This Is Not a Place of Honor

In addition to my previous point, users migrating from Wattpad to AO3 and Tumblr need to remember basic fandom etiquette. I remember being an early Wattpad kid and seeing awful fics, but I just avoided them. I get that there are people out there who are sick, weird, or outright evil, but the best approach is to block them and warn others if necessary. "Don't like, don't read" has been around for a long time, and people practiced this during the Wattpad era too.

You might argue, "Oh, but they're not above criticism, they shouldn't be doing stuff like that!" You're right! But you also need to realize that not every motive stems from proship or darkship nonsense. Sometimes you will run across someone who is writing to raise awareness about a topic, or simply to tell a complex story. A pro-censorship stance, while understandable in theory, actually causes more harm than good, especially since it inevitably targets creators who aren't even doing anything wrong.

"How is Pro-Censorship harmful?" Because pro-censorship ultimately creates a restrictive environment where a select few decide what is and isn't acceptable. This silences diverse voices (especially Black, POC, and Queer voices) and results in a heavily sanitized creative space.

my most annoying trait is if you make a joke about how pets/animals are better than human babies i will not laugh. bc its not funny

i will look at you like this :|

Truth nuke, unfortunately.

Its like a repackaged version of empathy- you don't typically know the person animal that has been hypothetically the subject of concern, the idea that yeah- they could be evil or something but you don't know that. They could be the devil incarnate or a pure saint or a person who nonstop experienced suffrage, you just don't know and the base idea of empathy is that," Wow that sucks I hope they're okay or wouldn't want that to happen to me".

As a person who loves animals and nature, I can recognize that we work on a different playing field of morality and human understanding, yes, but to impose those on other creatures is a false equivalency. Animals torment each other in the wild plenty, they hunt, they kill, they even pillage but some animals love, they cuddle, and they create. As humans do. We aren't as divorced from nature as we think and aren't above it to dictate other creatures' value.

Babies are like the peak of innocence in this playing field and its a bit concerning how some of you will actively get mad at the baby for its milisecond of living in this world. :[

Black newborn babies in the United States are more likely to survive childbirth if they are cared for by Black doctors, but three times more likely than White Babies to die when looked after by White doctors, a study has found.

The mortality rate of Black newborns in hospital shrunk by between 39% and 58% when Black physicians took charge of the birth, according to the research, which laid bare how shocking racial disparities in human health can affect even the first hours of a person’s life.

By contrast, the mortality rate for White babies was largely unaffected by the doctor’s race.

The findings support previous research, which has shown that, while infant mortality rates have fallen in recent decades, Black children remain significantly more likely to die early than their White counterparts.

US infant mortality rates decline, CDC study says, but Black infants still twice as likely to die

Researchers from George Mason University analyzed data capturing 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015 for the new study, which was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, also known as PNAS.  @blacklandskonnected 

its obvious to me that this whole obsession with edgy subversive art is white artists attempt to create something counterculture in a culture where they are the dominant power regardless of what their art is like due simply to them being white. whether it be a white transgender queer making art of two incestuous siblings cutting eachother sexually or a white republican making an episode of hollywood television where rhe characters do a line of coke and accidental blackface, these "edgy subject materials" are the only way they know how to define themselves or their politics from other white artists. white art is the assumption, the expectation, and thus there is not any kind of art in my opinion that a white person can make that is truly counter culture. it's the closest thing they can get to feeling like a misunderstood artist before their time. this is why their identities and politics become centered around their ~freedom~ to be this sick and twisted, because it makes them feel like their art has meaning and purpose in a culture where they are already ontop. they want to know what it feels like to have a culture that counters the mainstream, and because they haven't actually expefienced what its like to be an artist of color whos art is suppressed the only things they can bring to the table is the things THEY'VE had suppressed in the past: their own racist past, and their bizarre sexual desires they feel ashamed of. it's literally all they have.

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not to sound like the friend that's too woke but why does this police station toyset for a 5yr old need a weapons safe full of tiny toy-sized automatic rifles. just asking.

