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Gee! I wonder why people are so transphobic nowadays...
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Gee! I wonder why people are so transphobic nowadays...
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It's not like they will ever know on account of being DEAD, so what is there to be scared of? Also, if anyone ever digs up their bones, they will be definitely "misgendered", so I hope they all made plans for being cremated or whatever. And they should stop saying LGBT when it really only concerns the troon part.
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Funny how when they turn it into an acronym it spells IDAHOBIT, almost as a reflection that the movement has turned into a joke of its former self.
In a perhaps more interesting note, the whole Matrix series is now an allegory to trans experience, and you should see it as a Trans piece of art, even if the authors have apparently explicitely denied it is an allegory to trans experience. Take the red (Estradiol) pill and wake up sheeple.
The article above is kinda long so I'll just leave it spoilered below, but trust me it's good.
How The Matrix universalized a trans experience — and helped me accept my own
The film, now 20 years old, is probably the most famous art ever made by trans people. But its cultural legacy doesn’t end there.
By
Some online trans communities have a word for trans people who haven’t realized they’re trans just yet:
When you’re an egg, you’re safely closed off by your shell, unable to see the wider world. It’s kind of like being in a sensory deprivation tank. Everything is muffled, and the world is hazy and translucent through the walls. There is always some barrier between you and reality. Being inside the egg is comfortable. And leaving the egg is a lot of work, a lot of painful, grinding work that many people would rather avoid.
Eggs hatch, though, and the hatching process is messy and complicated. It leaves behind something new and beautiful, but getting there can take days or years. (It took me 15 years after thinking, “Wait, am I...” to realize, “I am.”) And what will crack the shell isn’t always predictable.
But if you look back on your life pre-hatching, you’ll find a host of clues that read not as questions but as evidence. Which is a long, roundabout way of me saying that when I was 18, I was obsessed with. The movie celebrates its 20th anniversary on March 31, 2019, a date that is also, coincidentally, the 10th trans day of visibility.
But everything about it that replicates what the trans experience is like prior to coming out — and, thus, made it so appealing to trans viewers — simultaneously tapped into some other zeitgeist entirely, and became a weapon of some of the worst people on the internet.
In the wake of both women coming out, it became at least
Lilly Wachowski spoke about this newfound attention while
That gave the Wachowskis the freedom to do whatever they wanted in Hollywood, a freedom they would use toward more audience-alienating ends over the next 20 years. (I love all of their movies, but the mass audience that embraced or 2015’s .) But almost everyone has a passing familiarity with
Another reason for
The movie’s coolest trick is the way it inverts what you’d expect from a movie released in 1999, by making the internet the poisonous capitalist space that keeps people emotionally numb. Meanwhile, the post-apocalyptic reality in which a war between man and machine reduced the landscape to a desert is where people can finally be their true selves. (The internet becoming a poisonous capitalist faux-utopia is perhaps
The sense of using the internet to find a true identity permeates every scene of
The Wachowskis actually wanted to make
Warner Brothers nixed the idea of Switch crossing the gender divide, feeling mainstream audiences wouldn’t understand. (She appears in the film but is played by a woman in both realities.) But I would have understood, even if I wouldn’t have known why. (1999 was still a few years before I’d have my, “Wait... am I...?” moment.) I was logging into chat rooms to present as a woman, and I was doing so with more and more frequency in ways I didn’t dare interrogate.
In the guise of a big-budget action movie (albeit one with a very different set of influences than the other action films of the ‘90s), this duality suggested a future where the rigid lines of the self would start to break down. In 1999 and in the years to come, the internet would cause trans people’s eggs to start cracking all over the place, in a way that just wasn’t possible before its existence.
But trans people weren’t the only ones it resonated with.
How a movie directed by two trans women became central to men’s rights activists
1999 was
I like all of these movies, and they’re all at least somewhat suspicious of their heroes’ quests to disrupt the system in the name of being manly men. But audiences didn’t always grasp that maybe it wasn’t appropriate to openly lust after your teenage daughter’s best friend, as the hero of
Because these characters were played by men like Kevin Spacey (a very different figure in 1999!) and Edward Norton, movie star charisma carried viewers of their films a long way toward accepting behaviors that the filmmakers intended to be morally complicated, at the very least. This disconnect between intention and reception is not the filmmakers’ fault, but it did tap into something roiling in the American undertow at the time: the idea that white men needed to somehow reclaim a primacy they had apparently lost.
