Author: peasantchick

I looked up frostgender and I am very confused. Can you explain it?

I’m actually not sure.

It became a thing in about 2014 when truscum discourse was at it’s peak (your basic anti-nonbinary, only 2 genders, trans is a mental illness type bullshit that we’re still seeing today), and at the same time, the otherkin community was first starting to be visible and was under attack by trolls. I remember 4chan had multiple attempts to take over the otherkin tags with gore and porn. and otherkin had to change their tags about 4 or 5 times in a few months to keep in hiding

so with these both happening at once, a really effective tactic they found was to purposefully confuse the two communities. pretending that people being trans is anything like identifying as something magical. things like frostgender and dragongender and cupcakegender came up, there was a lot of troll blogs coming up saying they identify as a food item, or random household objects, or things that were only funny because they’re hyper specific. one really embarrassing troll blog claimed to be a specific crumb that fell into Abraham Lincoln’s​ beard at some point in history.

and Reddit had tumblrinaction, which was really bad at the time. all the troll blogs made up by redditors would get shared on Reddit, who would then take it seriously and think, holy shit are otherkin really this embarrassing? which would inspire them to go harass otherkin and nonbinary kids on anon, and posting gore in the tags and stuff like that, and then make their own fake blogs to share on Reddit about how bad otherkin are. it was a really gross cycle. people laughing at troll blogs because they assumed all the troll blogs were authentic, it was really the definition of a circlejerk

so. about frostgender specifically. i have no idea if a single real person has ever actually identified with it because it came into being at that time. i’m sure it was to make fun of other abstract genders like voidgender and spacegender, which from what i hear are still common in some nonbinary circles? someone who uses them could probably explain it better. there was a big, big pushback against specific genders, like, people were coming up with new names for their experiences and then got mocked because “only one person is this gender, so how could it possibly be real?”

remember that, really every gender is abstract. they’re either an abstraction built up by the patriarchy like Man and Woman or they’re an abstraction you make for yourself. i think a lot of the pushback was a lot of people’s anxieties that gender had to be based in something “real”, even though i don’t really know /why/ i’m trans and no person can really explain their gender with empirical evidence. I can’t take my gender out of me and show it to everyone in the room​

(quick aside, even TERFs still tend to describe cis-womanhood as something vaguely sacred and holy to them, as if all women are connected by “feminine energy” or “shared girlhood”, often talking about how women are the intrinsically Nurturing gender. even if they can assign vaginas to their very abstract beliefs, they’re still not really evidence-based, u get me. Terfism took a lot from those old, radical feminist wiccan cults. are they still around? does anyone know?)

it’s important to know that, the otherkin community from what I’ve seen is really respectful and has never claimed to be anything like trans. also, i’ve only met otherkin who are also trans so far? don’t ask me to explain how. but i know that, there was never any confusion as to wether otherkin is a trans thing or not until all this happened. i know a lot of trans people still treat otherkin with suspicion for a lot of things like, making trans people look “crazy” by association. all the made up genders was actually a really effective tactic and, well Otherkin is still just a huge cringe thing 3 years later and that might not end for a long time.

so yeah. i really just used frostgender as shorthand for those rare, uncommon nonbinary identities that very few or no one outside trans communities would believe are real. to say that people aren’t really going to trust in people’s individual identities if they aren’t backed up by something like 2 thousand of years of cis-sexism, for example

janes-nature-garden:

thetolerantleft:

As a trans girl, growing up hearing the cultural trope of like “you can be whatever you want to be” and “just be yourself” was genuinely infuriating because I knew it was a lie. They didn’t mean it. Eventually looking back it was so strange how often I heard that and how untrue it proved to be once I heeded the advice. 

damn… this is too real.

epicmurdock:

epicmurdock:

I really hate it when parents of autistic kids use phrases like “I know they’re in there.” Bitch they’re right in front of you! You haven’t lost them! They’re not locked away like a final boss in a video game!! This is your child As Is! Love them for who they are not what you wish they would be! Fuck!

