#i keep seeing people go off the deep end with 'trans men arent oppressed! trans men face no discrimination because they have male privilege

[fleapit]

can we pleasee please please stop fucking fearmongering and blaming trans men for the predstrogen situation. please god. posts about "trans men teaming up with terfs to get trans women banned!" with zero sources all over my dash. blaming "transandrophobia truthers" for all the transmisogyny. have you all lost your fucking minds?? what the fuck happened to t4t??? what the fuck happened to trans solidarity??? why is "transfem separatism" even a subject worth entertaining????

anyone who says other trans people are the enemy is a fucking fed. jesus christ

#my blood is fucking boiling right now and my heart is breaking #i keep seeing people go off the deep end with 'trans men arent oppressed! trans men face no discrimination because they have male privilege #its the fucking 2010 “trans men are betraying their female gender!” shit all over again! #transandrophobia #fleapit's patented rants #sorry im just. so sick of it. #saw it from a fucking FORCE-MASC BLOG like are you serious???

[juniperrrrrrr]

I keep seeing people brush off legitimate criticism of TLOU2 by claiming that they’re homophobic, transphobic, fanboys, or not smart enough to read into the “deep” narrative, so here are my grievances as a lesbian trans woman:

First, I don’t give a shit about the major character death. I’m not gonna throw a fit about it because I get that games like this like to use character death as a plot device, so we’re going to set that aside.

My primary issue lies in a couple of things. First and foremost is the games treatment of its (admittedly large compared to most games) lgbt cast. The trans character is misgendered and violently and brutally beaten up (for reasons implied to be tied to the fact that they’re trans) and the lesbian protagonist ends the game broken sad and alone.

“Oh but that’s part of the genre! Dystopia and violence were hallmarks of the first game!” While it might be true that cishet people get to play these games and immerse themselves in another world, one where they have to fight to survive and violence is commonplace, these horrible things are a part of everyday life for a massive number of lgbt+ all over the world, even in the most “developed” of countries. This isn’t a violent fantasy, it’s a horrifying and upsetting reality.

Now, this wouldn’t be a problem if the genre was saturated with trans characters who ARENT misgendered and beaten, lesbians and gay characters who don’t have their relationships torn apart, or other lgbt folks besides the limited number presented on the main cast. But this ISNT the case. Very very few Queer characters get a happy ending, especially in dystopia, or ANY OTHER GENRE.

What the last of us part two is, as I see it, is an opportunity for cishet folks, usually men, to wear the mask of an oppressed group for a few hours and take out a “violence is bad moral”, and then return to their everyday lives. For queer people, there is no escape from that violence, it is no game, and I find it in incredibly poor taste that the game was written the way that it was. No game that fails to comprehend the bare basics of reality for queer people will ever be revolutionary, deep, or even good. It just ends up as another pile of battered, broken bodies.

#tlou2 #the last of us part two