Again,
That brings us to one of the movie’s weirdest cultural legacies: the idea of the Red Pill. In the film, Neo is
In our reality, the idea of taking the red pill has since come to bolster some of the worst people on the internet. In 2019, to be
The obvious irony here is that the red and blue pills were dreamt up by two trans women, in the middle of a story that is now widely read as an allegory about how immensely powerful it can be to discover one’s true self by getting online. But in the early 2000s, when I was logging into chat rooms under a woman’s name, there were plenty of men around my age logging in to other chat rooms, where they were being radicalized to believe that women (and people of color and LGBTQ people and... and...) were keeping them from some larger, truer reality.
Still, it’s not as though the idea that spawned redpilling isn’t present. That’s not
In 1999, we were all getting online. Some of us were finding ourselves. Others were just finding excuses.
The film, now 20 years old, is probably the most famous art ever made by trans people. But its cultural legacy doesn’t end there.
By
Mar 30, 2019, 11:00am EDT
Some online trans communities have a word for trans people who haven’t realized they’re trans just yet:
egg
.When you’re an egg, you’re safely closed off by your shell, unable to see the wider world. It’s kind of like being in a sensory deprivation tank. Everything is muffled, and the world is hazy and translucent through the walls. There is always some barrier between you and reality. Being inside the egg is comfortable. And leaving the egg is a lot of work, a lot of painful, grinding work that many people would rather avoid.
Eggs hatch, though, and the hatching process is messy and complicated. It leaves behind something new and beautiful, but getting there can take days or years. (It took me 15 years after thinking, “Wait, am I...” to realize, “I am.”) And what will crack the shell isn’t always predictable.
But if you look back on your life pre-hatching, you’ll find a host of clues that read not as questions but as evidence. Which is a long, roundabout way of me saying that when I was 18, I was obsessed with
The Matrix
The Matrix
was directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski
, two trans women who at the time of the film’s release had not yet come out publicly as trans (and perhaps had not even come out to themselves as trans). It is by far the most influential work of pop culture ever created by a trans person, and it is maybe the eggiest movie ever made.But everything about it that replicates what the trans experience is like prior to coming out — and, thus, made it so appealing to trans viewers — simultaneously tapped into some other zeitgeist entirely, and became a weapon of some of the worst people on the internet.
The Matrix
perfectly captures the experience of being a closeted trans person
Lana Wachowski came out as trans in 2010 (though rumors regarding her gender identity had swirled around her going as far back as the release of
— and only click on that link if you want to be reminded how awful the 2000s media could be about trans people). Lilly Wachowski came out in 2016. The Matrix Reloaded
in 2003In the wake of both women coming out, it became at least
somewhat popular
for critics to read their films
through the lens of their transness
. Their wildly ambitious stories about the mind transcending the limitations of the body, the need for individual self-determination, and a kind of vision of the future as a polyamorous leftist love fest make a lot of sense as coded stories about the trans experience.Lilly Wachowski spoke about this newfound attention while
accepting a GLAAD Award with her sister in 2016
: “There’s a critical eye being cast back on Lana and I’s work through the lens of our transness. This is a cool thing because it’s an excellent reminder that art is never static. And while the ideas of identity and transformation are critical components in our work, the bedrock that all ideas rest upon is love.”The Matrix
is at the center of multiple arguments about how the sisters’ transness informs their work. One reason for its centrality to those arguments is that it was a massive, global success: It made $463.5 million at the worldwide box office, earned extensive critical acclaim, and won four Oscars. That gave the Wachowskis the freedom to do whatever they wanted in Hollywood, a freedom they would use toward more audience-alienating ends over the next 20 years. (I love all of their movies, but the mass audience that embraced
The Matrix
simply didn’t turn out for 2012’s Cloud Atlas
Jupiter Ascending
The Matrix
, and its cultural permeation makes it the best window through which to examine how the sisters’ work captures the trans experience.Another reason for
The Matrix
’s centrality to the idea that trans identity is core to understanding the Wachowskis’ body of work stems from how perfectly (and perhaps accidentally) it captures something essential about being trans. There are reams of academic literature
written on the idea of The Matrix
as a trans allegory (most of them published after at least Lana came out), but on its most basic level, the movie follows characters who break free of their real life via the internet, creating online identities that feel more real than their physical ones. The movie’s coolest trick is the way it inverts what you’d expect from a movie released in 1999, by making the internet the poisonous capitalist space that keeps people emotionally numb. Meanwhile, the post-apocalyptic reality in which a war between man and machine reduced the landscape to a desert is where people can finally be their true selves. (The internet becoming a poisonous capitalist faux-utopia is perhaps
The Matrix
’s most accidentally accurate prediction.)
