again i wonder whether the implied symmetry is valid, or whether positions have to be assessed concretely in a given social context.
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Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose
because there is a mainstream view of gender that is being forced onto everybody even on the level of linguistic conventions
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Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose
so the status quo already abuses trans people, as per our previous definitions
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Replying to @fronxer
Trans people are not abused by other people having binary understandings of gender. Mustn't be forced to share them.
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Replying to @fronxer
I thought you might & here we will differ fundamentally. One theory of gender must not be forced on everyone even if it's right.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
ok—but i am saying that a theory of gender that's held by the majority can be abusive, can be default-forced onto people.
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Replying to @fronxer
We're defining force differently, then. I am not forced to believe in God if I live somewhere nearly everyone does & it's in their speech.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer
I could not reasonably ask them to stop believing in God or say that God does not exist when in my presence. They have rights too.
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however, the belief in god doesn't/wouldn't exist in isolation from expectations, social in/exclusion, access to jobs, etc.
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No & this is where we can make anti-discrimination laws & that's why the divide between words & actions is so important.
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