sparrows on Nostr: btw transmascs demanding that transfems center them in our analysis and CW our ...

btw transmascs demanding that transfems center them in our analysis and CW our harmless jokes (“assumes reader is transfem” “assumes reader is on estrogen”) and take up less space then them in the spaces we made for ourselves is transmisogyny

its the exact same way that cis men will demand the women and other marginalized genders in their life emotionally coddle them and anticipate their emotional needs in advance. we’re not transitioning just to become the subservient housewives-in-all-but-name of a different, “softer” variety of patriarch. just as we reject patriarchal ideas of womanhood in how we construct our gender, transmascs must reject patriachal ideas of manhood in theirs