I’m sorry but I need to yell about this: That “Who Goes MAGA?” article devotes 3 paragraphs to inventing a hypothetical fascist closeted trans woman. Tacky, stereotypical, arguably offensive. - ThreadSky

phantasm.bsky.social • 34 days ago

I’m sorry but I need to yell about this: That “Who Goes MAGA?” article devotes 3 paragraphs to inventing a hypothetical fascist closeted trans woman. Tacky, stereotypical, arguably offensive.

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alabamagoddamn.bsky.social•32 days ago

They posted a very interesting retraction and apology today and I encourage giving it a look.

jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social•34 days ago

I was saying this the other day. It felt like i was one of the few who had even noticed

iris-meredith.bsky.social•34 days ago

I can assure you you weren't. It was icky, and the article felt pretty weirdly facile.

andria-girl.bsky.social•34 days ago

how is this any different than the "all trans women had a nazi phase" nonsense? even worse than that tbh, are we really putting american fascism on closeted trans women now? like what kind of ignorant cis liberal bullshit is that.

andria-girl.bsky.social•34 days ago

i mean, it's just utter cis fantasy bullshit. any cis person in america is more likely to be fascist, but we never hear these delusional ramblings masquerading as analysis about cis people and how they're predisposed to become fascists.

deadleafmoth.bsky.social•12 days ago

Talia Levin wrote this ? It reads like a pornographic pulp novel from the 50s. I always thought btr of her

teekaymn.bsky.social•34 days ago

Holy shit what the fuck lmao

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

I am so sick of cis people who think trans women are a fun thought experiment. Keep our names out of your fucking mouth.

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

Congratulations on being the 543,678th person on the internet who figured out how to call us men by inventing someone it’s okay to hate. Hope Lavin enjoyed indulging such a vile impulse.

megagarbage.bsky.social•34 days ago

oh, of course that's who wrote it

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

Is there more there with her? I’m unaware.

megagarbage.bsky.social•34 days ago

not to like a huge degree to my memory but im pretty sure it's not the first time we've been used as a sort of rhetorical wedge or spoken over or about tacitly and it's very on brand for the way she tends to frame things

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

She definitely has a rather… distinctive style. It’s rare that writing can belabor a point this much while also being this unsubtle.

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

It’s extra insulting to do this when the movement she’s writing about has, in no uncertain terms, said they want to get rid of us entirely.

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

Like I’m sorry but if you think this is a realistic person then I question if you know any trans women. The idea that this is what life is like when you’re closeted is really common but no less vile.

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

It’s extra infuriating to do this when you position yourself as an expert on the far right, as Lavin does. This isn’t ignorance, it’s either vulgar fantasies or outright malice.

androgyne.online•34 days ago

sitting down and shaking my head sadly as i ponder a pro-Hitler jew, god I'm so clever for coming up with this. you don't understand, it's, an "archetype"

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

The line that we’re secretly violent misognyists and an active threat to (other) women is what the people who are trying to kill us say on a daily basis. Why are you doing that but from the left?

uberwensch.bsky.social•34 days ago

why is the prose such dogshit

dyadicsapphic.bsky.social•34 days ago

Endless skill issue + no empathy + conceited

phantasm.bsky.social•34 days ago

🤷‍♀️

uberwensch.bsky.social•34 days ago

writers be good at writing challenge

estrusflask.bsky.social•34 days ago

Setting aside that this doesn't really track with even the most reactionary /tttt/ repressor's motivations or actions, this isn't written very well.

Especially with that last bit it feels very MenWritingWomen, but apparently it's written by a woman.

estrusflask.bsky.social•34 days ago

It feels like she wanted an evil trans woman as one of her examples but wasn't aware that people like Blaire White exist, so she created her own poorly informed hypothetical of what an evil trans woman would be like.
Someone who is somehow both self-aware and repressive, and motivated by jealousy.

jess-catte.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yeah the "self-aware an repressive" part is what got me too.

People get right wing because they feel outcast, lonely, different from everyone else and too Online to be understood by mainstream society. And it especially preys on anxieties about manhood and its privileges (or lack thereof for some)

jess-catte.bsky.social•34 days ago

imho the "nazi phase tranny in denial" thing springs from that inability to be "manly" or comfortable in doing so - fascism is always planning to bring back manhood in a big way, accessible to everyone. Plus it is an easy way to dump one's frustrations onto other marginalized groups instead.

jess-catte.bsky.social•34 days ago

Because, rather than jealousy, the actual motivation, the visible emotion, is going to be anger. Anger at those flaunting The Rules. Anger at those who (you've convinced yourself) hate you. To anyone including himself Mr Whatever would look like an angry man.

jess-catte.bsky.social•34 days ago

Calling it jealousy over anger and hate, simply because you claim to know their "innermost heart" is almost an accusation of.... womanhood. Imagine that. Intentional malice over ignorant hatred. The worst parts of man and woman... the evil tranny. Transmisogyny as it lives and breathes

ellenteapot.ca•34 days ago

This is the hackiest trope writing imaginable.

sahuntbooks.com•34 days ago

These excerpts read like some raving nonsense you'd see stenciled on some matte black pickup truck in Podunk

pisswitch.bsky.social•34 days ago

What the fuck

mbletst.bsky.social•34 days ago

is this like a serious news article or the latest contender for first booktok slog of 2025

jrock.us•34 days ago

Whenever I read trans characters by trans authors, I fear that someone hypnotized me, I accidentally told them my life story, and the story is about me. When I read trans characters by cis authors, I sprain my eyeballs from rolling them so hard.

willowdelilah.bsky.social•34 days ago

That's a shame. I remember hearing about Talia from a podcast (one of the Cool Zone Media ones, I don't remember which one specifically). She seemed really cool. Wild Faith was a book I was looking forward to reading.

This article feels like writing fanfiction about imaginary evil trans women.

estrusflask.bsky.social•34 days ago

As I said elsewhere, it's extremely weird to create this caricature of a cis woman's idea of what a reactionary trans woman might be like (closeted, motivated by jealousy) when you actually have quislings like Blaire White. But she seemingly doesn't know her, so made up Mr B!
Like my phone says:

willowdelilah.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yeah. Like, There's a reasonable way to criticize white trans women (how black trans folks often feel ignored in our community, etc.)

But these caricatures paint an inaccurate picture and felt more like victim blaming. Like when straight folks accuse every homophobe of secretly being gay.

estrusflask.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yup. Same vibe as an AI generated image of Trump in a dress.

Also I think that frankly any exploration into how any minority joins a reactionary movement that doesn't examine the broader societal context of the pressure of conformity is frankly just victim blaming as well.

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