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Numerous studies show that humans have the propensity to view other humans as non humans and that this propensity happens with as little stimuli as seeing someo
by Jemm 7y ago
Numerous studies show that humans have the propensity to view other humans as non humans and that this propensity happens with as little stimuli as seeing someone riding a bicycle. You can imagine how people who do not conform to gender norms are seen as less than human.
People who do not experience this dehumanization are fundamentally not equipped to understand the situation.
Thus saying that 'cis' persons are experiencing 'violence' is stunningly absurd.
If anything, cis people are the ones in boxes based on societies discrimination against anything that does not conform.
- ncmncm 7y agoEveryone experiences dehumanization at times -- as you note yourself, riding a bicycle can suffice to provoke it. Either being treated as "other" is violence, or it's not -- who you are does not determine whether you get to complain of it. Everyone acknowledges that many of the people you are calling "cis" tend to keep to the same boxes as you have put them in with your own comment. Not all do, though, including the author and me, and I doubt she would relish you putting her in one any more than I do.