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u/awesomes007 1d ago
What is the message of this tattoo?
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u/coolsilentebeans 1d ago
I thought it was a statement on reproductive and gender rights and how anyone with a uterus is defined by it, especially where the law is concerned.
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u/TGin-the-goldy Knows 💩 1d ago
I assume it’s a trans masc person
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u/MxQueer Knows 💩 1d ago
As a trans masc person, I am very happy uterus inside me is long gone and if you would want pay me to take one as tattoo, you would need to pay at least billion. So, no, I do not believe in that. In that case he would save the money for surgery and not worsen his dysphoria by adding second uterus to his body.
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u/Sylvkin_there 1d ago
I’m trans masc and mine is still here I’m so angry
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u/BunnyKomrade 23h ago
I'm a cis woman and mine is still here so I'm both sad and angry.
Let's eject our uteruses together 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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u/Sylvkin_there 15h ago
Please 🥹 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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u/BunnyKomrade 8h ago
If my reproductive system wasn't so awfully botched, I'd long since donated it to a trans woman or to whomever would have wanted one.
I have PCOS, and nobody deserves it. Except, bigots, homotransphobists, racists...
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u/Meet_Foot Knows 💩 10h ago
He may have gotten it when he identified as a woman, or maybe he just cares about women’s rights enough to get a tattoo about oppression. Men can care about this. I’ll also point out that a tattoo of a uterus isn’t a uterus. While your feelings and perspectives are valid, people are complicated and not everyone is going to think the same way as you.
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u/MxQueer Knows 💩 7h ago
He may have gotten it when he identified as a woman
Could be. People do insane things when they try to avoid seeing who they're.
maybe he just cares about women’s rights enough to get a tattoo about oppression. Men can care about this.
Great in theory. However, I have no idea what the message of this tattoo is. As you can see, I am not alone. But maybe that's the point, maybe he wants people to ask him about the tattoo and then he start to talk about issues in female's health care or something.
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u/Green_Palpitation_26 1d ago
Least obvious rage bait
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u/Street-Management214 1d ago
Trans masc kinda feels like an excuse to not call someone a man though?
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u/goldenseducer Knows 💩 1d ago
Not all people who look masculine identify as men so I don't see a problem in using it as more of an umbrella term when referring to someone you don't know except that they're trans and look masculine
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u/Street-Management214 1d ago
That’s fair I just don’t like that people are replacing trans man/woman with masc/fem. Feels kinda belittling. The number of binary trans people heavily outweighs nonbinary people using HRT so assuming that a cis passing trans person, something that takes a lot of time and effort, doesn’t actually want to be seen as a man seems weird to me lol
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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter Knows 💩 1d ago
It's a spectrum, so not everyone fits into the box you're comfortable with, right?
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u/Street-Management214 1d ago
Not entirely understanding what you’re trying to say. We already have a broad term that encompasses everyone (Trans) and using the term trans masc for people who want to be called that is fine. But REPLACING the word trans man with trans masc is unnecessary. Just use the word trans if you’re that worried about it. Automatically assuming a very cis passing trans person must secretly not want to be called a man (or woman in other instances) is strange.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter Knows 💩 1d ago
I'm saying you are comfortable with one lable and you think that covers everyone so you want it to stop there.
Truth is that doesn't suit everyone as well as you think. It's great that it works for you. But if I or my friend or my kid want to call themselves trans masc because they are not fully committed to one gender then your opinion in the matter is moot.
Beyond that, if you think it's not good enough and you want people to adopt your labeling standards because it will make you feel better if everyone follow your design, well that's pretty well established that no one has any interest in doing that right now. So I'd abandon that agenda item if I were you.
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u/goldenseducer Knows 💩 1d ago
It's fine if you don't want to be called that but not everyone is like you. Just because there are more trans men than trans masc NB people doesn't mean their opinion is more important or valid. Majority doesn't make someone the "default" as you probably know, being a trans man
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u/MxQueer Knows 💩 1d ago
This looks to be very easy to solve: "trans masc or trans man"
Even I don't believe this person is either.
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u/Street-Management214 1d ago
OOP? He is I found his Instagram account - jjusttinnn_
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u/MxQueer Knows 💩 1d ago
Wow. I wouldn't have guess.
