Men's IssuesVICE - "The Straight Men Who Have Sex with Trans Women" (i.e, gay men who lie to themselves)

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Sure, I agree. There's a research context, there's a politics context, there's a day-to-day context. Etc.

Not personally AGP, no. In 2019 I started studying sexuality in general because of the culture war that started in the US circa 2010, and it was starting to become fairly prevalent in 2019. Sex and gender were and are a big part of the culture war. That was back when /r/GenderCritical was still alive on Reddit, and I got introduced to the topic there. Been downhill ever since, because if I've been lied to about the trans thing, what else have people been goofing off with the truth with in regards to human sexuality?

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Okay, I see. Asking because I was curious if you got introduced to it the same way I did. I got introduced to the theory 2016 by the resident blanchardians on the reddit sub gcdebatesqt, tailcalled (surveyannon) convinced me. I never believed in the traditional trans narrative before that though as it didn't make sense to me.

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Well that's a bit earlier than I got into it. Yeah, I skimmed gcdebatesqt, but as soon as I got there, I quickly realized people were having conversations about things I knew nothing of, nor could surmise or synthesize the theory from the conversations. So that kicked off a whole bunch of reading. I've read tailcalled's tweets on occasion, visited their blog, etc. The phallometry used by Blanchard is pretty ahem rock solid.

The trans narrative before that wasn't much anything I had ever turned my attention to. I was certainly aware of trans people. I wouldn't consider myself the sort of activist who wakes up in the morning and tries to reach for something to protest. I'd rather not, at all, but the topic of sexuality is of a personal nature to me, and the whole reality-denying civilization-destroying doublespeak is just something I've got to put my foot down on.