It's the way it was a simple, objective statement. White allyship 101. "White trans ppl can be oppressors too." Yes. Because Whiteness brings systemic power over their peers of color, even if you are in some way marginalized yourself. Queerness does not cancel out racism. We've talked about this. We've talked about white privilege and what it does and doesn't mean. These were conversations everyone swore they were having in 2016. 😐 And now a blow up of fragility on par with the conservatives we're supposedly up against together. What even.

And I'm not trans so it's not like it's my right to stand here and speak for anybody who is. But from the perspective of Blackness and Bisexuality, of KNOWING that no amount of being queer has ever prevented white queer folks from being racist to me, despite the shared reality that is so long as you buy into white supremacy for your own benefit you will never break your own chains of homophobia and enforcement of gender....

A small compilation of posts from the latest trans twitter discourse. I haven't bothered to screenshot all of the most viral tweets, but also I think it's important to include a lot of the smart ass replies to really help you simulate just how many people are going under black posts and asking "well, what even is racism really?" And if you'd like to know, one of the largest black trans women on twitter was harassed off of the site. No she did not do anything in particular, just posted an image of a sign she didn't make herself that claimed white trans people oppress black trans people (referring to I believe the silencing of a black trans woman who was slated to speak at the protest but was kicked off last minute. @/septembersister, If that's accurate.)

More in the next reblog.

I don't think it ended up in the screenshot but the scenario of the trans bipoc sex worker they were called sex pests in a reply. Victryena was harassed into deactivating.

This is why white feminism is so dangerous. You have to understand intersectionality, you have to listen to the black and brown trans people in your communities, you have to give them space to speak or you create places where it is less socially risky to have profited off of racism than it is to be black.

I wonder how many times I can reblog this to add more posts? Until we have an anti racist trans community, we do not have a trans community.

I keep forgetting I can only add 10 screenshots at a time. There's so many of these posts. Seeing more and more people claiming this isn't happening as well. It is violent to call someone a racist, it is not violent to be racist. TWOC exist to be used as tokens for discourse, but I would never ever center their issues. The TWOC who are being actively silenced in real life and online don't matter, MY feelings were hurt! I have struggles!

Sorry if there are any duplicates, its getting hard to keep track.

I think posters who are attempting to swing back on this conversation claiming this is an organized attack against trans women and fems are willfully ignorant. The sign does not name transfems. The sign is in defense of a trans woman. The vast majority of people making this about trans women are trans women posting racist bullshit. It's not my fault they are trans women. My go to search has been 'white trans' as well as off of my feed. Klansmascs and klansgender nonbinaries are also a plague on our spaces that keep us from community or action, but to dismiss this behavior as a psyop is to engage in apologia for racist communities and erasure of transmisogynoir.

A black trans women and a asian trans women have been harassed and silenced by white transgender "allies".

Racism is a "personal grievance". Racism is a "niche cultural issue." Racism takes up all the air in the room and addressing it is hampering REAL action. Antiracism is "liberalism".

The most disgusting idea I have seen thrown at Vic, who is an asian trans woman, is that she is weaponizing racism or the struggles of TWOC/TPOC. Absurd as an idea of that is it makes me furious that we as a community continue to use the statistics of violence, sexual assault, and murders of black trans women to push for trans rights but when black trans women attempt to discuss racism they face backlash like this. We have tokenized the idea of the black trans woman as a silent victim, the emblem of transmisogynistic abuse, and continue to deny her her struggles lest she be masculinized and deemed an oppressive force herself.

Victry's racial identity is also important. As an asian woman and due to the racist misogynistic associations we, largely as American and Europeans, fetishize the 'natural femininity' of Asians. Her dysphoria is invalidated, she has had an 'easy transition', her sex work is weaponized as equivalent to racial violence. For those who haven't followed along, she returned to twitter with an eloquent statement I will add here.

I think its also important to notice how many of these creeds attempt to call on ones marxist values and position TPOC and POC as welding imaginary economic power over white victims. Sex work is continually used as a bludgeon (perverted sexually deviant TWOC are whining when they reap monetary gain vs white trans women as the victims of sexual violence forced to participate in survival sex work are being looked down upon by rich TWOC who never have to experience sexual violence to benefit)

For every singular person rolling their eyes and proclaiming their oppression has tuned them into the concept of suffering, that their experiences make them the true savior of the oppressed masses who doesn't NEED to ever listen to another group, theres 10 more replies 'just wondering' why we 'even bother to see color', or if antiracist action was CIA funded to erode leftist unity, and all of them are trying to make this exclusively about trans women. It's insane.

