Zeph has been sitting in the exact same position with the exact same expression for minutes now.
Either there are birbs outside the window, or his brain needs rebooting.
#CatsOfMastodon
Zeph has been sitting in the exact same position with the exact same expression for minutes now.
Either there are birbs outside the window, or his brain needs rebooting.
#CatsOfMastodon
It is important to remember though that it's not safe for all of us to be out as trans! Nor should anyone be pressured to come out today. If you're not out, you matter, you are part of our community, you are loved, and I'll be twice as visible today on your behalf. :heart_transgender:
There's absolutely nothing wrong with folks having a "non-binary phase" before deciding they're just a trans woman/man. Sometimes identities do shift; that's something to celebrate!
But for god's sake that doesn't mean that every non-binary person is on that same trajectory. Do not imply to us that it's "just a matter of time" before we embrace the binary. It's patronising and invalidating.
There's enough pressure from cishet society to conform to the gender binary in order to be accepted. We don't need more of the same from our own community.
Non-binary people deserve a space to define and explore our own identities, play with presentations, in our own time and our own terms. Some binary trans folk, respectfully, need to learn to be more comfortable granting us that space, that autonomy.
Even those who had a "non-binary phase" themselves. Especially them, in fact. 🙃
Medieval writers: "a woman's natural state is lustful, whereas men are born with more restraint."
Modern media: "a man's natural state is lustful, whereas women are born with more restraint."
Medieval writers: "...?"
Modern media: "Oh yeah we kinda flipped the whole thing around."
Medieval writers: "Most puzzling. You are still finding it a way to make it women's problem to deal with, though, correct?"
Modern media: "Oh, yes, of course!"
That article on nurturance culture is really thought-provoking, and I copied it to share on Facebook, but then I got this sense of deja vu, checked the date, and true enough it's from 2016. Pretty sure I shared it back then, thinking "I can't wait for all the guys on my friends list to read this and have deep conversations about it" and... tumbleweeds.
Kinda sick of articles on cis men's emotional health being written by, shared by, read by, discussed by, cis women and trans men and trans women and enbies and basically anyone except cis men.
Is it just me? Am I being terribly cynical here or what?
Stand before the platform of judgment, and await the verdict of Zephyrus. #CatsOfMastodon
For anyone who hasn't figured this out: going around "correcting" people's English on social media constitutes a campaign of harassment of POC, working class and neurodivergent users. Do not expect this behaviour to be tolerated on Mastodon/the Fediverse. Question the colonialist narrative that made you think there is a "correct" form of English as defined by the white upper classes.
@eclectech this has long been my undoing
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