AcidSmiley

It just takes a couple months until the people who have always had a real, deep and genuine care about fairness in women's croquet notice the checks notes literal world championship in women's croquet.

That's a bit account, right?

I’m just suggesting that, if exactly this text had been posted alongside the video, I and possibly others would have wanted to watch it.

Absolutely. That goes for most of the vids posted on here, i wouldn't have watched it either if i wasn't familiar with the guy's work.

It's quite the opposite of Andrew Tate. It's a discussion of how masculinity "breaks men so they can break others", done by a gay leftist trans man with a sociology background. So not only does he know what it's like to move from being treated as a girl to being treated as a boy and the emotional toll it takes, he also brings the gender euphoria typical for us trans folks to the table, and that POV turns out to be a pretty powerful analytic perspective. He takes masculinity apart from a feminist vantage point, there's a lot of bell hooks in the vid, but while he understands the ins and outs of toxic masculinity he also genuinely loves being a dude, and that leads to the kind of heartfelt and informed discussion about masculinity you're describing.

inside you are two wolves

Robert "Common" L. Dabney

with these grifters i always wonder how much of that is organic engagement and how many are just bots paid for by whatever right wing think tank came up with the idea that fake nazbols are the best way to wreck the left

Really? I've regularly seen English translations on here where he's called that.

It will never stop being weird to me that you anglos just translate his first name to Frederick / Fred instead of going with Friedrich / Fritz, it's as if i was calling Biden and Stalin "Jupp" because that's the traditional short form for Joseph in the Rhineland.

Wait i've actually called Stalin Jupp in the past nvm

Edit: RIP my inbox lol

these replies are actually really informative

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Well there's closeted trans people for whom stating their pronouns either means misgendering themselves or doing a forced outing and both of these are horrible choices, so there's that. That's a concern i struggle with in that regard and that i still need a good solution for. That's a legitimate case of people having reservations about mandatorily stating your pronouns. That's also the only case i can think of that i think is a valid concern.

When we're instead talking transmeds who object to pronoun circles bc they want to lord over other trans people how cislike they are and how much better they pass, i honestly dgaf. I know that type and they're just toxic shits you can't build a community with bc they'll almost immediately go out of their way to actively harm community members that rub them the wrong way - be it because they do not fit their narrow view of cis-sanctioned transness, or that they perceive as threatening and as rivals because they believe them to be prettier than themselves or because they're too openly queer or w/e. I have friends who carry trauma from interacting with that kind of person that means they need my emotional support every time we go to a community meetup together and that has left them with lasting aggravation of their dysphoria. Transmedicalism is a threat to trans communities, i've seen way too often how much damage it causes. Not only that, they will always place demands by dominant society above queer liberation when there's even the tiniest conflict between the two. When i can't work with these people without hurting my friends, when they are useless in achieving political goals because they constantly and reliably fold to transphobes, i view it as a feature when they find more NB-inclusive social routines alienating.