like you might refer to a transman as a father at a wedding, and you might refer to period products as for women. ppl only see contradictions bc they take words too literally and don't dynamically interpret abstract concepts per-context. that's the mistake w/ inclusive language

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@shoutplenty

good explanation of the idea that if gender identity (classes) were real then there would be 9 billion of them. they have nothing in common same as how ppl can't relate to each other's concept of yellow [1/5] https://twitter.com/17GiaSerafino37/status/1747700996875141124

1/20/2024, 7:42:05 AM

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@shoutplenty

the most you can say is you want to be thought of as male/female/neither, and that's fine. that's the point of social transition. some do it to alleviate pain, some do it aesthetically or politically, but it's a free world and life is too short to judge

1/20/2024, 7:42:06 AM

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@shoutplenty

it's just stupid to define male/female in terms of how ppl want to be seen, same as it's stupid to classify everyone as being male/female/neither. they're just labels that are applied contextually as indirect abstractions of the two poles of the sex spectrum

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@shoutplenty

like you might refer to a transman as a father at a wedding, and you might refer to period products as for women. ppl only see contradictions bc they take words too literally and don't dynamically interpret abstract concepts per-context. that's the mistake w/ inclusive language

1/20/2024, 7:42:07 AM

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@shoutplenty

anyway, i find transmed-type activists to be wayyyy less cringe than TRAs & TERFs, but even then it's hard to find ones who don't have obnoxious geopolitical views or arent hateful/judgemental of random trans ppl or too gatekeepy of trans identity

this is my current candidate :p

1/20/2024, 7:42:08 AM

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