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Are cancel mobs still a thing on the left in America? I thought the balance of power had shifted.
But in any case, I’ve never known anybody to face a cancel mob (I don’t think it’s really a thing where I live, and there’s stronger employment laws than in the states) so it’s hard to say how brave I would be. I suppose it depends on the situation, like I’ve personally defended a friend who was accused of transphobia at work, and if we were at a rationalist conference or whatnot I would come to your defence if you got a lot of flack for saying the same kind of things you just posted, even if I disagreed with what you said.
See this is why I don’t like the modern trans movement, because somehow they’ve convinced everyone that being trans is all about how you “identify” as, and that people should treat you based entirely on your self-ID.
If you’ve only been around that kind of trans people, I get why you have a negative impression and a hard time going beyond “I’ll respect your pronouns but won’t think of you mentally as the opposite sex”. But for some of us, the goal is to get treated and seen as the opposite sex by actually passing, not by asking other people to overrule their instincts or whatnot based on a pronoun badge.
Not everyone can pass of course, and I get the focus on respecting people’s pronouns because that’s an easy intervention doesn’t cost much and works for all trans people, and the idea of trying to normalise being a non passing trans person in a gendered space, because it’s unfair that some trans people get lucky with their appearance and some don’t.
And if you clock me easily and can’t shake off the feeling of “male”, that’s fine. I’d much prefer you admit it instead of treating me as a woman in an overly performative way while not actually believing it (as many in the woke camp do).
Sure, I don’t disagree. But if you have someone that looks like a hairy bearded man with a penis, both the pro-trans woke camp and the trans critical side are saying it’s somehow possible for a straight man to be attracted to them, either because the hairy bearded man is a trans woman and trans women are women, or because they’re a trans man and straight men are into biological female.
Both sound equally ridiculously to me, being gay/straight is obviously based on how the person looks, otherwise you could make a straight man get turned on watching bara hentai just by adding a footnote that the characters have XX chromosomes.
Yes, depending on the profession, there are definitely jobs in America where being exposed as a "transphobe" (not posting hateful things on Twitter, but just saying trans women are men) can get you fired. Not everywhere; most workplaces just expect you to be polite to your coworkers and don't want to deal with disputes over what someone believes in their personal life. But any job that has public exposure and leftist stakeholders can be perilous to be "out" with heterodox views.
I... really do not think that is true. I mean, wokes might claim that a hairy bearded trans woman is a woman, and therefore if you are a male in a relationship with said trans woman, that is a heterosexual relationship. But realistically I think even wokes would be surprised to meet a 100% straight man going for that. Of course I think that that's because even wokes, deep down, know that said hairy bearded trans woman is in fact a man.
As for the trans criticals, if a straight man were into Buck Angel, I think they are perfectly capable of admitting that Buck Angel looks like a man and if you are a man who finds Buck Angel hot you are probably not all that straight. But that still wouldn't make Buck Angel a man.
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