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[–]Michael_frf 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

while pressuring us to be open to them

That's what I covered in my second paragraph. My point was that hypothetically, a person could be trans and accept the small dating pool it implies in a non-superphobic world. They wouldn't be pressuring other people to be open, and thus would be innocent of the hypocrisy.

How many such people exist (relative to the total trans population) is a question of fact I'm not sure of. It would be surprising and depressing if the answer was 0%.

In contrast, a cis person who denounces supersexuality as "hate", is not asexual, has not given any sort of exclusivity promise to a cis lover, and yet has never pleased a trans person would be more suspect than a boundary-respecting trans. I'd imagine there are a lot of those; the hostile response to super would otherwise be much smaller.

The "hypocrisy of straightness" would simply be that every straight person has a characteristic that utterly disqualifies them from being an acceptable date to themselves. Yet they hope their crush will like that characteristic. It's not really hypocrisy by itself --- it only becomes so if they question others' right to be homosexual or asexual.

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

I get what you were saying now