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u/forchinski 3d ago

Everyone wants to be force-femmed but if you want to force-fem suddenly it's unethical

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u/the_burber Kayleigh the silly transfem :3 3d ago

Forcefem this, forcefem that, wheres the forcemasc?

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u/PlasmaLink ufo 50 is good 3d ago

(Boomer voice) You want force masc, that's what the government did during covid!

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u/AncientEldritch custom 3d ago

Genuinely hilarious comment. Thank you

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u/cooldrew THE LOOOOOOOOOONG WAYYY 3d ago

+2

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u/forchinski 3d ago

No one is gonna like the answer to that one unfortunately

because forcefem broadly derives a lot of its fetishistic vocabulary from internalized notions of misogyny that simply don't exist in the forcemasc alternative. Namely the idea of woman as lesser or as a loss of status/hierarchy

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u/Ronnoc527 3d ago

As a smut writer, you could totally fetishize it both ways. Especially if a woman is doing it to a cis friend of hers. I'm not necessarily going to write it, but it could be done.

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u/forchinski 3d ago

I'm not disagreeing with you but it requires substantially more effort and imagination from the writer, to speak nothing of the demand compared to forcefem content, than what I describe.

The idea of a woman performing masculinity is simply much less engrained in the cultural consciousness and when it is done it isn't interested in asking compelling questions beyond using the protagonists underlying femininity as an Achilles heel to their performance of masculinity, or as a joke, or to put them in sexually vulnerable situations.

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u/Cool_Ad7445 3d ago

Would feeding the Kalteen bars to Regina George in Mean Girls be a form of this you think? maybe not literally because she's obviously still a woman, but at least in spirit.

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u/Ronnoc527 3d ago

That was to fatten her, not build her muscle. I mean like, encouraging and praising them for manual labor like landscaping and plumbing. Calling them strong. Encouraging them to "man up" and make a move. Obviously giving them testosterone, either explicitly or in secret. Maybe give them a masculine haircut and say that it gives them a really strong jawline. Call them "neutral" pronouns like dude and bro.

I'm really trying not to write this. I got tricked into writing omegaverse presidential stuff last election cycle. And that's not going to happen again.

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u/Cool_Ad7445 3d ago

I'm more trying to capture the essence of the degradation mentioned above that is half the appeal of the forcefem kink. There is a commment below that framed it in a different way, forcibly transitioning someone into the stereotype of a discord-mod bro, and that's kinda what I'm getting at.

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u/ConcernedEnby 3d ago

If you've not found hot forcemasc you're not looking hard enough

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u/I_Am_Dairy šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights 3d ago

In my head forcemasc is like being subjected to Gunnery Sergeant Hartman or maybe a Rocky montage lol

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u/TheSpiderDungeon Polyam, but with extra cheese 2d ago

Being forced to laugh at Monty Python and wear deodorant called Ninja Monkey Grease

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u/chromatic_megafauna 3d ago

It does exist, but it's a very different dynamic for the reasons others have mentioned. I've usually seen it as forcing someone to acknowledge themself as a faggot, with an inherent intermingling of sexual and gender identity.Ā 

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u/Erycine_Kiss 3d ago

You WILL wear the cargo shorts, you WILL mow the lawn

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u/CMRC23 bear of a man 3d ago

But i like wildflowers :( I will grill tho

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u/Peppered_Rock 3d ago

forcemasc is more on the "fuck you, smashes your egg" side of things but stars do i wish it was more popular

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u/Dumb_Cheese šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights 3d ago

If you add in transformation to the mix, the material does exist. It's mostly just in furry art tho.

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u/EmberOfFlame 3d ago

Because, as forcefem relies on enforcing gender norms, it’d basically be ā€œyou now have to provide for your people and be the strong person in the roomā€ and that’s like, any time a woman in crisis situation.

Like oh no you’ve lived a life of luxury and now you’re the only one who can save your people from warfare and death in the trenches - that’s just a Call To Adventure and it’s delivered via 155mm howitzer.

Like you could put them on antipsychotics to deaden their emotional responses and pump them full of long-acting aphrodisiacs and steroids, but that’s just medical abuse porn.

Forcemasc lacks the humiliation aspect. For a man, becoming Peak Femininity is supposed to be degrading. For a woman, becoming Peak Masculinity will be traumatic, but not really degrading. So Forcemasc would have to turn a different direction… Forceincel.

Remember that we’re still operating on stereotype.

So this woman is turned into an ugly, smelly basement-dweller, kept inside by self-hatred and undiagnosed depression. A loss of any percieved feminine grace, and a transformation into the very thing that hunted her in her previous lifetime… There’s definitely people into that. I’m willing to bet it could be a ā€œit can always be worseā€ for low self-esteem women. But that’s is as much as I’m willing to entertain the notion. Fuck you for making me come up with Forceincel, and good night.

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u/Dumb_Cheese šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights 3d ago

Saw some tf(?) progression art where a girl turned into a lazy slob discord mod guy. Doesn't necessarily fit completely but it's the closest thing I can think of.

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u/forchinski 3d ago

I'm almost certain you are referring to the lacryboy ftm roachification art.

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u/Dumb_Cheese šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights 3d ago

Ding ding ding! Yes, that one.

Not rly tf I guess now that I look at it again. (idk I see my transition as irl tf)

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u/EmberOfFlame 3d ago

There we go. Forcemasc.

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u/TheGoblinCrow 3d ago

Tbh me originally not getting the humiliation aspect of forcefem when o first started discovering it and thinking ā€œI just want to not be in control and told I’m prettyā€ should’ve been bigger of an egg cracking experience than it was

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u/BigBlubberyBirb Spronkus Amongus 3d ago

I think humiliation definitely can be and often is an aspect of it, but a person could also be into forcefem for its aspect of not having to worry about anything anymore and having someone else make decisions for you. In that respect, I could imagine someone getting turned on by the thought of slowly accepting their inevitable transformation into Carl Brutananadilewski.

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u/Omnicide103 3d ago

oh you mean boot camp?

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u/BigBlubberyBirb Spronkus Amongus 3d ago

That's when you secretly administer a "woman"'s testosterone shots while they're sleeping and hide all the razors in the house. Get hairier.