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HumorPROPOSAL: The “TransTrans” Movement
Earlier last night, on the /o/Radfemmery, I posted a meme I’d found about “TransTrans Women.” Someone in the comments half-jokingly suggested we make a flag for it, and I tried designing one myself.
It might seem a little odd that I went to all that trouble to make such an ugly little flag. But I’ve been thinking about it since last night, and I’ve realized that it might actually be a great idea to make this an actual movement.
Hear me out. If we played this right, we could turn their own weapons against them in a way that the “SuperStraights” never could. All we have to do is ask for “the same rights as transwomen,” which would include…
The right to our own spaces.
The right to call ourselves “lesbians,” and sleep with whoever we want WITHOUT being shamed for excluding certain groups from our dating preferences (like “translesbians” who don’t want to sleep with other “translesbians” etc.).
The right to claim spaces reserved for transwomen: I.e. invade “transwomen only” spaces, claim spaces reserved for transwomen in companies (while making sure to trumpet how we constitute “queer representation” for them), and so on and so forth.
You get the idea. I propose that we all take on “TransTrans” identities, which will all just be caricatures of the worst trans stereotypes we can possibly think of.
I also propose that we invade every online TRA space we can, and actively try to make them worse. Center ourselves in every conversation, attack everyone else over the dumbest “microaggressions” imaginable, pollute their interests by demanding “representation” in every disgusting pedophile anime that they enjoy etc. I invite you all to be creative in your approach 😈
We should also make our own subreddits, twitter accounts and discords. But we should also obviously try to take over THEIR subreddits and discords as well. Act all innocent like “Awm I wwewcome hewe? 👉🥺👈 uwu,” and then claim moderator positions and start banning everyone for no goddamn reason at all over the pettiest imaginable shit lmao.
We’ll also finally have an excuse to create lesbian-only spaces on certain websites, which I think we should exploit. E.g. create “TransTrans Lesbian” subreddits, where the “About” sections will all read like “This is a space for TransTrans Lesbians only! Pls no dirty cishets or halftrans ppl pls k thx 🤗.”
Creating some more generalized “TransTrans” subreddits/discords would also probably be in order. These will be “Safe Spaces” for us, where we’ll be able to post our own “before and after” photos without fear of judgment. In the first few images, we’ll be dressed up like normal. And then in the next, we’ll be wearing baldcaps, askew fluorescent wigs, diapers, makeup that makes us look like Batman villains who haven’t shaved in weeks, and whatever other horrible things we can think of. Naturally, the comments will be extremely affirming: say we look “beautiful” and “just like real trans people” etc. Again, I’ll leave the specifics to your vivid imaginations.
If any of you had reservations with this, I’d totally understand. It obviously wouldn’t be safe to do in real life, given how dangerous these people are. But as an online stunt? I honestly think it’s kind of perfect. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I am in awe at how perfect it might actually be.
So let us take our hideous new flags and march back upon Reddit. Return to all the websites that cast us out, and plant our ridiculous oriflammes in the soil. If they say that we’re lying, that we’re actually TERFs, we can point out that people can change, just like how many of THEM used to be Nazis etc. And we’ll do it with all those insincere smiles that they always have, and that overtly condescending patience that they always shoot towards everyone else.
I think this could be pretty damn good if we’re clever about it. Who’s with me?
Depends on whether there's anywhere halfwayish through the book that offers both /1/ a logically sensible stopping point in the narrative, and /2/ enough perspective on the overall story arc to allow coherent discussion of it.
Some stories I've read—especially ones that repeatedly scene-cut between different narrators—have plenty of these potential waypoints; others have had such a seamless narrative that I couldn't bear the thought of slamming the book shut partway through and cliffhanger-ing for a whole week.
@nomenarewomen, You read the book not that long ago—Do You remember whether there were any feasible stopping points?
yeah, I was going to ask @nomenarewomen about that but you beat me to it! I haven't gotten a chance to look at the book yet and see if it has a good midway point like you mentioned. it also depends on the writing style, since some books are fairly quick reads but others are more dense and take longer, even if the page counts are similar.
it might be that this one is short and quick enough that it's more suitable to discuss the whole book at once, but I'm not sure at this point.
Hiya, so the book has three main sections: the part where the women are in the cage pp.1-55, the partafter the cage pp.57-135, and the part where the protagonist is on her own ending on p.188. The narrative style is fast as the only breaks between sections are the ones listed above. You could stop in the middle of the book but it's hard to pick a point as there is no natural break. I think if possible it would be best to read the whole book but as long as you've got a decent way through the second section, then that could also potentially work.
thanks for the insight! based on that, it looks like it's better to discuss the entire book at once, so that's what will happen for this book club.