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As a little bit of context, a lot of trans people (rightfully) view HN as a (white)-male dominated place, and feel misunderstood and misheard by the people here
by azeirah 2y ago
As a little bit of context, a lot of trans people (rightfully) view HN as a (white)-male dominated place, and feel misunderstood and misheard by the people here. A common defense tactic is to become _more_ sexually overt and grotesque than they actually are in reality.
A lot of the other thirstposting is, from my experience, very much genuine and heartfelt.
The trans community is often quite open.
I'm personally transgender, monogamous and mostly lesbian, so I'm a bit of a "boring" outlier when it comes to the poly & kink communities. But I spend a LOT of time in trans spaces. Online and offline. Professionally and casually. Younger and older. Political and friendly.
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- xrd 2y agoI just love this, thanks. A good reminder.
- fatata123 2y agoThere’s a fine line between ‘open’ and ‘perverted’.
- azeirah 2y agoYep. That's why I'm openly talking about moderation and why I'm very much in favor of an NSFW filter.
- jncfhnb 2y agoPerverted is just some other person being judgmental.
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- fennecbutt 2y agoThat line is shared with the one of "none of your business"
- moi2388 2y ago[flagged]
- defrost 2y ago> And I (rightfully) view congregations of transgender women mostly as a (white)-male dominated place. You need to get out in the world more, that's a very limited locale specific PoV.
- moi2388 2y agohttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/336597435/figure/fig2/AS:814801294983168@1571275175171/Transgender-race-ethnicity-versus-US-Census-data-Figures-in-parenthesis-specify-the.png https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336597435/figure/fi... 68% seems 'mostly'. As does this map: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/trans-population-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/trans-pop... /ˈməʊs(t)li/ adverb as regards the greater part or number.
- defrost 2y agoYou need to get out in the world more and experience reality outside of the US and US centric 'world' maps. The "worldpopulationreview" data has shortcomings. An obvious (for any with a background in data collection) reporting bias for one ..
- defrost 2y agoWith no response I'll assume you've worked out for yourself why your graphs and statistics are bad data. If not, I'm happy to walk you through some of it - it'd impress more if you can come back with a global average figure for transgenderism and some thoughts on why (for example) Indonesia has such a large population and yet such low official figures (43K IIRC rather than >> 3 million). Forget the transgender part and think of this as a data exercise.
- gemerald 2y ago[flagged]
- jbirer 2y agoNothing wrong with NSFW content per se, but you cannot justify potentially exposing children to pornographic content as a "coping mechanism", it wouldn't be accepted by any court for sure.
- azeirah 2y agoI completely agree.
- fennecbutt 2y agoIdt it's defensive, at least not for my trans friends. I'm a gay dude and I think it's just that the queer community is a lot more open about that stuff in general, which contrasts greatly with straight people, especially Americans.