The plot of The Matrix mirrors the online gender experimentation of the early digital era, when some unsuspecting egg might log in to a chat room as a woman and discover how much better it feels to embody that version of themselves. Inhabit that experimental space long enough, and you might eventually find yourself breaking through the shell containing the hermetically sealed world you thought you lived in to some other reality entirely. That reality might reduce everything else in your life to rubble, but getting to experience it is worth the fallout.The sense of using the internet to find a true identity permeates every scene of
The Matrix
. In the movie’s first exchange between hero Neo (Keanu Reeves
) and badass hacker girl Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss
), he says he assumed she was a guy, and she replies, blithely, “Most guys do.” The characters reject the names they were born with — in Neo’s case, Thomas Anderson — in favor of their chosen names. Their wardrobe grows increasingly androgynous and leather-bound. The entire movie is about transcending the limitations of the physical form to explore what the mind is capable of. Bodies are, at best, a suggestion. Your brain is what really matters.The Wachowskis actually wanted to make
The Matrix
’s trans metaphor explicit, via the character of Switch
(one of several crew members on board Morpheus’s ship, the Nebuchadnezzar). Switch was written to present as male in reality,
while presenting as female in the Matrix — a fun way to play around with the idea of online identities, and a subtle wink toward the idea that gender is a construct that can be blown apart, like so many lines of green code. (This concept would have also
pushed back, ever so slightly, against the idea that reality is more “real” than the Matrix, since the Matrix was the one place Switch could present as female.)Warner Brothers nixed the idea of Switch crossing the gender divide, feeling mainstream audiences wouldn’t understand. (She appears in the film but is played by a woman in both realities.) But I would have understood, even if I wouldn’t have known why. (1999 was still a few years before I’d have my, “Wait... am I...?” moment.) I was logging into chat rooms to present as a woman, and I was doing so with more and more frequency in ways I didn’t dare interrogate.
The Matrix
celebrated the idea that there were two worlds, separate but linked, and that what happened in the one influenced the other. In the guise of a big-budget action movie (albeit one with a very different set of influences than the other action films of the ‘90s), this duality suggested a future where the rigid lines of the self would start to break down. In 1999 and in the years to come, the internet would cause trans people’s eggs to start cracking all over the place, in a way that just wasn’t possible before its existence.
The Matrix
translated the resulting era of self-discovery into a vision of gun battles and the Chosen One narrative.But trans people weren’t the only ones it resonated with.
How a movie directed by two trans women became central to men’s rights activists
a terrific year for the movies
. It was also a great year for movies about white men realizing they’ve been lied to and that society is trying to rob them of something fundamentally true about themselves — from American Beauty
(which would win Best Picture) to Fight Club
to, arguably, Being John Malkovich
. And superficially, at least, that category would include The Matrix
.I like all of these movies, and they’re all at least somewhat suspicious of their heroes’ quests to disrupt the system in the name of being manly men. But audiences didn’t always grasp that maybe it wasn’t appropriate to openly lust after your teenage daughter’s best friend, as the hero of
American Beauty
does, or blow up the buildings that form the underpinnings of global capitalism, as the hero of Fight Club
does. Because these characters were played by men like Kevin Spacey (a very different figure in 1999!) and Edward Norton, movie star charisma carried viewers of their films a long way toward accepting behaviors that the filmmakers intended to be morally complicated, at the very least. This disconnect between intention and reception is not the filmmakers’ fault, but it did tap into something roiling in the American undertow at the time: the idea that white men needed to somehow reclaim a primacy they had apparently lost.
Again,
The Matrix
, at least superficially, plays into this narrative. Keanu Reeves isn’t white — he’s multi-racial, with European, Chinese, and Polynesian ancestors — but The Matrix
codes Neo as a white guy corporate worker drone before he breaks free of his old life and becomes The One. And the mere mention of “The One,” the person who will help human beings fight back against their machine overlords, should reveal The Matrix
as a Chosen One narrative — a storytelling trope that isn’t always
centered on
a white man, but that American pop culture has very frequently centered on a white man.That brings us to one of the movie’s weirdest cultural legacies: the idea of the Red Pill. In the film, Neo is
memorably offered a choice
between a red and a blue pill. Taking the red pill will awaken Neo to the truth of his existence, as a piece of hardware in the dark post-apocalyptic landscape where he is used by machines as a literal battery. Taking the blue pill will let him return to the Matrix unhindered. (Neo takes the red pill, because that’s how stories work.)
