I know i'm taking the "waaahh representation!!!" losers too seriously but it's frustrating just how stupid the terms these people understand gender in are. like there's a word for when cis people play with gender in an openly performative way! you're doing drag! you didn't invent this! the context, aesthetics and signifiers might different from "traditional" drag or even cross-dressing, but it's fundamentally the same sort of practice. it's not other queers who are trying to stop you, homie! and guess what? the character you're performing as doesn't have to be the same gender as you! in fact that's kind of a major part of it! you, as a man, can dress as a woman, and relate deeply to her, and still be a man when you wanna be! you lose literally nothing from this! goddamn!
clearly i'm not as dialed into these conversations as i thought because "roseboy" is a new term to me. the first search result is some very angry Urban Dictionary definitions and it kind of looks like a lot of the same mode of discourse i've seen on tumblr for the past 6 years where young queers rip each other to shreds over perceived slights or betrayals against such and such subgroup like they're balkan nationalists.
I just wish we could all chill and get our priorities straight. also i wish i could call myself a removed on this site, but baby steps.
I know i'm taking the "waaahh representation!!!" losers too seriously but it's frustrating just how stupid the terms these people understand gender in are. like there's a word for when cis people play with gender in an openly performative way! you're doing drag! you didn't invent this! the context, aesthetics and signifiers might different from "traditional" drag or even cross-dressing, but it's fundamentally the same sort of practice. it's not other queers who are trying to stop you, homie! and guess what? the character you're performing as doesn't have to be the same gender as you! in fact that's kind of a major part of it! you, as a man, can dress as a woman, and relate deeply to her, and still be a man when you wanna be! you lose literally nothing from this! goddamn!
that’s because (hot take incoming): many roseboys are actually under the trans umbrella.
I’m basing this off of convos with a number of roseboys who are exasperated with the amount of transphobia in “femboy” spaces.
Roseboys are very much still men-aligned (especially if that’s how they identify), but it is sooooo much closer to demiboy than not.
Again, that’s a hella contentious issue in that space for obvious reasons, but yah
clearly i'm not as dialed into these conversations as i thought because "roseboy" is a new term to me. the first search result is some very angry Urban Dictionary definitions and it kind of looks like a lot of the same mode of discourse i've seen on tumblr for the past 6 years where young queers rip each other to shreds over perceived slights or betrayals against such and such subgroup like they're balkan nationalists.
I just wish we could all chill and get our priorities straight. also i wish i could call myself a removed on this site, but baby steps.