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[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wow... how wrong we were...

Actually, I don't think people were wrong at all about the gender/sex differences. There absolutely is a socialization component.

The part that people were wrong about was that gay men would never be targeted.

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh no, I meant the "it would be impossible for FTM to act like this" part. I'm 40 years old and I'm STILL struggling to fight against the socialization I received as a child. Socialization is a hell of a drug, especially when you're so young and clueless, and the people who are socializing you don't have your best interest at heart and they're actually making you weaker and easier to oppress with everything they're teaching you. I'm actually kind of amazed that nerdy 15 year old girls are able to demand dick from gay men with the confidence of teen movie bad-guy jocks nowadays.

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh no, I meant the "it would be impossible for FTM to act like this" part.

Oh, I gotcha, cool :) sometimes I encounter people who deny that socialization is even a thing, so I try to throw a comment or two in edgewise haha.

I'm actually kind of amazed that nerdy 15 year old girls are able to demand dick from gay men with the confidence of teen movie bad-guy jocks nowadays

Haha, yeah I think they are the outliers tbh. Trans people in general are, too-- higher rates of narcissistic personality disorder, for example. You get a large enough sample, you get a few people like that no matter what the age. And in 2020, a transgender "identity" probably looks very attractive to a young adolescent/adult craving social currency.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Although I wonder how that would go down offline and in real life. I think they'd deflate like a popped balloon.