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[CW: transphobia] MoonOfAlabama opines on trans issues
[CW: transphobia] MoonOfAlabama opines on trans issues
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The Bush administration failed in its endeavor to create new realities in Iraq.
People do this thing where they just like, have a thing that they like thinking about and then they just put trans people in there with what they already know, without ever considering the possibility that there may be something they don't just inherently understand. For a lot of people, their "thing" is either sex or sports so they think of us exclusively in those contexts. But it's always funny to see the same thing unfold in less usual ways. It makes me imagine all sorts of weird bits for different types of guy.
Guy who's really into buildings: "Trans people are just like when a building gets remodeled, and sometimes [paragraphs of architectural jargon] so that's why I believe only short people should be allowed to transition, because otherwise the structural integrity could be compromised."
Guy who's really into geology: "Sometimes rocks turn into other types of rocks, but it takes a really long time. That's why I only support trans people once they've transitioned for 10 years or so."
Guy who's really into snakes: "Transitioning is exactly like when a snake sheds its skin, therefore [I don't even know]"
Honestly at least those examples all include a thing changing. The comparisons people try to make in reality are even more tenuous to the point of being beyond parody. When somebody compares trans people to the Iraq War, or when the Pope compared us to nuclear weapons, or when Putin said, "The West is trying to cancel Russia just like they cancelled JK Rowling," what parody of that could you possibly make? Even when I reach for the most absurd examples I can think of, they're still more reasonable than what people actually say.
I wrote this and then skimmed the comments (do not do this) and found:
The trans ideology functions like a form of settler colonialist ideology just like Zionism.
It's literally exactly like the bits I wrote but dumber and less coherent. Do people not realize that they can just, like, shut the fuck up about trans people and talk about the thing they actually want to talk about?
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The trans ideology functions like a form of settler colonialist ideology just like Zionism.
I hate it when the trans air force drops white phosphorus on cis neighbourhoods
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The most moral army in the world
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Clearly they'd just drop hormones all over cis neighborhoods instead
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Do people not realize that they can just, like, shut the fuck up about trans people and talk about the thing they actually want to talk about?
This is where I'm at currently. I'm fully on the trans-misogyny theory these days. I see almost all transphobes arriving at their position through hatred of women first and foremost. They believe men and women are very distinct, immutable categories. Women are supposed to fulfill a role of birthing babies and being domestic servants. Trans women demand to be viewed as valid humans, so that trips off a transphobe's misogyny. It's also why transphobes hardly ever talk about transmen, because they don't take afab people seriously nor do they listen to them.
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it was funny to listen to the chapo "ladyballers" review. they were like "hey trans people if you're curious you're 100% safe seeing this movie. there's almost no mention of transgender people even at all. what then is the butt of all the jokes in the film? misogyny! it's just all bitchy remarks about ciswomen. these guys hate women"
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Do people not realize that they can just, like, shut the fuck up about trans people and talk about the thing they actually want to talk about?
No! You MUST have a take on everything in our current take-haver economy. It doesnt matter that you don't know jack about shit, and besides trans people give them gross vibes because we've been modeled as gross jokes in all the movies and shows that they watched, so they probably know more about trans people than actual trans people do, bucko!
fucking tiresome shit
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Guy who's really into snakes: "Transitioning is exactly like when a snake sheds its skin, therefore [I don't even know]"
"Therefore, trans people should have a little rattle so they can shake it to ward off predators."
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Wish I had fangs and deadly poison.
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Do people not realize that they can just, like, shut the fuck up about trans people and talk about the thing they actually want to talk about?
I appreciate this question. A lot of the hardline, very deliberately abrasive stances I adopt on this stuff are specifically in retaliation to the American right's moral panics and fetish for playing culture cop. They could stop at literally any time (But they won't, thus I won't).
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Trans people have real Boss Baby vibes.
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