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I think (and I'm talking about the US here) it's important to remember that many people who latched onto Super Straight are probably young to young-ish so have been indoctrinated into lib feminism/ Queer Theory from childhood, so to them even stating their sexual boundries is a bit taboo.

Then the older people announcing their Super Straightness have been brow-beaten into submission by the nonstop media, corporate and governmental barrage that Trans Women Are Women for the last ten years, and so know not to say the opposite out loud even if they think it's ridiculous.

All to say that, IMO, many people are just taking their baby steps into gender criticism and so what we who are GC can do to help them take bigger steps is maybe not hit them over the head with all we know until they're ready to hear it.