I never know if i should be more repulsed by the sheer amount of transphobia in that kind of comments or just completely baffled by how ignorant and clueless these people are. First time i saw that in the wild, it was by some guy who thought that it’s suspicious when his replies include pronouns like, i shit you not, he / him, she / her, they / them and any / undecided. Made him think we’re Russian bots with pronouns set to shuffle. Like mfer have you been living under a rock, there wasn’t even a single neopronoun or she / it catgirl in there! Any irl trans meetup i’ve even been to had a wider pronoun selection than that. When other users pressed him on that, he admitted that he had never talked to a trans person in his life, which is probably better for all the trans people he could run into.
When other users pressed him on that, he admitted that he had never talked to a trans person in his life, which is probably better for all the trans people he could run into.
I don’t know. Lack of exposure to different people and cultures is often a root cause of hatred and LGBTQ+ phobia. To be clear, I’m not advocating throwing trans people at transphobes with literal or figurative catapults in order to fight transphobia. Just that ignorance and narrow world experience tends to breed such attitudes, when they aren’t adopted explicitly to try to control people.
I never know if i should be more repulsed by the sheer amount of transphobia in that kind of comments or just completely baffled by how ignorant and clueless these people are. First time i saw that in the wild, it was by some guy who thought that it’s suspicious when his replies include pronouns like, i shit you not, he / him, she / her, they / them and any / undecided. Made him think we’re Russian bots with pronouns set to shuffle. Like mfer have you been living under a rock, there wasn’t even a single neopronoun or she / it catgirl in there! Any irl trans meetup i’ve even been to had a wider pronoun selection than that. When other users pressed him on that, he admitted that he had never talked to a trans person in his life, which is probably better for all the trans people he could run into.
I don’t know. Lack of exposure to different people and cultures is often a root cause of hatred and LGBTQ+ phobia. To be clear, I’m not advocating throwing trans people at transphobes with literal or figurative catapults in order to fight transphobia. Just that ignorance and narrow world experience tends to breed such attitudes, when they aren’t adopted explicitly to try to control people.
You’re onto something with the firing catapults at transphobes part. We just need to workshop it a little more.