Theyre So Handsome

they’re so handsome

People call autistic and other specific groups of disabled people “fae” and use that to justify literally murdering us for hundreds of years, and now they get mad when we reclaim that language and they say we’re disrespecting Fae (like how folks disrespected us by hurting us and saying it’s justified because we’re Fae?) or say we’re disrespecting what is oftentimes our own cultures or the cultures of our own people.

I’m very much not joking on this. If you admonish someone (especially a disabled person) for calling themself fae in some way, even if you think you’re defending your culture or fae themselves, you need to think very critically about the history of fae with disabled people and about your dynamic in that.

This is a real, very long history that still has affects today, and the moment some disabled people have started to reclaim it, some of y’all have turned around and said we have no right to it.

you wanna take this outside bro???? you wanna watch the stars with me bro????? confess our feelings under the moon bro?????

on another note: trans men are not rewarded for being feminine.

I know it can be hard to forget in microcommunities on tumblr, but trans men are Not rewarded by society for being feminine. either their identity as trans men are called into question/suppressed entirely, or they’re (correctly) interpreted as gnc men and treated as such.

I did not have my parents look me in the face and tell me that they were struggling to see me as a man because I chose to wore a skirt one time only to have someone on tumblr dot com imply that the way that I choose to present is somehow the default or Easy way for trans men to exist. I did not question whether I’d be Safe presenting the way that I want to while transitioning because I Know I live in alabama and that being a visibly gnc man could be dangerous only for someone to imply that “uwu softbois” are the socially acceptable version of trans men (which is why they’re justified in mocking them)