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Ask yourself, am I describing the patriarchy, or am I reinforcing it?

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

As a transmasculine person, I know my own head and my own heart. Who I am is not a choice, being myself IS a choice. Power has nothing to do with it, and the process of claiming my masculinity and being like a man means losing power.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The beating heart of transmasculine oppression is the belief that manhood and masculinity is only about power, and it is an inherently patriarchal belief because that is the set of beliefs the patriarchy forces.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The fact that it's not expressed as fear, means that people don't often realize it is. And people don't understand because people aren't afraid of trans people per se, but what we represent.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

There's a lot me of kink that seems popular online with young transmasc, the impregnated kink. I'm not sure it's really all that common, but I see it referenced fairly frequently compared to other kinks.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

When cis guys, especially the more conservative, feel threatened by something, they aren't going to say they feel threatened, because that would be unmanly. But being human beings, they of course feel fear.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One of the things I've felt consistently since Trump won, both the first time before transition and again this time, where I am almost post-transition, is how much it hurts.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'll say this though, I was positionally a white woman until middle age, even if internally things were very different, and people often would treat me differently because as much as I would act it, I couldn't fully, and would be often too tired to always play the part. People would pick up on that.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Jude is right, I speak from my own experience as a trans person transitioning older. I survived because of my mental ability to shut down and disassociate. There were also times where I almost didn't make it through.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A lot of middle class people are delusional about their self sufficiency. That the government highly invested in their well being, but does it in a way that is ego protective, so that you don't think you get just as much, if not more governmental assistance as poor people.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"This can't happen here", "This can't happen to me", is a thing I've heard all my adult life from people, and it's a frame of mind that I've never had, although I've tried to understand it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment