hellstobetsy:

tmblrinactioninaction: Pretty sure God picked the gender of my children. Or Mother Nature, or the earth mother, or a godkin. I don’t want to oppress anyone by leaving somebody out. I don’t understand all the tags (Gender, Gender Essentialism, Reddit, Religion, Transphobia.). How is this a transphobic statement? It’s not saying anything about gender and sex having to match, only that gender is an inherent part of who you are, which could easily be a pro-trans* statement, since the alternative to “You were born trans" is the rather more transphobic “You woke up one day and decided to be trans". Perhaps the transphobia is inherent in the context of the statement, but they didn’t provide that context, so what the fuck?

Without getting too deep into it, it was transphobic in it’s original context, and it’s fairly simple to see how that kind of statement would be; much more so than finding out ways for the statement to make sense without being transphobic.

I certainly won’t say that all the things that this subreddit criticizes are flawless, so there may be some things fuelling the comments that they make, but I do firmly believe that in ratio to their respective sizes, tumblrinaction frequenters do make more unsavoury statements than the demographic of people they aim to make fun of.* That being said, our intention is not to try and make things seem more terrible by cherry picking for things that may have been more acceptable in their original context. It’s up to you as to whether or not you give the benefit of the doubt to me or the original poster of that comment, but I am not trying to manipulate through the lack of context that is created by this blog’s formatting.