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[–]MisandryFTW 26 insightful - 3 fun26 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I used to believe I owed my body to people to make them feel better about themselves, but then I came up with the suggestion "Why not date each other?" and apparently this was offensive because it wasn't "validating enough" and they weren't attracted to each other because they wanted a "real woman" (their words). That's when I started to peak. I was willing to date people I wasn't attracted to at all to keep them from killing themselves, but their personalities again and again made me not even want to be around them. Then I had the idea, "Why not date bi/pansexuals?" and apparently that wasn't validating enough either. They needed a "big tiddy nerdy goth lesbian mommy dom to dress them in diapers and feminize them, lock their penis in a cage" and they kept bringing it up every time they saw me. I wasn't into that at all (and was triggered by most of it due to childhood abuse) and their personalities showed such mental illness and entitlement I avoided them at social gatherings (most had diagnosed low functioning ASD, NPD, and BPD and were on disability and living with their parents despite being in their 40-60s because they couldn't get along with people well enough to stay employed), so I was a "snob" apparently because I only wanted to hang around OFAB people, when the truth is I only wanted to hang around people I got along with and who respected my boundaries, which excluded nearly all OMAB people, regardless of how they identify.

I feel really bad that they have a mental illness, but I'm not obligated to "fix" it with my body and time. If someone is having an acute emergency I will be there for them but I'm not going to be tricked into sexual assault again and again just because someone threatens suicide and our mutual friends pressure me.

[–]peaked2020 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What is OFAB?

[–]MisandryFTW 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Observed Female At Birth. Basically the least offensive way of saying Female without co-opting intersex narratives. Apparently it's only used by Gender Critical folks. AFAB annoys a lot of intersex people because "assigned" implies surgery or being intersex and someone decides for you as a newborn. It started because a lot of trans women wanted to pretend they were maybe intersex.

[–]peaked2020 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Why not just say “female”...?

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

I got used to using it because most circles I hang around in "female" just means anyone who identifies as female, which doesn't make sense and also adds to confusion. If I said to my friends "I only want to hang out with females." then they would be confused because a lot of my friends are OFAB but identify otherwise plus I don't want to hang around trans women most of the time. There is no gendercritical local community so it's either liberal feminist LGBT+, religious homophobes, or staying home. I mostly stay home.