2y ago

it's the thought that counts

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- Read this as "bobcat goldthwait" first and got confused with gif.
- Because one idea is that there's nothing wrong with being trans, and the other idea is that trans people shouldn't exist.
  Fuck off.
  
  Trans people should exist, trans woman are men.
- Because your idea of gender constructs is a 3 year old's understanding of complex biology and cultural anthropology.
  And those different ideas are fascist dog whistles.
- Names are a construct that’s imagined too.
  I’m imagining your name is something like “dickhead”
- I see this, and all the other comments taking it to be in support of the transphobes, but... it works equally for pro-trans against transphobia. Gender's a construct; what makes it ok to judge people for not conforming to the "standard model" construct?
- social constructs aren't totally fake, they're made "real" by social reinforcement. for example, in the 1940/50s it was expected of women that they were "weak", and many who went out of line (by speaking up to their husbands, protesting, etc) were punished by being beaten or worse. the feminist and trans rights movements seek to eliminate the old roles and stereotypes assigned to gender to get rid of the real-world retaliation towards those deemed inferior. in contrast, those who seek to reinforce the old ways continue these systems of abuse.
- You can have any opinion you want as long as you keep it to yourself and don't try to force anyone else to do what you want.
  People can also have the opinion that you're an asshole for the opinion that you hold.
  
  This attitude doesn't work. It's impossible to keep your opinion to yourself in some situations, like when you need to talk to someone who wants to be called by a certain pronoune, or when some decisions have to be made that affect multiple people.
  We have to figure this out as a society and get people on board, there is no way around it.
  
  You can have any opinion you want as long as you keep it to yourself and don't try to force anyone else to do what you want.
  So you shouldn't force someone to refer to you as they/them instead of using their natural language flow?
  
  Yeah, now read that really slowly

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