism. you have failed to protect your sisters. you have abandoned your principles. be ashamed.