www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phobia
It doesn’t sound like they’re afraid to me?
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Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 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 10 months ago
Iapar@feddit.de 10 months ago
No.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Fetishizing is also phobic.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
This whole exchange could be more productive if you could explain your opinions.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 10 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?