♥ ...this was lucid? Good to know. It felt rather like I was dumping blind rage onto my screen. >___>;;
(So much this. And I think it does involve transphobia, yes, because even though--as far as I understand--she is biologically female and IDs as a woman, the attitude people have about it is the same sort of "you're not a real woman/ a woman shouldn't look like a man" bullshit that they bring out against trans* people. I am seeing the same kind of fear and disgust that I see towards people who don't fit the cisgendered/cissexual binary.
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Date: 2010-02-03 01:00 am (UTC)(So much this. And I think it does involve transphobia, yes, because even though--as far as I understand--she is biologically female and IDs as a woman, the attitude people have about it is the same sort of "you're not a real woman/ a woman shouldn't look like a man" bullshit that they bring out against trans* people. I am seeing the same kind of fear and disgust that I see towards people who don't fit the cisgendered/cissexual binary.
Traincrash about sums it up.)