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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 23 minutes ago

I thought Zionists wanted people to condemn hummus. Did I not hear them correctly?

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 37 minutes ago

Add being a gamer on top of that

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 7 points 39 minutes ago

I have, on very rare occasions, seen the "being binary trans reinforces the oppressive forces of the gender binary" take before, so I don't entirely doubt what you're saying. However, at this point and from what I know, I found that internalizing the transmedicalist and truscum brainworms that plague the trans community even more harshly than this fringe you're concerned about is what prevented me from being myself.

Gender abolitionism gets strawmanned a ton. Yes, there are TERFs who do reactionary co-opting of the concept, but most non-binary/trans people you interact with who believe in gender abolitionism are not trying to demonize those who identify with being a binary trans person.

I am transfeminine myself, so this may differ from what you have to say about "TME non-binary people," but I find that the transmedicalist brainworms that harmed me so damn much and led me down the harshest path of internalized transphobia, as I was already facing a shitton of other kinds of discrimination and hardship, were practically evenly perpetuated by both truscummy trans men and trans women.

My problem has never been with those of binary identities; it has been with those who need to cling onto some sense of hierarchical domination, so they place enbies beneath them as a way to feel like they're not the same brand of the "lowest of the low" in society. Enbies are even much less understood than binary trans people, so there are definitely more enbies being harmed by this kind of stuff than one would be harmed by the supposed inverse "enby supremacy" ideology you're hinting at here.

Most people, even a lot of trans people, have not freed themselves of their binarist brainworms. The amount of times I'd chat with a trans person online who cannot anonymously pick up on my assigned sex and have them ask, "Are you MTF or FTM?" not even including NB as a possibility in this question (that they don't even need to ask in the first place) is astronomical. Most cis people and a not so insignificant amount of binary trans people see non-binary people as an afterthought to performatively support in the back of their heads, and those who never learn how to stop the support from being performative will still have those enbyphobic brainworms that are kept alive in both trans spaces and the wider society until they get proper insight and theory into how being trans, binary or non-binary, all undermines the patriarchal, cisheteronormative system in the exact same way.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 6 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

[CW: Ramblings About Enbyphobia, Especially From Other Trans People]I second this comment. This is pretty much my exact mood.

The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto is an incredible read for shaving off these kinds of brainworms

Having ignorance about non-binary identities and hearing people spout reactionary bullshit like stating that non-binary identity is a "white thing" or the belief that non-binary people are "cis people who pretend to be trans" literally left me so perplexed for too long. My gender dysphoria felt so damn real, and most trans people I interacted with were the Reddit kind of libs who would frequently prove themselves to be at least some degree of racist and/or enbyphobic.

I was always thinking, "I can't be non-binary because I have dysphoria, but identifying as a trans woman just doesn't feel right at all. Identifying as a cis man definitely doesn't feel right either."

These myths that try to shove non-binary people into this particular archetype, which is the very essence of enbyphobia, left me feeling like I didn't follow enough of the "non-binary rules" to be enby. I could've saved myself a lot of hardship in that department if it weren't for the binarist, cisheteronormative brainworms that still sometimes plague the trans community.

I don't have an inherent begrudging of people who identify as binary either, but at this point, interacting with a lot of them is getting to feel the same way I do when interacting with white people or cishet people. It's like I just have to assume they're going to have some problematic tendencies and express them in either an implicit or explicit way at some time or another.

People call non-binary people "confused" all of the time, but I never felt like I stopped being confused about my gender until I finally and truly acknowledged that I must shove the binary away from my life.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Angel@hexbear.net 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Julia Serano has a major LIB moment

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 16 points 2 hours ago

We have reached our Lois point in history...

 

(It's not doxing, bro; there are already too many results for a more famous "James David Vance" for that.)

No, it's not him.

Based on other stats I was able to read, he's a totally different dude with the exact same name.

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Angel@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago

Cisphobes rise up

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

greensicko-laser Double approval because I don't condemn hummus and you put some sriracha in it!

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 38 points 15 hours ago

Least malevolent Israelis

 

It has jazzy elements too!

 

"I wish there was no money so everything could be free."

marx-doomer

Due to me being out of my family's life for the most part, I haven't talked to him in ages, but I hope he's doing well.

 

Last one for now, folks!

 

This dj0nt brings tears to my eyes 🥲

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