STOP PUTTING DOWN CIS PEOPLE FOR BEING CIS WHEN YOU ARE SUPPORTING TRANSGENDERS/AGENDERS/GENDERFLUIDS/+

YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE IF YOU OPPRESS OTHERS IN ORDER TO ERASE THE OPPRESSION OF ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE

I agree

Saying “Cis people suck” does nothing to oppress cis people. Trans people are not oppressing cis people. But way to use incorrect terminology in your shit post.

This is not relevant to transphobia.

It is though…? It’s literally people talking about how trans people can’t be mean to their oppressors. That’s a silencing tactic used to support transphobes.

It’s not. Being mean to your oppressors can solve things, but online all it does is perpetuate strife and cause no progression from square one. And it makes everybody upset with no closure.

Telling trans people how to deal with their oppressors (especially when cis people are the ones saying it) is and always will be a silencing tactic.

Dear Cis People:

no matter what you’re intentions are, don’t ask how I have sex with my trans girlfriend.

STOP PUTTING DOWN CIS PEOPLE FOR BEING CIS WHEN YOU ARE SUPPORTING TRANSGENDERS/AGENDERS/GENDERFLUIDS/+

YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE IF YOU OPPRESS OTHERS IN ORDER TO ERASE THE OPPRESSION OF ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE

I agree

Saying “Cis people suck” does nothing to oppress cis people. Trans people are not oppressing cis people. But way to use incorrect terminology in your shit post.

This is not relevant to transphobia.

It is though...? It’s literally people talking about how trans people can’t be mean to their oppressors. That’s a silencing tactic used to support transphobes.

you all do know that the bechdel test was never supposed to be a metric for approving “feminist media”—it is actually a commentary on how incredibly alienating media is for lesbians when two women can’t even talk to each other about anything other than a man let alone love or fuck…. right? right??

And since I know a lot of people talk about the Bechdel Test and don’t know where it actually originates from, here ya go. The series is called “Dykes to Watch Out For” by Alison Bechdel.

in case you haven’t seen the actual comic.

Feminists Always Lie About Rape.

Feminists will often claim women never lie about rape. This is a lie.

Around half of all rape allegations are false.

False allegations are common.

9.7% of people surveyed in an anonymous phone survey reported they had had some sort of false accusation made against them.

The rate of false conviction/incarceration for rape is between 8-15%.

Feminists have lied about rape statistics.

They then use this rape hysteria to blame men in the crusade to fight this imaginary rape culture while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of convicted rapists have been abused by women. (usually as young children)

They ignore the epidemic of child abuse that is vastly larger because it is mainly perpetrated by women, while blaming men for the by-product.

The number of reported cases of child abuse in 2012 were 7.5 times greater than the number of reported rapes. 

In fact the only place where there is a rape culture and a 1 in 5 rape statistic or greater is in prisons, military interrogation centres, POW camps & some war zones. The victims of the most serious assaults are almost always men.

One in five male inmates in America said they’d had a pressured or forced sexual encounter while incarcerated, one study found. In South Africa’s overcrowded, under-funded prisons, rape and sexual violence are used to define and maintain a strict social hierarchy in which “victims are humiliated, dominated and feminized,” 

Twenty-one per cent of Sri Lankan males who were seen at a London torture treatment centre reported sexual abuse while in detention. In El Salvador, 76% of male political prisoners surveyed in the 1980s described at least one incidence of sexual torture. A study of 6,000 concentration-camp inmates in Sarajevo found that 80% of men reported having been raped.

Rape of men is very common in combat zones.

The research by Lara Stemple at the University of California doesn’t only show that male sexual violence is a component of wars all over the world, it also suggests that international aid organisations are failing male victims. Her study cites a review of 4,076 NGOs that have addressed wartime sexual violence. Only 3% of them mentioned the experience of men in their literature. “Typically,” Stemple says, “as a passing reference.”

