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[–]MinisterOfTerfery 62 insightful - 2 fun62 insightful - 1 fun63 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The op said they might cancel the event due to the backlash. A bunch of girls in horrible situation who don't have much to look forward get one positive thing organised for them and of course it might get taken away because a male isn't included. What better way to show you're a woman than to bully an event for underprivileged girls to the point of canceling it...

[–]questioningtw 36 insightful - 1 fun36 insightful - 0 fun37 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People that can't take no for an answer are always horrible people

[–][deleted] 29 insightful - 1 fun29 insightful - 0 fun30 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is what happens when you say TWAW. All the comments keep emphasizing that it's just about class and economic privilege, but if a random man demanded to become a speaker at the same event and didn't take no for an answer, it'd be called misogyny.

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[–]yousaythosethings 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is the kind of stuff that peaks reasonable people or plants the seeds of peaking.

[–]BiologyIsReal 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The mods already deleted the original post, even though OP played the pronouns game and focused on economic status. The thread has been locked too.

[–]yousaythosethings 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is so much woke, intersectional rot in the comments. Everything in the hypotheticals that everyone is peddling are gospel truth and scientific fact. No one who's spent any amount of time with your average TW would ever confuse them for having female socialization. They’re just men. Period.

So much navel gazing over what it’s like to be closeted as anything and come out later in life. So irrelevant. I am a woman, a lesbian specifically, from a background of limited economic means and even I know I’m not the right person for this conversation. These people need to spend more time in the real world.

Also “we don’t have all the facts so we’re going to assume the best in the rich male who IDs as a woman and assume the worst about everyone else including OP.” If TW’s experiences and socialization are so similar to women’s why do they get special representation?

[–]EveSerpent 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If [TIMs] experiences and socialization are so similar to women’s why do they get special representation?

Because they’re men. Everyone knows this fact, no matter how much they pretend not to. That’s why TIMs are always placed above women. The misogyny is instinctive.

[–]questioningtw 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is of course a NTA, If Dana was a good person they would have just said that is fine and moved on. People are rejected for things all the time.

[–]Eurowoman24 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Dana transitioned at 25, apart from economic privilege these girls are fighting poverty which is making puberty 100% harder. Fuck these narcs.

[–]bopomofodojo 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I’m with you here. They’re acting like Dana was a completely normal guy who all of a sudden decided they would rather be female instead. Maybe OP’s specific event isn’t the right place for it, but clearly the world would benefit from hearing trans women’s experiences if so many people still act like trans women don’t struggle with any gender dysphoria until the day they transitioned

Goddamnit they're so fucking close.

[–]yousaythosethings 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Those are the words of (at best) someone who needs to meet their first TW and then they'll never be able to say those words with a straight face ever again.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Agree /Woke 101 is basic intersectionalism - know your place + context."

I'm doing the math lady meme here. Is this sarcasm or not? I think it's genuine cause it has 1k upvotes? Can someone really unironically say "know your place" like that's a good or progressive thing? As the basis for the entire movement?