today's showerthought:
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today's showerthought:
one of the reasons why non-transfeminine queer people have such an adverse reaction to transfeminism is because transfems' ability to articulate a model of self-determination threatens to end the uncompensated labor they're extracting from us.
transfeminism aims to articulate theories debunking the ideas underlying transfeminized debt - the paradigm that has transfems arriving in communities with labor expected of us by default in order to compensate for our "male privilege." however, if we're not "male privileged" - if, in fact, we experienced marginalization even when we were in the closet - then the premise behind transfeminized debt disappears. and, consequently, so does the pressure placed on us to provide labor for others as a default state of being.
and that's scary to non-transfems, because they're all benefiting from that uncompensated labor.
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today's showerthought:
one of the reasons why non-transfeminine queer people have such an adverse reaction to transfeminism is because transfems' ability to articulate a model of self-determination threatens to end the uncompensated labor they're extracting from us.
transfeminism aims to articulate theories debunking the ideas underlying transfeminized debt - the paradigm that has transfems arriving in communities with labor expected of us by default in order to compensate for our "male privilege." however, if we're not "male privileged" - if, in fact, we experienced marginalization even when we were in the closet - then the premise behind transfeminized debt disappears. and, consequently, so does the pressure placed on us to provide labor for others as a default state of being.
and that's scary to non-transfems, because they're all benefiting from that uncompensated labor.
imagine a world where "trans women are forcing trans men and enbies out of queer communities by [checks notes] unapologetically taking up space in significant numbers" is an argument that we never have to hear again, and you'll understand exactly what I'm getting at
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today's showerthought:
one of the reasons why non-transfeminine queer people have such an adverse reaction to transfeminism is because transfems' ability to articulate a model of self-determination threatens to end the uncompensated labor they're extracting from us.
transfeminism aims to articulate theories debunking the ideas underlying transfeminized debt - the paradigm that has transfems arriving in communities with labor expected of us by default in order to compensate for our "male privilege." however, if we're not "male privileged" - if, in fact, we experienced marginalization even when we were in the closet - then the premise behind transfeminized debt disappears. and, consequently, so does the pressure placed on us to provide labor for others as a default state of being.
and that's scary to non-transfems, because they're all benefiting from that uncompensated labor.
@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems I feel like part of the trans feminine journey is a journey into rationalizing or accepting patriarchal norms - either held by ourselves or expected from others. Transfeminism tasks us to challenge these both internally and externally. Within queer spaces, the confrontation of unexamined patriarchal expectations is, just, frequently met with hostility.
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@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems I feel like part of the trans feminine journey is a journey into rationalizing or accepting patriarchal norms - either held by ourselves or expected from others. Transfeminism tasks us to challenge these both internally and externally. Within queer spaces, the confrontation of unexamined patriarchal expectations is, just, frequently met with hostility.
@steff yep, absolutely. the ewwphoric pull of "behaving like a woman under patriarchy makes me feel good" is a strong one
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@steff yep, absolutely. the ewwphoric pull of "behaving like a woman under patriarchy makes me feel good" is a strong one
@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems It's not simply our own behavior, but when others consider sexism towards us to be affirming..... things get very.. um.. bizarre very quickly...
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@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems It's not simply our own behavior, but when others consider sexism towards us to be affirming..... things get very.. um.. bizarre very quickly...
@steff remembering when I was early in my transition and I just took on some pretty awful criticism of my appearance from my ex-wife because "well women are expected to be more presentable than men," and, yeah
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@steff remembering when I was early in my transition and I just took on some pretty awful criticism of my appearance from my ex-wife because "well women are expected to be more presentable than men," and, yeah
@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems
- yes. I am sorry you had to deal with that.. I'm fortunate at the moment to have to only deal with my own high expectations 
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