A few years ago I wrote about trans men and transmasculinity within accelerationist and feminist frameworks. I then proceeded to sit on the essay and do nothing with it.
Now it's finally here, with an append of semi-recent thoughts on it as a sort of disclaimer/conversation.
So without further ado: on trans men, patriarchy, testosterone, necrophilia, and clowns.
@nyx@Arcana@Ukko@chjara@hidden@scathach I don’t go to many parties, I don’t drive, I haven’t done hard drugs, and I don’t even smoke weed (just edibles very rarely because asthma). I’m at a loss
@eris I just think this is going nowhere and would rather advocate my position on my own time, as an actual trans guy when trans guys are being discussed
@eris Honestly Eris, you might want to back down from this. It’s much more complicated than a simple argument on fedi can address, and I feel like not having trans men discussing it is part of the problem in the first place—and I’m currently too busy to go into my more detailed thoughts, nor am I in the mood to argue
@eris Honestly I’m not quite sure that’s it. The “elf femboy” types tend to be more transmisogynistic in my experience, due to being attached to claims of womanhood and being very resistant to discussions of transmisogyny.
That being said, I still think there’s a disruptive potential in trans manhood
@eris It doesn’t bother me too much anymore in the sense that I’m not hurt by it. Mostly it just annoys me on the level of being bad discourse that fails to account for a lot
@eris Part of it is that campus-style activism insists that every marginalized group is uniquely different and their struggles cannot be compared. Instead of fostering an understanding of the nuances of antiblackness, transmisogyny, etc (as that type of approach should—highlighting compounding factors even within a broader marginalization), it’s instead used to fracture groups into believing they will never understand anyone else and that one form of marginalization is the be-all end-all