This week in Feminism: If you're not Bisexual then you're Transphobic!
For this type of mentally deranged freak the ultimate in sexual evolution would be for people to have a penis and a vigina positioned in such a way so as to enable then to spend endless hours screwing themselves. They could walk down lover's lane holding their own hands and then jump over the hedge for a quickie. There is no such thing as a "woman with penis." That is a man. In science there are two genders, man and woman and you are born one or the other. People who are born a man, but think they should be a woman suffer from a mental disorder known as gender dyphoria and that should be treated and by the way your Adam's apple is showing Riley J.Dennis I think the issue that most people don't realise is that they're referring to a social construct, not sexes. Sex and Gender are not the same thing. Gender is a thought up lifestyle, sex refers to penises and vaginas/whatever reproductive organs you might possess. Let me stress: No one gets to decide if you're male or female, but male and man are not the same thing, read a god damn book if you think otherwise. 1
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I'm bisexual but I'm not attracted to trans people, so her argument is pretty much dead in the water. It's not transphobic to not be attracted to trans people, just like it's not racist to not be attracted to Asian people. Attraction is subjective, people have different tastes. She's a fool. I disagree with her rationale, and I think this is another classic example of people crafting their own definition and then trying to win the debate by going back to that definition. It doesn't make their definition right, and it doesn't persuade anybody who wouldn't already believe in her position to switch to come over to it. Stupid arguments like this are what give intelligent liberality such a bad name. Someone who identifies as a lesbian but does not like women with penises is not transphobic. They just mean something different by "lesbian" than the author means. Namely, it signifies a sexual attraction of one female to other females. Gender operates independently, unless you adopt gender essentialism which precludes the existence of transgender people. This belongs to a whole family of arguments about how people are sexist, cissexist, misogynistic, etc. for having a particular sexual orientation. The irony of demonizing people for their sexual orientations and other identities seems to escape the people who are so critical of being demonized for theirs by other people... You aren't entitled to other people being attracted to you. That's cornerstone to pretty much any feminist position you care to argue from, but seems to go out the window when these arguments come into play. It's not discrimination or prejudice if someone doesn't want to fuck you or be in a relationship with you. Stop making them and their relationships all about you (sound familiar?). I've yet to see an argument for that position that was remotely compelling. Given only the conclusion without a rationale, though, I can't really say much more. However, in my experience the people who take this sort of position generally also want to condemn discrimination against people due to their sexual orientation and I think the two positions require fundamentally antithetical premises. |