A reminder that this blog supports Asexual Awareness Week, and also trans rights under the Trump administration. Both are important, and aces don’t deserve to have our pride diminished for the (phony) sake of us trans people.
fucking livid at seeing all the faux outrage ab how the trump admin against trans humanity falls in line with this year’s asexual awareness week, this week is IMPORTANT to me, a trans ace, and someone like me was the main target of the current admin long before u white cucks even refreshed ur politix twitter feed
I think the reason that so many young people are becoming truscum is because of the way truscum present themselves online. They love to make a point of talking about how “immature” and “cringey” tucutes are. Being immature and cringey is pretty much any teenager’s worst nightmare. They’re effectively manipulating impressionable young people into taking their side by subtly bullying them into thinking that being open-minded and accepting of other is naïve. By presenting themselves as being more mature and serious, they’re convincing young people who are striving to grow up and be taken seriously to take their side.
So, for any of my younger followers (or anybody in general):
Being open-minded is not immature. It’s healthy.
Accepting other people for who they are regardless of whether or not you understand them is an important life skill!
Gatekeeping gets us nowhere. There’s no point to excluding people.
It’s important for us to stick together as a community, not to nitpick over who is and isn’t valid!
Being bitter all the time doesn’t make you mature. It has a really bad effect on you and the people around you.
Picking on other people for their gender or sexuality doesn’t make you cool or funny.
Even if you think somebody’s labels are “weird”, ignore them and try to respect it.
I know this is kindergarten stuff, but basically, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
Straight people think that either you know you’re gay from childhood or something big happens one day and you Realize (and it is like that to some of course) but lbr for many it goes like
I’m straight
No I’m bi
Wait am I biromantic ace?
No I’m definitely bi
…I may not be bi
Am I straight after all? Am I ace??
Maybe I’m demi??? Who knows
I might also be aroace…
Fuck it I’m pretty sure I’m queer
or whatever
LMAOOOOOO AND Y’ALL THINK THIS IS A GOOD AND REGULAR THING???
the only reason you guys have this kind of experiences is because of mogai ideologies and you being on tumblr too young. this kind of shit NEVER existed beforehand and all it looks like from here is you all getting confused and overcomplicating your sexuality on the faults of mogai hell!
Imagine how many young people would understand what they actually are if all of these mogai genders didn’t exist.
If the ‘pansexual’ label didn’t exist nor did the weird pressure that tucutes give to want you to not be ONLY attracted to one gender, I would have figured out I was gay a lot earlier than I actually figured it out.
So basically OP is a straight person who experiences attraction uniquely and has some trouble with relationships? But guess what, we literally all have some level of difficulty with relationships and unique experiences. You’re not a demiromantic-heterosexual, you’re just straight, chill.
wow exclusionists sure hate questioning people
For the record, all of those nonsense additions above where people are crapping on questioning people are, in fact, completely wrong.
Not only do we all live in societies that aren’t adequately accepting of those of us who are in the LGBTQ+ community, the process of coming out to yourself and realizing that your gender or sexuality aren’t as you were told is complex and challenging to deal with. It can be fraught with pain and discomfort in the best of circumstances and it’s always challenging.
But it’s nothing to be afraid of and it’s certainly nothing you should ever feel ashamed for. A lot of bi people think that they’re gay at first. A lot of gay people think that they’re bi at first. As you grow and learn to know yourself you might change the way you look at who you are and that’s totally fine.
Even if we had a truly positive environment everywhere, we’d still have questioning people. We’ve always had questioning people. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with questioning and certainly nothing wrong with realizing that you have one of these genders or sexualities that these bigots say don’t actually exist.
Contrary to the kind of nightmare framework that people like @lovbutch, @transmedtwink, and @tea-and-biscourse envision, figuring yourself out is a healthy and normal process. Don’t listen to them, they’re just afraid that if someone else identifies differently from them then it somehow devalues their identity or makes them re-evaluate themselves and think about the pain they went through when they first came out to themselves.
Fuck that, fuck them, keep listening to your own heart. There’s nothing wrong with being demiromantic, pansexual, or non-binary, and a bunch of conservatives in the LGBTQ+ community can’t change that.
fun fact: i went through exactly this (well not the exact same order but y’know) way before i was super active on tumblr. i didn’t know what mogai was until pretty recently.
coming here and talking to other people like me was what helped me realize that i wasn’t alone. that it was okay to explore my identity. that i wasn’t a bad person for having thought i was a lesbian or ace or bi or pan or any of the other labels i went through.
the idea that “this kind of shit never existed beforehand” is complete nonsense and the amount of bile in the first three reblogs is sickening. grow up and stop pretending that your experiences define everyone else’s.
