AutomatedPossum [she/her]

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  • A common binary trans consideration that I have the hardest time relating to as a non-binary trans person is a burning desire to pass as the gender that one identifies with.

    As a nonbinary transfem who is very closely ajacent to what is commonly referred to as “binary trans womanhood”, i really struggle with the way many other nonbinary people frame issues of cissexism, passing obsession, transmedicalism, lack of self worth, excessive and unwarranted shame and internalized transmisogyny as “a binary thing” instead of as “a deeply brainwormed thing”. These desires are not inherent to “binary” transness, they are inherent to the ruling discourse about what the trans experience has to be like, which is a discourse that purposely exists only within the safeguards of binary gender roles. But i see many of these assumptions bleeding into nonbinary spaces as well. The underlying, toxic desire to be cis, to hate one’s transness, to reject one’s body for not meeting (cis)normative standards of beauty is present in both cases, and it is the main obstacle to trans joy in both cases as well.








  • Happened to me as well even though i barely bothered to push voice training beyond the androgynous range. Cis people think of their voice as this set-in-stone natural thing and everything else as a form of faking, but a voice is actually just a learned way to use the most complex instrument built into the human body. It’s very easy to forget the exact mannerisms you trained yourself for, because that wasn’t your natural default voice, it was a learned way of speaking just like the one you learn when you transition.



  • Yeah that works pretty well. I’m having my tenth laser session on monday and the only dark stubble that remains visible is half a John Waters mustache on my left upper lip and some hairs under my nose. I haven’t needed orange concealer since about session 6 or 7. When my health insurance pays for it, i’m gonna clean the remainder up with electrolysis afterwards, especially the grey hairs on my chin, but i really went from “my beard dysphoria is murdering me” to “i’m a girl who thinks about getting rid of some annoying facial hair, but is unsure if she needs to” just with laser.






  • I can’t speak for Korean manosphere ideology, but all i see of the Western equivalent is built very thoroughly towards a hermetically sealed world view were the tiniest bit of change will make you a beta cuck doomed to a lifetime of paying child support for somebody else’s children. Inocculation against criticism is very central to incel, PUA, high value male and MIGTOW discourses. So within that ideological framework, doubling down in an attempt to become as alpha as possible and getting one of the last remaining tradwifes or becoming completely blackpilled are the only logical conclusions.