“redpilled”
is to suddenly realize all of the ways that social justice issues, particularly those related to feminism, can cause a person (usually a young man, though women have also used the term) to not be their truest self.The obvious irony here is that the red and blue pills were dreamt up by two trans women, in the middle of a story that is now widely read as an allegory about how immensely powerful it can be to discover one’s true self by getting online. But in the early 2000s, when I was logging into chat rooms under a woman’s name, there were plenty of men around my age logging in to other chat rooms, where they were being radicalized to believe that women (and people of color and LGBTQ people and... and...) were keeping them from some larger, truer reality.
The Matrix
doesn’t exactly discourage this reading. The film’s two sequels — which subvert and blow up the Chosen One myth in favor of telling a story about how salvation will come not from domination but from synthesis, from people (and machines) coming together — both push back against the idea of the redpill, as does the rest of the Wachowskis’ ouvre. And if we’re keeping with the trans allegory idea, the later Matrix
films replicate the way that many trans people ultimately become even more aware of the intersectionality of their own privilege, or lack of it. (For example, I have never been more aware of my own whiteness and relative financial comfort since coming out.)Still, it’s not as though the idea that spawned redpilling isn’t present. That’s not
The Matrix
’s fault; the Wachowskis couldn’t possibly have foreseen how their work would be interpreted. But the idea that both trans people and MRAs would see themselves in The Matrix
speaks in a perverse way to how the Wachowskis translated what feels to me like a very specific trans experience into something much more universal.In 1999, we were all getting online. Some of us were finding ourselves. Others were just finding excuses.
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Well, it makes sense that the Matrix is a representation of the transgender experience. The Wachowskis released one good thing, then trooned out and have since then spent the entirety of their post-OG-Matrix career grasping for relevance. Sounds like the universal troon experience in social media to me.
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Here’s his Instagram. Lots of provocative swimsuit shots, some as far back as age 14.
Seems like a typical self-obsessed teenager who lives and dies on being an instaho. He was probably crazy effeminate as a little boy and would’ve been better off just being a trap, but nope he had the full chop at 17.
I dunno. In some shots I just see gay dude in a lot of make-up. The skull size and facial features always give it away.
Asian ladies are generally short, but even so he still stands out next to an actual woman.
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If the Redpill makes life harder, but way better, then shouldn't just NEO just swallow the Bluepill then?
Also, no, it wasn't written by women. It was written by two brothers who then decided to swallow the Sissypill after.
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Mild sperging but supposedly ftms are supposed to retain sensation as the clitoris is usually buried at the base of the neo-peen (ironically, this is kind of the opposite of cis dudes AFAIK, where the most sensitivity/pleasure comes from the tip).
A surgeon in Montreal claims "the nerves of the clitoris will be released and freed during surgery, creating the possibility that they grow into the phallus. The clitoris is preserved and buried at the base of the phallus. Therefore, you will retain your sensibility allowing for sexual pleasure in this area, and possibly also on the phallus." (Source)
Ironically, both mtf and ftm surgeries require lasering donor sites and have a risk of hair growth on/in the frankengenitalia.
This person has a blog about their bottom surgery but I CBA to read it all. Implants are used for """"testicles"""" and to make the dick hard/stand up. FWIW this is one of the better results I've ever seen and it still doesn't look like the real thing. It's sad.
tldr supposedly sensation is maintained because they put the clit at the base of the neo dick, but the actual penis itself doesn't have actual nerve hookups by the surgeon or anything, so it's likely there's no sensation throughout the whole of it. It's fucked.
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It looks like that thing on top of a Snork's head.
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That's some Island of Dr. Moreau shit. Can't these body modification fetishists just wait for cybernetic dongs or cloned dongs or whatever? We can't be that far from those.
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I believe there already was posted FtM‘s experience of having fake dong. Iirc this thing is cold, have poor circulation and FtM would often wake up in the middle of the night because of feeling cold between legs.
T0oCoolFool
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Child troons always make me feel sad and horrified. We're told that this child is happier and healthier now that his genitals have been butchered. It's crazy how we've gotten to this point, and sad to think that there will be many more children who will be subjected to this depravity.
What makes it even more sad is that despite everything he went through, he still doesn't pass. The other images on his instagram show just how much he doesn't pass. Despite hormone blockers, hormone therapy, and plastic surgery, he's still very manly looking.
