Reverse Witch

it's been at least half a year since that blog's seen any activity, surely the tumblr algorithm isn't still serving it up to randos as part of its "ragebait our audience" business model

accidentally logged into my transandrophobia archive blog and was surprised to find that not only does it still see engagement, it still gets people raging in the inbox??? hang it up dimaggio!!!!

hahaha bro is NOT leaving

it's so revealing of how shallow their intersex advocacy is. writing "amab intersex transfem" should get you jettisoned from any serious community, but in these unserious tumblr circles that's just standard rhetoric

pmds was the first thing that came to mind when i heard these terms and it's impossible to believe that someone genuinely invested in the intersex experience wouldn't have thought of it when coining these terms

a lotta people seemed to think my intention was to deradicalize the entire community, which isn't at all what i intended to do lol. there's no realistic endpoint with such a vaguely defined goal so you'd just wind up pushing boulders up hills

i think one of the most important parts of engaging with radicalizing communities is that you've gotta set your intention. if you just go in there with no idea how you intend to engage with these groups they're gonna eat your lunch

that plus, i suspect part of what kept that community going was the dopamine rush those freaks get from abusing trans women, and it looks like most of those trans women have just stopped engaging with them lol

which is to be expected, i mean last i checked the community was completely splitting at the seams. that and some of their major influencers had to leave for being *too* transmisogynistic.

it's was forever ago since i last checked on my tumblr transandrophobia weirdos, and maybe it's the nostalgia goggles posting, but that community ain't got vivre it once had

"my black friend said i'm not racist"

the fool's argument, a trope so tired and overused that all but confirms you're a racist

"my transfem gf said i'm not transmisogynistic"

stellar argument bro, post that shit!

and they're not like, experiences which go unrepresented within our current terminology. you could 100% address these experiences using words we already have. but they'd rather there be a word for every possible permutation of reality

sillest form of *comically large air quotes* activism has easily gotta be the people who just make up words for increasingly niche experiences

brunch is bipartisan

harris woulda pulled roosevelt numbers with this as her slogan

i'm kinda mystified by how the people engaged in the lib-con griftosphere can so seamlessly switch from one position to the other, with no need to address their previous values whatsoever

on August 25, 2019, he announced his presidential campaign in opposition to Trump. He dropped out of the race on February 7, 2020, after a poor showing in the Iowa caucus, and subsequently left the party.[1][2] He later endorsed and voted for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who won the election, and formally joined the Democratic Party in 2025.[

oh, he flunked out of the conservative griftosphere and decided to do a lincoln project

hold on, lol, why is joe walsh a lib now

of course, it's just as likely that their belief in misandry is based exclusively in a deep-seated hatred of women. in which case none of this matters and they're about to call you a cunt

so if for some godless reason you find yourself locked in heated debate with a misandry poster, it's much more productive to point out how the experience they call misandry is based in misogyny. it's entirely likely they've never even thought to consider this possibility.

all this is to say, telling a misandry truther that misandry isn't real will always lead you in circles, because the experience which misandry pretends to explain is real. it's the explanation that's fake.

instead of acknowledging the real source of their experience, misandry theory creates an imaginary system of oppression and sends its believers tilting at windmills. men who follow misandry will never improve their reality, because misandry has no idea how their reality works.

all those impossible standards placed on men to be strong and stoic and self-sufficient? those are placed there because misogyny defines women by an absence of those qualities.

the trick is that misandry *is* "real", but not because there are systems of oppression within our society designed to marginalize men. it's because "misandry" is the result of the actual system of oppression within our society, misogyny.

i don't disagree with the "no it isn't" argument whatsoever, but i do think it fails to articulate why misandry as a concept is both completely meaningless and actively harmful towards the group whose struggle it aims to address.

lotta misandry posting on the internet lately! it's honestly nothing new or surprising, same 'ol conversation loop of "misandry is real" vs "no it isn't"

1) it's a certifiable ghost town over there, more bots than people. nobody would notice.
2) linkedin's algorithm is so aggressively opposed to human connection that there's little chance your posts will be served to people opposed to your existence, if anyone at all
3) fnnuy

i modestly propose that we all move to linkedin

YESSSS IT'S RIDICULOUS! the bsky algorithm straight up refuses to be trained on women and fat bodies, it's gotta be one of the most conservative algorithms i've played with

i like how this thread had to shave off all of the context to get to the reality where the users are being the unreasonable ones.