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[–]our_team_is_winning 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I wish TiM would not use the word "woman" in any way. It's misleading (deliberately!) It's Gender Cosplay at best. But then GC is our abbreviation.

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

Oh, I am sympathetic to that. (Disclosure - I consider myself strongly GC leaning but not 100% GC, but I like to hang out on all the forums.) Personally I'm ok with "Trans women are trans women" but I think we absolutely need to be clear that they're not women in the biological sense and "woman" alone is not an appropriate descriptor. It always feels a bit off to me to refer to some trans women as men (not the examples I gave in my post above, but say, somebody like Blaire White or Nikkie Tutorials). They've gotten to that point where I can't fully see them as men anymore. I think trans woman and trans man are useful terms to acknowledge that they exist as a social group without trying to pretend that they are literally the same as biological men and women. I think it's ultimately hurtful to the trans people themselves because the more society promotes the delusion that one day they'll be a "real girl/boy" the more they will chase after an unachievable goal and ultimately the worse they will feel.

[–]our_team_is_winning 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, Blaire White seems almost likeable. Non threatening anyway. In my head I always think of him as "gay guy" or "effeminate gay guy." I still don't understand why he couldn't keep his original body and just enjoy being a gay guy. I saw a video of him at the gym prancing around like Peggy Bundy, like a parody of a woman. That irritates me because it seems like a mockery of women. That Rose of Dawn Youtuber seems like a decent person as well.

[–]Binah17 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They seem reasonable but then they start fangirling over Trump to get that conservative validation.