Post #2900370

2026-05-15 16:15 UTC

@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life when the thread about this was popping off the other day and I was too mentally fatigued to form decent sentences, this was exactly one of the things I wanted to bring up about why we need to talk about socialization not as some property of a person but as processes of power flowing through relations, and why we should instead consider what question a person is really talking about when they bring up “male socialization” of trans women. Because like you said, to grow up being perceived as a Black boy or man is a very very different experience than growing up as a white boy or man, and there is a HUGE assumption there about what male socialization means as being about hegemonic masculinity.

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@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life 2026-05-15 16:29

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw to be clear, I didn’t see a thread about this that I remember, so there might be some embedded context of which I was unaware. I was actually talking about IRL events. But yes, that’s what I was getting at. It is a non-equatable experience that favors both whiteness and patriarchy.

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@secretsloth@mastodon.art 2026-05-19 06:08

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw @FinalGirl@blackqueer.life it sometimes breaks my heart to see certain contexts of this, because I see some interpretations of what (I assume are newly) trans women think that cis women have, and they think they don't have it due to being trans, when the reality is that many women don't have it simply because that's an idealized version of womanhood that's only really happening on TV? Or at least, it isn't something I ever experienced in my life. I'm autistic/NB, so maybe it's just me?

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