www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phobia
It doesn’t sound like they’re afraid to me?
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Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 months agoYou don’t understand how undermining someone’s gender identity by focusing on them being trans over them being their expressed gender is transphobic?
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Iapar@feddit.de 4 months ago
No.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Fetishizing is also phobic.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 months ago
You’re really gonna have to start writing more than one sentence per comment if you want anyone here to know what the fuck you’re on about
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I wrote a lot more than 1 sentence in the beginning and linked a good thread with a bunch of trans individuals discussing said topic. They aren’t adding anything, just playing semantics with philic vs phobic.
Iapar@feddit.de 4 months ago
This whole exchange could be more productive if you could explain your opinions.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They’re arguing that being sexually attracted to something is a phobia, the definition of which is having an irrational fear of something.
Do you really think this person has the ability to string enough words together to justify their opinion?