And that interview doesn't help. Blaire claims it's important to hear "both sides of the argument" when it comes to transing children, but I find the entire premise flawed from the start, because it's just impossible to talk about a life altering subject that is based on cultural shifts and very subjective ideas on gender norms. How can you hear the side of a child on this issue when their "choice" was almost entirely influenced from someone else? I flat out do not believe it's possible for any child to say they are transgender and consent to hormone therapy and surgery without there being significant parental influence involved. Either a malicious groomer or a well meaning but stupid/homophobic parent pushes for this bullshit, not a child.
It reminds me of overly religious parents. "Look at little John and Suzie! They went up to random strangers and asked if they heard about Jesus! They did it all on their own, without being prompted to do so! So proud of my babies, they're feeling the Lord and spreading the word!" It's like, sure maybe these kids really did go up to strangers unprompted, but it's not like they suddenly came up with the idea of Jesus and witnessing on their own. They were taught from a young age about Christianity and the importance of witnessing to strangers. They don't even realize that they were pushed in that direction. Hell, the parents themselves likely don't realize that they have been manipulating and influencing how their children behaves, but that doesn't make their influence any less real and prominent in what their child believes and behaves.
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yeah that line of argument is complete horseshit.
it's like a child rapist saying "here see, my little 8 year old says that having sex with me every day is great and enjoyable!" after grooming the kid for years. like yeah, no fucking shit the kid will say "i love this!" after being groomed, abused and indoctrinated by its own parents for its entire fucking life.
similar situation with these trans kids. they are way too young to know or understand what they're saying, all they do is repeat what mommy and daddy have taught them to say over the years.
Kikomi
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children need to be told that it's okay to be into things that aren't typically associated with their gender.
little timmy needs to hear that it's okay to not like sports. it's okay to prefer art, music, or even playing with barbies. it's fine for boys to like those things. it's okay to not fit in with other boys.
little susie needs to hear that she doesn't have to like makeup or dressing up or boys to be normal. susie can play basketball and video games and wear baggy jeans with sneakers instead of dresses and heels.
these parents need to tell their kids that they're still boys or girls despite having interests considered unconventional. maybe use some gender nonconforming celebrities as positive examples.
that's not a foolproof way to ensure your kid doesn't troon out. most of these lefty parents don't know that you can love and support your child without enabling their delusion.
ostracizing little timmy for being feminine or shaming little susie for being a tomboy are both very wrong. but so is entertaining the idea that these interests are signs that their child was born in the wrong body.
these gender nonconforming kids aren't born in the wrong body. they're born in a society that will try to convince them that they're failures for their birth gender just because they don't adhere to stereotypes. shit's fucked, man.
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And how can kids even do choices on their own? If kids were allowed to do what they want they would eat only junk food and candies, won’t visit doctors, won’t go to school and play vidya all day long, won’t clean themself and brush teeth, and many more things that parents force them to do. But somehow telling your kid “No candies until you’ll eat your dinner” is appropriate but “No T blockers until you’re old enough to understand consequences” is not.
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oh fuck me, is this THE "emily sandalwood"?
the terves make fun of this person on the regular.
always wondered what they'd done to deserve it & now i see.
whenever some tranny mentions the sacred wachowski brothers, some terf says "paging emily sandalwood!" & i wasn't even getting the joke.
1000s of words about "the Matrix" as a uniquely trans experience & yet we see here that he hasn't even transitioned yet, so i'm confused.
does he think a lacy bra is a transition? when is the rest of him transitioning?
he is getting kind of emotional these days too
DumbDude42
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disagree
it might be ok-ish for girls, but if you enable your sons effeminate faggotry then you are setting him up for bullying, mockery and rejection by his peers, which is a good way to fuck up his youth and probably his entire life beyond that, too
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The main ingredient in all those recipes is cyanide.oh fuck me, is this THE "emily sandalwood"?
the terves make fun of this person on the regular.
always wondered what they'd done to deserve it & now i see.
whenever some tranny mentions the sacred wachowski brothers, some terf says "paging emily sandalwood!" & i wasn't even getting the joke.
1000s of words about "the Matrix" as a uniquely trans experience & yet we see here that he hasn't even transitioned yet, so i'm confused.
does he think a lacy bra is a transition? when is the rest of him transitioning?
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So, if you have a gay son you can totally be fine with him fucking dudes, but you won't accept skinny jeans, styled hair and tight shirts in the household?