• gargolito@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    I’m rewatching the movies right now and I can’t reconcile the person whose heroes driving trait are kindness, acceptance of others, and love can be so hateful to trans people.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    This is just hateful. Are we still bullying this grandma for something she said online more than a decade ago?

  • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    isn’t it something more than phobic? you wouldn’t call the KKK “blackphobic”….

    sure she has an irrational fear, but i think the irrational hatred and active oppression is more of the problem here

    • belastend@slrpnk.net
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      5 days ago

      One more case of “etymology is definition”. A lipophobic substance doesn’t fear fat, it is repulsed.

      “Phobia” describing bigotry is not the “phobia” in things like arachnophobia.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Transphobes do not have psychological phobias. You’re being overly literal.

      There’s a strong argument that we shouldn’t be using psychological terms in this way, in the same way that we shouldn’t casually describe things as “schizophrenic” or “autistic”, but there is no ambiguity about what is meant.

    • teslasaur@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Fear != Hate. 100% agree with you on that.

      The whole phobia-narrative really is wearing out itself.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        I initially thought it was a funny way to address it. I’m straight, but I got bullied and called gay constantly in school because I didn’t fit the rural, huntin’, big belt buckle, rebel flag, cowboy boot wearing stereotype of masculinity.

        To them, being called gay was the worse thing you could do to them because it called their masculinity into question.

        When I was 17 I called this cowboy hat, belt buckle kid a homophobe for calling me gay. At first he thought I was calling him a homo, and it was so funny to say, “it means you’re such a pussy that you’re scared of queers.”

        I think it was worse for him than if I had called him gay. Then he had to go on a tirade about how he wasn’t scared of queers, so I replied, “Ah, you’re just scared you might be queer. I see.”

        I went home with a blacked eye, but I never lay in bed wishing I had said anything different with that one haha.

    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 days ago

      Why would the artist or the poster be trans? If they were trans, why would it form your opinion on “trans people” and not the individual in question?

    • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      It’s pretty clearly a somewhat insulting caricature of JK Rowling, who has made it clear that she doesn’t like trans people.

      Why would the purpose be to comment on the maturity of trans people?

    • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 days ago

      You decided your second contribution ever on the fediverse in a whole year would be to support a shitty person and be transphobic yourself? Honestly, fuck you