recursiveparadox | Re: You've Crushed Nothing (Reply)

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On the part about saying you're better, that arises from a comment on this site where I misread your wording (where you claimed that the TG community claims that you claim you are better.) So that was a mistake on my part.

As for the misgendering, it's extraordinarily subtle. And you do run a tight ship, I'll give you that. Pretty much it all comes out in either third person terms (where the assessment is applied over a wide range, not explicitly individually) or in making assessments about an individual (like you just did now) indirectly through challenging that they've truly moved from man to woman at all (transsexuality being the current language of describing moving from one point to another through transition, and transgender only being a language representing misalignment of body and mind). When you refer to someone who has successfully transitioned, goes by girl pronouns and lives as reasonably as a woman as she can; a transvestite, you are misgendering her because a transvestite is not a gender mover. A transvestite is a performer who still identifies with the original body type or assignment at birth.

Same for crossdresser (in that crossdressers feel no need to literally be a woman, just dress as one).

So, while you don't literally use different pronouns (that's mostly just your more obvious peers), you still misgender folks.

"If someone called one a transvestite then that's what they meant. Someone who has been in transition for fifteen or twenty years is most definitely not TS, but very much a full time transvestite."

This right here is a full on confession and there's a lot of examples of this more subtle misgendering, if you want me to present them. I'm sure you'll want to argue that such a thing is not misgendering and you are welcome to do so, but that is the basis behind my accusation, not literal "omg so and so is a he, not a she".

"I've told you, myself and others are going to challenge the TG nonsense, that only the TG believe...and we have no apologies for doing so. Some of the bat dung that comes out of the GLBT is outrageous...if that sounds like mockery it probably is, much of it is against the sensibilities of the mainstream of which I am a part."

There is a phenomenal difference between challenging views that don't make sense and spouting asinine one liners ("GLAAD, General Losers Alliance Against Defamation") every few lines in your posts, often coupled with personal attacks ("“I can understand how someone like Calpernia Addams can feel that transition is never finished. After all, she went from a preop showgirl (drag queen) to a post op showgirl (drag queen)…never leaving the GLB community in the process. She can’t make the jump. Thank God most of us do.” " - this one admittedly made in another place, but you were still quite proud of it). It really doesn't matter if it's against your sensibilities. Being a horrid asshole to people does not make your claims more valid. Especially when they're based on, at best, a wildly inaccurate comprehension of TG folk based on a few bleating vocal fanatics and at worst, a TG-phobic paranoid delusion that the TG community is out to get trans folk.

Where do you think your credibility goes when you take poorly supported claims and act the way you do about it, especially when they come in and disagree? I've watched people being nice in there, being civil and the same "shred 'em" mentality is dumped on them as you do on the bloggers.

And still, no justification for this so called TG colonization/co-opting of voice/silencing/political using that bandies about among you and your peers. Nothing more than a few poor references to Virginia Prince and a few rants about TG people.