Strong "I identify as an attack helicopter" vibes.

Don't wander in if you're feeling vulnerable, but that goes without saying for anything on reddit.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    How do they not understand this? If you say "I'd never date or have sex with a trans person" that's just plain and simple bigotry, because it's singling out being trans as a deal-breaker. I know everyone has their type, but if the only thing stopping you is the person being trans...that's where you're transphobic. They seem to have flipped "you shouldn't reject a person on the basis of being trans or not" into some kind of extremely bizarre not real thing that's like "it's mandatory to have sex with trans people or else you're a bigot."

    It's also fucking weird how much they focus on lesbians being harassed by trans women. You'd think the problem there would be a person suffering harassment. They seem to be suggesting it's extra bad when a trans woman does it versus anyone else.

    How do they keep coming up with new ways of denying the existence of trans people

    • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      At least not dating trans people is sort of vaguely debatable. But like, if that in itself weren't transphobic, then making an entire community about how you don't want to date trans people DEFINITELY is.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's not transphobic to have genitalia preferences. Having an entire subreddit to being "super straight" definitely is, though. :cringe:

      • Lord_ofThe_FLIES [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It’s not transphobic to have genitalia preferences

        mostly because trans people have all kinds of genitals, so being trans and having a certain kind of genitals is not correlated

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        they aren't exactly saying "I'm a straight man, which on the basis of sex means I'm attracted to cis women, trans men, and non-binary people who were assigned female at birth." They're saying "I have no interest in trans people." The lack of nuance is where the transphobia is.

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            yeah, these people aren't expressing themselves like that and you're giving them far too much benefit of the doubt

            it's literally a subreddit complaining about trans people

              • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                4 years ago

                "the sub's sidebar says 'a community for people who want to secure a future for their children' what's so bad about that?"

                it's a terf/anti trans reactionary sub. they're using the debatable legitimacy of what you're talking about as a cover to dog whistle their transphobia.

              • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                i don't know how to explain to you that a clearly threadbare dog-whistle community focused on the behavior of alleged trans incels is itself transphobic

                it would be transphobic even if it were exactly what you say it is