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[–]Porphyria 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Reminds me of the speculation that's been going on since the 1990s at least : Are the carefully staged and choreographed 'fight scenes' in movies , in which 110 lb actresses beat up men without breaking a fingernail, tricking young women into NOT understanding the strength difference between the average man and the average woman-? If that trans man actually thought artifical testosterone is going to make up for being a biological female who did NOT go through male puberty, and IF that's a common misconception...then yeah, there's going to be some major problems, starting now.

I read a post elsewhere from a concerned uncle, whose 16 year old niece (whom he described a s a "tiny wee girl") actually believed GRS would literally make her a man, AND that she'd become tall, because men are taller than women. Just what the HELL are doctors telling these kids-? GRS is only cosmetic ; it does not literally change one's sex, and a 16 year old's growth plates are almost certainly 'shut down'. She's not getting any taller, if she goes though with the surgery.( Look at poor Ellen/Elliot Paige, who looks like a 12 year old boy. )

(Worse , too many people still think trans women are all Sad Gay Men who are uninterested in women sexually and who have all had GRS anyway. This misconception is getting multiple girls and women assaulted. I hope it's a misconception, and not that normies like the idea of other women being set up for assault, if they're incarcerated, or too poor to go to private schools, or can't find more prestigious work with private toilets, etc.)

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This overconfidence of some woman is a problem for their own safety. Idk what it is but it seems like woman lately think it's OK for them to beat up their husbands/boyfriends. I've had to watch something similar happen multiple times in person and in one case it went too far when both of them were drunk. I personally watched the woman agressively punch the husband all day while he laughed it off then later they were both completely wasted and he lost his temper and hit back ONCE and basically obliterated her. The cops had to come etc... This is what happened when he still deeply cares for her and hit once. Imagine a real "fight" where the guy gets into a fight with a ftm and doesn't even realize he's fighting a woman.

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

Are the carefully staged and choreographed 'fight scenes' in movies , in which 110 lb actresses beat up men without breaking a fingernail, tricking young women into NOT understanding the strength difference between the average man and the average woman-?

I really am starting to believe this, especially because our sedentary lifestyles don't put us in as many physical situations as we used to be in.

I grew up with two brothers very close in age, and we used to beat the living crap out of each other. It was all pretty equal until we hit puberty, and then it wasn't even a contest anymore.

Also, anecdotally, a lot of the women I see spouting off with such bravado are fairly privileged, protected, middle and upper class women who have never been in a physical altercation with a man. Which, good for them I guess, but have I got a bridge to sell you...

[–]HelloMomo 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When I was in elementary school, I got in trouble a couple times for kicking classmates, mostly boys. Not fights; not two-way things. Just unreciprocated kicking. Namely this one boy, who'd keep coming over to us at recess because he was a simp for my friend (which I kinda was too, to be fair).

I remember my mom sitting me down after one of the times I got in trouble, and saying something along the lines of "You are female, and also the second shortest kid in your class. If you keep this behavior up, someone is going to beat the shit out of you someday." I didn't give her words a second thought. By middle school I had grown out of that behavior anyways, and so it never really became an issue.

But I remember her words now, reading this.