Doc Impossible

Why are there *so many* NSFW sex comics that just, well, *aren't* NSFW? And why is it always The World's Saddest Person becoming Someone Happy?

It's Plausible Deniability, this week on #StainedGlassWoman, featuring the art of Grumpy_TGl!

#Trans #MtF #FtM #Enby #NSFW #psychology #rhetoric

https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/plausible-deniability

Plausible Deniability

Comics, Embodiment Fantasies and the Rhetorical Fetishization of Transness

Stained Glass Woman
Mar 5 at 12:08pmWeb
Show threadDoc ImpossibleMar 5
As an important note: Stained Glass Woman will be going on hiatus for a little while after this article as I work on revisions for my scholarly book.
Show threadJuniper 🏳️‍⚧️🌲Mar 5
@Impossible_PhD I've said before that AGP theory is a genuine cognitohazard. Just knowing about it does harm to transfeminine eggs. Even knowing all of the debunking, I was willing to believe that it described _me_ because I was not really trans, you know. And then I went on to avoid a lot of the sexualized displacement of those trans feelings anyway, because they made me uncomfortable. (Partly, it must be said, because the kind I had most access to were overwhelmingly heterosexual.)
Show threadJackieMar 5

@eruonna @Impossible_PhD

AGP is not a theory. It doesn't make any useful predictions about the world. It is an imposition of male sexuality and male opinions of female sexuality onto trans women.

Show threadJackieMar 5

@eruonna @Impossible_PhD

Men have a history of deeming women who are confident in their bodies and sexualities as diseased or sinful.

Show threadJackieMar 5

@eruonna @Impossible_PhD

There is another added dimension that male-assigned individuals are socially intimidated away from doing feminine things (because misogyny), and that they are broadly seen as hyper sexual predators by society (to excuse powerful men who rape women)

if a male assigned individual expresses gender dysphoria or otherwise seeks to transition, that pokes a hole in the narrative.

Show threadSophieMar 5

@Impossible_PhD First of all, this was so very well done. I wasn't aware of the specific comics that you referenced in the article, which is another reason why scholarship like this is important. So many times our voices are not heard (epistemic injustice, much?), so I get really excited when you and others publish and present our stories.

For my own information behaviour interests, I really found a lot of resonances in the ways that these comics are used as a means of identity discovery for both the authors and the larger community who either commission, sought out, or stumbled upon them in their larger information seeking process around their identity.

Will you be publishing a conference paper of journal article on this? I have definitely squirrelled away the Stained Glass Woman link, at the very least.

Also, I loved your use of your positionality statement and the way you actually leveraged that as part of your argument later on. 10/10, no notes

Show threadDoc ImpossibleMar 5

@sophiesometimes I would very much like to make this into a journal article! I need to get my scholarly book off my desk first though, since that's on contract deadline and that deadline is looming.

And thank you! I put a lot of effort into this one. 💜

Show threadJackie JudeMar 5
@Impossible_PhD
love the article!
the political climate is too stupid for me to talk about AGP, in a world where the president is a pedophile from a sex trafficking ring and trans people in Kansas are losing the right to vote and drive, we're supposed to somehow neutrally discuss the theory that maybe trans women are the perverts actually?
we're seen as "bad person gender" with "bad person sexuality", anything we do is sexualized and every aspect of our gender presentation is seen as superficial
Show threadEmily 🏳️‍⚧️ (Sad Music Era)Mar 5

@Impossible_PhD

Fantastic. Just all around.