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[–]jkfinn 26 insightful - 3 fun26 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Talk about TiMs being self-obsessed... The first guy uses the whose-the-real-minority lesbians or trans. argument, and answers himself by saying that trans are 200 times fewer in number--and are thus excluded by lesbians. The second guy says trans guys are lesbians, so the lesbians who refuse to date him are "transphobic pieces of shit." And the third guy, the man-splainer, accepts the premise at face value, but is convinced lesbians want their own spaces chiefly to escape "the gross men in dresses."

[–]sisterinsomnia 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When heterosexual men transition they seem to view themselves as Lesbians. Heterosexual men are a big group, so a small percentage of them is still a fairly big group, compared to natal Lesbians who are a small group among all women. So it is not the case that TIMs would be one in 200 among Lesbians. It's more likely that they would be one half, perhaps even more?

[–]jkfinn 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I sense that the number of lesbians that they fear are smaller in numbers than them, and also these lesbians possess far less social power, which is what's most critical politically. So the 200 times less is utterly ridiculous.