when people ask gay men “who is the woman?” what they mean is “who is the submissive one?”
and when people ask lesbians “who is the man?” they are asking “who is the dominant one?”
because of patriarchal values they cannot see a relationship without dominance and submission
submission is not given, it is forced and ingrained.
Today, I read an article about a woman with HIV who was raped. The man that attacked her is now HIV positive. All of the commentary surround this was about how she should have told him she was HIV+ and that women with HIV should have a badge or special underwear so that this doesn’t happen to another man. It is 12:12am and I am already done with the world.
I’ve been transitioning my whole life, but chemically, I’ve been changing for the last nine months. Most recently, I graduated from Parsons in New York and have been developing my own line of gender neutral clothing. I want to celebrate the grey areas of life and stop labeling things. Clothes should just be called clothes. As I continue to form it, I’m redefining and reconstructing my own gender identity and what I want my gender identity to be. I’m not sure what the finished product will exactly look like, but I do know that it will be honest. I think it’s the responsibility of trans individuals to use their creativity as a vehicle to talk about their stories. There’s so much disparity between the trend of over-simplifying and glamorizing trans girls and the hate and crime a lot of the community goes through on a daily basis, but I do think that there’s hope. As long as you’re patient and willing to understand that not everyone’s going to get it the first time around, we can keep moving forward. It’s a step-by-step process and requires a team effort on both sides, but when I see how far we’ve come even in just the last year, it makes me excited for the future
BTW if you wanna see where this fit is from, check out my clothing haul 🌹✨ https://youtu.be/_kZ1zjYlNrA
when somebody whos generally nice gets upset over the smallest thing then its probably because theyre fed up of getting walked all over all the time and having their feelings and belongings disregarded by other people so next time someone flips their shit because you took a piece of their food without asking or wore a piece of their clothing without permission you should probably apologise instead of saying they have a short temper or theyre too dramatic
highpriestess