I love how bisexuality is now a mogai label and basically straight. Fuck these people. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with questioning and you are no less queer for not knowing your identity right off the bat. I went back and forth between straight and closeted bi for years and hated myself for it, wanna call me a dirty mogai and kick me out too? Even if you don’t consider ace or demi to be lgbtq identities that doesn’t mean you should be disrespectful and exclusive towards people who question if they are those things. Questioning people should be welcomed no matter what, and they will always be welcomed by me.
for our that-kind-of love and our that-kind-of selves.
and we talked too, we talked like we’d never shut up
until our love and ourselves were nothing but.
we aren’t that, we’re just like you!
a victory until you started saying that too –
sure, “too”. as if it wasn’t always you saying it.
yes, just when our work seemed to be nearing its end,
all of your thats came back in the guise of a friend.
we tried to accept you, because it’s what we do,
but you turned our hard work into alphabet soup;
we let you beside us, but you drew a line
using five letters
“ q u e e r ”
where four was just fine.
“ l g b t ”
here i sit
broken hearted
tried to poop
merely farted
i saw someone call this deep when it’s a one foot kiddie pool with dead bugs in it and warm water.
wait, but without the bugs, where dost one get the cr0nch
I love how it tries to trick you into thinking it’s meaningful with the deliberate spacing and the vague references, and then you’re like ‘wait, this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read in my life’.
It’s genuinely so stupid I think I’d have to write an honest to god essay to untangle every bit of bullshit, from the pretense that queer is somehow opposed to the LGBTQ+ community, that ‘four letters is just fine’, the deliberate ignorance of the fact that most of our rights and fights were under the queer banner, the condescending as fuck ‘we let you beside us’ shit as if LGBTQ+ people being LGBTQ+ together was some act of grand benevolence on the part of exclusionary fuckwits instead of IN SPITE of people like the OP, and pretty near explicitly calling queer people straight oppressors and invaders.
There’s a lot to unpack here but I sure ain’t gonna be the one to open Pandora’s suitcase.
Also it’s just shitty, uninspired poetry that relies on spacing tricks and the like to try evoke any sense of pathos. Mediocre.
tbh if you think that cis lesbians are super highly scrutinized for transmisogyny and there’s just this horrid epidemic of cis lesbians being unreasonably called terfs i think the correct way for you to address this issue is to log off. some popular cis lesbian blogger you like a lot getting called out for being awful to trans women on tumblr is literally not remotely a representation of what actually happens in real life and you’re edging hard on “conspiracy theorist” territory if you think cis lesbians are just being constantly and systematically attacked for suspected transmisogyny in real life by evil all-powerful trans activists or something… if you logged off you’d probably realize tumblr social dynamics do not extend to the real world and most transmisogyny from cis lesbians, even in its most blatant forms, goes by with nobody giving a shit because trans women are a small and powerless group of the population and few people even care about us.
So people have probably seen that the twitter for Cyberpunk 2077 just made a transphobic joke, so I just wanted to share some thoughts on why it’s becoming more and more likely that this game could well be shit.
Here’s the thing. It is becoming increasingly clear that CD Projekt Red are greatly mishandling major themes surrounding Cyberpunk as a genre such as transhumanism/prostheses and class dynamics in order to glorify capitalist, classist, ableist, and transphobic ideals of the status quo, rather than creating a compelling narrative on the negative aspects of such a society.
Essentially what I mean is that Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk are generally heavily critical of modern social, economical, and political trends as well as the subversion of technological and social advancements for exploitation in perpetuation of said trends.
It’s becoming clear that the creators of Cyberpunk 2077 are potentially ignoring those complex themes for a more aesthetic and profitable approach that only glorifies the negative aspects of modern society to draw in a reactionary audience entranced by the status quo. GTA in the future if you will.
With unimaginative and tasteless takes rooted in transphobia and ableism such as ‘prosthetics and cybernetics make us impure and inhuman,’ and the positive lighting shone on classism, economic divide, poverty, and crime shown in the most recent trailer, Cyberpunk 2077 moves further and further away from being a true take on the Cyberpunk genre.
I find it quite likely too that we will see further problematic ideals come to light as development and marketing progresses, likely with sexist and anti-sex worker tropes if interviews with the devs on certain events in game are anything to go by.
A shame really, as the first teaser from many years ago seemed to get it all right in contrast, presenting what appeared to be such a theme on the subversion of progress for conservative gain in enforcing status quo, with influences seemingly derived from classics of the genre like Ghost in The Shell or Blade Runner.
whitemanning critical 