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[–]RevengeOfTheCis 12 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 4 fun13 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

I fucking love this post. This may be hard to believe but I actually had this exact debate with a TRA a DECADE ago. I'm serious, a fucking DECADE ago.

I was asking her about how, if anyone can be trans with no hormones or anything, and trans women are women and should be allowed in women's bathrooms, what's to stop a man from just walking into a women's bathroom to be a creep and saying he's a trans woman?

She responded... that no man would ever do that because being trans is too painful, so no one would ever pretend to be trans.

By coincidence a story had recently been in the news about some man who hid in literal sewers to look up women's skirts or something, so I asked her how the fuck she can believe a man would lie down in human feces to abuse women, but wouldn't simply walk into a room and say he's trans?

I'd love to tell you all her response but she blocked me.

[–]_UngodlyFruit_[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"no man would ever do that because being trans is too painful, so no one would ever pretend to be trans."

Wow..the ignorance is blinding. How sheltered a life does a woman have to live, to have no concept of the lengths men will go to harass and abuse women? How could she not instinctively understand why this is a bad idea?

Something I noticed with these types of women activists is that they usually fit into a certain box: Middle or upper middle class. College educated, typically in the social sciences or humanities. Often white, and always liberal or left-leaning. Also tend to have a massive saviour complex.

In comparison to the majority of women on this planet, these women have had relatively easy lives. Especially in the sense that being a woman wasn't something that had a disproportionately negative effect on on their life. Their reality and lived experience as a woman is so vastly different than your typical third-world country woman living in poverty, they may as well be living on a different planet.

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

Something I noticed with these types of women activists is that they usually fit into a certain box: Middle or upper middle class. College educated, typically in the social sciences or humanities. Often white, and always liberal or left-leaning. Also tend to have a massive saviour complex.

LOL she checked nearly every item on this list.