also can we talk about the people who pressure you to appear more femininely even though interacting with your body to do so can be very painful in itself? so you just avoid mirrors and everything until you have the ability to do it?
like is this more common than it used to be? like i had some hippie bitch i know say this shit
i really just wanted to be like 'ok so some dude just ran over your face with a truck and youre just gonna learn to accept the extreme nerve damage in your face and never want it reconstructed, right? that truck is testosterone for me'
It’s just fools who want to use the increasingly popular aesthetics of progressivism and the LGBTQ movement without addressing their own beliefs on gender and sex. There are so many people who simultaneously preach about loving yourself and being open while policing other peoples lives and bodies. The unfortunate side effect of hippie culture is primitivist traditionalism where they think natural equates to good.
'ok so some dude just ran over your face with a truck and youre just gonna learn to accept the extreme nerve damage in your face and never want it reconstructed, right? that truck is testosterone for me’.
You should totally tell them this or something similar, because it's true for you and might get them to actually empathise and think for once. My god all the people saying "don't get any surgery" is so fucking bad, as a person with a degenerative disease I have zero time for their shit. I swear if this hippie bullshit becomes popular with my generation I'll fight them all with my body full of metal rods and screws.
It sounds a lot cooler than it actually is, I promise. Feeling the rods and shit is very weird. It's something like this, except I managed to be even worse than this picture. Anyways don't take any of the transphobes or hippies bullshit, you're valid and don't need to act a certain way or any other nonsense.
People say that?
Of course people say that.
Fuck, I wish I didn’t know people say that...
Yeah thats often coupled with the terf version of abolishing gender too.They attempt to use the idea of gender being a construct to invalidate the need for surgery. Super fucked up.
me before knowing anything about gender, sex, and the differences between men and women: why do i have this noodle here lets hide it in the shower every time
me hitting puberty: my life is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable
Tbh I've never heard of any other version of gender is a social construct that doesn't sound invalidating, unless we're talking about the whole women like pink and shoes because of social conditioning thing, which I get
Gender being a social construct simply invalidates an inherent need for it at a higher social level. Like money is a social construct, that invalidates necessitating society use it, but it does not invalidate the CURRENT need for money to pay for food/rent. In the same way society has no inherent need for gender, but that does not change anything about people currently forced to work within societies gendered system. It does not change the need for surgery or transistioning etc. Even in a post gender society, biohacking would need to be accesible. The reason for abolishment, is that genders will never become diverse enough for everyone to fit within them. There will always be someone left out. And, (esp within a capitalist system) those that are left out will be abused.
What's to discuss? Idiots who mistake or ignore the difference between sex and gender, and have no knowledge on dysphoria. Good example, maybe say that.
Preach. Some shitlib transphobe ex friend said at different times that I'm not feminine cause I didn't shave and wear makeup but also that if I do shave, wear makeup and a dress I'm playing into stereotypes about womanhood
Ash to Ashes
Dust to Dust
In the end
Chuds are fucked.
--- Post Hog
