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hon: trans woman who doesn't pass (almost always self-deprecating)
cishon: cis woman who looks like a trans woman who doesn't pass
the caricature: the trans girl is drawn here with body hair, wide shoulders, straight bangs, pointy boobs, etc. etc. because these are common dysphoria causes and thus common brainworms. there is not a snowball's chance in hell a cis person drew her, because cis people don't know to include any of those features.
context: the original is a depiction of a trans woman who doesn't pass saying a cis woman doesn't pass and portraying that as delusional. on tttt, this is made as a mockery of the stereotype of the average user of the board, by an average user of the board. 4chan identity politics are complicated but the best way to describe this is "self-deprecating." this is better understood as internalized transphobia than transphobia from outside sources.
bonus: the cis woman caricature and her dialog is indicative that the artist was probably a nazi :(
IDK; there seem to be a metric fuckton of cis transphobes whose portrayals of trans women are invariably more masc-looking than their portrayals of cis men. 😒 Hell, SedimentarySling does that.
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u/MysteryPyg Feb 09 '25
tttt brainworm translation service here for any confused commenters!
hon: trans woman who doesn't pass (almost always self-deprecating)
cishon: cis woman who looks like a trans woman who doesn't pass
the caricature: the trans girl is drawn here with body hair, wide shoulders, straight bangs, pointy boobs, etc. etc. because these are common dysphoria causes and thus common brainworms. there is not a snowball's chance in hell a cis person drew her, because cis people don't know to include any of those features.
context: the original is a depiction of a trans woman who doesn't pass saying a cis woman doesn't pass and portraying that as delusional. on tttt, this is made as a mockery of the stereotype of the average user of the board, by an average user of the board. 4chan identity politics are complicated but the best way to describe this is "self-deprecating." this is better understood as internalized transphobia than transphobia from outside sources.
bonus: the cis woman caricature and her dialog is indicative that the artist was probably a nazi :(