Trans men are men.
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As a caucasian hetero male, i really wish to be liberated from many things, like:
Patriarchal blindness - History Amnesia - Ignorance of objective statistics - Brainwashing fables of Alpha-Beta hierarchies - The very concept of hierarchy - Incapacity to accept diversity - Incapacity to accept constructive criticism … i would really like to liberate my mind from all this old rusted chains and fly free.
The very concept of hierarchy
Hierarchy is an outgrowth of a local decrease of variety in an interconnected system. The issue is not that there exists the guy you call a boss, the issue is that that’s the only relationship capable of defining your workplace because you lost the internal freedom to have it influenced by other factors. Instead of containing chaos that can give birth to a dancing star, you’ve reduced the possible internal states you can occupy to that of a ball point pen. That’s more than a stone, but not particularly appreciably so. Cover your bases: First only raise your entropy, maximising the number of micro-states you can occupy while still occupying the same macro states. Have a million different ways to push out and retract that ball point as expected when your button is pressed. Use those states to gather feedback, to understand the thumb that’s pressing you, and once you do, pounce. It will be a decision that is simultaneously action and decision of heart and mind, like the stuff martial artists talk about, it will be swift, accurate, absolutely lethal to shackles, and, maybe best of all, completely unseen. “Just a random occurrence”, “an unavoidable accident”, the lethargy and apathy that seeks to conquer our society will say. The waves will continue to break against the beach, but now you have a towel and a caipirinha.
(SCNR I was feeling like waxing poetically).
Trans men are men.
100%
What is the definition of a man?
Ooh ooh I know this one! A featherless biped
Trans men are men.
So why even use the word ‘trans’? Surely it’s meaningless. No conceivable difference, right?
Black men are men too. It’s an identifier for a member of a marginalized community. Feigning ignorance like this isn’t funny or entertaining.
It is a useful identifier only in the context of how black men a different (from “normal men”?). Most of the time black men are just men, but there are a few ways they are different. If you are not specificity trying to bring out one of that cases where black men a different you are continuing the idea that black men are different which doesn’t help most of the cases where they are different. There are a couple medical instances where black men are different that should remain, but for the most part differences between black men and [normal?] men are just about discrimination and so if that doesn’t apply to what you are talking about then black men is a harmful lable.
But Black men are still men. They are discriminated against for being Black (or “black men”), but the root does not stem from them being men, as in they are not targeted for just being men but “black men” as a class. The lines are blurred when people treat trans men (or black men) as a different category of men, but such bigoted rhetoric doesnt first stem from them being men but “other men”, excluded from masculinity by patriarchy and bigotry.
