Ironically, they’re treating trans women the same way they treat cis women—as sexual objects who don’t deserve bodily autonomy.
Yay, equality?
They can't get off if it's mainstream, they need their fetishes to be taboo, and preferably illegal. So, they make it illegal, then rub themselves raw over it.
This is, upsettingly, probably true for a significant portion of them.
I ain't beatin' my meat to trans porn! I swear! I'm just... I'm just researching the enemy!
Yeah 14 hours of researchin, i really gotta know what to look out for. Yeah and those noises i was frying some chicken, nothing goes better than cock with researchin.
On the bright side, once trans people start to disappear, they will be the first to rebell.
Ok, maybe just hoping.
Everyday I find myself completely baffled by human behavior. There are days I legitimately do not think I'm the same species.
If I hate someone, I genuinely hate 1athem. Like Gary that I worked with in 2003. 20+ years later, and I STILL think he's one of the biggest 1assholes I ever met.
1At NO POINT do I want Gary porn. Maybe Gary death porn, but not sexual porn. I'd like to see him walk into a walk-in closet, when a bunch of spinning blades shoot out and cut him into tiny dice sized cubes.
But these people claim to hate trans folks, but then go home and beat their meat to them? Where's the hate then??? If you're going to hate someone, truely hate them because they stand for everything you dispise. Otherwise, you're just saying your own values mean nothing to you, and you shouldn't be taken seriously at face value.
And in this particular case, why even bother hating trans people at all? Just accept trans people for who they are, and bust all the nuts you want without being a hypocrite.
Aside from kids and animals, there aren't many kinks I'd look down on people for, as long as they're just true to themselves. I may not like the idea of licking feet, but if thats your thing, own up to it! Be yourself!
Question:
What's up with those 1s in front of your 'a's in paragraph 2?
Typos. I was walking while typing this, and my finger must have touched the keyboard a few times.
Why the random numbers
THE NUMBERS, MASON!
WHAT DO THEY MEAN??
Most people are more complex than black-and-white, most of my co-workers are freenemies.
Enemies to lovers is such a common trope too.
Huh, and here I thought we didn't like any of the same things.
You see the performers as people. They see the performers as fuckmeat. You are not the same.
Very good point. I also see now that this is only focused on search terms for MtF folk. I'm an equal opportunity gooner, I enjoy some fine-ass FtM peeps in porn too. I have a feeling they don't.
Republicans don't believe that FtM people exist. In their minds, they're just delusional women who wish they were men, but it makes perfect sense to them that women wish they were men. It would be weirder to them to hear that not all women wish they were men. It's completely part of the sexism and patriarchy.
The reason that they're so obsessed with trans women by comparison is that it goes against their entire worldview. A man who wants to be a woman? Why would anyone ever want to be a woman?! There's also the bigotry and everything else, of course, but the fact that it defies what they see as the natural order or hierarchy of the sexes drives them crazy.
I don't give a damn what kind of porn people watch. I do care that this colors their perspective on how trans people actually live. Most of us aren't sex workers. And most of us that are don't do it by choice. We're just people trying to live our lives. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous, as it leads to believing that someone just being themselves in public is an act of sexual exhibitionism. I didn't transition as a sex thing. My life is not a costume. I transitioned and have lived my entire adult life as myself, worked my entire career and built my entire life around my transitioned name and gender. Rather than a 24/7 drag act, most days I'm wearing jeans and hoodie.
We're just trying to live our lives in peace. But a bunch of perverts are using their porn habits to inform their moral judgments about an entire class of people.
This ties into a bigger issue where almost nothing related to sexuality can ever be healthy or normal to many conservatives.
Sex to these conservatives is inherently deviant and filthy. Making conscious life decisions related to sexuality or sexual identity will never be just a life decision. It will be equivalent to actively engaging in sexual acts.
Being trans to them is actively paedophilic because it exposes children to the concept of sexuality and gender. Sex ed will be paedophilic to them because it does the same. Each person's actions are not the sole thing that defines them, but also their position in society as dictated by "what it has always been". Men have always led households by marrying women and having kids, therefore men that don't are a threat.
Conservatism is quite black or white when it comes to things like identity or introspection. It is an ideology that very frequently wages war on self questioning and exploration in exchange for compliance and conformism. It's why many conservatives hate universities, scientists and partially why they hate immigrants. The entire ideology grows by appealing to people who do not want to be intellectually challenged. It's especially attractive to those that don't want to understand other ways of thinking.
Conservatism as an ideology always exploits the greatest potential weakness of the left wing: naivety, and presents itself as the "responsible" or "reasonable" solution to a reckless and harmful left wing. They frame things like empathy and humanitarianism as weaknesses rather than virtues.
It's why most of the conservative rhetoric revolves around "being taken advantage of" or "being scammed by" this or that group. They love stories about immigrants exploiting the system, cheating or stealing because it proves their worldview that what's foreign and unknown is out to get them. It is an ideology driven by fear.
