It seems lesbian identity has become something of a cause célèbre for the global right, providing pseudo-progressive cover to anti-trans hate. Lesbians, the logic runs, are women who are exclusively sexually attracted to other women, and therefore uniquely clear-sighted about what the most important and defining part of any woman is: the pussy.
The pointless persecution of trans women by people whose lives would be no different if they didn’t bother with their bigotry campaigns never ceases to confuse me. Why go through all the trouble just to screw over a stranger? Surely their sadism can be satisfied in some other less harmful way?
For some, if they admit that gender isn’t fixed, they’d have to admit they waste so much of their live not transitioning. Sometimes its easier to double down when you’re wrong for so long.
For some men, its probably mostly about sexism. They have so little going for them personally that they latch on to things like “being manly” (or “white pride”) to compensate for their insecurities. If “men” choose to be women, then that’s seen as an attack on the superiority of being a man and to maintain the exclusivity, you also can’t allow “women” to become men but at least “women” wanting to be men supports the belief in superiority of men. One reason why trans women are demonized more than trans men by some transphobes.
For some women, its probably similar to how some minorities because even more prejudiced against some other minority that is seen as even “worse” than them to join with the majority. Like racism against black people by Irish when they weren’t considered white or homophobia among racial minorities.
For others, its just parroting their bubble.
Some, just because they expect to be able to get away with it.
Yes, a large part of it is about maintaining a heirarchy.
The thing about the patriarchal heirachy is, as a minority or “lesser”, you can never ascend to the peak but you can push others down beneath you.
Conservatives have been convinced that if they don’t protect the heirarchy, they’ll lose what they have. It’s the same idea that’s at play with white supremacy, you’ve got these groups of white people who’ve been convinced that allowing brown people an equal seat at the table means that they themselves will have less.
I may well be wrong and too naive, but I think the hate is in many cases rooted in the scary idea that they could find them attractive. And so they signal that “it could never happen to them” and that they are doing it to protect other, weaker people.
True, that too. But that’s partly an issue because they don’t see them as their gender to begin with and are also homophobic. And homophobia generally also ties back into sexism.
The pointless persecution of trans women by people whose lives would be no different if they didn’t bother with their bigotry campaigns never ceases to confuse me. Why go through all the trouble just to screw over a stranger? Surely their sadism can be satisfied in some other less harmful way?
For some, if they admit that gender isn’t fixed, they’d have to admit they waste so much of their live not transitioning. Sometimes its easier to double down when you’re wrong for so long.
For some men, its probably mostly about sexism. They have so little going for them personally that they latch on to things like “being manly” (or “white pride”) to compensate for their insecurities. If “men” choose to be women, then that’s seen as an attack on the superiority of being a man and to maintain the exclusivity, you also can’t allow “women” to become men but at least “women” wanting to be men supports the belief in superiority of men. One reason why trans women are demonized more than trans men by some transphobes.
For some women, its probably similar to how some minorities because even more prejudiced against some other minority that is seen as even “worse” than them to join with the majority. Like racism against black people by Irish when they weren’t considered white or homophobia among racial minorities.
For others, its just parroting their bubble.
Some, just because they expect to be able to get away with it.
Yes, a large part of it is about maintaining a heirarchy.
The thing about the patriarchal heirachy is, as a minority or “lesser”, you can never ascend to the peak but you can push others down beneath you.
Conservatives have been convinced that if they don’t protect the heirarchy, they’ll lose what they have. It’s the same idea that’s at play with white supremacy, you’ve got these groups of white people who’ve been convinced that allowing brown people an equal seat at the table means that they themselves will have less.
I may well be wrong and too naive, but I think the hate is in many cases rooted in the scary idea that they could find them attractive. And so they signal that “it could never happen to them” and that they are doing it to protect other, weaker people.
True, that too. But that’s partly an issue because they don’t see them as their gender to begin with and are also homophobic. And homophobia generally also ties back into sexism.
Because they enjoy it. That it screws over a stranger means much less chance of facing any blowback for it.
Don’t think police procedural villain, think school bully that never grew up and their actions make more sense.