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Let this be your sign to watch older movies right now please
And ISTG if I see one argument that you "don't like movies by problematic white men". Oscar Micheaux has films available as far back as 1920's
Alice Guy has such an extensive filmography starting in 1896 that it is genuinely overwhelming. Including the first film with an all african amercian cast in registered history.
Start caring about history and stop hiding behind fake progressive morals to excuse your ignorance.
This person has done THE most impressive job I have ever seen compiling links to many films and books for free
This is an impressive list of film noirs you can watch for free
TubiTV is my favorite streaming site, it has a spectacular list of older films, and you don't need to even create an account to watch them
Also the amount of great older movies available on youtube always impresses me. Every time I can't find an obscure movie on torrent, it is usually just there on youtube. Mosfilm has been remastering their most classic releases and uploading them there.
Anyway, be curious! Search "films about <thing you like>" on your searching engine of choice. Chances are someone made a movie about it no matter how weird and crazy it might seem!
I know I jest sometimes, but films are legitimately great! There is so much to discover out there, it keeps me always excited for the next great thing I can discover that I had never heard about! Please, shed you chains of hollywood fast food, there is so much beauty just at your reach
💫To Be A Man💫
Thrilled I get to post my part of @ghostsharkpress ‘s transology zine before pride month ends. Our prompt was to recontextualize a formative childhood cartoon through the lense of transness/gncness.
These are thoughts I’ve had spilling around in my head for a while and seeing how important Treasure Planet was for me as a kid I thought it would be perfect. I always struggled with the fact I don’t really have any older male guide or figure to learn myself from so as a kid I tried to mimic the masculinity of shows or my peers. Growing older and wanting to step out of boyhood has really been a journey of self discovery and self worth and I’m really proud of the person I’m becoming.
I will say this once because I'm tired of seeing stupid discourse: anti-transmasculinity is not about being treated bad because we clock as men, it's about being treated as stupid little girls because transphobes think we've been tricked into this.
It's kind of the opposite of transmisogyny- instead of fear and revulsion, it's constant condescension, the implications that we've been whisked away from femininity by scary bad guys, that we're going to cause 'irreparable damage' because we don't know what's best for ourselves, somehow. People fearmonger a lot about the "ugliness" of transfem people, but for transmasc people that 'ugliness' is used as a warning- you'll look like THIS! You'll go BALD! Your top surgery scars will leave you MUTILATED! A lot of aesthetic concerns. Worry about our 'beauty'. Because it comes from that same stupid reactionary 'we gotta SAVE the WOMEN' shit, but this time they have to save them from getting 'stolen away', as if we're being seduced or pressured into this. As if we can't make our own decisions.
For TERFS specifically, they're losing one of their own. We're 'gender traitors', willingly aligning ourselves with the half of the population they consider unilaterally dangerous and evil.
We aren't REALLY trans, we just want the benefits that men get. You don't actually want to transition, you're just trying to avoid misogyny.
You aren't actually a man, you're just a self-loathing lesbian.
Why can't you just be a butch girl? Why can't you just be a tomboy?
Why can't you just be something that I don't think is icky?
Anyway. Like all things, it boils down to misogyny. Women stupid and gentle, dont know what best for them, evil men trick into taking man juice, must save because lady stupid and dont know what best for them (having babies and being Feminine).
Theres like. Obviously more to this but I'm just a Transmasc Rando explaining this from my perspective, and I'm not the best with words. Anyone is free to hop in and add on to this
I agree, but I think there are times that anti-transmasculinity is about us being men. A lot of the ways it occurs in feminist and queer spaces is, imo, about using the veneer of “validating our gender as men” to cover for being transphobic towards us.
Like, it’s pretty clear that suddenly breaking off a friendship with someone just because they came out of the closet to you is transphobic! But this is excused by people going “oh but it’s different now that you’re a man, men are scary” even though... that person is still the same person as they were before they came out to you.
Ditto, a lot of conversion practises against us are based on trying to make us hate and fear being men. They try to convince us that it’s unethical to be a man because just being a man terrorises the women around us. They paint trans men’s attraction as more predatory than cis women’s attraction, so that we feel like we have to stay in the closet if we want to date or have sex without it being “inherently abusive”. And these conversion practises are frequently excused by people who should know better, because they’re “validating our gender”.
Even in some cases from mainstream society I think it’s as much about “treating us as men” as it is about misogyny. In my opinion a cis man who responds to a trans man with “so I can hit you now, right?” is doing the same kind of validating your gender as a threat as these other examples are -- as well as using misogyny.
I completely agree with your discussion of the misogyny side of things and I think you did a really good job of it! I just wanted to add this part on because it’s the facet of anti-transmasculinity that I personally struggle with the most.
There's also a lot of fearmongering about going on testosterone, specifically. When I was 17, everyone I spoke to irl told me that going on T would make me violent. Angry. Uncontrollable. One doctor seriously implied it would turn me into a sexual predator.
There's also a lot of people who say that transmasc MLM are predators who are trying to turn gay men straight, that transmasc MLW are trying to turn straight women gay
Yeah, when I decided to start T, my mother freaked out. She insisted that it would “make [me] mean and fuck [my] voice” (I’m a classically trained mezzo-soprano). I ended up taking her in to see the doctor with me just so the doc could calm her down.
I've said this before. But my (absolutely WONDERFUL) Gender Doctor, when I went to see her about started T.
Sat me down and had an entire fucking LIST of myths that her patients ask her about SO MUCH that she just has a spiel now. About all of the bullshit people say about T and what it does to you. Some of them are ridiculous. Some are flat out malicious.
If she has them written down, something like that could be an incredible resource.
I would love to see this list it would be a spectacular resource for me and many people I know.
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To that point, when I was watching Crimes and noticing its themes about the evolution and transformation of the human body, I was wondering if you were engaging at all in ongoing conversations about the transgender movement.
Yeah, well, I observe it. I’m not really engaged with it directly. They’re taking that idea seriously. They’re saying, “Body is reality. I want to change my reality. That means I have to change my body.” And they’re being very brave and they’re investing a lot in these changes, especially these ones that are not reversible, which most of them aren’t. I say, go ahead. This is an artist giving their all to their art.