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208117, I think yall are wrong saying gender doesn't involve societal context
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Fri Jun-12-15 04:30 PM
That's been repeated throughout this thread. It's just not true.

Sexual attraction may not need societal context but transgender ism is not the same as homosexuality.

Expression of transgender absolutely involves societal context. The transgenderism of Brazil is expressed very different from the transgendered of San Francisco or Thailand.



>assuming that's the reason someone would want to identify as
>transracial
>transgender people from what I understand (admittedly very
>little) identify as such because of their inner feelings of
>masculinity/femininity/attractions so on
>but i don't think people wake up and say they feel their race
>internally
>what is that?
>how does someone feel black without any societal context that
>identifies them as such?
>if it's based on the things they identify with culturally
>(like music or clothes or taste in a partner), that doesn't
>require that a person's skin be a certain color to embrace it
>so i don't think the comparison is an appropriate one.
>or if it is, i can't wrap my head around it.
>
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>No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the
>American public. (c) HL Mencken or some other motherfucker.


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