yknow what pisses me da fuck off. how gay men get to be like teehee im too gay to care about women but lesbians are still expected to center men to the extent that jokes about Characters Who Are Lesbian Icons are always men. “lesbian and her boy blorbo” are the most popular jokes about lesbians on this website. “x man is a he/him lesbian” headcanons outnumber actual content about lesbian characters 10:1 even in series with well-written female characters. but sure youre Too Gay to think about a Yucky Female for ten seconds and you HAVE to broadcast this fact in the notes of posts abt fandom misogyny
like im not immune to Being A Lesbian Obsessed With Some Guy but like isnt it unfair that men are considered the default and universally appealing + relatable regardless of sexual interest but if you dont want to fuck women youre suddenly free from ever having to think or care about them in any context
Who do you think is making the posts about lesbians loving male characters and headcanoning canonically male characters as he/him lesbians?
Always weird to see a very confident post declaring that [x] is a homophobic/transphobic/ablest caricature with no basis in reality when you just…actually know multiple people like that.
This gets tricky around characterizations that are homophobic/transphobic/ableist caricatures.
The relatively innocuous: I think we can agree that “people who go through gender transition are mentally ill, sexually motivated crossdressers” is an inaccurate and fairly harmful stereotype of trans people. Mentally ill, sexually motivated crossdressers who gender transition are based (on those merits), and it’s cool when trans people have those traits.
The not so innocuous: I think we can agree “trans people are sexual predators” is an inaccurate and harmful stereotype of trans people. There are trans people who are sexual predators. It’s unfortunate, because it’s unfortunate that anyone is a sexual predator.
While it’s never possible to get full consensus on any portrayal, it is possible to portray trans mentally ill sexually motivated crossdressers and trans sexual predators without transphobic intent and in ways that (willing-to-think-about-it) trans audiences will endorse as nuanced, compelling, relevant, and authentic. It’s also possible to portray these in ways that trans audiences will identify as hateful and transphobically propagandistic.
Barring the logically implausible, I think most bigoted portrayals accurately represent someone - people, including marginalized people, are cruel, venal, ignorant, and otherwise vicious at such rates and in such diverse combinations that it’s difficult to come up with a calumny that applies to literally no member of a given marginalized group; people also have such various experiences that it can be difficult to dismiss a portrayal as misunderstanding the lives and practices of members of a group. I don’t think that makes “this is an offensive caricature with no basis in reality” an unreasonable response to things that are very rare, that are misconceptions for the larger group, or that are portrayed in a way that makes false causal links between group membership and [x], especially when addressing portrayals that are overtly bigoted.
Someone did a manual count of housing units in the GTA 5 map and found that Los Santos only had room for like 25k people to live despite being built up to provide jobs for hundreds of thousands, which seems like a major design flaw until you realize that this is accurate to California in real life
ALT
This is a tempting parallel to draw, but it doesn’t tell a whole or accurate story.
The idea of autogynephilia isn’t just the idea that lesbian trans women transition because they think lesbianism is sexy so they want to be lesbians for sex reasons.
Autogynephilia is part of a larger sexological theory, dreamed up by a specific individual named Ray Blanchard, that there are two types of trans woman: the “homosexual transsexual”, who is male-attracted, and the “non-homosexual transsexual”, who exhibits autogynephilia - a sexual fetish for being a woman that’s also a romantic orientation toward oneself-as-a-woman that’s also a type of fantasy about female embodiment or crossdressing or doing traditionally feminine activities like having sex with men.
The theory of autogynephilia comes loaded with a bunch of other particular and nonsensical ideas, including but not limited to the idea of the “erotic target location error” and “erotic target identity inversion”, the idea that all erotic crossdressing fantasies are fantasies of being the gender one dresses as, and the idea that bisexuality in trans women is attributable to “meta-attraction” in which the women are not actually attracted to men but only to the sense of femininity that sex with men can grant them.
Blanchard and his associates J. Michael Bailey and Anne Lawrence have been responsible for propagating this concept of autogynephilia across numerous academic journals articles and multiple books over the past 34 years, including Lambda Award nominee The Man Who Would Be Queen.
The idea of gay trans men transitioning because they like BL
mostly manifests as the idea that young people who were assigned female at birth are experiencing a form of social contagion or susceptibility to media influence rather than a deep-set paraphilia (the way autogynephilia has traditionally been theorized),
has mostly emerged in a vernacular way inside of trans communities and as an explanation for offspring’s transgenderism by transphobic parents, rather than as a formal sexological concept (Blanchard didn’t pick up the torch on “autohomoeroticism” until something like 2018, well after trans people had been commenting on the idea for years), and
has not had the reach or impact the theory of autogynephilia has had.
It’s not the worst comparison in the world, but assuming 1:1 mirroring between the situation with autogynephilia and the situation with gay-tboys-are-just-doing-it-because-they-read-too-much-yaoi would produce a lot of incorrect assumptions about whichever the thinker is less familiar with.
following new findings, the vatican debates whether or not ötsi the ice man counts as “the first catholic.”
in his final moments, modern brain scans reveal that ötsi’s subconscious mind conjured an image of pope celestine v, then pietro angelerio, leading him to mutter what seems to have been a latin rite. by all signs, this was merely a coincidence brought on by the creaking scaffolds of ötsi’s hypoxic deathdreams, but it may well have counted, according to a loud man outside of our studio.
cardinals and contemporary imageboard scholars are divided, with some attesting that this could not have been holy because an ice devil may have seeded the vision. the pope’s stance remains unclear.
upon further examination, the pope’s necromancers have discovered that ötsi accepted the concilium quinisextum.
although he might have fallen comfortably into the byzantine tradition, it is the vatican’s stance that the ice man’s prophetic visions ought to have included a glimpse of the pio-benedictine code, along with any future codes that have yet to pass, if he were truly devoted to his catholic identity.
