Happy International Men’s Day

Trans men are men.
100%

As a caucasian hetero male, i really wish to be liberated from many things, like:
Patriarchal blindness - History Amnesia - Ignorance of objective statistics - Brainwashing fables of Alpha-Beta hierarchies - The very concept of hierarchy - Incapacity to accept diversity - Incapacity to accept constructive criticism ... i would really like to liberate my mind from all this old rusted chains and fly free.
- The very concept of hierarchy
  Hierarchy is an outgrowth of a local decrease of variety in an interconnected system. The issue is not that there exists the guy you call a boss, the issue is that that's the only relationship capable of defining your workplace because you lost the internal freedom to have it influenced by other factors. Instead of containing chaos that can give birth to a dancing star, you've reduced the possible internal states you can occupy to that of a ball point pen. That's more than a stone, but not particularly appreciably so. Cover your bases: First only raise your entropy, maximising the number of micro-states you can occupy while still occupying the same macro states. Have a million different ways to push out and retract that ball point as expected when your button is pressed. Use those states to gather feedback, to understand the thumb that's pressing you, and once you do, pounce. It will be a decision that is simultaneously action and decision of heart and mind, like the stuff martial artists talk about, it will be swift, accurate, absolutely lethal to shackles, and, maybe best of all, completely unseen. "Just a random occurrence", "an unavoidable accident", the lethargy and apathy that seeks to conquer our society will say. The waves will continue to break against the beach, but now you have a towel and a caipirinha.
  (SCNR I was feeling like waxing poetically).
  
  That was a wild ride, thanks.

Man, can't spell "trans man" without "man" so if you're trans then you da man!
If you say it ten times fast then it's an affirmation and a tongue twister

i appreciate this, this was nice to see on a rough day
i feel like i used to see these sorts of things a lot more when i thought i was a woman. i miss that feeling... of being appreciated, of being supported
ahh... back to the grind

❤️

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Toilet_Day
- Alright one of these groups is gonna have to pick another day
  
  https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/have-a-bad-day-day/
- Does this mean the toilet seat can be left up today

What is the definition of a man?

Trans men are men.
So why even use the word 'trans'? Surely it's meaningless. No conceivable difference, right?
- Black men are men too. It's an identifier for a member of a marginalized community. Feigning ignorance like this isn't funny or entertaining.
  
  It is a useful identifier only in the context of how black men a different (from "normal men"?). Most of the time black men are just men, but there are a few ways they are different. If you are not specificity trying to bring out one of that cases where black men a different you are continuing the idea that black men are different which doesn't help most of the cases where they are different. There are a couple medical instances where black men are different that should remain, but for the most part differences between black men and [normal?] men are just about discrimination and so if that doesn't apply to what you are talking about then black men is a harmful lable.
  
  I'm not feigning ignorance. I'm trying to make the point that if it's true it doesn't need said with any kind of modifier. The distinction itself is the difference, and the people who are bothered about it aren't any more crazy than I am with the phobias I have.
- The big group men include both cis men and trans men. Both are men.
  It's pretty simple if you're not a asshole about it.
  
  What makes us men any more than being beings with arbitrary shapes? I'm using arbitrary in the literal sense of "decided by individuals without regards to external factors".
  I'm not a man. I'm me, and I happen to be in this body. All these words are just ways other people are labeling me so they can decide how I'm to be treated. Putting a label on a person is no different than putting a handle on your coffee pot.
- Can't tell if you are trying to be forcefully post-gender or trans-exclusionary.
  Gender is arbitrary, being conceived in passing by ancient society noticing the difference in hardware without nuance, which was later used as a rhetorical tool for subjugating women and 'deviants' (those who didn't fit neatly within the binary). Because of this subjugative function, it began being strictly enforced, and we still see that strictness in society today.
  Modern attempts at sorting gender have been a failure, consistently failing to actually cleanly sort men from women in a clean binary.
  Eventually there will come a time where trans can be omitted from conversation, but that is not now, due to the danger omitting it poses for trans individuals from unadjusted individuals. The strict gender binary must be dismantled first.
- So why even use the word ‘trans’?
  Why use words at all? Just make grunting noises and hope other people get the gist.
  
  At this level of conversation, yeah.
- Nobody even mentioned trans people. Do you just go around spouting transphobia at random people?
  
  Read the post.
  
  Never thought I'd meet an illiterate person in a text based medium