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I missed @FtttG post about Dave, and while I’ll agree that Dave is likely porn sick, I don’t think that’s what happens all the time. My impression of most trans people of either gender is that they rarely understand anything other than what media or social media tells them their desired sex is actually like. They tend to, for want of a better term, “LARP”. Trans women tend to suddenly wear makeup and frilly dresses and take up interests in things that media holds as traditionally feminine interests. It comes of as the gendered equivalent of a white man deciding that his soul is that of a black man and proceeding to go out wearing dreadlocks, fake gold teeth, flashing gang signs and tattoos, and eating fried chicken and watermelon. No one would think of such a thing as a serious attempt to live out the life of a black man because that’s not remotely the way most black men live. It’s a stereotype, tropes, and are generally things that whites or at least racist whites think black men are like.
Most women, unless they’re feeling fancy, are not wearing dresses in ordinary life. Unless working in a field that requires it, most women aren’t wearing skirts. If they’re just hangout wyother women, it’s jeans and a cute top or something. And most women are not just doing things TV decided was feminine. Lots of women like sports and play them regularly. They go hiking and fishing, they play video games, they read science fiction and fantasy (and not all of us like romantasy).
So whatever is actually happening in the brain, I think it has less to do with a feeling of being a woman and more of a desire to be treated like a woman. They know what the media tells them women like, but they have no other source of information.
Is possible for an AI to be a woman?
I’m not sure what they’ll be if they achieve sapience. I’m hoping for Spock, personally.
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