Venting

[aesmael]

So you're participating in a thread where your main argument is that being a cis heterosexual man who is interested only in cis women and not ever in trans women, and that this is perfectly fine because it is your orientation...

... and then someone says, incidental to her actual argument, that given what you've expressed in that thread, probably most trans women wouldn't be interested in you anyway - you actually have the gall to call that an ad hominem? So you think it is just peachy to repeat at length that you only want cis women and trans women who don't disclose are being immoral and deceptive, but if anyone suggests that trans women might find that attitude offensively unattractive, you claim you're being subjected to an unfair personal attack?

Try getting a sense of proportion before the next time you have an urge to reiterate the beliefs that get trans people murdered.

And all these cis people, feminist and otherwise who have such a problem with the possibility that maybe you'll accidentally have sex with a trans person and feel violated, then perhaps what you should do is confess up-front to everyone you want to flirt with that you would be bothered by them being trans. There's a better chance you'll find kindred spirits than someone carrying icky trans cooties, bah.

[because don't click on links which outrage auntysarah]

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I didn't bother following the link on Sarah's LJ before I commented because I've been around long enough to know when the same old same old is coming up, but I can fully understand your outrage. This stuff is simply bloody nauseating :o(

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Am well familiar with this sort of thing, enough that, as commented on Sarah's LJ, I had to check the date to confirm I'd not read the exact thread in years past.

But I think it is important to occasionally express that this stuff is awful, or why, when I am up to it - usually when I do not follow such links it is because reading what they contain would do me more harm than it would any other outcome.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It does come to have a certain sameness after a while doesn't it, so I guess you can imagine how it gets to feel after about thirty years? It is probably very wise not to bother unless one is feeling particularly strong minded on a given day.

I sometimes wonder if these people have any inkling of the potential harm contained in their fulminating hatespeak?

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

what the HELL!? >:O