It genuinely does NOT matter that your post discussing this is addressing racism among the entire community, I only had room to include one of these independent replies/quotes, but there is not that much of an independent push to attack white trans women it's all shadowboxing or virulent racism. We need to purge 4chan from our community

A couple more to close this out.

Racism is trivial. What even IS race? These rich blacks are speaking over fragile abused white trannies. Racism is a niche issue, you're distracting from actual problems. Calling organizations racist is too aggressive, you can't speak here. You're being inflammatory. You're not showing enough nuance. How was I supposed to know theres a victim when all your political slogans are so mean and violent? Discussions of race is a CIA psyop meant to dissolve the left. I'm angry you called me white and this is YOUR fault. Calling me racist is the justifying transphobic violence. You're equating me to a police officer murdering black people right now! YOU support trans peoples deaths because of the color of their skin! I'm not racist! YOU'RE racist for noticing race!

All of these arguments are deflections and self victimization to avoid actually understanding your place in society. If you so uncomfortable with acknowledging race that you lash out violently against TWOC when they attempt to discuss it, you are a racist. I resent any attempts to take this discussion of racism within trans and queer spaces as a smear campaign.

The way every single one of these tweets is proving the sign correct...

Princess Queen 3.0!

This whole lines feel so UNIQUELY good. I'd flip my lid for like TWELVE of dolls for her or a whole barbie movie type thing about her. Just so cute, all the minimal colors work and feel lavish and luxurious on her without being too much. It feels accurately refined but comfortable.

I have to draw her when I get the chance.

"It's just a drawing, calm down" mfs when it's not about justifying their attraction to loli hentai (it's okay, she's actually a 1253-year-old dragon who only looks 6!!!) and is instead about someone drawing a canonically light-skinned character black:

i have a lot of fucking….dragon age trollhunters au thoughts but im trying to get the mental rpg party in order 

kanjigar was duncan and now he’s dead lmao

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what people miss about these yaoi/yuri/het debates is that it isn't about dictating what people must ship to be considered progressive; it's about analyzing how wide societal trends and bigotries show up even in fandom spaces. YOU get to decide what to do with that information.

By pointing this stuff out, people hope to inspire self-reflection about how you engage with different dynamics. Asking things like, "Why can't you see the guy with a black woman?" or, "Why can't you connect with f/f ships?" or, "Why do you consider masc x fem f/f or m/m heteronormative?" It's a prompt, not an attack on your ships or character.

Imo, asking "is het, yaoi or yuri the most progressive?" is a silly endeavor. Misogyny and racism show up in all three dynamics. How many times have we seen 'big masculine barbaric darker character x pale waifish feminine classy character' in m/f, m/m and f/f ships? How common are het ships where the man doesn't even seem to like the woman? Or where the female love interest is treated like a reward for the man? How frequently do stories push aside female characters to highlight male ones, whether the main pairing is m/f, m/m or f/f?

As for the shippers, I've seen a lot of misogyny from m/f shippers AND m/m shippers over the years. Not as much from the f/f side, but it crops up there too. I've seen quite a bit of homophobia from m/f shippers (less from f/f and m/m)*. With racism in particular, I've observed it from ALL parties; whether towards the poc love interest 'in the way' of an m/m (or even m/f or f/f!) ship, or towards the poc within any pairing.

*I think there needs to be distinction between queer people +allies who like m/f vs the overwhelmingly straight audience who hold varying degrees of homophobia

It's highly situational and these racist and/or misogynistic and/or homophobic portrayals and behaviors deserve to be discussed openly without people immediately getting defensive or trying to "out-progressive" each other.

...and it's not lost on me that this current batch of discourse started regarding misogynoir of m/m shippers towards a black female love interest.

This is so fucking funny that I looped into supporting the hatred. It's just too good. As a hater, I can't help but respect the game in these reasonings. 😭

i have transformers autism (said the fork in the kitchen)

if hasbro's actually getting rid of applejack and rarity from the main cast for g6 i'm actually gonna kill myself and then go full steam on making gg20s real out of spite.