identity politics, trans rep in media, being a downer 

@matrix a trans woman knows herself as a woman even when society at large may not often view her as such. The representation so demanded in mass media is not just for more trans women, but for more trans women to be explicitly represented as women, and explicitly not as creeps or weirdos for living out who they are, or as men pretending to be women.
@matrix I know it's bad form to take a joke serious but I felt I should say that.
@cantinto @matrix "a trans woman knows herself as a woman even when society at large may not often view her as such. "

And an Otherkin knows that he's a wolf even when society at large may not often view him as such.
@ChristiJunior @cantinto @matrix "a trans woman knows herself as a woman even when society at large may not often view her as such. "

But since gender is ostensibly a social construct, that means society gets to define what your gender is. You don't.
@NEETzsche @matrix you decide what social constructs you adhere to every single day.
society creates.
the individual decides.

@cantinto @matrix @ChristiJunior “you decide what social constructs you adhere to every single day. society creates. the individual decides.”

Society decides, and enforces. Here is a social construct: “Rape is bad” Society will fuck your shit up if you’re found to be a rapist. The law will come for you. Even other criminals will come for you, purely out of spite; this behavior is no bueno. Don’t think for one second that we can’t enforce socially contrived standards of behavior, or that we shouldn’t, just because they’re socially contrived.

id pol 

@NEETzsche @ChristiJunior @matrix though it is funny to me that your first parallel for choosing to identify as something other than what you're assigned at birth is literal rape-
don't expect me to take you seriously or in good faith as a result though.

re: id pol 

@cantinto @ChristiJunior @matrix “id pol though it is funny to me that your first parallel for choosing to identify as something other than what you’re assigned at birth is literal rape- don’t expect me to take you seriously or in good faith as a result though.”

Your argument is basically wow just wowing at me. Why should I take you seriously when your position has been reduced to some variant of I can’t even rn?

@ChristiJunior @cantinto @matrix I'm more inclined to believe the "Otherkin".

Humans channeling the spirits of animals and borrowing their strength is well established throughout history.
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