Okay honestly even if you're a trans woman yourself I feel like there are bigger dragons to slay in the discourse and in life than trans women with a less-than-favorable, wooey, fairly nonscientific perspectives on the testosterone molecule I think there's greater harm rn
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I can't really bring myself to be profoundly offended if a trans woman thinks testosterone is poison. I don't think stopping her from expressing that belief in missives to her forty followers is going to be a high priority for me. Sorry.
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There's a lot of stupid, eyeroll-inducing, magical thinking about estrogen and testosterone but I promise you that trans women thinking stupid shit about them isn't the principal factor jeopardizing our access to/ability to control those things. Nor is it emotionally devastating
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And if I may be pedantic During the turpentine discourse it was pointed out by smarter women than me that "potion" and "poison" have the same etymological root Everything has a point at which it becomes toxic, that doesn't mean it's worthless And that threshold varies in ppl
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Similarly the Greek word "pharmakia" which is translated as "witchcraft"/"sorcery" in the New Testament, and is the Greek translation of the Hebrew "kashaph" in the Septuagint, literally just means "drugs" Hence witchcraft apologists saying it should be translated "poisoners"
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Notably, pharmakia is etymologically related to pharmakos, the Greek term for a human sacrifice Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy" is about Plato's metaphor of writing as a pharmakon, a dangerous drug or form of magic, and its unspoken link to the pharmakos, a hated scapegoat
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