Sadly even this doesn’t help with some people.
I once had a conversation with a particularly tall cis woman who’d briefly been the target of transphobic abuse in a womens’ toilet. She somehow managed to blame this on the existence of trans people 🤷
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Transphobia harms everyone, not just trans people. It’s sad that this argument needs to be used, but I’ve heard some cis people find it convincing.
paks@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Eq0@literature.cafe 15 hours ago
Two cynical takes on “transphobia harms everyone”:
(Not apologizing for transphobia, just deconstructing the thought)
Necronomicommunist@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Sure, ideally the way it impacts trans people should be enough. But anything that affects more people negatively is a worse thing.
If I wanted to influence car safety policy, and I can pick from two examples to make my case:
I’d be a fool not to use 2 as an example.
scratchee@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
I often think about this. I don’t think it’s wrong to provide selfish reasons to do the right thing.
I’m the end, the world is full of people with different priorities and ways of thinking, if you restrict yourself to only the “pure” morality arguments it’s not like you can use the purity of your argument to correct the brains of all the people who are not swayed. But if you provide a variety of arguments you’ll convince lots more people.
And in reality most people are not pure selfish or pure selfless. Spoonful of sugar (selfish benefit) helps the medicine (selfless morals) go down.