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Topic	Can someone please explain why people always lose their shit over transwomen in
Kakapo 01/14/23 4:43:43 AM #87:	averagejoel posted... there's an entire branch of media dedicated to posting misleading articles that seriously skew perception of how frequently trans women win in sports. they're often portrayed as monstrous, savage brutes; as though they're stronger than cis women on an actual statistically significant level (they aren't). it's extremely similar to media portrayals of various marginalized ethnic groups as apes or other animals. there's a significant history of black people being portrayed that way in the US; but it happened with Jews in Nazi Germany (propaganda posters portraying them as mice -- vermin to be exterminated -- and the Nazis as cats); Asians throughout Europe (with the "yellow peril"); and since 9/11 in particular it's been happening with Middle Eastern/South Asian people. there's also a weird obsession with a simplistic view of biological womanhood that's eerily similar to phrenology, so this parallel exists on more than one level Buy a lottery ticket, folks, I agree with AverageJoel. --- There's resounding gongs and clanging bowls, there's cats to guide my soul 24 hour party parrot <cite>Kakapo posted [p:970833584] in Can someon... [t:80310278]...</cite> <quote>averagejoel posted... </cite><quote>there's an entire branch of media dedicated to posting misleading articles that seriously skew perception of how frequently trans women win in sports. they're often portrayed as monstrous, savage brutes; as though they're stronger than cis women on an actual statistically significant level (they aren't). it's extremely similar to media portrayals of various marginalized ethnic groups as apes or other animals. there's a significant history of black people being portrayed that way in the US; but it happened with Jews in Nazi Germany (propaganda posters portraying them as mice -- vermin to be exterminated -- and the Nazis as cats); Asians throughout Europe (with the "yellow peril"); and since 9/11 in particular it's been happening with Middle Eastern/South Asian people. there's also a weird obsession with a simplistic view of biological womanhood that's eerily similar to phrenology, so this parallel exists on more than one level</quote>Buy a lottery ticket, folks, I agree with AverageJoel. --- There's resounding gongs and clanging bowls, there's cats to guide my soul24 hour party parrot</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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