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Talking is the best way, believe me. Writing things up is easy. But talking is sooo much more revealing and effective, that I started to prefer talking over rea
by dschuetz 8y ago
Talking is the best way, believe me. Writing things up is easy. But talking is sooo much more revealing and effective, that I started to prefer talking over reading hours and hours of the same explanation. Being a trans person is much more of an individual thing, so to avoid generalization I'd like to ask a trans person, in person, what they feel like. I don't want to be educated, I'd like to know and to understand.
- eesmith 8y agoThe trans people of the world are not your personal tutors! If you don't even care enough to read the basics, why should they think that you care enough to really understand them? And there are writings from untold thousands of trans people, with different views, so it's not like reading will only give you generalizations. You'll get thousands of specifics.
- dschuetz 8y agoWhatever happened to talking about personal issues. You really don't get it, do you?
- rectang 8y agoKudos for making the effort to understand. At the same time, I think we can empathize that part of the minority experience is forever having to explain, and not being able to simply exist. From the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson: > "I'm Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion of the world. I'm black. They never let me forget it. I'm black all right. I'll never let them forget it."
- eesmith 8y agoI know that in order to talk to someone you need to learn the language. Otherwise you're the stereotype of an English speaker going to a foreign country and insisting that people can understand you if you JUST TALK LOUDER. You don't even seem to be doing the equivalent of picking up a tourist book containing a few phrases to say.