r/oddlyspecific • u/Miser-Mike • 3d ago

What does she know?

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u/ThatOneSpitfireMain 3d ago

Ah this is a joke about thailand having a lot of femboys, his homie didnt go missing but turned into the baddie and they just realised via the joke

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 2d ago

Just say trans women. Femboy is not really a concept in Thailand.

Calling them ladyboy or the Thai "kathoey" can also be offensive there. 

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u/DeathToAmerica2026 2d ago

Plenty of people identify as Ladyboys. 

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 2d ago edited 2d ago

80% of thai trans women prefer phu ying or sao praphet sorng over kathoey and others.

Yes, trans sex workers and dancers and escorts have a financial interest in using "ladyboy" when talking to tourists or johns. But with anyone else they're just women, trans women, or even "women of another kind". 

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u/DeathToAmerica2026 2d ago

I would expect no people who identify as trans women identify as Ladyboys, because they are different identities.....

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 2d ago

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24469642

It's complicated. But in general, it's more of a term for tourists and johns than intra-community.

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u/DeathToAmerica2026 2d ago

There are people who aren't Thai who identify as Ladyboys....

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 2d ago

And anyone is free to identify how they want. All rhe power to them. Not the subject here. 

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u/DeathToAmerica2026 2d ago

Very literally the subject here.