The metaphor works. You can dye your hair, and achieve a simulcra of, for e.g, blonde hair. This can appear to others to be more or less convincing, depending. If you leave it, the natural colour grows back. The biology which produces the brown is unchanged.
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Replying to @unwitod @fletcherkathy8 and
No if the color of the hair changes then that's the color it actually is, it's not a "simulacrum" of anything The human obsession of wanting to know what would "naturally" happen in the absence of this or that is common but misguided and rude
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fletcherkathy8 and
No, you're trying to twist language in a daft way. People make the distinction between being 'a natural blonde' and not routinely. Are you trying to say we shouldn't? It is only rude to point out this fact in certain contexts Again, the metaphor works
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Replying to @unwitod @fletcherkathy8 and
Being extremely inquisitive as to whether someone's hair color is "natural" is in fact a pretty rude thing to do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fletcherkathy8 and
Sure. Hence the reference to context. Does that make it untrue that there's a difference? (Still working as a metaphor)
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Replying to @unwitod @fletcherkathy8 and
Of course there's a difference, but it's one that doesn't really matter and one it's rude to be inquisitive about The biological details of how my hair came into its current state - dyed, transplanted, synthetic hairpiece - are none of your fucking business
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
You're free to find my hair *unattractive* and choose not to date me or have sex with me over it But you don't have any right to make a big public deal of whether you think a given person's hair is "real", or sort people into categories based on it, or demand they "disclose"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fletcherkathy8 and
So it is true there's a difference between dyed and not? Ok It is also true there's a difference between TW and females. The importance of this difference is also context dependent.
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Replying to @unwitod @fletcherkathy8 and
Nah the details of a person's "underlying" biology are always none of your goddamn business
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You can assume anything you want, you just have to be prepared to be wrong sometimes
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