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This is just plain transphobia. Person used filters and makeup to make themselfs look better and younger. This never ever happened before! OMG, call the polic
by keenreed 6y ago
This is just plain transphobia.
Person used filters and makeup to make themselfs look better and younger. This never ever happened before!
OMG, call the police!!!!!
- blitz_skull 6y agoHow is this transphobia?
- keenreed 6y agoBecause it does not make HN frontpage when "normal" woman uses Instagram filters.
- Pfhreak 6y agoGenuine attempt to answer: It's seen as humorous or weird that a man would want to appear to be a young woman. It's unclear in this case whether the person being photographed is trans. This article is not a tech demo or deep dive, it's gawking at a man "pretending" to be a woman. It reinforces the idea that trans women are just men "pretending" to be women. It's not too many steps removed from something like Ace Ventura, which went out of its way to explicitly frame trans women as "gross". Yes, over time media has gotten a little less explicit about this, but there's definitely a long tail of media that's like, "Look at this weird trans/trans-adjacent person over here..."
- marknutter 6y agoI think the number of people out there who see this and relate it to trans people is vanishingly small.
- Pfhreak 6y agoIs that due to education? Lack of understanding of the trans experience? Given that the number of trans people out there is already fairly small (single digit percentages), I wouldn't expect trans awareness to be wide. Especially internationally.
- blitz_skull 6y agoWell I'm never going to understand any mental state that I don't explicitly live in. I don't understand why someone flips their lid and murders someone, and no amount of education changes that. I don't understand how someone who wins the lottery feels, and no amount of education will change that either. At some point we need to realize that it's not someone else's job to validate whatever feelings and internal shit that we got going on in our heads. At the end of the day, it's not anyone else's job to "identify" with your preferences, and if someone thinks that your sexual preferences are gross, that's actually OKAY. I think many people assume that everyone needs to be okay with everyone else's preferences, but not only is that totally unrealistic, but what does it accomplish? You're not going to rid malice and evil from the world by accepting everyone's preferences, so what are we trying to solve by "educating" everyone about transgenderism?
- keenreed 6y agoYes, it is tiny tiny minority, and we can safely ignore them...
- keenreed 6y agoI already made an answer, but it got flagged. Problem is the double standard. If 50 year old woman presents herself younger, it is not big deal. We see it every day in celebrity magazines. So this person presenting themselves under different gender, is the only reason people talk about it.
- JSavageOne 6y agoAre you serious? This man used an app to digitally transform his face into someone entirely different. Equating the reaction to this as trans-phobia is probably the single dumbest thing I've read on HN. If I use a filter to make myself look like a dog, am I offending people who identify as dogs? The lengths certain people go to whine and cry victim about everything is really sad.
- jessa0 6y agoExactly. How is this any different than any Instagram filter that many influencers of any gender use to make themselves look younger? I think this was only a news story in Japan because feminism / LGBTQ rights in Japan have a long way to go before people feel comfortable being themselves in public.