strongorcbutch:

pragnificent:

trans-mom:

The thing that scares me about Rocky Horror is how they took almost every trans misogynistic trope possible, rolled them into a single character that then rapes two people and grooms another to be a sex slave; and somehow this has become a huge piece of our culture, applauded, and almost never spoken out against. Society loves the idea of a violent, manipulative trans woman rapist that’s out to taint cishetero ways of life, and the love for Rocky Horror proves it.

And, when we do speak against it we’re ridiculed with more personalized transphobia, all because it had some songs people liked.

Imagine being divorced enough from Queer culture and Queer history to consider this a valid fucking take.

Imagine having such disregard for trans women enough to argue that just because something is a part of history, it was a good thing. Imagine thinking that lgbt+/queer communities, have never made a single mistake or treated trans women poorly. Imagine being so sure of all these things that you’ll talk over a trans woman’s critiques of specific things that RHPS did not with rebuttals of those points, but with a simple “queer culture / queer history” as if that trumps those critiques in and of itself. Imagine ignoring that the creator of RHPS has directly said “trans women are not women”, thus reinforcing these critiques. Imagine…oh, wait, we don’t have to imagine it. We’ve got this chucklefuck right here doing it.

You know I’ve absolutely come to revile anytime someone pulls this trick. This, “History” as an argument in and of itself. Because we’re on a site with a very high userbase in the 18-25 zone. People just poking their heads out from the other side of the deafening genocidal effort of the AIDS crisis, which isn’t even really gone yet but shifting and slipping between the cracks into the lesser paid attention to parts of the country and the world. Young people who are divorced from their history because their history got murdered. I’m sick of every last person holding up “you can’t say this was bad because it was a part of history”, Tumblr has become a place where “ahistorical” has a meaning and a bite all its own, used to silence people without any support or further discussion, but just to frighten young people with the ghosts of their own lost history into shutting up and not ruffling the feathers of people who, for example, never gave a shit about trans women.

Transmisogyny has been a festering rot in many communities for a very long time now, so when I see someone like you saying that RHPS is a part of as you put it “Queer History” all I can say is…no shit. And it’s been a problem the whole damn time. 

Right now we are facing a presidential administration that is prepping to try and throw down against the very right of trans people to even exist so I have precisely zero time for worthless pretending that transmisogyny is a-okay just because other have done it before, and done it in the past. 

I think you can acknowledge that the narrative is very problematic and transphobic and (trans)misogynistic, while also understanding that the shows have given thousands of lgbtq+ people a large and open platform to explore and be free with their own sexuality and gender expression with large groups of people with similar experiences, when there were very few options especially for underaged lgbtq+ people.

Like should there have been a better alternative with the same sense of community and ability to question and experiment? Absolutely yes. Is it very poor representation and cringey for all the above-mentioned reasons? Absolutely yes. Is it very transphobic and should it be understood as such? A resounding terrible yes. Did it give a relatively safe place for lgbtq+ youth who needed it, and did that do good? Also yes.