my god, looking back at five nights at freddy's 2, it's amazing to me that there was such debate around mangle's gender. because mangle is a he/him. this is not an opinion. this is not an interpretation. it's simply a fact.

mangle is foxy. and foxy is a he/him. and i'm not getting this out of my ass. this is a direct quote from one of the phone calls you get during the nights of fnaf 2:

"they tried to remake foxy, you know. they thought the first one was too scary, so they redesigned him to be more kid-friendly and put him in kid's cove. to keep the toddlers entertained, you know? but kids these days just can't keep their hands to themselves. the staff literally had to put foxy back together at the end of every shift. so eventually they just stopped trying and left him as some kind of take-apart put-back-together attraction. now he's just a mess of part. i think the employees referred to him as just 'the mangle'."

and yet, even though it's stated multiple times, mangle's gender caused some fucking flamewars on forums and so on. things got so stupid that five games later, in ultimate custom night, the developer, in the description of mangle called it both a he and a she to troll people.

so why am i going on this rant suddenly? well, it's the reason why people debated his gender.

because this new foxy, the mangle, has lipstick. that's it. i'm not even kidding.

a character wearing lipstick was enough for people to start arguing extremely intensely, and for a very long time, and i wouldn't be surprised if the debate was still going on today, about his gender, even though his gender is stated multiple fucking times audibly in the game. it is apparently cosmically impossible for a masculine character to wear lipstick.

i swear to god, cis-heteronormativity rots your brain. it's fucking crazy.

disclaimer: scott cawthon, the maker of five nights at freddy's, gave away thousands and thousands of dollars in donation to extremely transphobic far-right republicans candidate in the united states of america. i am fully aware of this, and i want to clarify that while i have an autistic hyper-fixation on this franchise that i've been having for years, i never invest any money in anything related to this franchise and i would urge everyone to do the same.

#fnaf #fivenightsatfreddys #cishet #cisnormativity #heteronormativity

"Sorry if it sounds old-school, but a surgical sex-change is an irreversible intervention, not a “profound certitude” about one’s own identity."—Barcelona Rompe Tacones

I'll Carry False Documents >

https://barcelonarompetacones.pika.page/posts/ill-carry-false-documents

#Catalonia #cisnormativity #legal_sex #social_sex #legal_document #trans* #consulates #hospitals #transmed #dignity #procedure #document_obtention #annoyance #rant #Thailand #EU vs #Spain #Catalunya #ITQBLG #transsexual #surgery #sex_change #institutionalised_cissexism #cissexism

Enforcing the transgender category on any cherry picked one is pretty unfair when feeling uncomfortable being categorized as cisgender.

#cisnormativity #bodyfascism

"Somewhere beyond the anti-fascist rhetoric of our new democracy project, we can see, as vivid and dense as ever, the atmosphere of social death that the prison and cis-supremacist State continues to project against trans lives. So then, let’s be honest and say that fascism doesn’t threaten our democracy — in fact, they have been quite comfortable together in the spaces where democracy is naturally fascist: in prison, in the peripheries, in the precariousness of labor, and in the biopolitical management of dissident bodies. […] The vulnerability of trans life regarding social hatred forces us to see ourselves as existences under attack from all directions, in all politics — from fascism to conservatism to feminism and the dynamics of the LGBT movement itself to liberalism and left-wing radicalism — it seems that it is politics itself that is against us."—Angie Barbosa >

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marginal-ontologies-1

#politics #translives #anarchy #transgender #transsexual #anarchism #existence #violence #state #fascism #democracy #Brasil #feminism #conservatism #ITQBLG #leftwing #radicalism #againstus #dissidence #feminicides #murders #hate #cisnormativity

The UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to #Rwanda became law this morning. In this blog post for Engenderings, I argue that the policy is not merely a cruel and cynical (not to mention expensive) deterrent, it is also colonial and cisnormative.

And the Rwanda plan is comparable to another racialised and gendered policy: the detention of migrants aboard a huge barge.

#RwandaDeportation #BibbyStockholm #coloniality #cisnormativity #migration #Engenderings #LSE

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2024/04/23/colonial-cisnationalism-notes-on-empire-and-gender-in-the-uks-migration-policy/

#WritersCoffeeClub APR-04 Do you feature real-world political and social issues in your work?

Social issues play a huge part in most of my story. Since a good part of my stories has #queer topics, my characters deal with #homophobia (including internalized one)/ #transphobia, #heteronormativity/ #cisnormativity/ #allonormativity, you name it.

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#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #LGBT #queerpobia

#Crossdressing has nothing do do with being #queer, but tends to be lumped in with #LGBT stuff due to #crossdressers going against #cisnormativity

If you want to talk about the practice in #Irish, here are the relevant words:
• Trasfheisteoir: Crossdresser
• Trasghléasadh: Crossdressing
• Draig: #Drag (pronounced the same as the English word)
• Banríon draig: #DragQueen

#Gaeilge #PrideMonth

Your regular reminder to please #challenge and correct, vocally, confidently, and often, the #cisnormative narrative.

#Cisnormativity is a structure of privileges, assumptions, and oppression that organizes social power around gender identity where cisgender people (those who identify their gender with the sex they were registered at birth) and ideas are placed at the top above all others.

Degenderize -everything-. Only refer to #gender where you are 100% certain of the gender identity after having asked or been told. There are no gender roles. Cis-women are not the only people who give #birth. Men (cis or not) can get #breastcancer. #Toys and #clothes have no gender orientation. Challenge yourself when you are about to refer to something referencing 'men' or 'women' to find a #genderneutral alternative.

It's not as hard as people think. #BeBetter