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Deceptichum@quokk.au

internalise this (quokk.au)

submitted 3 days ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/peoplemastodon@quokk.au

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

🙄

Most of the world will go along with whatever you say because people are, on average, nice and don't really mean to offend you... but you can't actually get mad at anyone calling you a dude if you come sporting a beard or idk, wearing nothing but masculine clothes. It can just be an honest mistake: regardless of whether they agree with current Western trans ideology, they would've still called you "she" for the sake of peace, this time biological reality was just faster than our social filter.

Just in case one of you feels like you have the moral ground to start harassing people for something you would be properly ridiculed and referred to mental health professionals pretty much anywhere else in the world (I know I'm not talking to Nigerian or Nepalese trans women, lol).

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No one is saying you have to be a mind-reader.

This is about deliberately misgendering someone because they're not passing, not simply making a mistake or not knowing their preferred pronouns.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Fair enough. And yeah, that's at the very least unkind and if you're like that, it's better to leave trans people alone.

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gosh, it must be so great to go around in life feeling super smart because you can feel like you’ve won arguments online by telling people they’re a idiots for saying something they didn’t actually say.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

What I figured out is I don’t even need to post at all, I can just sit around imagining myself winning arguments against enemies that don’t exist. It’s like an infinite dopamine glitch. After a while I started branching out into hand-to-hand combat, and eventually full scale military conflicts in which I lead my samurai to victory by understanding “biological reality” better than the enemy generals