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[–]julesburm1891 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It 100% seems to be an inability to distinguish the differences between (1) observing, (2) looking with interest, (3) looking with confusion, and (4) looking with disgust.

She’s automatically assigning Meaning 2 to everything without considering that most of how anyone is seen in any space is Meaning 1 and without even considering Meanings 3 and 4 as possibilities.

Tbh, it seems like so much of the trans community is either so wrapped up in themselves or so oblivious to social cues that they do this a lot. It reminds me of the time a badly-passing transbian showed up at a lesbian night and thought we were all lusting after him. He couldn’t tell that every woman in the bar was skeeved out and looking at him with disdain.