Post #2504114
2026-03-07 18:31 UTC
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@zvavybir@social.zvavybir.eu 2026-03-08 09:09
@hosford42@techhub.social @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro Obviously people can't fear what they cannot see, so visual stereotypes do matter, but looking visibly trans is not the only thing evoking patriarchy's ire. At the end of the day, patriarchy is a system of control and anyone who doesn't perfectly fulfill the role it decided upon is marginalized (or subalternized to use the technical philosophy term), so if you do maleness your own way – even if it's very similar to what you're supposed to do – then you're a target and share a struggle with us. (This is of course not to say that there isn't a very real material difference between people who seem conforming (as is apparently the case for you), people who could conform if they chose to (like me), and people who even if their life depended on it (as it often does…) cannot conform (like trans and non-binary people with very strong gender identities), but we're still on the same side of the battle.)
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@LeBonk@wetdry.world 2026-04-15 05:21
@hosford42@techhub.social @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro my guess is that they're at least subconsciously afraid of the system of patriarchy collapsing, and they see trans/nonbinary/GNC people in particular as a sort of metonym for that collapse, and so attack them because they're more tangible, accessible, and visible. It's also a bit of virtue signalling: they need to make a show of rejecting any "deviant" ideas to satisfy their own anxiety that they might be wrong. They thrive on affective override because they know on some level that their beliefs won't hold up to scrutiny, that their subjectivity would have to change if they really thought about it, so they don't allow themselves to think about it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=QVilpxowsUQ