So there was this study in which adults were shown a crying baby. Those who were told the baby was a boy interpreted the baby’s emotion as anger. Those who were told the baby was a girl interpreted the baby’s emotion as being upset.
Confirmation bias is when people only acknowledge information that supports their biases, or twists information that does not into information that does.
So whenever someone says “trans women are acting according to male socialization” or characterizes anything a trans woman does as being “male” keep that bit about the babies in mind, and confirmation bias.
For some people trans women can do literally anything and it is perceived as somehow stemming from a fictional essential ~maleness~.
I recall snowflakeespecial, for example, linking two webcomics. One was of a cis woman celebrating her breasts, and one was of a trans woman celebrating her breasts. These comics were very similar in presentation and both said basically the same thing. However, snowflakeespecial claimed that the two strips were obviously completely different because the one made by a cis woman was genuine, whereas the one made by a trans woman was evidence of autogynephilia.
This is also reflected when cis people know a woman is trans, they will interpret any behavior, any physical feature, anything to support the contention that said woman is obviously trans, even if they had no idea even moments before.
In short, the game is rigged. When TWERFs, when truscum, when trans women collaborators pull this shit, they’re not engaging honestly. They’re engaging in terms of “Trans women are men. Therefore everything they do is indicative of being men.”
This is also why they lose their shit when trans women refuse to comply with their perceptions, as happened last night.
The basic rule is, however, that trans women are not allowed to be authorities on our own experiences. Everything we say is debatable and simply being a trans woman makes one discreditable. Any attempt to step outside the very narrow, confining boxes that others have decided describe us is seen as an act of aggression.
For that matter, any attempt to assert boundaries is seen as an act of aggression.
When asked, Ms. Frizzle denies that she “knows everything”
However, Ms. Frizzle always knows what her students are up to, knows the answer to every question they ask her, and never shows fear even when in extreme mortal peril, as if she’s experienced this all before
Although we know she was in a rock band called the Frizzlettes and was a Shakespearean actress, Ms. Frizzle’s childhood remains mysterious
Ms. Frizzle is EXACTLY the sort of person to travel back in time to teach herself, and is in fact the most likely fictional character to do so
Nobody is ever named “Valerie Frizzle” at birth
Ms. Frizzle dresses queerly and laughs at her own bad jokes
A lot of the series is about Arnold learning to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy – that phrase is more or less targeted at him as a student
Ms. Frizzle looks a lot like a grown-up Arnold
Holy shit???????
She literally has a giant storeroom full of barrels of pickles because she loves pickles so much what more evidence do you need
What relation do pickles have with the transgender community?
One of the medications used in hormone therapy for trans women (spironolactone, which counteracts testosterone) has the side effect of, putting it crudely, making you have to pee all the goddamn time. That causes dehydration and loss of electrolytes.
Pickles and pickle juice turn out to be a fairly convenient and flavorful way of satisfying an electrolyte craving. Those who’ve been on spiro a long time can develop a nigh-spiritual bond with ‘em.
dope
holy FUCK i knew ms. frizzle wasn’t straight but i never THOUGHT to consider that she wasn’t cis how could i be so BLIND
“transgender is a culturally specific term” it’s really not
two-spirit is a culturally specific term. hijra is a culturally specific term. genderfuck, in the sense of a term with particular, intentional political and social connotations, is a culturally specific term. transgender is an umbrella term encompassing a myriad of experiences from any and all cultures should someone feel like it’s valuable to their identity, and people who were born before the word ever got coined can and should still be considered trans, because to do otherwise serves no purpose but to suppress the knowledge that people like us have always existed, and the only thing that can do is harm
hey thanks for saying this in a really clear way
i had asked a roman historian about the roman emperor that may have been a trans lady and the historian tried to tell me that we can’t put labels on historical figures and also that the romans had called this emperor a woman to slander them and i was just. so fucking pissed. better to misgender them or wash away all references to trans people in history than to, what, maybe put a label on somebody? fuck that.
anyway thanks for saying this and if it’s okay with you i’d like to use this if i come across that historian again because UGH
elagabalus/marcia aurelia? yeah lmao i mean rome isnt my area but while damnatio memoriae was certainly used against her there are iirc more than solely roman texts attesting to her gender, so like…. take that as u will, by which i mean she was a trans girl and you can rip that out of my cold dead hands
saw one of those “only trans women are allowed to combat terfs and terf rhetoric” posts and in the notes was a trans guy asking if it was okay for him to fight terfs. like hey quick question what the fuck is the reasoning behind telling people to not fight for us. activism is labour and demanding that trans women and only trans women take an active stance is so wild? that’s why we have allies? to take some of this burden off our backs?
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