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[–]theory_of_thisan actual straight crossdresser 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

I don't think porn is perfect brainwashing that programmes people's brains to act in a certain way. The relationship details are unclear but a lot of it is serving desires not creating them.

Why do I think that? Because the pattern is so consistent and the pattern of changing people's desires through porn is weak.

Sounds like I do need to read you the plots to erotic that is popular with women. The lit is full of sexualized forms of masculinity.

Why does everything come back to erotica with you?

I was explicitly talking about the sexual elements of gender. It's literally the topic. Of course I'm going to talk about porn, erotica, sexual fantasies, desires and everything related.

Do you not see how gender norms exist outside of pornography?

Of course and I don't think sexuality all comes down to pornography. I think pornography reflects sexuality possibly more than it informs it because I don't think humans especially on drives likes sex are blank.

Disliking how someone presents their sexual proclivities in public isn’t dictating their sexuality.

This is basically back to "gay people need to keep in the bedroom stuff."

You think heterosexual conforming people don't show any sexuality in public? That there is no sexual display at all?

How is disliking it when a man wears a grown and calls himself strawberry lemonade and makes jokes about women being mean and awful dictating to him whether he is straight/gay/bi? Dresses is not a sexuality.

You are disingenuously mixing up dresses with misogyny here. They are different things.

By this reasoning everyone should be masculine.

We don’t comment on the sexual behaviour of anyone who doesn’t insert it into our lives when we don’t want it. It just so happens that men are the most invested in inserting their sexual behaviour into discussions and women’s spaces.

Again you are jumping between topics. Again this is a common socially conservative talking point. "Why won't the gay men stop inserting their perversion into our lives." You are using arguments used by social conservatives against gay people on trans people to complain about gnc males that aren't in women's spaces. Crossdressers do not identify as women. Billy Porter in a gown is not in women's spaces.

You don’t seem to recognise anything gnc that isn’t sexual and it’s so weird.

Yes I recognise non sexual gnc things. But we are discussing sexual aspects of gender.

You are also a person who likes to discuss sex and gender. That's why you are here.

Gendered socialisation happens to babies, saying boys like trucks and don’t cry. is that about a sexual kink? Can you talk about any topic without shoehorning it into sex and fetishes? It feels like you talk about that and nothing else.

We are discussing gender non conformity and sexuality is always going to be part of gender the debate.

When these topics come up gc puts it's blinkers on. All it can see is people doing things it doesn't like completely ignoring the majority of sexuality going on.

I'm here defending gnc men in their gnc sexuality. I'd also defend all gnc people and their gnc sexualities.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What the fuck? What is that tangent about porn? I made the topic and I can assure you porn didn’t even come into the initial question.

I asked if you understand that porn is not all there is to gender norms and you come back with..whatever that was

You ok bud?

[–]theory_of_thisan actual straight crossdresser 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Porn, erotica and sexual fantasies are relevant to discussing gender and sexuality.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not when I’ve continually said that’s not what I’m trying to talk about. Why are you so obsessed with it goddamn dude. Gender norms existed before fucking pornography did, and plenty exist that have nothing to do with porn or erotica. No woman needs or wants you to describe the plots of the porno you consume.

One discussion where you don’t talk about porn would be amazing

[–]BiologyIsReal 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Having boundaries is not the same as being conservative. If I'm at a restaurant and a couple start having sex right there, I would told them to get a room. I don't care if it a straight couple or a gay one because I didn't consent to a porn spectacle. If they say they need to have public sex in order to get off, too bad, they will have to find a willing audience. If they can't do that because they get off on getting other people uncomfortable, then I would judge them as the perverts they are.

And you don't need to tell anyone about any porn plot. Can't you have a conversation that doesn't involve porn for once?

[–]theory_of_thisan actual straight crossdresser 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Having boundaries is not the same as being conservative.

So what is the policy implication of this?

Can't you have a conversation that doesn't involve porn for once?

Sure we can talk about reported fantasies.

[–]BiologyIsReal 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So what is the policy implication of this?

You're acting like TRAs here. TRAs say that GC people are socially conservative because conservatives also recognizes there are only two sexes. Nevermind any differences between ideologies. You say GC people are using conservative talking points because conservative people critizes pornography and certain sexual practices too. You're no recognizing the differences in our arguments and reasonings.

Sure we can talk about reported fantasies.

Wow! Way to completely miss the point, dude! OP has said she intended this thread to be about gender nonconformoty in general. You're the only who keep focusing on sex because apparently you cannot dissociate gender non-conformity or conformity with the sexual act.

[–]theory_of_thisan actual straight crossdresser 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Leaving aside narrow trans topics. I think GC has at least two camps. One more radical and one more socially conservative. But they often both overlap with a conservative position on men.

I recall watching a video of a butch gc woman mocking transwomen. It was very focused on complaining about the femininity of those people. If it was a man talking it would easily fit into the category of a masculine man mocking femininity in men.

I'm for gender non conformity in men and women. But that pattern is going to include men doing things that are the very things gc women on the radical side are often looking to escape from.

Way to completely miss the point, dude!

Sexuality is part of gender norms.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If it was a man talking

It wasn’t a man though. I don’t know why so many men think the “what if the genders were reversed” thought experiment which always ignores the context of all of history and present culture is smart or useful