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adjl 05/02/24 9:26:10 PM #69:	BoomerKuwanger posted... What's so silly about it all is like... you don't have to "believe in" or like trans people to use the proper pronoun and name to their face. People fake being nice to people they would rather not have to deal with all the time for various reasons. It's a shame that this is something that you would even have to fake niceness with, but I'd say that's still preferable to being outright mean Maybe it's a peer pressure thing, like they don't want their friends to catch them using the proper pronoun, but that would require transphobes to have friends in the first place A significant amount of transphobia boils down to one of two things: Homophobia, specifically the fear of being attracted to somebody who could be construed as being the same sex Believing that gender dysphoria is just a "delusion" and that they know better and therefore have a moral obligation to not "play along" with it The former doesn't really apply here, the latter is just factually incorrect (based on the science as it currently stands, gender-affirming care yields better outcomes on average than rejecting the trans identity). This, though, I expect is neither, and is instead Skard being overly attached to his hypothetical first impression and jumping through whatever mental hoops he needs to to hold on to that. He seems to know better than to actively disparage trans people (though he lacks the capacity to recognize that people like Peterson are not so generous, and has tried to argue on prior occasions that things like transphobia and racism don't actually happen to any meaningful degree), so he's come up with a contrived way to avoid actually doing so while still clinging to his hypothetical first impression (that is, accidentally msigendering the person). This is why we get the strawman of "why would I want to talk to them if all they want to talk about is their gender identity?": He's unwilling to accept that he just made a mistake and needs to correct himself, so he's turned the other person into the issue. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:980211969] in Just got a... [t:80759231]...</cite> <quote>BoomerKuwanger posted... </cite><quote>What's so silly about it all is like... you don't have to "believe in" or like trans people to use the proper pronoun and name to their face. People fake being nice to people they would rather not have to deal with all the time for various reasons. It's a shame that this is something that you would even have to fake niceness with, but I'd say that's still preferable to being outright meanMaybe it's a peer pressure thing, like they don't want their friends to catch them using the proper pronoun, but that would require transphobes to have friends in the first place</quote>A significant amount of transphobia boils down to one of two things:Homophobia, specifically the fear of being attracted to somebody who could be construed as being the same sexBelieving that gender dysphoria is just a "delusion" and that they know better and therefore have a moral obligation to not "play along" with itThe former doesn't really apply here, the latter is just factually incorrect (based on the science as it currently stands, gender-affirming care yields better outcomes on average than rejecting the trans identity). This, though, I expect is neither, and is instead Skard being overly attached to his hypothetical first impression and jumping through whatever mental hoops he needs to to hold on to that. He seems to know better than to actively disparage trans people (though he lacks the capacity to recognize that people like Peterson are not so generous, and has tried to argue on prior occasions that things like transphobia and racism don't actually happen to any meaningful degree), so he's come up with a contrived way to avoid actually doing so while still clinging to his hypothetical first impression (that is, accidentally msigendering the person). This is why we get the strawman of "why would I want to talk to them if all they want to talk about is their gender identity?": He's unwilling to accept that he just made a mistake and needs to correct himself, so he's turned the other person into the issue. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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