Welcome to #TransTuesday!

[tillybridges@mastodon.social]

Welcome to #TransTuesday!

We need to talk about a huge problem.

Cis folks, especially men, especially white men, especially heterosexual men, super especially cishet white men, please pay attention.

It's time to discuss CHASERS AND THE FETISHIZATION OF TRANS WOMEN 1: EXPLANATION AND EXAMPLES.

CHASERS AND THE FETISHIZATION OF TRANS WOMEN 1: EXPLANATION AND EXAMPLES - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! Today’s topic is a very real problem trans women have to deal with. Cis folks, specifically cis men, especially white men, especially heterosexual men, super especially cishet white men, please pay attention. Here comes CHASERS AND THE FETISHIZATION OF TRANS WOMEN 1: EXPLANATION AND EXAMPLES. This is a serious and really

Tilly's Trans Tuesdays - transgender education for everyone! (www.tillystranstuesdays.com)

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@tillybridges Excellent job. And sending this to some people not on Mastodon who don't know what "chaser" means and wear it like a badge of pride (AFAIK are not harassing women online but if they are, "Hey, you might wanna knock this off.")

[cate@myprivate.social]

@tillybridges @DelilahTech Thank you so much, Tilly, for all the ways you educate me. I’m a cis woman who volunteers in queer spaces and the more I know the better I can serve this community. ️‍⚧️️‍

[tillybridges@mastodon.social]

@cate @DelilahTech I’m so glad these have been helpful to you 🩷

[emilygb2023@chaosfem.tw]

@tillybridges

YUP. 10000% percent.

And like there's just whole layers of that -- just another totally different awful and unique form of "what the HELL" each all based on the same fundamental belief: That trans women explicitly exist for their sexual gratification and nothing else.

They clearly think it's the only reason we transition. To be sex objects for them. It's misogyny without benevolent sexism. It's misogyny without any of the lies it coats itself in to look more palatable, it's raw and unfiltered and turned up to 11. And it's fire-hosed at us.

We're not seen as people, we're not seen as having agency. They approach us like they're talking to a clerk at a sex shop, detailing the toy they want to buy and what it needs to do.

Every time I've interacted with one -- I'm not being talked to. I'm being given a porn script. Nothing I say matters, because who asks the dildo it's opinion?

i've had absolute strangers try to dictate my transition choices to me, full of rage at the idea that I might change myself in ways they don't find hot.

And god, the way they handle even the gentlest, smallest bit of rejection. The torrent of vitriol, vile and violent -- the fury of someone whose property isn't doing what he said.

And that doesn't even get INTO stuff like their casual use of slurs, their total inability to grasp why we might not want to meet them in their stolen van down by the river at midnight without telling anyone where we are, etc.

[tillybridges@mastodon.social]

@EmilyGB2023 yep

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[emilygb2023@chaosfem.tw]

@tillybridges

Just the language, good lord.

They use slurs and think them endearments. Their 'compliments' are direct rejections of our identity.

And their language drips with an othering of us, as bad or worse than any open bigot I've ever met, with a total lack of awareness only possibly in someone who thinks of us as objects.