Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois

Resol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• aow@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not sure this had anything to do with transphobia. The attackers just sound homophobic; they probably saw her hair and don’t know or care that the slur they picked isn’t for girls. It’s sad that she’s going through this. Their girlfriends robbing them after they had been beaten down speaks volumes about what sort of people they are.

  source

  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It generally really sucks to be a victim of a hate crime.

    source
• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  oh yea it does, one of my family members was misgendered as a man, eventhough she isnt, by an demographics that have a wierd reaction to asian people.

  source

  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The more stories about this I hear, the more I just question the reason why gender norms even exist. And I mean that in general.

    Like, what do you mean men shouldn’t act flamboyant and vulnerable? What do you mean little girls should always be seen playing with Barbie dolls (or in the context of my country, Fulla dolls)? Growing up, I never understood why making this distinction beyond the biological and sexual stuff was even necessary. Aren’t we all humans at the end of the day?

    source

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      100% all humans at the Endo of the day.

      The reason a lot of it exists is to communicate social roles, because social role mediates interaction. The earliest division of social role was biological sex, and so that’s commonly an aspect in gender.
      How gender is expressed is a complex interaction between socially agreed upon norms, how the individual interprets their gender, how others interpret that, and so on.
      Individual gender is a matter of psychological, biological and social factors which influence how an individual chooses to understand themselves in the context of society and also how they present themselves to society.

      The socialization part is where we teach people the behavior needed to express genders, and is where the genderd toys come in, amongst other things.

      All that to say, what we need is a way to communicate social role, and what we have to do that is loosely tied to sex and dominated by an imnense amount of social momentum. In a sane world the genders would be split into a lot more pieces.

      source

      • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Understood.

        source
    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re getting there, keep going.

      source
• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This looks more like homophobic cunts rather than transphobic cunts.

  source

  • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The venn diagram is a near circle.

    source
  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really should’ve read the article better. But both are really bad for society.

    source
  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These are all exactly the same people, if that’s not clear.

    source