there was always that one kid in fifth grade who had like 50 of those little novelty erasers that they’d take out and arrange on their desk every single lesson but never use and if you even LOOKED at them you were immediately blacklisted as a potential threat from then on
me: hey i forgot my eraser do you have one i could use
the kid sitting next to me with an entire fucking zoo of rubber animals in their pencil case:
what cis ppl in general will never understand is that casual, slight, vague transphobia still fuckin hurts. transphobic subtext hurts. CISNORMATIVITY hurts.
it’s the TINIEST things, like not having the option to choose your gender identity when signing up for something. when people joke about gender and it revolves around genitals. seeing everything, everywhere, pandering to cis gender roles. maybe there’s no ill intention behind this stuff. maybe they aren’t actually against trans people. but it still normalizes a generally cisgender society, and every time i come across it, it’s a reminder that we DO live in that society. and it hurts.
this is a post for trans people, about trans people, whether straight or not! don’t change it into anything else! cis people can reblog but don’t say shit!
Honest I had this comic growing up and I had to sit through like seven tv shows and movie reboots about Spider-Man’s origins knowing they couldn’t top this but they kept trying