I didn’t expect this to get notes but it’s absolutely ok to reblog and I’m glad it has been

tooconnoisseurwitch:

clitemoji:

tooconnoisseurwitch:

clitemoji:

tooconnoisseurwitch:

mothyseawitchery:

if you’re a witch who is caucasian you can’t:

  • do smudging
  • practice voodoo/hoodoo
  • be a bruja
  • be a shaman
  • call yourself a g*psy
  • have a spirit animal
  • do anything from a closed culture

you know why? because you’re not part of those cultures thus you can’t do or be any of those without appropriating it. also calling yourself a slur is fucking gross man. don’t do it. g*psy doesn’t mean free spirited it’s a literal slur for the romani people.

however, you can:

  • take aspects from open cultures and your culture
  • be a certain type of witch
  • do smoke cleansing
  • study herbology
  • have a patrnous/familiar
  • do tarot
  • make moon water
  • do basically anything that isn’t from a closed culture

do things from open cultures and your culture, don’t take from other closed cultures because, again, it’s cultural appropriation

and when i mean Caucasian i mean

I’m a mut, spanning from every which culture, spirits are not bound by color when being reincarnated. If you feel you are this or that, and you take it seriously and are respectful, then all the power to you. Do NOT let anyone tell you what you can or can’t be, do not let ANYONE limit you. The Spirit is not bound by mundane “race”.

this is it,the worst thing i’ve ever read

like yes… race is a social construct… but that doesn’t suddenly negate the harm and consequences to your racist actions. maybe think about how race is socially constructed in different ways than just “how can i use this to benefit myself?” because, maybe race is something that actually affects other people

Well yeah, if you don’t take it seriously and are not respectful. But, I did say that if they feel that they are and they “take it seriously and ARE respectful” then they should be allowed to practice regardless of the color of their skin. But, even still if they were not to take it seriously or respectfully then that’s on them to take responsibility of the consequences. But, then again you said “your racist actions”, but really I’m a mut with several different backgrounds that span a plethora of races so I do take it seriously, respectfully and with humility when it comes to my ancestors I am no racist. I don’t just use things to benefit for myself and most of the time have been towards the benefit for the entirety of the human race. Instead of shunning those who are irresponsible, how about take them under a wing and help guide them, turning them away might possible make them even more disrespectful and who really wins at that point? No one.

okay 1. taking things from a closed culture is always harmful unless you are specifically invited to do so. that’s what OP is saying. feeling entitled to a culture is different from being welcomed into it

2. you said you’re from ‘every which culture’. All of them? every single culture? and it sounded like you said you were a PoC in a past life, like that counts. This has every red flag that you’re a white person lying on the internet for credibility. I’ve never in my life heard a mixed race person repeatedly call themselves a ‘mut’ instead of explaining what cultures they belong to, or just saying ‘i’m mixed race’. it sounds like you didn’t do a lick of research before trying to fake this, it’s really gross, 0/10 for effort

Hold up, let me clear that up for you I am Mexican, Puerto Rican (which came to be through either panimanians or Native Americans procreating with Africans), I’m also Irish, Native American (either Apache/Cherokee or both), I am also Irish Swedish, Slovakian, Peruvian, so yeah I am “all of them” especially when “all of us were created from the same point that exploded at the beginning of the universe, from the same dirt we all walk on. I’m not conventional when it comes to how I speak, So, what if I like that term because in a lot of movies I would watch when I was little no one would want the mut, or that the mut was of lesser value than “royal dogs”. As for past lives, I’ve past regressed while I slept and came across a life in which I was a warrior during a time of giant glass pyramids, I’ve come face to face with a Native American/Mexican/Mayan/Spanish Shaman during a vision quest in which I’ve seen the protests going on back before December 21st, 2012, and that isn’t counting the other dimensions that try to communicate, or the other planets trying to get us not to kill ourselves or our planet, or having to deal with all the pantheons of Gods and Goddess we know and don’t know of being pissed with humanities actions. I’ve been practicing and incorporating various different paths since before I was in the 3rd grade, I’ve spent my whole life researching, and ya know what,….well you don’t get to know what. But if you wanna get all technical then I believe “feeling entitled” in it’s negative connotations does fall under that part of “being responsible and taking it seriously, and practicing with humility.” As for “feeling entitled” in it’s positive connotations and for the simple fact there is no race when you trace heritage back to Stardust, then yes it is perfectly alright to feel entitled as long as you take it ‘Serious, with Responsibility, and Humility.”    Blessed Be from the mut. ❤

im not qualified to deal w whatever this is anymore