“International human rights law leaves out men in nearly all instruments designed to address sexual violence,” she continues. “The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000 treats wartime sexual violence as something that only impacts on women and girls… Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced $44m to implement this resolution. Because of its entirely exclusive focus on female victims, it seems unlikely that any of these new funds will reach the thousands of men and boys who suffer from this kind of abuse.

In the first study, you jump from the fact that the primary suspect was not responsible in those cases to the conclusion that the rape report was falsified. I’m sure most, if not all, of the rape cases taken up by the FBI involve a perpetrator the victim(s) do not know, which can lead to misidentification.

In the second source, you cite that 41% of the complainants in a specific area later admitted to falsifying the accusation. Except a lot of times they are pressured into saying that, even when it isn’t true. So that stat really means nothing.

I would go on, but I’m sure other people can vet the rest of the sources.

STOP PUTTING DOWN CIS PEOPLE FOR BEING CIS WHEN YOU ARE SUPPORTING TRANSGENDERS/AGENDERS/GENDERFLUIDS/+

YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE IF YOU OPPRESS OTHERS IN ORDER TO ERASE THE OPPRESSION OF ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE

I agree

Saying “Cis people suck” does nothing to oppress cis people. Trans people are not oppressing cis people. But way to use incorrect terminology in your shit post.

My trans friend just came home from work telling me how one of his new co-workers found out he was trans, and began harassing him over “What, are you stargender? Are your pronouns starself? I bet you’re one of those internet people” to the point he had to contact his manager.

But no, keep telling me about how tucute ideology isn’t damaging or how nounself pronouns don’t make the trans movement any less legitimate. 

As if binary trans people have to deal enough with the stereotype we’re delusional and trying to foist it onto everyone else…

Most of these stories are made up. Unless the co-worker has gone looking for information about trans people before your trans friend was outed to them, they probably would not have come across too many nonnbinary people. Even on Tumblr, you really don’t run into very many people with neopronouns unless you’re blogging about social justice issues. And most people who are have already made up their minds about how they feel, so some trans people with neopronouns are not going to make them suddenly start hating trans people.

White people have this weird obsession with us. It’s actually creepy.

^

I’M THE 14-YEAR-OLD WHO WROTE THE “JESUS ISN’T A DICK SO KEEP HIM OUT OF MY VAGINA” SIGN IN TEXAS AND WAS LABELED A “WHORE” BY STRANGERS ONLINE

By Tuesday Cain

I’m a 14-year-old girl who has lived in Austin, Texas, my whole life. I like art, music and talking on the phone with my friends. When I grow up, I’d like to become a science teacher.

I also believe in the right to choose and the separation of church and state. Or to put it another way – to put it the way I wrote it when I was protesting at the Capitol last week:

“Jesus isn’t a dick so keep him out of my vagina.”

Yes, that’s my sign.

I came up with it last week when my friend and I were trying to think of ideas for what would get people’s attention to protest the scary restrictions that are happening in my state trying to take away a woman’s right to safe and accessible abortions.

It worked.

When my friend and I took turns holding the sign, one of the pictures of her went viral.

Then my dad went online to defend the sign on Twitter and other online forums.

That’s when people started calling me a “whore.”

I’m going to be honest about what it feels like to be called that as a 14-year-old girl who has never had sex and who doesn’t plan to have sex anytime soon.

I feel disappointed.

It’s hard for me to understand why adults would be calling me this. It’s hard for me to understand why anyone would use this term for a 14-year-old girl.

It’s not anyone’s business, but as I said, I am a virgin, and I don’t plan to have sex until I am an adult.

But none of those facts make me feel any less passionate about fighting for a woman’s right to choose and the separation of church and state in my home state of Texas.

I also don’t think this makes me – or any other 14-year-old girl who agrees with me – a whore.

Fucked up that anyone would sexualize a teen like that, but this focus on taking this type of offence by that slur is a problem for me.

Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them

That second to last panel is chilling.

