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[–]joogabahGay shows the way 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Why do people acquiesce on the pronouns? I find it offensive that speech is policed and that I'm expected to be an accomplice in someone's misogyny by referring to a man acting out a stereotype as a she. How is it not just like blackface/transracialism? Why isn't womanface equally offensive?

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Agreed. And it reinforces the idea that they are, in fact, the sex they claim to be. Instead, we should be pushing for a trans-acceptance campaign. Transwomen are transwomen and that's okay or even better, transwomen are men, and that's okay. We should be pushing men to expand their boundaries of what is acceptable behavior, personality and hobbies instead of once again, expecting women's boundaries to be the default category of non-men. If transwomen's personalities were accepted as a variety of male behavior, the "wrong pronouns" wouldn't be an issue.

[–]joogabahGay shows the way 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I still have an issue with "woman" being in there. Their "presentation" of woman is a stereotype. A woman can look very much like a man (look at "transmen"). Transwomen are feminine men or effeminate men or cross dressers (transvestites), some of whom go to hormonal and surgical extremes to match the conventional feminine aesthetic that many women have fought to be free from.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed, which is why I refuse to write it as trans women. The best I'll do is refusing to remove the trans from it (transwomen), but would greatly prefer society accepting personality variation in men.