Bonus complaint inspired by a different story: I can’t believe we’re still doing the thing where you turn into a woman because you have a “woman’s soul.”
A mental trap: asserting that human-created meaning exists outside of humans. For instance, wavelengths of light exist, but humans are the ones who categorize some wavelengths as “yellow.” If you talk about yellow as an objective property and philosophize about the true nature of yellow, you’re overprivileging the human perspective.
Also a mental trap: thinking that someone is asserting human-created meaning when they’re not. Someone talks about the wavelengths of light that are commonly considered “yellow,” and you get mad and lecture them about how yellow isn’t real. They weren’t trying to assert yellow as real; they were just trying to talk about the properties of light in a concise and easy to understand way.
Both mental traps constantly snap shut when people talk about sex chromosomes.
Blogger B: Make your femme fatales and damsels in distress guys.
Blogger A: You are a sexist man who can’t stand that I’m not talking about men.
I’d like to think I’m showing restraint by not directly telling A they’re an idiot.
These two takes seem untrustworthy and potentially dangerous to me, in the same way and for the same reason.
“Christians believe in things that are prideful and hateful, but [insert religion] believes in things that are loving and humble.”
“Men like gross, exploitative porn, but women like sweet, romantic porn.”
You might find it surprising that I like Arknights despite finding it racially insensitive at times. But I get offended so often that my general tolerance for bullshit has gone up. Arknights’s offenses are rarer than usual, but I think they’re still milder than some of the common offenses majority dudes ignore.
I mean, I’m playing Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. I am willing to put up with SO MUCH offensive bullshit because I can’t expect normies to think about how something looks!
For the sake of honesty, “transmisandry doesn’t exist” should be followed by “so I’m creating it.”
A comparison: when someone argues that it’s an exaggeration to say that women who accuse men of rape have their reputations destroyed. The inevitable followup is to attempt to destroy women’s reputations.
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