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3 months ago · tagged #this goddamn continent #basically this #barely even satire · 234 notes · source: scarfolk.blogspot.com · .permalink
a lot of SJ is weirdly soft on privileged people. like “oh, cis people have to do a continual process of unlearning transphobia overcoming the social conditioning of an entire society! it is so difficult!” no, actually, not being a transphobe is not that hard, it’s just that a lot of cis people don’t do it
i think this is the first time i’ve seen you criticise sj for not being stereotypical sj enough
MOAR STALINZ PLZ!
The hardest thing about not being a transphobe is that I am a trans person myself and still am 100% confused about why certain things/people are being called transphobic.
If even I, a Smol Oppressed Tran, am confused about What Makes Something Transphobic in a fair number of cases, how exactly is Clueless Average CisJoe supposed to tell?
I’m 100% this too
And moreover I have some beliefs/ideas that help describe my trans experience and the experience of some of the people I know, but are VERY LOUDLY AND AGGRESSIVELY denounced as “gross” and “transphobic” by a vast, representative swathe of the internet ~trans community~.
Fuck that.
The way I personally conceive of these things, the OP and the last two reblogs are not necessarily opposed?
Like, I think there is this tension between versions of SJ that tell privileged people to “just listen to marginalized people” and versions that tell them “unlearn your privileges, educate yourself, level up in non-oppressiveness”
I favor the former versions, because they can deal gracefully with the fact that marginalized people don’t actually agree about everything, and because the latter often turns into this never-ending Mundum-like injunction to become more and more “aware,” which leads privileged people to develop very specific beliefs about these issues and connect these beliefs to their self-worth (”I understand these complexities, so I’m possibly not a piece of shit”), and then get angry if and when these models don’t fit reality (”if your experience doesn’t fit my headcanon, then maybe I am a piece of shit”)
I’m not trying to say the problems mentioned by the last two posters are all the fault of cis people – not that I would know – but I do think the spread of these very complex, restrictive, difficult-to-understand versions of concepts is related to some people’s need for an ever-ascending scale of ways to be more “aware.”
4 months ago · tagged #basically this #steel feminism #nothing to add but tags · 134 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink