It's not like it's a lie It's true, the history of transness in a transphobic society is littered with corpses And if giving you the satisfaction of hearing that "Ouch!" is what it takes to make you feel bad and draw back your fist then fine let's paint a lurid portrait of pain
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
But fuck's sake THIS IS ALSO DAMAGE, THIS IS ALSO HARM To have to perform this shit again and again like a trained animal To put your scars on display to pay the bills To collapse everything about being you into the worst moments of your life
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Making "gay" synonymous in the public mind with "AIDS", making "Black" synonymous with slavery and Jim Crow and police shootings, making "immigrant" synonymous with detention centers
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Good Lord The way these TERFy vultures explode with rage at seeing ANY story of trans happiness and flourishing The sheer vicious glee with which they tear into a story of a little trans girl who's been affirmed her whole life, as a new affront, something that can't be allowed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
Just like the sheer obsessive hatred around the mere existence of Caitlyn Jenner, the need to bring her back up again and again "She's trans and she's fucking RICH, do you expect me to feel sorry for her?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
This is how the discourse of the master and the hysteric intersect, you see, how they feed on each other The master who's been made to feel guilt and pity has, in fact, won, even if the hysteric has also succeeded in their tactic and won their own victory in the process
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
Like any abuser, they get what they want after they succeed in proving that they're the ones with the power They completed their flex, they got their licks in, they got that "Ouch!" and that bruise out of you, now they can afford to be nice because they made their point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
And nothing makes someone in that position *dangerous* faster than them realizing this arrangement is about to be disturbed When that power starts slipping away, when you can just fucking take what you want without paying the coin of performative pain
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
This is what the dysphoria discourse boils down to I'm like really serious about this, even though I'm sure Jesse Singal will dismiss this as another "manic paranoid anti-science rant" This shit is Critical Theory 101, Baby's First Foucault
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
They want you to suffer before they'll let you do what you want That's the price of admission To get to be trans "for free", without suffering and pain, is to pick their pocket, to rob them of their power and authority and the satisfaction that comes from exercising it
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The outright rage at the prospect of redefining the relationship of transness to dysphoria "So you just... decided to be trans Because you thought it'd make your life better, and it did Nothing but gender euphoria, no dys- Everything's just awesome for you"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
"Then WHY SHOULD I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU I thought this was about you being OPPRESSED" (They say shit like this word-for-word, about big celebrities like Elliot Page, about small celebrities like Abi Thorn, about non-celebrities who just seem too happy on their Instagram)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
Yeah that was a fucking tactic and it always was The performance of pain as coin to trade for a "diagnosis" was always a way to cope with and survive under your arbitrary rule It was never a necessary, fundamental part of someone's identity, it was an injustice you perpetrated
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