It pisses me off so much when people post horribly transphobic political comics with captions like "haha yeah we're badasses like that ;)"
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I get it. You want to reclaim something that was supposed to hurt you. But when I see the same chiseled-jawline, dyed hair, half-shaved caricature of a trans woman FIVE TIMES on my timeline with minor variations of the same Girl Power :) caption I literally want to cry
@RowanBerry this is good thing to remember and something I had never considered before. Thanks for letting me know.
@tuturto It's not something I see on here all that often, don't worry. Basically just put it behind a cw and everything's fine ^^
I don't know if other people feel this way, but I spend a really long time building myself up to feel even the slightest bit confident. It takes multiple people telling me that I'm pretty simultaneously for me to believe it.
So when I see that caricature, it breaks all of that down. And when I see it five times, it sets up shop in my brain for the next few weeks. Ya have to be more careful about reclaiming things that are specifically designed to make other people hurt, y'know?