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[–]chazzstrong 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I noticed that the people in the photo looks like a media representation of what men are supposed to look like. Most men I know don't look like that.

Boom. Just like how transwomen end up being the most cartoonish females imaginable. Even ones that pass like Blaire are so super vampy it's almost laughable, they turn into caricatures...and that's because no man can ever know what it's like to think or act like a woman, so they just adhere to extreme stereotypes.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're literally a product being sold to insecure, mostly autistic women.

It's pretty fucked up.

[–]fuck_reddit 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

There’s something off about every one of them. So yeah, I’d stare in a bar, but not cause Im attracted.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 31 insightful - 3 fun31 insightful - 2 fun32 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Let's see:

  • Weak shoulders all around.

  • Their 'pecs' are way too separated from one another, with some of the ones shown even looking tubular, like cut tits.

  • Also hips, they're way too large.

  • Most of them are small as fuck, look at their hands lol

Also, picking them as the gold standard for FtM transition is not only misleading, but also cruel as fuck, because most transitioners won't have the money or genetics to look like this.

Also, also, this photo is a studio one, so more misleading bullshit is in play here, case in point, they shoped the mastectomy scars out in some of them.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Isn't it funny how MtFs aren't expected to undergo any medical transition at all, and we're not allowed to 'police' their trans identities by expecting them to actually.... look like women. But FtMs are expected to get the double mastectomy, take steroids, get ab implants (see Elliot Page's recent look).

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's the misogyny inherent to the T movement. Women have to stop looking like women and it's OK if not encouraged for men to also not look like women (unless he isn't trans, then he's treated as an egg and his femininity is used as "proof" that he needs to transition)

It would make it easier for transbians to be able to more easily spot real lesbians to harass without needing to sort through breast implant after wig

[–]CuntWorshiperWomenholic full time | vagina fetishist part-time 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I was just about to say some of them forgot to chop their tits off but now you got me thinking..

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for going into the details to scrutinize the Trans.

They all look... funky to me. These are people who willfully destroy some of the most pronounced physical characteristics of their sex to present a mediocre imitation of the other.

I'll add that their faces still all appear female anyway, so no dice.

[–]powpowpowpow 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are quite uncanny

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 13 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 6 fun -  (8 children)

I’d be staring all right. Because I’d be curious as to how these women could afford all that surgery to look like teenage boys, and how the bar managed to get all these FTMs from all over the country to show up at that one bar.

They probably look better in the photograph. Must have had a very good camera.

[–]fuck_reddit 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Id definitely be wondering what a bunch of LA pornstars are doing in my red-state gay bar lol. Also these are, quite literally, the most convincing FtM people the world has produced, and they still don’t “pass.”

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I’d be wondering why these half naked "men" are inside my small, Irish gay bar. Gay bars in Ireland are small and rare.

[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I thought you were saying... "inside my small irish gay butt" LMAO

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🤣🤣🤣

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Well apart from the glorious George 😀

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I have to go there some time, when the lockdowns end and never come back.

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

Friendliest and best fun gay bar I ever visited. Over west in Galway was probably the tiniest gay bar I ever went to.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The gay bar in Galway sucks because of how small it is. There is a gay bar in Limerick that’s three times as big.

[–]motss-pb 23 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Looking like something doesn't mean you are that thing. If plastic fruit looks delicious, does that make it edible? If people mistook Rita Ora for being black/mixed, does that mean she is? Are drag queens actually women because some of them pass? And what happens to the argument when a group of non-passing transmen are photographed? Do we reach the opposite conclusion?

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And what happens to the argument when a group of non-passing transmen are photographed? Do we reach the opposite conclusion?

They will never do so because all of this is propaganda and these FtMs are just products being marketed by a snake oil salesmen.

I know most people here already know this, but just to reiterate: TRAs don't give a shit about disphoric people.

Think about it: they're presenting 'top tier' transitions as the norm, which inevitable will create unrealistic spectations.

Also, notice how I'm not even bringing the sexism question here, otherwise this would become a lot more grimer.

