#their maleness allows them to attempt to approach patriarchy in a way black women areny allowed to

[stlangels]

Oh ok wait i think i finally got it ok

#grahambles #this is about like 'transandrophobia' as a useful term #and also how like gender and the patriarchy work. #like sometimes i forget how complicated some of the nitry gritty ideas are #but i did a few days of thinking and i think i have a conception of it #not actually posting a take. #at least unless its super polished #but like basically. yes the transphobia transmen and transwomen face is different #however trans men arent opressed for being men #maybe a better way of putting it is tbat trans men are opressed for being trans men #or that the way trans men experience transphobia is tied to the patriarchy (because the gender binary and patriarchy are inherently linked) #but trans men are oppressed in the way that patriarchy sees us as 'not man enough' #so we arent oppressed for our maleness but for our transness and our failure to adequately embody patriarchal masculinity or femininity #idk if im wording this well #basically its like how the racism black men experience is colored by the fact that they are men but they aren't oppressed for being men #their maleness allows them to attempt to approach patriarchy in a way black women areny allowed to #in a similar way trans men experience the social pressure all men experiemce to fit the idealized patriarchal man #and that ideal man is a man who has and enacts power over women #even if the world beyond doesn’t accept a trans man or it sees him as a woman he will still be influenced by that social pressure #trans men don't want to be excluded from manhood so we may attempt to approach power seeing it as masculine #of vourse we will still be excluded from holding this power because we will be excluded from manhood #however we can still access this power a little. #idk if this makes any sense #and i do think trans men can access patriarchal power sometimes but not in tge way cis men can #this is rambly as hell thats why its staying in the tags #these are half formed thoughts