And the biggest problem is that, unlike progressivism (which also has its ideological vices and weaknesses), conservatism never seeks to help the weak or empower the vulnerable. Instead it seeks to maintain the hierarchy and keep people in their place. In the US that translates to keeping immigrants weak, keeping black people down, keeping women in the kitchen, keeping white men ahead, keeping the US as an imperial power, and keeping its allies subservient.
Article says there are more searches for trans-related keywords in GOP areas. However it doesn't say anything about trans porn searches vs cis porn searches. It wouldn't surprise me if conservative areas have more searches for porn in general, so all the numbers are higher. Anyway the article uses a lot of statistical jargon without seeming to check this basic issue. FAIL.
Yeah, it's just correlation, which does not mean it's true, the reason could be a different one
**Search terms for the list ranking include only: “shemale”, “tranny”, “femboy”, and “ladyboy”
They're going to be missing a large chunk by excluding drawn/cartoon/anime type categories and terms like futa.
Although, not sure how well the southern peeps are gonna know any words coming from other cultures to reference what they're looking for.
I mean we've seen Alex Jones with a "Naughty tbabe" tab open on his phone.
Everything going on with the femboy heatmap is incredible. All the red and blue areas of the southwest doing the handshake meme. The population cachment areas of fucking Scranton and Pueblo of all places going all in for some reason. The smooth cultural gradient in Cascadia.
It's also in the wrong article because femboys aren't trans, but it is funny to contrast it with the map for 'shemale' (eugh)
Always projection with these retards, children and trans porn
Also explains why all the porn of us calls us slurs. I hate it.
(Seriously, it's so hard finding trans porn that feels like it's for trans people instead of for people that want to dehumanize us)
Honestly, I think it goes deeper than that, I think that many guys that go for trans porn actually are very into it, probably because it's such a "taboo" subject for them.
It's similar to whenever there is a Republican or conservative convention somewhere, immediately it becomes a Grindr hotspot.
There are boat loads of gay / trans people in those extremist communities, because of course there are, and while publicly they will bash anything LGBT, privately they get off on it
See also that mega extremist church pastor that would constantly bash the gays and then got caught snorting coke from a gay prostitute
Edit:to add to this: I think that most trans porn made is not primarily made for trans people, but for men. Similarly to how most gangbang porn also isn't for girls, it's for men. Sure, trans people and girls can watch it, enjoy it, everyone is free to do whatever as long as they don't hurt anyone or thing, as far as I am concerned, but the main audience is just plain men.
I know a guy who's a sex worker and he has had quite a few clients who are actively homophobic. When he told me this, I made a comment based on the assumption that these guys were closeted gays with internalised homophobia and he said "no, I think it's something deeper than that"
His theory was that it's basically a convoluted humiliation kink, where they are genuinely grossed out by the idea of having sex with a man, but they do it anyway because of the tabooness of it
The only exposure Republicans have to the outside world is through porn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbidden_fruit_is_the_sweetest
Proverb
forbidden fruit is the sweetest
- Forbidden things seem more appealing; people desire things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.
Also curiousity due to lack of sexual education.
What deliverance was based on a true story?
Oh shit.. oh no.. this can't fucking be.. am I Republican?!?! /s
You’ve fallen into a logical of fallacy of confirming the consequent.
Edited it and added the /s for sarcasm there for ya buddy. 🫂
I know. I just really wanted to flex my trans master debater knowledge.
this is just… misinformation. At best, a loosely carried out statistics experiment.
Its also like they all hate undocumented immigrants but only hire them for work.
My dad used to removed about immigrants taking jobs, but would swing by Home Depot to grab some Mexicans whenever he needed extra hands on a construction project. Conservatives are just hypocritical morons.
EDIT: Wow, this place bans the no-no synonym for the word "complains"? What in the seven nanny hells is that.
Yeah, that's so unbelievably not fucking surprising. A weird amount of harassment I've gotten for being trans has been kinda (or occasionally extremely) sexual. Also the redder the area the more I get street harassment.
ETA: Oh upon reading the article, the city I'm thinking of (Lexington, KY, I basically couldn't take a walk without being catcalled there) is in the top 10 cities.
And yeah, anti trans bigotry is interesting because it seems to be an alliance of exterminationist bigotry ("x people should not exist or should be hidden and we should work towards that goal", examples of targeted groups include disabled people, Jewish people, and gay people) and supremacist bigotry ("x people are our lessers and must be forced into their place beneath us", anti black racism is the classic example). You have plenty of transphobes who just want us gone no matter what, but you also have quite a few who think our place is as discreet sex workers and are mad that we are insisting we deserve to live in society as equals and do whatever work we want. They were fine with us as prostitutes, but not as mechanics, as shameful side pieces but how dare we say we deserve to be spouses.
That perspective of us is deeply entwined in the insistence that anything pertaining to us is sexual. They look at us and reduce us solely to the lens of sex then condemn us for it. Then when some of us internalize that our only value as people is as sex objects they point and say "see look, we told you".
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