employment and housing discrimination leads to poverty, homelessness, survival sex work (not to mention profiling) leads to disproportionate incarceration largely in men’s prisons, leads to state-sanctioned sexual abuse, rape slavery, and murder—all while we’re denied transition.
trans women make 60% of the average worker’s earnings
1 in 3 trans adults have been homeless
41.5% of trans women have done sex work
(there is a silent “therefore” between these stats)
& so we return to incarceration. over 1 in 5 trans women. nearly 1 in 2 black trans women.
they all know one statistic. 41% suicide rate. conservatives use it to say we’re crazy and shouldn’t be taken seriously, liberals think they can kiss it and make it better without addressing the systemic cause
here’s a statistic: 47% of black trans people have been incarcerated.
i think the main reason liberal trans allyship rings so hollow is that it almost never recognizes the class aspect of transphobia. they think people are just, like, mean to us sometimes so we need to put more trans characters in movies. tell them about v-coding, their jaws drop…
@cottagec0re_@NightFawnArt@Dicesinfernum please learn to be more critical of things. im not telling you youre a monster or that you support abuse. up your analytical skills when it comes to media you enjoy- not everything is perfect.
@cottagec0re_@NightFawnArt@Dicesinfernum i dont believe hazbin hotel is saying it supports abusers with its whole chest. i think that trying to have that messaging but alongside the creators very open glamorization for the character who they intend to be a bad guy is muddying the message
@cottagec0re_@NightFawnArt@Dicesinfernum discussion because it hurts your feelings.
like what you like. but dont be upset when people look at it with eyes unclouded and call it for what it is.
@cottagec0re_@NightFawnArt@Dicesinfernum uncritical though motivated by emotional attachement.
what im trying to say, is that being critical of a work and its author, is not parasocial.
its actually parasocial to place how you feel about the work and the person in front of criticisms and to throw out valid-