Author: peasantchick

alyesque:

In response to Mike Cernovich telling someone to fuck off after that someone misgendered Chelsea Manning, someone responded this to Mike’s tweet. There are several other comments getting at basically this same point.

Why do I post this? Because this tells us something about why men behave the way they do towards trans women. For men, there is a fear of contamination. A sort of: If I am nice to trans women does it mean I am one?

And of course, who would want to be one of us? Who would want to be such a reviled thing. And so, cruelty towards the thing reviled is a means of distancing oneself from that thing.

Trans women present men with the fact that they *could* be something else. And that to become that something else they would lose their social status. Our existence denaturalizes patriarchal domination. It tells them “your power can be taken away”

And so, when men see a trans woman like Chelsea hurting, they spit on her and take the time to attack her, to call for her suicide. Because they can distance themselves from the possibility of ever being the one spit on and abused.

And men will always suggest that those who don’t treat us like shit, even if only for a brief moment (like Mike here), must actually be one of us. They have to maintain the distancing act and police each other. Its pathetic and sad. 

Source: aly-semi-archived

neoliberalismkills:

heteromanticmarkiplier:

There’s four kinds of gays.

  1. “I want to live in a huge high rise apartment with my future partner that looks over the whole city so I can see the city lights at night”
  2. “I want to live in a secluded little cottage in the woods with my partner, surrounded by woodland and nature, so that we wake up to the sounds of animals in the morning”
  3. “I want to live by a beach so that my future partner and I can take long walks at sunset and go swimming in the waters whenever we want”
  4. Lesbian farmer aspirations

this is Space Gay Erasure

tchaikovskaya:

the entire point of dogwhistling as a concept is to leave enough doubt for you to plausibly deny that that’s what you meant, but it’s a signal to your intended audience who would immediately recognize and understand Exactly What You Meant By That. so yeah you can say “so-and-so didn’t outright say x y and z and you cant prove it was their intent to imply that” and you’re right, we can’t prove that, but you’re eating out of the palm of their hand when you say that, you’re literally right where they want you