It Occurs To Me

[grayestofghosts]

It occurs to me that whenever women who are sick of "men writing women" attempt to reverse it and write about men the way men write about women, the way they write is identical to how transgender men are written about. See this example posted to Reddit:





It's hard to explain how infuriating it is that whenever there are any transmasculine complaints about anything, it's always framed as a vicious hatred of women for... telling them that these sorts of shallow things they think 'gets back at the patriarchy' somehow is stuff they already do to us all the time. The worst offense there is is really telling people their fun isn't funny, huh.

Comments

[ngoomie]

I've kinda noticed before this without being able to put words to it that just generally, the way transmasc people get treated and talked about feels like its passed through the filter of "talking to/about men the way they talk about women" tbh. Like even just casually and without this sort of intent behind it of "hee hee, haw haw, role reversal! men pwned!!!"

[grayestofghosts]

And you can never be like, “dunking on persecuted minorities? Enjoying being the oppressor? It’s fun, isn’t it? All that power? Doesn’t bullying feel good?”

Like. It’s really incredible how shameless it is.