If gender is socially determined then why the need for transgender, why not just being who you are without labels.

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    7 months ago

    Drag queens are not responsible for bogus notions of femaleness but i do think they exaggerate and promote those notions.

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        7 months ago

        Do they call themselves women or men? I have a problem with people perpetuating gender roles that are crap.

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          7 months ago

          And, there it is. The self-own.

          If you truly believed that “gender is meaningless” as you say, this would not be a problem. What you really mean is “I dislike that gender is no longer binary and I’m going to create strawman arguments to hide that fact.”

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          7 months ago

          Drag queens don’t call themselves woman in everyday life. It’s all part of a performance. Just like drag kings. Unless of course someone is trans.

          But if you say gender roles don’t matter, why are you so butt hurt about men ‘perpetuating bad gender roles’ of women huh? So either gender doesn’t matter. Or it does. Which it seems like it does because dur dur men dressing as women offends me because gender roles.

          Someone really needs to take the blame for feeding you after midnight!

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            7 months ago

            Sigh… because they represent crappy gender staereotypes and refer to themselves with female pronouns whilst representing said sysroetypes. It’s not that hard to comprehend. Gender stereotypes obviously matter and have an effect on the world.