“A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way.”
“This artist must be white.”
“No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way.”
“No woman would ever write women like this.”
“This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-”
Nope.
People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren’t proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn’t from the group in question, actual members of the group who don’t fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.
Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn’t count as a “valid” expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to “prove” their validity.
If something doesn’t resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn’t resonate with you. You don’t have to like it. But you don’t get to decide what it means to someone else.
part of being an ally to trans men is not being a dick to cis men for their appearance btw
the short trans men hear you. the trans men with bottom growth—or who are post-phalloplasty—hear your bad jokes about small dicks. the trans men undergoing hrt who are losing their hair hear you talk shit about bald spots.
also, hot take, you should care about not hurting random cis men in addition to not hurting trans men. like just because some guy is being an asshole online doesn’t mean the thousands of young boys reading your comments about someone with their same acne deserved it. i don’t care what your reason is, even if you think someone is bad enough to warrant being bullied, who gave you permission to hurt the innocent bystander?
hey y’all should spread this version bc some people need to hear this context
Ok it’s very funny to laugh at Tuxedo Mask for showing up and doing nothing, but his job was never to actually fight the monsters.
His job was just to show up and believe in Sailor Moon so overwhelmingly resolutely that she remembers she’s a fucking demigod long enough for HER to fight the monsters.
Because she’s the only one strong enough to do it in the first place, and in this regard Tuxedo Mask is the first example of being “Kenough” in this essay I will
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