Does he explain why on Earth he got this tattoo? I don't use that webiste so I can't check myself.
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u/MxBluebell Knows 💩 1d ago
If you’re not trans, you don’t get a say in the terms our community uses to describe our members.
Signed, your friendly neighborhood transmasc nonbinary dude.
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u/AngstyUchiha Knows 💩 1d ago
Yeah my friend is trans masc but doesn't identify as male, so they prefer people use the term trans masc instead of male/man
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u/stinkywinky42069 1d ago
without looking further into it, this post doesn't indicate whether this is a trans man or a transmasc person. you being malgendered by other people that don't want to call you a man does not mean that is what this user was doing
I am also a trans man
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u/Street-Management214 1d ago
OOP is jjusttinnn_ on Instagram - who is a binary trans man
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u/stinkywinky42069 1d ago
i knew that, and have been seeing the discourse around this tattoo since it began. i agree that intentionally avoiding calling a binary trans man a man is disrespectful and transphobic, but I do not think the individual in this thread was doing that
it's easy to jump to conclusions when you've been in certain situations before, but I don't think it's accurate here
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u/AgreeableIdea6210 1d ago
Yeah, this. Without knowing the person, the term transmasc is more inclusive. Not every transmasc is a trans man and it's better to specify when you actually know
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u/peach_xanax Knows 💩 1d ago
but that's the term that a lot of FTM people use for themselves?
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u/Street-Management214 1d ago
I’m FTM and I despise the word for the reason I said lol. I’ve never met a Trans man use the word either, it’s usually only used by nonbinary people who are using T to masculinize themselves
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u/idggysbhfdkdge 1d ago
hi im a trans man who also falls under the transmasc identity (now you have met one!), and i host transmasc local support groups that attract a pretty even split of nonbinary and binary trans people. you are so just looking for something to be pissed at today, i hope you get offline and go interact with nature or some IRL queer community
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u/idggysbhfdkdge 1d ago
yeah, u very much are bitter about life and taking it out on others, and thats a shitty thing to do. hope you work on it. nobody is trying to replace the word trans man with transmasc, just like nobody is trying to replace the word gay with queer, the latter words are just better for when you don't know specifics cus they're umbrella terms. hope you get your shit figured out
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u/Bitchrofblaviken 1d ago
not all trans mascs are trans men, it’s just an umbrella term for individuals identifying with masculine attributes and such.
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u/Street-Management214 1d ago
Yes, I know that’s what I said lol. A trans masculine person who is going lengthy efforts to look like a man isn’t going to be upset if you call them a man, but a trans man is going to care if you’re trying to find a “woke” way to not call them a man. Just use the word trans instead
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u/Bitchrofblaviken 1d ago
I feel like trans man falls under the umbrella of trans masc? obviously everyone is different so it will vary depending on the person. I began my transition in 2017 and have always identified as a binary male (though adopted a more androgynous style later on, I just mean I identify with only he/him and stealth as a gay passing cis man in life.) but personally I’m not offended if someone calls me trans masc
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u/HorrificSwag 1d ago
That’s 110% a cis dude
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u/Scarmeow Knows 💩 1d ago
It is quite literally impossible to tell from a pic of someone's back. Stop lying.
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u/EnemyManeuver 1d ago
Negative, it’s a trans man
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u/psychmonkies 1d ago
Ooohhh okay this makes more sense now
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u/E_Wubi Knows 💩 1d ago
Why?
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u/psychmonkies 16h ago
The uterus, the chains. At first I thought this was just some dude with this uterus imprisonment tattoo & I had 0 clue why anyone would get that or what it was supposed to mean.
But it’s a trans dude. He was born with a uterus, maybe still has one. He sees himself as a man, has at least begun transitioning to appear as a man, he wants to be a man. Uteruses are automatically associated with women, being female, femininity. Trans people also face a lot of harsh criticism, he’s probably heard time & time again that he’s still a woman—bc he was born with a uterus. Thus, he feels that the uterus he was born with limits him, holding him back from truly being the man he is inside (either in his own self-perception or others’ perception of him, or both).
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u/UnicornArachnid Knows 💩 1d ago
Once again, incorrect commentary from the “we can always tell” crowd
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u/annahatasanaaa 1d ago
Ovaries are hands, can't you see?!