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

I was about to say. Parading this picture is disrespectful to most trans men. Most real men will never achieve that level, much less people with female bodies to begin with. Wouldn’t this be a dysphoria trigger knowing you could never look like that? That whole tweet is fucked up

Also: someone on the thread pointed out that at least some of those models only seem to have girlfriends. So the “turn heads in a gay bar” comment is even more funny

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wouldn’t this be a dysphoria trigger knowing you could never look like that? That whole tweet is fucked up

Who cares!

They want to own the 'transphobes', nothing more.

Also: someone on the thread pointed out that at least some of those models only seem to have girlfriends. So the “turn heads in a gay bar” comment is even more funny

The FtMs that pass better are generally HSTS, so this is not a surprise at all.

Same goes for the MtF ones.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 21 insightful - 4 fun21 insightful - 3 fun22 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I don't get it. Is the pic supposed to be of trans men? If so, they pass very well. That said, the whole 'don't reduce people to their body parts' doesn't fly. So these people would 'turn heads in any gay bar', eh? Why? Because of their beautifully gendered souls? Or because of ... gasp...their bodies?

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 21 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The question is why you would say they’d turn heads in a gay bar as opposed to a straight bar. The fact that the overwhelming majority of transmen are. gay and the overwhelming majority of transwomen are lesbian needs some deep scientific explanation.

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

Yeah, that flies under the radar, doesn't it? It's explicable, but nobody is casually asking.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It looks like the studio had managed to round up every successful FTM in the country for that photograph. The vast majority of men don’t look like that.

Then again, steroids can make you look like this. But steroids will wear off, after which point your looks will change drastically and your muscles will deteriorate. Stay away from steroids.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And not to mention that every single trick of lighting and photoshop can be used for this professionally done photo. If someone took their cell phone into the room before they used the professional camera, then they might be unrecognizeable

[–][deleted] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Reducing people to their genitals"

Uh, sorry that sexual characteristics are the main thing that sexual orientation is based on?

[–]usehername 10 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Some crimes can never be forgiven.

[–]boypower 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No matter how chiseled your jaw is, how wide your shoulders are, how hairy you get and how muscular you become, you are still a woman. People don't get off to the '' likeness '' of the sex they are attracted to, but the physical reality on one's sex.

[–]fuck_reddit 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Explaining stuff to TRAs is like explaining sex to kids and people who haven’t been in a healthy relationship... oh wait...

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Idk how you all can tell, they look male to me. But there aren't and that's always gonna be an issue. Knowing they have the other genitalia is the turn off. And these people finding it problematic to reduce someone to genitals are also the ones who say uterus havers and menstruaters and birthing people.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Idk how you all can tell, they look male to me.

Practice, my friend.

You need to know where and how to look, then it becomes easy to clock them.

[–]boypower 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would have to agree. Some of them do read as male from this one picture, and admitting that doesn't really prove anything except with that money, surgery, dedication to hormones and the right genes, even as a woman, you can read as male. But regardless of that, they are still women, putting on a morbid costume. They lack male biology and especially male genitalia. And even beyond that, their '' male '' experience as women who might read as men isn't at all the same as the experience of maleness that actual males have gone through their whole lives: from gender stereotypes and gender roles to male socialization, other cultural and individual factors that affect how men experience their sex and maleness, and puberty and growing up as men. Add to this male homosexuality, and you have so much that no straight women pretending to be a gay man can fully comprehend, understand or emulate, albeit they might try. All of this is part of the attraction to the same sex (to me), to fully recognize someone of the same sex and to be able to understand and even relate to their experience as a person of the same sex that they are. Male biology and the experience (no matter how individualistic the experience might be) growing up as a biological male are both important.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with all this. At the end of the day you have a person who is female, biologically and mentally. Add. To that it’s someone with severe body issues, why would I want to look for that in a mate?

