>>93 I really hate this word agency. It gets thrown around without any real thought. What are the conditions that produce agency? I'm not some biological determinist. No. But the Western idea of personhood as an autonomous, individual, agent who can make rational choices independently of an external world etc. I don't think this was ever correct and in today's world of electronic smart devices that stick to your body, constant internet access, the break down between fact and fiction etc. its never seemed more old and tired. What it means to be a person, to have capacity and to act, is made possible by a given way of life. The Western self is characterized by a neat line that separates the inner self from the outside world. That barrier is now collapsing. So it will be exciting to see what new possibilities this will create.
>>94 Well, if I like something then that thing is the object of my desire. I don't think objectifying something is bad necessarily. We like being objectified in certain ways. You see that with couples all the time. Now specifically trans attracted people are strange. I'm not sold that these labels make any scientific sense but whatever. Tranny chasers can be weird because many of them are actual open transphobes or suffer strange delusions. Sometimes they are transphobes that want to be pegged by a tranny specifically so they can feel angry and mad about it later. But I guess the problem of objectifying trannys is when they get seen as something that is inherently sexual like some walking sex toy and their only value is making porn so men can jerk off to them. Women are used for porn too but its not like they are reduced to that thing only. The only famous trannys are all porno actresses. Think about that.
Now look, in medieval times people used to write treatises on if beer was better than wine or if women were better than celibacy. If you wanna debate the merits of cis women vs trannies on those terms. That's fine by me. I pick cis women. People are gonna argue Playstation vs Sega or whatever. We discuss the things we like.
I really hate this word agency. It gets thrown around without any real thought. What are the conditions that produce agency? I'm not some biological determinist. No. But the Western idea of personhood as an autonomous, individual, agent who can make rational choices independently of an external world etc. I don't think this was ever correct and in today's world of electronic smart devices that stick to your body, constant internet access, the break down between fact and fiction etc. its never seemed more old and tired. What it means to be a person, to have capacity and to act, is made possible by a given way of life. The Western self is characterized by a neat line that separates the inner self from the outside world. That barrier is now collapsing. So it will be exciting to see what new possibilities this will create.
>>94
Well, if I like something then that thing is the object of my desire. I don't think objectifying something is bad necessarily. We like being objectified in certain ways. You see that with couples all the time. Now specifically trans attracted people are strange. I'm not sold that these labels make any scientific sense but whatever. Tranny chasers can be weird because many of them are actual open transphobes or suffer strange delusions. Sometimes they are transphobes that want to be pegged by a tranny specifically so they can feel angry and mad about it later. But I guess the problem of objectifying trannys is when they get seen as something that is inherently sexual like some walking sex toy and their only value is making porn so men can jerk off to them. Women are used for porn too but its not like they are reduced to that thing only. The only famous trannys are all porno actresses. Think about that.
Now look, in medieval times people used to write treatises on if beer was better than wine or if women were better than celibacy. If you wanna debate the merits of cis women vs trannies on those terms. That's fine by me. I pick cis women. People are gonna argue Playstation vs Sega or whatever. We discuss the things we like.