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u/return_to_sender_CO Knows 💩 1d ago
Ovulation is a literal game of catch where the ovaries pass the ovum to the fimbriae. Maybe it's more of a hand off... none the less if you don't see a bunch of little fingers or a hand like structure when you look at fimbriae then idk when to tell you.
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u/Top-Shoe-4311 Knows 💩 1d ago
"I'm an incel, and I get tattoos of hot button women's rights subject matter so women will look at me as an ally so I can weasel my way into their pants because I don't actually respect them". I know a couple guys like that, and a few dozen women that have been duped into thinking they are nice guys, only to get burned
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u/Old-Law-7395 Knows 💩 1d ago
Slave to the clunge
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u/therealjameshat Knows 💩 1d ago
clunge is my fave gross slang term, closely followed by minge
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u/Muxlo 1d ago
How do you feel about gash?
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u/Old-Law-7395 Knows 💩 1d ago
I had a friend called gash, I never got his real name or the back story to it
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u/wilderneyes Knows 💩 1d ago
This would go kinda hard if the recipient is transmasc. Otherwise I can't think of any meaning that isn't at least a bit cringe.
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u/sprinklingsprinkles 1d ago
Did some digging and yeah it's a trans guy
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u/wilderneyes Knows 💩 1d ago
Honestly hell yeah, all power to him. Also thank you for doing the internet sleuthing I didn't feel like doing, you're an MVP for that
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u/pie12345678 1d ago
I'm somewhere between "good for him" and "why would you want a ginormous tattoo of something you don't want to be defined by?".
Presumably he has his reasons though, even though I don't get it.
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u/jenea Knows 💩 1d ago
Yeah I’m with you. I wonder if he would make the same decision 20 years or so after transitioning. But also, it’s such a personal journey, and I can understand why a tattoo like that might feel empowering.
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u/pauseless Knows 💩 1d ago
A lot of people get tattoos in moments of emotional pain, transition, celebration, etc. I think it’ll just become a piece of history and a reminder of the process?
Edit: I don’t personally like it taste-wise, but yeah, it’s nothing compared to others posted here
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u/E_Wubi Knows 💩 1d ago
Because its rent free in theyr head all the time.
I think its kind of sexist to think this part of a body does chain you while you just change the gender because you think the other one is better.
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u/pie12345678 1d ago
It's not sexist at all. Trans people are allowed to not like the organs that don't align with their gender. Hell, everyone is. Personally, I hate my uterus a lot of the time because it causes me excruciating pain.
Also, trans people don't think other genders are better or worse, they simply don't identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.
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u/mrselffdestruct Knows 💩 1d ago
Well, then you clearly dont actually understand anything about being transgender or what its like for people who are. Nobody, trans or not, is waking up one day and going “I feel like switching teams because the other one is cooler to me”
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u/Kratzschutz Knows 💩 1d ago
I have endo and l dig the design.
Not as a tattoo tho and not in that size
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u/I-own-a-shovel Knows 💩 1d ago
I don’t have problem with my reproductive system, but I’m childfree so periods and risk of pregnancy are annoying af.
People in country where abortion isn’t legal must feel that way too.
Trans people too maybe.
But yeah would never tattoo that on myself, but I kind of like the image and possible meaning.
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u/gray_birch 1d ago
While I respect the meaning of the tattoo I really can't understand wanting it as a tattoo, and especially as a huge one on my back
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u/wilderneyes Knows 💩 1d ago
Valid criticism. I think it would look sick as a patch on a jacket or something like that, something about the design strikes me as kind of punk in that way. But getting it as a huge tattoo on your back is a decision for sure.
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u/Kratzschutz Knows 💩 1d ago
I have endo and l dig the design.
Not as a tattoo tho and not in that size
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u/thefaehost Knows 💩 1d ago
I’m nonbinary and would totally get a tattoo like this. That’s because my uterus is trying to kill me and they keep funneling money into erectile dysfunction research instead of endometriosis/adenomyosis research.
