>>85 Well, I use that word because I'm afraid of looking boring if I don't use some stupid slang word to make myself look cool. I use tranny because transgender is too long and tranny makes me think of electrical components, which is cool. Now this idea that cisgender people treat trans as vaguely human. I don't buy that entirely. I don't think its that severe, at least not yet. It could get worse. I think they get treated as 1. confused wtf is this! 2. Disgusting get away from me inferior! 3. Sexual fetishism. Now, this whole dialogue started because some guy said trannys are better than cis women (so that's .3 right there) and I got mad because I just disagree with that perspective. I'm not gonna hide it. Now you could say that this is all objectifying women etc. and you might have a point there. Trans people do make me feel uncomfy even if I don't think people should be cruel or bully them and anti-trans stuff is usually a red flag. I'm saying this stuff for the sake of honest conversation because if you don't lay it out you learn nothing. Its not like you can just have these conversations online or irl either. Maybe denpa is special? Anyway, I think cis and trans are like two people playing tennis. They are working together to keep the ball in the air even if it seems like they are trying to defeat each other.
>>84 You are still thinking with old ideas: what's real or not, individuality, dismantling hierarchies, what transgenders should do etc. In the electronic age, 'reality' as we knew it is disappearing. Individualism is just a smelly Western construct. You seem to treat people as these closed off containers. If we just ignore all the stuff outside us, look into ourselves, we can find what we really want and that is real and authentic. Well, we aren't these contained autonomous selves. I see an ad, it plants sensations and feelings in me to get me to buy something, I begin to really feel it. Even if I can't afford it, I still think its cool. Point being, our desires aren't always ours. Viruses and bacteria pass through my body. I see a girl, she's cute, the sight of her plants these feelings in me. Stuff pours through us. You are your environment.
Also, changing your gender isn't some act of rebellion against the status quo and rebellion can be a bad thing too. There are lots of cultures that tolerate non-cis gender stuff and you would probably find these cultures to be conservative, hierarchical, and traditional.
Well, I use that word because I'm afraid of looking boring if I don't use some stupid slang word to make myself look cool. I use tranny because transgender is too long and tranny makes me think of electrical components, which is cool. Now this idea that cisgender people treat trans as vaguely human. I don't buy that entirely. I don't think its that severe, at least not yet. It could get worse. I think they get treated as 1. confused wtf is this! 2. Disgusting get away from me inferior! 3. Sexual fetishism. Now, this whole dialogue started because some guy said trannys are better than cis women (so that's .3 right there) and I got mad because I just disagree with that perspective. I'm not gonna hide it. Now you could say that this is all objectifying women etc. and you might have a point there. Trans people do make me feel uncomfy even if I don't think people should be cruel or bully them and anti-trans stuff is usually a red flag. I'm saying this stuff for the sake of honest conversation because if you don't lay it out you learn nothing. Its not like you can just have these conversations online or irl either. Maybe denpa is special?
Anyway, I think cis and trans are like two people playing tennis. They are working together to keep the ball in the air even if it seems like they are trying to defeat each other.
>>84
You are still thinking with old ideas: what's real or not, individuality, dismantling hierarchies, what transgenders should do etc. In the electronic age, 'reality' as we knew it is disappearing. Individualism is just a smelly Western construct. You seem to treat people as these closed off containers. If we just ignore all the stuff outside us, look into ourselves, we can find what we really want and that is real and authentic. Well, we aren't these contained autonomous selves. I see an ad, it plants sensations and feelings in me to get me to buy something, I begin to really feel it. Even if I can't afford it, I still think its cool. Point being, our desires aren't always ours. Viruses and bacteria pass through my body. I see a girl, she's cute, the sight of her plants these feelings in me. Stuff pours through us. You are your environment.
Also, changing your gender isn't some act of rebellion against the status quo and rebellion can be a bad thing too. There are lots of cultures that tolerate non-cis gender stuff and you would probably find these cultures to be conservative, hierarchical, and traditional.