NEW Thicced Witch

@thiccedwitch.bsky.social

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New Thicced Witch, Same Great Taste Black TransFeminine TransFeminist that loves playing with words & theory. Currently working on my first non-comic book, Trans/Misogyny = TRUE. i also do transmasculine theory.

top picture: graph of a searing chart with bart simpson in the center. the seats at the edge of the chart have As and Bs, while the seats closest to bart have Ds and Fs.

bottom picture: 3D model of a hole, pulling desks down into it

screengap of a shutterstock photo of a man holding his bloated belly, the description calls this photo "A man who cares about his abdomen"

Because of enforced ignorance, those who are socialized male typically end
up mystifying femaleness—meaning that they develop a sensationalized and
taboo curiosity about womanhood that is similar to that which many
heterosexuals develop toward homosexuality, or that cissexuals develop
toward transsexuality. Girls and women suddenly become perplexing creatures
who males are entirely unable to identify with or relate to.

why would a black woman say this to another black woman? thinking emoji

post by bsky user thicced witch, which reads "using 'google it' to describe the process of fucking up something that used to work perfectly fine"

the post was made 4 days ago

Commitment Skepticism
The reverse asymmetry may have applied to ancestral
women as they decoded men's courtship communications surrounding commitment (Haselton & Buss, 2000). For a woman, inferring long-term commitment interest in a man in whom it was absent could have resulted in postconceptive abandonment, a high cost error associated with lowered offspring survival (Hur-tado & Hill, 1992). Underestimating a man's commitment could also result in nontrivial costs such as delaying reproduction, but these costs, Haselton and Buss.
(2000) hypothesized, would have been lower on average than costs associated with desertion. Women may, therefore, possess a bias toward underestimating men's interest in commitment. Women do indeed rate the level of commitment communicated by male courtship behaviors such as giving of gifts and verbal affirmations of love as lower than do men (Haselton & Buss, 2000). In contrast women and men tend to agree on the level of commitment communicated by women on the basis of the same behaviors (Haselton & Buss, 2000). In vignette studies, women more than men infer deceptive intentions in a man who is conveying his interest in forming a long-term relationship with a woman he would like to take out on a date (Andrews, 2002; see Figure 25.3).

An inevitability during ethnographic participation is that the researcher experiences at least some resocialization. In other words, the ethnographer to some extent "becomes" what they are studying.[24] For instance, an ethnographer may become skilled at a work activity that they are studying; they may become members of a particular religious group they are interested in studying; or they may even inhabit a familial role in a community they are staying with.

Fiske (1993) proposed that the social perceptions of individuals occupying positions of higher power in social hierarchies are less accurate than those lower in the hierarchy. Those higher in power are more likely to endorse stereotypes about others than to attend to individuating information specific to the target being evaluated, which presumably enhances accuracy (Goodwin, Gubin, Fiske, & Yzerbyt, 2000). Individuals assigned more decişion-making power in reviewing internship applications attend more to stereotype consistent information and less to stereotype disconfirming information (Goodwin et al., 2000). Similarly, in a study of two student groups competing for university funding, Ebenbach and Keltner (1998) found that individuals reporting more personal power judged their opponents' attitudes less accurately. A common interpretation of findings such as these is that lower power individuals occupy a more precarious social position and must, therefore, allocate more time and energy to social judgments; more powerful individuals enjoy the luxury of allocating their cognitive efforts elsewhere (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2003).

Screencap of "phobiapedia" article titled transgynephobia, which reads:

"Transgynephobia a form of transphobia, specifically the fear or aversion towards trans women. This phobia can be caused by negative experiences with trans women, like being bullied or attacked by them and believing trans women are bad people. Religion and societal experiences and expectations may also be a potential cause of transgynephobia.

Propaganda spread online, such as harmful stereotypes, can also be a cause for this phobia, like the belief that specifically trans women will sexually harass your kids"

next to this description is laverne cox, a black trans woman.

The concept of “male
privilege” emerged out of the incorrect assumption that sexism functions as a
unilateral form of oppression. According to this model, men unilaterally
oppress women, and thus they reap all of the benefits, while women bear all of
the hardships. This, however, is a gross oversimplification of sexism for
numerous reasons. First, the concept of unilateral sexism denies other
important factors, such as racism, classism, ableism, etc., that contribute to
discrimination. After all, it’s difficult to make the case that a rich white
woman is more oppressed than a poor black man in our culture.

norman rockwell painting freedom of speech, of a man holding the floor during a town council meeting

goku turning super saiyan for the first time

an auditorium full of people kneeling out of respect

batman confronting the joker, who is dressed up as batman