LogFAQs > #909177001

i guess i'd have to watch it again, but basically until the last couple minutes or so of the dialogue i was pretty angry because it felt like she was having the aesthetics argument just shut down the other side (too tired to come up with a better wording for that).

which like, again...she isn't wrong. the best way to have as little resistance as possible living as a trans woman is to do all of that. but there's so many reasons why that just isn't an option for some people and i feel like this video didn't convey any of that.

i get that it's just an inner dialogue and there's no "winner" or "right side" or anything. and she does do a pretty good job of nailing the surface level aspects of that dialogue. but it doesn't even once mention things like the cost of doing all of that or the time to perfect all the techniques necessary to look that certain way, things that, when you're poor and struggling just to not be homeless and have food to eat (god forbid you have children to support and raise), just aren't feasible.

i guess i'm probably just expecting too much from this one video. and her intentions are clearly different than my hopes for videos like this, but ultimately i was left feeling like the non-conforming viewpoint was more or less shat on until the end where it got a brief moment of "well sure if that's your thing that's ok too I GUESS" and honestly a pretty unsatisfying conclusion of a rather insincere feeling "we're all in it together, right?"

i will admit to being pretty sensitive to this topic, given my lived experience of having these debates in my head and with others (friendly and unfriendly) all the damn time. i'm probably not the intended audience but i don't really get much from a less dynamic version of the shit that's in my head basically all the time.
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