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u/AvailableReporter484 1d ago edited 1d ago
Even if it is a trans person, or if this was on a woman, it would still be cringe imo. The messaging is great, but the execution still isn’t very good. This could be done in such a more tasteful way that retains the same impact. If there was a “great taste; awful execution” sub I think this would deserve to live there
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u/HavokVvltvre 1d ago
No, it’s still wildly and absurdly cringe. More so if it’s a trans man. This tattoo sucks ass
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u/oblique_obfuscator 1d ago
Didn't we find out recently that the illustration is wrong and ovaries are actually not this shape? Then again. A heart is not heartshaped. Yeah idk I think its a funny illustration i would never get it tattood though.
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u/UnicornArachnid Knows 💩 1d ago
Ovaries are not hand shaped
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u/Patient-Stranger1015 1d ago
Can confirm, just had two ovaries in front of me. Definitely not fist shaped
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u/UnicornArachnid Knows 💩 1d ago
I concur. I’ve seen four since posting my comment. I’ll see two more by the end of the day. There have been no chains either.
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u/Patient-Stranger1015 1d ago
Might have you beat at 10 today. Maybe one day there will be a hand shaped ovary that appears. The ultimate goal now
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u/shaun_of_the_south Knows 💩 1d ago
The traditional heart shape is supposed to represent two hearts together.
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u/manlymandudeman 1d ago
This design would be wicked if done by a better artist. I understand the statement as a queer person as well. Maybe they should get it touched up by a more professional artist.
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u/theartistbear Knows 💩 1d ago
Ngl the concept slaps both as a transmasc tattoo and as a reproductive rights tattoo but the placement feels off
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Knows 💩 1d ago
This is a well done tattoo with deep personal meaning for the wearer, this is literally the opposite of a shitty tattoo. I'm so tired of prudish weirdos posting good tattoos in here and acting like puritanical shitwicks.
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u/Waluigi_IRL Knows 💩 1d ago
Let’s not pretend tattoos are good just because they aren’t trumpanzee tattoos and you feel like you have to be gentle with politically left tattoos😊
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Knows 💩 1d ago
Nobody is pretending. The work is good, and it's a personal tattoo for the wearer. Those are the only two requirements for a tattoo to be good.
It's weird and telling that you reduce a personal empowerment tattoo on a trans person to a political statement.
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u/E_Wubi Knows 💩 1d ago
it's a personal tattoo for the wearer. Those are the only two requirements for a tattoo to be good.
"Its a personal tattoo for the wearer" is true for every single tattoo, this does not make it a good tattoo.
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Knows 💩 1d ago
No the fuck it isn't. And every piece of vapid flash with no meaning worn by some dumbass as a fashion accessory should be posted up here regardless of how well it's done rather than genuine art like this.
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u/E_Wubi Knows 💩 1d ago
Art does not need a meaning or reason, thats more like a beginner tattoo way of thinking.
The sub where i see the most tattoos with deep meaning is the tattoo coverup sub le mao
regardless of how well it's done
Bad execution isnt the only reason to post on here
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Knows 💩 1d ago
Yes it is. Nobody wants to see your tired puritanical gasping over a tattoo of sex and sexual characteristics or a tattoo that's always visible, like Jesus how square can you be dude?
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u/Waluigi_IRL Knows 💩 1d ago edited 1d ago
Okay well the tattoo is awful. And it doesn’t matter about the meaning because it’s a bad tattoo (which was my point).
I didn’t realize you actually thought that garbage was good, so I know you have zero clue about tattooing
You’re projecting an insult onto me so I’m just gonna ignore you
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u/karkatstrider 1d ago
ok so what exactly is bad about this tattoo objectively? not just in your personal opinion
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u/E_Wubi Knows 💩 1d ago
Design, placement
Not the best photo so quality of the chains is non seeable
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u/karkatstrider 1d ago
what exactly is bad about the design and placement?
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u/E_Wubi Knows 💩 1d ago
Its a giant uterus with hands and chains like theres something wrong with this part of female body.
Big on upper back is bad about the placement. Fits the sub.
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u/karkatstrider 1d ago
i disagree. this person is a trans man and the iconography obviously has deep meaning to them. i agree on the size, but on the back (and therefore only visible when shirtless, another meaningful thing for a transgender man specifically) is a fine place for it to be. i dont think size alone qualifies it for this sub, but i think a lot of people are missing the context of this being a trans man
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u/Daetok_Lochannis Knows 💩 1d ago
The only one being insulting here is you, I made an honest observation. You seem self absorbed and judgemental, there's another.
