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  • People often think there is an intrinsic link between their assigned titles and their character. A mother is always motherly by the etymology of the word, right? People rely on these labels to give themselves, by association with the labels, the positive traits that are attributed to them. No need to prove you’re compationate, because you’re a mother, so it goes without saying. It’s some kind of cognitive shortcut.

    So someone who doesn’t have a mother, according to yours, does not get to experience motherly love. And someone that has a mother immediately does. Even if the mother is extremely abusive, there is this belief that under all of that abuse, there was still “motherly love”. After all, your mother will always love you no matter what, because that’s how mothers are. All of these qualities are attached to someone who gave birth to a child without it necessarily being true.

    I do remember you posting about your mother before. I’m not sure if your question was retorical, but nevertheless you kinda know the answer already, right? And even then, it doesn’t seem like arguing back is possible. I’m not sure why you’d be asking here either.
















  • it’s close, but what your observation actually shows is their hypocrisy.

    most transphobia is caused by bioessentialism. people think that there’s something “inate” to you assigned gender/sex at birth. to them, that makes them special and fitting of a certain role.

    when you tell people that you can change genders, they freak out, because that means that the traits they think they have isn’t inherent to their gender at birth (being assigned a man at birth doesn’t make you manly inherently).

    this is why when you see a lot of terfs, for example, justifying why trans women aren’t women, they use things like the ability to give birth, having to take care of the household, primary/secondary sexual characteristics to justify themselves. they cling to the idea that afab people have something inherent that amab people don’t, so that they feel like they have those traits, and that it makes them better.

    Taking the example of a cis man that has feminine features and that hides it, because they feel insecure and need to prove their masculinity. There is nothing wrong with that, admit that you don’t lie to yourself, by saying that your “inherent masculinity” gives you more masculine traits that someone who’s afab could never have.

    TLDR: people who are insecure about their gender prop themselves up by attaching themselves to inherent traits that they think others could never have. anything that goes against that breaks their mind.