I have this tendency to look at what is happening and the implications of acting like that more than the why. That leaves me with this black box of incomprehensible emotional mush. I feel like it tracks that every time they rag against blue hair, 15 seconds later they're gonna say some "and now you don't even know what gender your car is!!" They'd have some idea to the effect of this actress being more correct and therefore more beautiful. If you're confused, you should simply strive to be like her or (let's be real, they'd like "and" instead) die trying.
Do you really think the reason boils down to pure transphobia? Not like in conjunction with some loss of a privileged position where people couldn't talk back to you?
maybe it's immaterial of me, but recently I've been seeing almost all bigotry (transphobia, misogyny, racism, etc) as constructs of the same thing, and it's almost always a neurosis over perceived loss of patriarchal privilege. And it's a sexual thing too. You're right, I do see bigotries as connected primarily to a privileged position that comes under threat. Being gay, trans, black, or an assertive woman threatens that entire framework if those all end up being valid categories of people, which would then undermine the functions of capitalism overall
I'm also American and see it through that lens. The basic chud impulse is a thought that goes like "i don't want people to think I'm gay, because I'll lose authority if people think I'm gay." That's one of their main preoccupations and it guides their various other bigotries.
I have this tendency to look at what is happening and the implications of acting like that more than the why. That leaves me with this black box of incomprehensible emotional mush. I feel like it tracks that every time they rag against blue hair, 15 seconds later they're gonna say some "and now you don't even know what gender your car is!!" They'd have some idea to the effect of this actress being more correct and therefore more beautiful. If you're confused, you should simply strive to be like her or (let's be real, they'd like "and" instead) die trying.
Do you really think the reason boils down to pure transphobia? Not like in conjunction with some loss of a privileged position where people couldn't talk back to you?
maybe it's immaterial of me, but recently I've been seeing almost all bigotry (transphobia, misogyny, racism, etc) as constructs of the same thing, and it's almost always a neurosis over perceived loss of patriarchal privilege. And it's a sexual thing too. You're right, I do see bigotries as connected primarily to a privileged position that comes under threat. Being gay, trans, black, or an assertive woman threatens that entire framework if those all end up being valid categories of people, which would then undermine the functions of capitalism overall
I'm also American and see it through that lens. The basic chud impulse is a thought that goes like "i don't want people to think I'm gay, because I'll lose authority if people think I'm gay." That's one of their main preoccupations and it guides their various other bigotries.