So you’re telling me

the second a transman comes out/transitions/realizes he’s trans

he gets male privilege

never mind how many years they’ve had to deal with being shoved into the role of female (and all the misogyny that comes with it) and (mis)treated as a female

and he also has no place in feminist spaces even tho he could probably relate to/share stories of his experiences pre-whatever

and what if they don’t “pass” and are continually misgendered and (mis)treated as a female

would they still have “no place in feminist spaces”

would they

yes

pre-op/non-op/non passing/not out trans men (aka a VERY large majority of them) don’t benefit from male privilege in the same way that cis men do. the way they perceive and benefit from that privilege is entirely unique to their experiences as trans men and comparing their experiences is extremely problematic not only in how others will understand trans issues but also for the trans community itself. trans men are not cis men and trans women are not cis women and equating a trans person’s experiences with a cis person’s trivializes, minimizes, and delegitimizes what trans people go through every day.

that’s why trans men say they don’t benefit from male privilege. they do, but not like cis men do, and not without struggles.

Trans men have male privilege, whether they can always access it or not. They still have it. And because they have it, there will be some situations where they can access it. 

No, trans men aren’t cis men, but they are still men. And to say they don’t have male privilege is to say they aren’t male. That’s not okay.

Trans men don’t benefit from male privilege the same way cis men do, but they still have male privilege and do not get to deny that. Men of color don’t benefit the way white men do, disabled men don’t benefit the way abled men do, poor men don’t benefit the way rich men do. But we don’t deny that they still have male privilege. Trans men have male privilege. And to put any other explanations on the end of it is to deny that trans men are men.

Can you provide some examples in which trans men benefit from male privilege?

I am constantly called on in class. Usually I'm one of few males in the room, but I get called on more as one person than all women in the room combined.

I walk around at night without a second thought while my female friends ask me to go with them when they have to go somewhere at night. Even if it's somewhere they're familiar with. Even if they're driving.

My clothes and hygiene products cost significantly less than and are better made than women's products of the same kind.

When I have mix ups withy gender marker on medical or legal documents, questions are asked quietly and respectfully, and the matter is handled with a sense of professionalism.

I could go on, but typing on mobile is tedious. While of course not all trans men have these experiences, at least the final example is one that statistically a lot more trans men experience than trans women or dmab no binary people.

So you’re telling me

the second a transman comes out/transitions/realizes he’s trans

he gets male privilege

never mind how many years they’ve had to deal with being shoved into the role of female (and all the misogyny that comes with it) and (mis)treated as a female

and he also has no place in feminist spaces even tho he could probably relate to/share stories of his experiences pre-whatever

and what if they don’t “pass” and are continually misgendered and (mis)treated as a female

would they still have “no place in feminist spaces”

would they

yes

pre-op/non-op/non passing/not out trans men (aka a VERY large majority of them) don’t benefit from male privilege in the same way that cis men do. the way they perceive and benefit from that privilege is entirely unique to their experiences as trans men and comparing their experiences is extremely problematic not only in how others will understand trans issues but also for the trans community itself. trans men are not cis men and trans women are not cis women and equating a trans person’s experiences with a cis person’s trivializes, minimizes, and delegitimizes what trans people go through every day.

that’s why trans men say they don’t benefit from male privilege. they do, but not like cis men do, and not without struggles.

Trans men have male privilege, whether they can always access it or not. They still have it. And because they have it, there will be some situations where they can access it. 

No, trans men aren't cis men, but they are still men. And to say they don't have male privilege is to say they aren't male. That's not okay.

Trans men don't benefit from male privilege the same way cis men do, but they still have male privilege and do not get to deny that. Men of color don't benefit the way white men do, disabled men don't benefit the way abled men do, poor men don't benefit the way rich men do. But we don't deny that they still have male privilege. Trans men have male privilege. And to put any other explanations on the end of it is to deny that trans men are men.

truscum fact of the day: approach truscum with caution, only wearing lead suits so their trans-ray vision cant determine whether youre a gender threat or not

*truscum voice* you must pass 100% of the time or youre Not A Real Trans

"who cares about representation in video games, video games are meant for escapism"

how exactly is it escapism to switch from a world where white cis men are in charge to…….. a world where white cis men are in charge

also what does that say about you when you want to “escape” to a world completely devoid of poc and women