Post #2504115

@hosford42@techhub.social @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro Obviously people can't fear what they cannot see, so visual stereotypes do matter, but looking visibly trans is not the only thing evoking patriarchy's ire. At the end of the day, patriarchy is a system of control and anyone who doesn't perfectly fulfill the role it decided upon is marginalized (or subalternized to use the technical philosophy term), so if you do maleness your own way – even if it's very similar to what you're supposed to do – then you're a target and share a struggle with us. (This is of course not to say that there isn't a very real material difference between people who seem conforming (as is apparently the case for you), people who could conform if they chose to (like me), and people who even if their life depended on it (as it often does…) cannot conform (like trans and non-binary people with very strong gender identities), but we're still on the same side of the battle.)