• m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Sorry that it has taken me a long time to respond, I’ve been at the cabin, away from my phone.

    Yeah the problem is that because of the history of discrimination we don’t have words for relatively harmless discriminatory tendencies. So if I were to say

    I have racist tendencies

    it sounds like I’m admitting to being a “capital R” racist, when what I mean is,

    I was taught incorrect stereotypes by media as a child, and sometimes despite my best efforts to be egalitarian, these biases cause me to make bad judgements. I try to notice when this happens, to make sure I treat people fairly.

    Yeah I’m not saying anyone is a jerk for having sexual interest only with feminine people with vaginas and boobs, I’m just saying that it’s kinda trans-erasure (and therefore technically transphobic) to say

    I’m exclusively attracted to cis-women

    Because a person doesn’t know the assigned birth sex of every woman they’ve ever been attracted to.