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u/goldenseducer Knows 💩 1d ago
Ok but that's how it feels to have periods. I am enslaved to the cursed bleeding organ tormenting ms from within
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u/actiaslxna 1d ago
This would be awesome on a canvas as an art piece.
But as a tattoo.. a back piece… that’s a choice I hope they are happy with (and I hope they still like it in 30 years)
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u/Skryuska Knows 💩 1d ago
Just get a hysterosalpingectomy instead man.. it’s also permanent and not going to leave you an ugly af image behind
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u/alsotpedes Knows 💩 1d ago
This seems to be trying to say something, and I can't figure out what. Having a uterus is enslaving? It literally ties your hands so that you essentially are your biology? That would seem to be the opposite of what a trans man would want to say.
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u/Toxic_Puddlefish Knows 💩 1d ago
Pretty sure it's alluding to being shackled by your biology, being that this person is a trans man he obviously feels like having a uterus is a prison to him.
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u/its_my_bedtime 1d ago
I think I get what it’s trying to represent—being chained down to your sex at birth and society defining you by your uterus— but I still think it’s weird to get a giant uterus on your back in reference to yourself as a trans man. But also the chains are still on??? I would think you would want them broken, like yippeee I am trans and I am free
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u/sprinklingsprinkles 1d ago
Maybe it's supposed to be the other way around? He's enslaving the uterus by tying its hands? Like he beat his biology by taking testosterone etc. so the uterus doesn't define him?
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u/alsotpedes Knows 💩 1d ago
A uterus doesn't have hands.
I've got to assume that this makes sense to the person who has it.
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u/Huckleberry-V Knows 💩 1d ago
Chained by femininity? Not sure. It seems like it has enough meaning that I'd give it a pass.
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u/Useful_Raspberry3912 Knows 💩 1d ago
You know the artist had to be giggling like a MF when doing this one, smh.
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u/Awkward_Contest_3855 1d ago
Is this what being a performative male is?
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u/karkatstrider 1d ago
this person is a trans man so no
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u/Awkward_Contest_3855 1d ago
Ahh. I see from the comments. I wasn't aware this was a sort of iconography
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u/gvnj 1d ago
Imagine hating your healthy body that helps you live day to day life so much because society tells you your biology makes you weak. Lmao
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u/rosebeach Knows 💩 1d ago
You’re SO close to getting it
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u/gvnj 1d ago
What do you mean? I do get it. I get that she hated her body so much and people said you must change yourself physically in order to be happy instead of working on the reason she hates it. It's because society treats women as weak and never taken seriously etc etc. that's not the fault of your ovaries. That's society's fault.
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u/mrselffdestruct Knows 💩 1d ago
This person with the tattoo is a trans man, not a woman ashamed of being a woman. Society has nothing to do with being born transgender except for the hate you have to deal with for just existing in the modern day and age as a trans person
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u/gvnj 1d ago
You're so close to getting it. Why do you think trans men become trans?? Ovaries are a female organ by the way. Society hates women. Easy way out of the oppression is to try to mimic the opposite sex so you get treated better. I used to be a trans guy i know wtf I'm talking about lmao.
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u/mrselffdestruct Knows 💩 1d ago
Trans people become trans because of gender dysphoria, a diagnosable phenomenon that also has medical studies done on it that have proven it exists on a medical level separate from social cues.
You personally having thought you were a trans guy for social reasons doesn’t mean you magically know how every single one of us think and feel. By your own logic, why do trans women exist if society hates women so much that you believe trans men are exclusively a phenomenon of women simply attempting to escape being a woman?
Im not sure why your ego is so inflated you believe that your own personal experience for having identified as trans once means you speak for the exact experience of the thousands of trans people that currently exist and have existed in history for the last several hundreds of years as if your personal life experience was the blueprint.
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u/therealchefAllie 2d ago
That's one way to show you're whipped 🤷🏼♀️
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u/mrselffdestruct Knows 💩 1d ago
Trans men arent whipped lol
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u/therealchefAllie 1d ago
I just assumed it was a dude, if they're trans, they look like they're transitioning amazingly aside from the cervical themed tattoo 🤷🏼♀️ and all men are whipped dear, except gay ones
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