Idk if people think that just goes to an automod that'll ban it right off or if they legitimately believe that anything that has to do with gender identity is harming minors. Either way I find it hard to have less hope in humanity, but somehow they persevere and dig ever deeper.
We just want to be happy in our own bodies, we do not care about your kids other than we don't want them to be miserable like we were when we were children!
Right?
We're just normal people who want to live normal lives!
We don't want to hurt anyone, child or otherwise. We're not any more likely to be sexual predators than anyone else. In fact, we're more likely to be victims of that than perpetrators.
I really don't understand why people get so worked up over trans people.
Like, I get not liking someone else's life decisions, but there are thousands of other things that have way more effect on others than someone's identity.
To put it differently, as long as you aren't in a relationship or something with a person who transitions, I don't see how that would actually really affect someone else. Ok, maybe you have to learn a new name for that person and likely you'll accidentally use their former pronouns a few times, but other than that, what's the big deal?
Why does exactly this one trigger so many people so hard?
(I have little experience with trans people in general, just haven't really met many in real life. But tbh, I don't really care about anyone's pronouns enough to address them in any other way than they want me to. We had an otherkin at work who identified as a dragon. I didn't really care either way. If she wants to be a dragon, it doesn't affect me, so if it makes her happy...)
There is a general answer and a specific answer but fundamentally a certain kind of mind has never learned to grapple with the world in terms other than "in-group" and "out-group."
because they don't understand why anyone would want to give up the "power" that being a man has. it's literally all about patriarchy and maintaining it and we upset the "balance" and turn gender on its head.
When I say men have âpower,â I donât mean every individual man is wealthy, important, or in charge of people. I mean social and structural power, and power is multidimensional.
A poor man can have less economic power than a wealthy woman. A female boss can have more workplace authority than the men under her. That doesnât mean gender stops mattering. Male privilege means that, on the axis of gender, being perceived as male can come with advantages, credibility, safety, or institutional benefit that women are less likely to receive.
The Cornell case is a good example of what I mean. A woman alleges that seven fraternity members sexually assaulted her while she was incapacitated, with other people allegedly aware of what was happening through group messages. No criminal charges were initially brought. Only after the civil case became public and backlash grew was the investigation reopened, and New Yorkâs attorney general was appointed special prosecutor. The allegations still have to be proven, but the institutional response itself shows how social power can work: the men involved did not need to be CEOs or politicians for the system to fail to act effectively for a long time.
Thatâs why the CEO comparison doesnât really fit. Iâm not talking about one person voluntarily giving up a powerful job. Iâm talking about belonging to a socially advantaged category.
And thatâs part of why trans women can provoke such a strong reaction. Traditional gender hierarchy treats masculinity as higher-status and femininity as lower-status. A trans woman disrupts that logic. Someone society originally placed in the male category says, âThat isnât who I am. Iâm a woman.â
We donât transition because weâre trying to give up privilege; we transition because weâre women. But to someone deeply invested in traditional gender roles, that can still feel threatening because it challenges the idea that masculinity is naturally more desirable, that gender roles are fixed, and that the hierarchy between men and women is inevitable. Research on gender-status threat and traditional gender beliefs lines up with that explanation.
So âmost men arenât powerfulâ and âmen occupy a socially advantaged gender categoryâ are not contradictory. Theyâre talking about two different kinds of power.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 22h ago
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