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A still photo can obscure a lot of the ways we perceive sex, you're not seeing the way these people move, for instance, or hearing their voice.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I have to give props to the studio, because it most of taken them months of searching an entire country to look for 20 FTMs who look like male supermodels. I bet half of them are not from the country in which this photograph was taken and were just visiting. I wonder though, how many of these "men" took steroids? Steroids can make an average looking man look like a supermodel for a few years.

It is easy to make a group of average looking people (a fives or sixes) look like tens on a photograph if you have a professional photographer, high end camera, high end studio lighting, high end photo-editing software and can arrange the models in a way to make them appear taller than they are. People often forget that Tom Cruise is 5'7" after all. Maybe three or four of the models in this photograph are biological men, because some of them do look convincing.

Gay men do care a lot about how our partners look and how much muscle our partners have, but the penis is still an essential feature. We don’t think about it that much because it’s obvious that we need it to be there.

[–]usehername 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

And those women don't have to worry about steroids shrinking their dicks.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They have to worry about their whole uterus rotting away though.

FtMs might pass better, but the effects of HRT on them are wayyy more harsh on their bodies and health.

[–]usehername 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're right, I blanked that steroids are mostly just testosterone. I don't know much about them, but I think there are some that aren't just testosterone.

But you're right, CSHT (cross-sex hormone treatment, I prefer this term because HRT is for women after menopause) leads to vaginal and uterine atrophy and so much cancer. Russia kills a lot of female athletes by giving them testosterone.

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They do have to worry about cancer though. Plus, the steroids make them more aggressive than before, so they get into a lot of fights, which they often lose.

[–]usehername 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. They may have the musculature, but not the skeletal structure. They're better off learning judo than trying to fight with brute strength.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Plus, the steroids make them more aggressive than before, so they get into a lot of fights, which they often lose.

Against men, not so much for women.

It's no wonder some prominent HSTS FtMs are known women beaters, which is fucking ironic isn't it?

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They hate being women, and they also hate other women. What a coincidence?

[–]lazy-summer-godSuper Gay 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

These fellas would turn heads in any gay bar

I kinda agree. They all look like these creepy police reconstructions of Jane/John Doe's faces.

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Thanks for the nightmares.

[–]TiredTrendersSuper-gay 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The amount of editing that photo has is just....no. They even removed the mastectomy scars. Wonder who they think they're fooling cuz it certainly ain't us.

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They were probably rich enough to afford plastic surgery.

[–]hellonumpty 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Eh, I accept they might turn heads but the moment they speak their helium voice reveals all. 🙃

[–]ImNOTRobertPaulson 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The whole "reducing people to their genitals" argument is so stupid.

For most people, sex is a very important part of a relationship, and genitals are pretty damn important for sex.

But aside from that obvious point, where does that argument logically end?

Intelligence is an important trait in a partner to me. Am I reducing a person to their brain?

I'm balding and I have no control over that. Life gave me that little present. Ive had a few guys say they aren't interested because of that. Are they reducing me to my hairline?

I want a partner who is stable and can hold a job long term. Am I reducing people to their work ethic?

The answer to all of those is obviously no. Like genitals, each of those things are requirements for a partner. Saying I'll only date males with natural dicks isn't reducing them to their genitals. It is highlighting one very important requirement.

Saying gay men or lesbians are reducing people to their genitals for not want to date a trans person is basically a low key way of saying that that is the only thing we care about, and it used to be considered homophobic to assume lgb people are only interested in sex...

[–]Rosefield 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So someone made a photo of female body builders with beards & without breasts. That's all what this is.

[–]Retardation_station 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

They're all like 5 foot 4.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

That’s the tallest ones!

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

I like how there are no actual men in the picture to point up how small these women are in comparison.

[–]blargus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Reducing someone to their genitals"

For normal people our bodies are a big part of who we are. Just because trans people have or feel disassociated from their bodies doesn't mean all the rest of us need to as well.

It also doesn't mean the "enlightened" way of living is to disassociate yourself from your and other people's bodies. This reminds me of how it seemed like in the early 10s being poly was a big thing all of a sudden and the poly people went around all self-righteous acting like they have become enlightened while all the rest of us are just simple cave-people constraining ourselves to just one person.