Drew up this crazy dude for something coming up in a few months! I can share the art but y’all have to wait and see what it’s going to be for! I’m mean to post this so early but it’s been so long since I’ve done a finished illustration and love how this coocoo bird raptor came out. Stick with me and see what’s planned! #missmonster #missmonstermel #raptor #zoomies https://www.instagram.com/p/CRfZ3FAB9Cn/?utm_medium=tumblr
we should take the “does it spark joy?” question to social media. go through your facebook, remove friends that do not spark joy, go through instagram and unfollow people and pages that do not spark joy. don’t surround yourself with things that don’t make you happy.
this is still so fucking funny, I can’t get over this. never.
My favorite part was how walmart did that thing where they get a bunch of people to work a long part time shift, but just short enough to not be full time, thinking they could avoid giving employees healthcare. It turns out you can’t do that in Germany, so they had to give healthcare to way more employees than if they had just hired people to full time positions.
It really is pretty dramatic how almost every article about how trans people are placing unreasonable demands on society focuses primarily on transfeminine people and almost every article about how trans people are poor delusional victims of the medical-industrial complex focuses primarily on transmasculine people.
This point felt less obvious back when there wasn’t a book called The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.
a what now?
I … did not realize that was actually real.
It sure is. When you search transgender on Amazon it is the first result! I’ve actually been going through the horror of annotating and reviewing it (worry not, I pirated it. I would rather die then give Abigail shier money). It’s won several rewards and is one of the best selling books in the western world. It is the book that popularized “ROGD” (Rapid Onset Gender Dyphoria) a term used to prevent trans masculine people and trans men from receiving trans and medical care and is often used to back anti-transition laws in both the united states and the United Kingdom (and likley many other places).
Wait, y’all are only finding out about this book now? It’s been like a year sjjdnd
Yeah, that fucking thing is like the TERF Bible. It’s the same thing I was talking about in my other post just now. The main title is ‘Irreversible Damage,’ and it promotes the idea that the medical-industrial complex is preying upon girls and young women (they infantilize teenage girls and young adult women a LOT in this book btw), especially neurodiverse girls/young women, and that transmascs cannot be trusted to make our own medical decisions and should be “protected from ourselves.” The concept of ROGD is specifically applied here to transmasc teenagers & college-age young women. The TERFs are REAL mad that they can’t control their sons/children in college, because those adults can make their own choices now.
This is actually a really good bit of coverage of it (if only part 1 of 2, I don’t think part 2 is up yet) from a scientifically critical, trans-affirming perspective, if you’d like to know what the TERFs are aiming at transmascs these days without actually having to like
read that shit
because it’s fucking horrible.
And like, I absolutely recommend reading that article, because this shit permeates the discussion about trans ppl, especially in the UK and on Twitter.
That Book was recently (like, this past week) included in an American Bookseller’s Association promotional ‘white box’ sent to independent booksellers in the US, and trans ppl and our allies got understandably really pissed that a book of unscientific, nasty-ass anti-transmasc propaganda that’s been out for a year is like… in a promo box. So they took the ABA to task for it.
The ABA put out an apology (full of passive language, like these things just happened rather than that someone did these things, which is pretty fucking rich for a bookseller’s association, like they thought that the kind of extremely literate people who run independent bookstores wouldn’t notice) and so like… the book is receiving renewed attention from the same sort of First Amendment transphobes who love to screech about censorship when their favorite bits of propaganda get pushback. You’ll probably see a lot more of the ideas this book pushes in the near future.
So, like, yeah. It exists, and people are talking about it a lot, so knowing what kind of garbage is in it and what we’re up against?
Unfortunately necessary, IMO.
Also, I need to underline that this book specifically also attacks transmasculine non-binary people, not just trans men. They don’t really see any difference between us.
I believe my local pride organisers and one of our libraries are currently having a stand off about this book. Or else one very, very similar.
I’d like to have a conversation with the person who ordered it.
Well good on the people pushing back on it, for sure.
