First of all it’s not even an addiction and second of all addiction is like totally a spectrum so even if it was it’d be fine
Girl who has only seen ‘all my friends secretly hate me’ entering a second friend group: Getting a lot of ‘all my friends secretly hate me’ vibes from this
I feel like there’s something to be said about manhood acts (behavior aimed to claim the privilege and identity of masculinity/“manliness”) and passing as a trans man as opposed to a trans boy, but I don’t know if it’s my place as a trans woman to explore that topic tbh.
As someone who finds TMA and TME to be terms that can accurately explain a phenomenon when used in an academic context, it’s really disheartening seeing how outright dismissive of the terms the broader trans community on Reddit, tumblr, and to an extent, twitter are.
To attempt to cast terms that accurately describe the oppression a specific group faces due to the intersection of multiple forms of material oppression as “tainted” is a way to silence voices that are already more at risk of being silenced than most. While not every trans woman





