Something positive watching *Disclosure* was how offended trans men & women were by poor depictions of the opposite trans gender on screen. It's really fascinating how much *Boys Don't Cry* offends me as a woman, somehow beyond in defense of trans men? Can't justify it but yeah.
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Replying to @9BillionTigers
Putting on someone else's experience as a costume ought to be universally offensive to us in this way, I think You ought to be able to access some empathy for how the cavalier desire to do that could be turned on anyone at a whim
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yes. But I don't think it's empathy. Intuitively I interpret *The L Word* or *Boys Don't Cry* etc as an attack on me. In a scary way trans men don't even have to enter my mental picture for negative depictions of them to give me a defensive reaction (although of course they do).
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Replying to @9BillionTigers
Yeah solidarity here is different than empathy I think, it's based on an active material understanding that you are also at risk Blackface isn't just bad for me because I empathize with Black people, it's because the people who do it will, eventually, turn on me if they want to
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Like on some level you don't have to like the person someone is being abusive to at all in order to have a triggered reaction -- "This could easily happen to me, this HAS happened to me, if I'm not careful this WILL happen to me"
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