“Oscar gets more unsolicited comments about how cute he is, more uninvited pinches on the cheek and ruffles of the hair and demands for affection from strangers, than anyone else I know. I made a point, from when he was very young, of teaching him to express his discomfort: he says ‘I want some space’; he says ‘I feel shy’; he says ‘I don’t want you to touch me’; he says ‘I don’t like that, please stop.’ These statements from him are almost always laughed at, and then ignored, until I step in on his behalf.”
Kids no matter how small are fully conscious people who can have a strong sense of being patronized and disrespected. I remember being barely two and furious at how adults would talk about me like I couldn’t understand or wasn’t listening, then talk to me like they might talk to an animal.
I never touch ppl’s kids without their consent yikes I didn’t know this was a thing
*republicans flip gender switch on and off* welcome to hell! welcome to hell!
Hey, do y’all remember that time we (trans women) told y’all that stubbornly using gender neutral language to refer to trans women is an act of misgendering and transmisogyny in and of itself and y’all said we didn’t know what we were talking about?
Reminder that degendering trans women is transmisogyny.
I saw this post going around earlier and a whole group of people were reblogging it with “they played themselves” and shit like that.
Non trans women really need to take a look at how trans women are constantly dehumanized, and consider if a large group of people refusing to gender a trans woman out of bigotry is really a good thing.
Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληίαδες· μέσαι δὲ
νύκτες, παρὰ δ᾽ ἔρχετ᾽ ὤρα·
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.
–
The moon has sunk
and the Pleiades; it is
midnight, and time moves on,
but I lie down alone…
Sappho (Cox 48)
my name is Saf, and wen its nite, and all the stars are out of site, and wen the Moon is counting shep – i lie alone. i do not slep.
alder-knight 