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A Very Young Girl/Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

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HP - Bigender Bisexual Bitch Switch 19 yo white Alaskan etc etc. Any pronouns allowed, It/It's preferred. Saphfag. Goodnight kisses welcome

Hey everyone, it's me, HP, otherwise known as unlicensed-un-proffesional, unoisveimved-un-proffesional, or unoisveimved-un-medicated. I also ran marxist-amy-rose (previously known as soniccommunistforces), heavytf2lovesandvich, soldiertf2stealsyourweed, and i-am-snark. My account was terminated a few weeks ago but thankfully I had this backup already. Until I get my main account back, or in case I never do, this is the account I'll be using. I'll be tagging mutuals now to get kinda set back up here.

i don't think the answer to the current discourse wrt femboys et al. is to start saying that even eggs are women (which is a true statement but not particularly applicable here imho) but that 1. not every transmisogynized person wants to be referred to as a woman and that should be respected and 2. not every person with an identity you don't like is just an Egg Waiting To Become A Real Woman sometimes they just identify differently than you do.

I don't think "just give them time and they'll become real women you respect!" is just a good response to the fact that fundamentally people are being extremely vitriolic to other transmisogynized people by virtue of them not "holding the party line" by like. identifying as women regardless of if that's what those transmisogynized people want.

With all due respect, although I very much agree with your individual points, I don't believe it's appropriate to apply them to the issue of the term femboy. Of course there is a huge variety of transfeminine expression, and of course our respect for various TMA trans people should not be contingent on them becoming "real" women someday.

The issue with the term "femboy," however, is a very different matter. Its roots are objectively of a porn category directed at a TME (mostly cis male) audience depicting transfeminized sex objects—recognizably transfem but still fundamentally regarded as their AGAB. It is directly descended from terms like "shemale" and "trap." Now, some TMA people may nevertheless find it enticing. Before I transitioned and back before I had my present understanding of the term, there was something compelling in femboys' transfemininity to me, and I'm not going to innately hold it against other TMA people who do or did feel similarly. However, that does not mean that we can exempt ourselves from the history of that term. Can transfems reclaim it? Arguably, sure, but that must be a proper act of reclamation. TME people should not be touching the word with a 10-foot pole. It is not theirs to reclaim.

Many transfems have talked at length about how they've been victimized by the word "femboy," and it is not a secret that femboys, for whatever pushback they receive, are generally treated significantly better than trans women. If there is to be a discussion around the reclamation of the word "femboy," it must acknowledge the real history and baggage of the term. It must also be led only by TMA people. I'm not saying it can never be reclaimed, nor am I saying that there is a specific way in which transfems must present in order to be worthy of respect. But we must be critical of the language we use, or else we risk veering into though-terminating "let people enjoy things" territory.

is it recreating the egg prime directive to say that you shouldn't actively misgender nonbinary transfems now?

i think you as a tme person should not be inserting yourself into this conversation in the first place. I am a nonbinary transfem. do not talk down to me as an outsider here.

I don't want to take part in a transfeminism where I'm told to not speak up for transfems that are being en masse misgendered and spoken down to.

YOU ARE THE ONE TALKING DOWN TO A NONBINARY TRANSFEM RIGHT NOW! transfeminism is not about or for you!!!!

It's not just transfems who deny themselves their womanhood but also deny themselves their transness. I'm bigender but that doesn't make me half trans half cis, my transness and transfemininity isn't any less because I am also man and I don't need transfeminism any less. A lot of the problem with specifically femboys is often denying the fact that they are trans even if they're not specifically women, the presence of femboys often being used to paint over and cover up not just trans women but transfemmes in general. By the nature of society cis and trans is a strict binary like white and non-white where any deviation from your birth sex does in fact make you trans but femboys are pushed and encouraged to cling to their birth sex with "Still a guy tho X3" transmisogynistic humor and denying their association with transfemininity to retain cis privilege. Denying themselves their womanhood is secondary to first denying themselves their transness.

"steampunk" girl who tries to get you to use her marvelous cock sucking contraption but its obvious just a big cardboard box with drawings of gears all over it and a hole cut in and she quicky runs inside it

This isn't going to become some anomalous method of arresting people. They will be shocking people like this as a matter of course.

Luckily thick clothing will insulate you from the shock.

They will 100% use this to torture people they're trying to arrest, and then when people struggle in response to the pain they will use that automatic human response as an excuse to execute them in the streets. absolutely insane to even consider giving this to any cop, let alone ICE!

i know hes trying to make fun of the city slickers here but the way this is written really makes it sound like he is Not At All having fun with his country work and he wants to be at party

Me carrying my family's three ten gallon sewage buckets at night in the winter in three feet of snow a hundred yards to the ten foot deep outhouse hole I dug and built that summer that no one wants to use now because there's no light out it's windy and forty below and there's a hundred yards of three feet of snow between our house and the outhouse when I was 14 instead of being out partying.

It's actually kind of ridiculous how trans women have been pushed out of transmisogyny, like the mythical flawlessly passing perfectly feminine femboy who has to tell the audience stand in flirting with him "Actually I'm a guy" is just the same transmisogynistic joke since the fucking nineties of someone flirting with a woman and then suddenly noticing they're trans except now in a progressive turn of events, there are no more trans women! To prevent transphobia we have erased trans women while keeping the exact same jokes used against them for decades! We hope to make a much more sensitive and respectful place without trans women for everyone!

This image suddenly doesn't feel like it aged so well:

You said this better than I did.

Shen coukd save this. All the comic would need is to have a bit near the end where the "femboy" learns about trans women and has that "oh..." moment so many of us had. Like she literally didn't know trans women existed and transition was an option (not far fetched. That was literally me. I didn't learn about trans women until I was 25.) Then she asserts that she is a woman. The twerf would need to also have a reconing where she realizes how evil her ideology is.

Like, Shen could do that and it would save this whole horrible thing. But will Shen do it? I don't have a lotta hope...

Yeah I haven’t been getting great vibes from the recent updates in this saga but I’ll try and give the benefit of the doubt and see how it ends :/

I'm going to be so honest everyone this post was before I actually read that. Like zero inspiration it's just that's how common it is you know?