not reblogging and getting in a tumblr bicker with a total stranger about how lesbians should be able to multitask loving women and hating men but from one queer woman to others I am begging you all to prioritize making the world 3% less shitty to trans men/transmasculine people and drop the blanket misandry and if your first reaction is “well no I don’t mean them they don’t count” then ask yourself why you’re putting trans men in a different category that isn’t just “men”
if you want to live in a world where nontoxic masculinity exists you are actually going to have to make a fucking effort to let it exist and not force people to choose between pursuing gender euphoria through masculinity and losing any support from parts of the queer community that might have carried them through to that point because of some imaginary line where queer femmes perceive you as masculine enough/man enough to loathe
You
will not pull a mother figure or an amazing first cousin or a roomful
of lifelong girlfriends out of thin air. Most people don’t have these
things, actually. We have to fucking make it work instead.
The
more you try — without skyrocketing expectations, without circular
thoughts that say YOU ARE A FRIENDLESS FREAK — the easier it’ll be. The
more you do it, the happier you’ll be, even if no lifelong friends
emerge immediately. You should do it now in order to prepare you for
doing it 20 years from now, because you’ll ALWAYS have to do it. You
don’t just get the big group of buddies and then sleepwalk through the
rest of your life. Life isn’t like that.
hannibal posters & art (again): 1. andrew wyeth, young buck, (1945), 2. annibale carracci, the butcher’s shop, (1580s), 3. rembrandt, the anatomy lesson of dr. nicolaes tulp, (1632), 4. richard bosman, knife 1, (2019)