I have seen so many Cishet Anons (including me) ask questions on this board but create new threads in doing so. So I decided to make this thread so we don’t have to clutter up the board.
What is the ratio of Trans women to Trans men? I tried to google it but couldn’t get a coherent result.
>>8183From my lived personal experience it's 1:8, I think it was actuallt ~1:1 in the USA, or 3:1
>>8183Theyre about equal irl but online theres far more openly trans women then there are openly trans men.
>>8187Are they really equal? I have talked/met tons of guys but I have only seen irl one transwoman and spoke with none, the other 2-3 transwomen i saw of my city was on Grindr so it doesn't count
>>8186>>8187I assume then that the media just hyper fixates on Trans-Women and forgets about Trans-Men. Also maybe it is easier for Trans-Men to “Pass.”
>>8183i am not sure about the actual data but i can tell you that most people's anecdotal evidence doesn't mean anything, i know more ftm than mtf irl but ik plenty of people with the opposite
Are the accusations of transgender-genocide in the United States real? There is definitely state violence against trans people in the United States but is it genocide or it it just a strong word being thrown around?
>>8198it is a fact that state violence against trans people has been increasing, i would air on agreeing with those who believe trans people are experiencing the developing stages of a genocide (partially because note that a common thing transphobes and TERFs especially love to do is vehemently deny that trans people face any oppression from the state and are under no danger at all)
>>8198I think it's a bit of an exaggeration but it gets the point across.
Genocide the same sense that the Reagan administration's lack of action caused an AIDS genocide. At a smaller scale, but in principle the same.
Lack of government protection from violence or acknowledgement that it's happening.
>>8198it depends on whether you consider state violence and oppression of any form, no matter how institutionalized it is, to be a genocide. I think people say this as a shorthand to communicate all the ways that the current increase in marginalization and systemic discrimination will inevitably lead to deaths because it takes way too long to explain that to someone who is not familiar with the concept. I must admit I am a bit worried about overuse of the term; desensitizing people in the case that things do escalate toward even more direct state violence. It's always better to explain things in full when you can than engage in this sort of sloganeering.
Good thread, OP. Thanks for rising to the apparently challenging heights of sincerely asking questions.
what did enby mark antony say to the senate?
friends,romans, countrythem, lend me your ears
offensive or all in good humor?
>>8220That reminds me of something I heard a nonbinary prospector say
There’s gold in them/thar hills Materialist explanation for transphobia?
>>8228I’m not trans but I always believed transphobia just like racism is a bourgeois distraction from the reality of economic inequality.
>>8229I am, and this is a truth nuke
>>8254He was besties with Ernst Röhm, who was known to be gay. Their contemporaries used attack them based on this.
>>8229>>8241Not a materialist explanation
What does leftygbt think of the gay misandrist anon?
>>8228I thought it and homophobia were about people getting pissy about the sacred bourgeois "family unit" and gender roles being degraded or "dishonored" which can extend to nuclear families and tightly bound extended ones.
Is it wrong for straight actors to play queer characters?
Correct me if I'm wrong but it is usually rare for Straight actors to play gay characters in an offensive way like Jaystation did because straight people will just mock the actors. But even if a straight person plays a gay character in a non-stereotypical way is it still offensive, like is it the same as blackface?
>>8278I don't care if its offesmnsive but I don't like it… It is a bit irrational but since they are straight they won't understand deeper homosexuality… Also, the kisses feel even faker now :(
>>8281Yeah that is the answer I was expecting, I can't even think of many examples anyways, I know that James Corden got into some controversy but I never saw what thing he was in, I guess Smithers from the Simpsons is gay but and voiced by a straight guy but that was just a joke until they confirmed it like 25 years after the character was introduced.
>>8278>Is it wrong for straight actors to play queer characters? Name three leading LGBT actors, you cannot, they are all in the closet. People merely spread rumors about Tom Cruise or whatever
>>8286So is it fine? Because many say it is okay because there are not as many Gay actors when others say it is bad because the reason why there are not is because straight people keep taking up the gay roles?
