[ SECRET POST #2616 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2616 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Apparently to be popular on Tumblr

[gondremark]

Apparently the quickest way to become anathema on tumblr is to state that "I hate cis people" is not a suitable reaction to transphobia.
I don't hate cis people, I hate the transphobic subset of cis people who refuse to learn, and I am NOT about to risk the tiny toehold of acceptance we might have just because I'm angry and pissed off and feel like making blanket statements.
Trans people are few and far between, we're between 0.5% and 3% of the population, I might be the only trans man someone meets, and so there's a lot more than just my feelings at stake in how I publicly react to transphobia. People are going to be basing their opinions and stereotypes of trans men on me. I owe it to myself and to all transgender people to demonstrate that we're not insane, selfish, twisted whackadoodles. We're ordinary men and women who come at gender from another angle. Shrieking generalised hatred isn't going to accomplish that.

Also, most people aren't even really aware of transgender people. This doesn't make them assholes, it makes them unaware.

This has been your monthly tumblr-is-bonkers rant AND your weekly reminder that Gondremark is trans.

Re: Apparently to be popular on Tumblr

[(Anonymous)]

This. "I hate cis people", "I hate men", "I hate straight people" is fine to scream into a pillow when you're alone and 120% frustrated with everything at the moment. But those words don't bring about a lot of change. You vent, collect yourself, and continue on with life.

On more generous days, I think most of the people saying this are teenagers/young adults who don't really know how to pick their battles yet. Everything's vital to the struggle and all that. God, I'd have burnt out years ago if I'd kept up like they do.

Re: Apparently to be popular on Tumblr

[gondremark]

And that's the problem. The kids on Tumblr think that what they sob into their pillows in the depths of their misery is suitable discourse for social change. They just don't get it.

Hopefully they'll grow up and what we're seeing on Tumblr is just a mass of teenage angst, but I had an argument on this subject with a tubmlrite who I know is in her mid twenties and a grad student. Scary times.