Hey so I just deleted a bunch of tweets from the EndMenGate excitement earlier today
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I have a lot of beliefs and opinions about masculinity because, well, I'm a guy, and bc of experiences and reading I've done
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Replying to @arthur_affect
But I'm certainly not an expert and there are certainly many experiences I haven't had
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Replying to @arthur_affect
One of those is that while I've certainly taken a lot of crap due to the stereotypes of "Asian emasculation" I'm still cisgender
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Replying to @arthur_affect
My male identity and whether I shape up to someone else's ideal of masculinity can be - and has been - used to attack and hurt me
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But I don't live with the threat of actually having it erased or taken away
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I mean, this is the big thing, and it's why I came at you harder than I usually would. I know you and I know you get the transfem POV to >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
> a far greater extent than most cis guys, but I wanted you to know that you were doing a thing that was hurting trans guys when you wouild>
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> immediately understand if it was being said about trans women.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Well yeah -- it's not that the existence of trans people points to a reading of the reality of gender but cis people too
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I bash masculinity a ton but the MRA sneer "Why not transition then and be free of male guilt" has always been self-evidently dumb
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Because, well, there's a baseline reality that I am a guy and that's just a fact
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Right, and you wouldn't drink the genderswap potion,right?
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