Just another category
Which one really has the stupid argument here?
The “like” there isn’t “like,” because of the meaning of the word “trans.” OJ is pretending that all adjectives are just additions, but that’s a really stupid thing to pretend.
For instance: pretend; artificial; fake; counterfeit; fantasy; mock; sham.
That’s the thing about the adjective “trans”: that’s what it means. That’s its only meaning.
For that reason, it’s both fatuous and dishonest for OJ to pretend that “trans woman” is comparable to “tall woman.”
This is a really stupid line of argument!
It’s rather the exact opposite, if we’re talking about actual categories. Even though the term ‘transwomen’ has ‘women’ in it, transwomen are still a subcategory of men, and I mean sub in the most derogatory sense, as in ‘beneath.’ Owen also thinks catfish and sealions are categories of cats, he’s just waggish like that.
He probably thinks seahorses are a category of horse, just like brown horses and Appaloosa horses.
Or sawhorses. The zany little drip. :D
So, to recap:
A trans woman is not no definitely not a male person engaged in “gender performance” common to the other sex; that may have been how Judith Butler originally proposed people should “queer gender,” but we’ve gone beyond that now. Now a trans woman is a woman, full stop.
So what makes “her” trans? Well…she was “assigned” male at birth. On what basis was this assignment made? On old-fashioned notions about genitals ‘n stuff (link to that idiotic Scientific American article.)
So what is a woman? Someone who “feels like a woman.” “Woman” is a “gender identity.”
So what does it feel like to be a woman? Well it’s different for everybody! (“A woman is everything and nothing…”)
Demand a non-circular definition of “woman” and there are three and a half standard answers:
1) It’s complicated (I propose we call this the Aaron Rabinowitz reply)
2) Shut up, TERF
2A) It doesn’t affect you, why do you care, just be kind you
genocidal bigot!
How stupid of us to ask.
Is that a typo for “assigned” male at birth?
Had fun yesterday on Twit Machine. Every time I was accused of being a “TERF” or “transphobic” I responded with “I am trans, how dare you” responses. It was fun. That is now my forever place, undermine from within.
Ophelia–yes! Thanks for catching that!
(Damn, I proofread and everything.)
Typos mock us for our proofreading. They LAUGH, I tell you.
So this experience to which “feeling like a woman” refers–how does one distinguish it from other feelings? How does one know that one is experiencing “feeling like a woman” and not “feeling like a man”? For that matter, how does one know it isn’t “feeling like a foo”, where foo may be teenager, outcast, lesbian, nerd, geek, or any of an infinite number of things humans can be? How does one know it isn’t “feeling bar”, where bar may be lonely, uncertain, depressed, confused, afraid, anxious, used, abused, frustrated, heartbroken, despondent, or any of an infinite number of varieties of human experience? On what basis does one conclude that one’s experience is totally unlike every other human in history?
Other than narcissism, I mean.
I mean if I felt like a woman, how would I even know? There’s no frame of reference.
Yes, and Optimus Prime is definitely a type of cab over snub-nosed semi truck, not at all an alien robot that can turn into a simulacrum of one.
“Trans” the prefix very definitely doesn’t mean “same as” or “indistinguishable from”…
O — ha!