>>8276Unfortunately, yes. Usually only from “cis het” normie moids. Idk why they feel so entitled to this knowledge… like, just learn to be comfortable in the unknown. Chasers are not attractive
>>8286I mean, have (you) seen Top Gun 1986. Gay as hell
>>8254Numerous reasons. Culturally there is the prevalence of the gay homophobe among heterosexuals. There is also comedy in the absurdity of it, best captured imo in the second version of The Producers.
>>8276Yeah, and you don't have to be trans to be subjected to it (if in periphery). Petites are particularly bad with this, I have noticed.
>>8278>>8287No "yes" or "no" answer is valuable here. It depends on the production, role, actor. I'll cosign
>>8281 and
>>8286 however.
The barrier-to-entry for queer people you alluded should be addressed first.
>>8304A junior (male) colleague of mine greeted another, lesbian colleague and said "I am so happy to see you, I love lesbian women!"
Her reaction was priceless.
I already once asked this here
>>6671 but I thought I would ask it again. Basically when I was in high school I was sexually harassed by another man, it was harassment not assault because he didn't touch me rather he flashed me a dickpic on his phone through the floor-gap, I didn't have my glasses but I swear it was a dickpic he took by taking a selfie by positioning the phone between his legs as he sat on the toilet. I silently yelped and quickly finished up so I could report it but as I was washing my hands he came out of the stall and I confronted him he didn't even seem gay at all, like not to stereotype but I was expecting some Twink but he looked like a gym bro but only fat instead of muscular, either way he tried to play dumb. Later after that happened the School Resource officer and the Guidance councilor pulled me aside and told me that they checked the kids phone and it was actually a picture of him giving a peace-sign and he thought I was his friend based on my shoes. Obviously this was a lie, nobody takes selfies of them doing peace signs in bathroom stalls and also I wear one of a kind Orthotics. But this is my question because I never saw the kid again
Well technically a week later I saw him from a distance but other than that I never saw him again meaning that the school might of changed their verdict so there is many ways this could have gone:
>A. He was straight and thought that sexual harassment is funny (Reasonable expulsion)>B. He was gay and he was cruising (Reasonable expulsion)>C. He was gay and he thought I was his boyfriend and I got a gay kid expelled>D. Other>>8321Was his cock suckable? Was he cute?
>>8322>Was his cock suckable? Idk, the mental image is very vivid
>Was he cute?Idk, I’m not gay
>>8321My guess is a) because guys who expose themselves generally do not care who the victim is.
Do trans folx have beef with femboys?
>>8332Comrade swung, and I hope you get all the answers you desire.
>>8333This kind of thing seems to foment in online shitholes only visited by unhinged netizens (like /leftypol/!), who will then take the meaningless bullshit and spread it everywhere. Like smearing shit on a wall to get attention.
>>8373Yes. In fact, they're playing women's sports now.
>>8332you're gonna have to be more specific frogposter i dunno how to describe exactly
>Cons: bras are kinda expensive and although I can get away with not wearing them depending, sometimes you have to. they can be uncomfortable if you bump into something? (I don't have too much of a problem running because skinny, but I can definitely imagine.)
>pros: mostly revolving around feeling more comfortable with how I look, feeling more attractive cuz of them, basically transhumanist stuff. I can't think of explicit pros Materialist explanation for transphobia?
>>8429study moral panics and the weaponizing of idpol + 'othering'
>>8415I was basically just wondering if having boobs was worth it it or not and if it was that much of a radical change, you answered my question though.
>>8434Not a materialist explanation
>>8429The gock sends out powerful radiowaves that cause hysteria in the weak and unfit.
>>8438there are materialist perspectives of all of those phenom, they tend to fall under the idea that othering is done in order to create class divisions. Othering and moral panics are used by the governments ideological apparatus in order to maintain class divisions.
Its the classic 'hey look over there at that minority taking your job', the constant scare stories on the frontpage of newspapers reinforces the ability to do that.
>>8415Wait so the only positives are socially constructed?… Having boobies must suck then.
>>8436>>8475Nah they are pretty good, they are aesthetically pleasing and feel good to have.
breasts are a turn on for some people, for others they are not
>>8477The nipple is the first love-object any human has and the basis for all future comfort and sexual attachments.
>>8476That is still socially constructed, I agree that they are aesthetically pleasing but still, but whatever lifts your spirits no pun intended
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