I actually strongly believe that TERFism is a social contagion and I'd be happy to write a paper about it and I doubt these people would be all sanguine about it if I did
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
If people are trans, and being trans is contagious, then any non deliberately obtuse mind would recognize that the insinuation is that trans people represent a contagious population. Exactly the same way homophobes meant it about queer folk back in the day.
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Replying to @MjrKusanagi @BlamKaboom and
"He never said they're a contagion, just that they ARE contagious and infect others in proximity!" You're not even fooling yourself.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
So if I tell you about being trans, and you, as a consequence of hearing about this, resolve to be trans, and this is identified by Singal as an example of the "social contagion" of being trans... Then I don't give a fuck about your assertion to the contrary.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
So back in the day, when homophobes said "Gay teachers will make your children gay, they're dangerous!", the audience was supposed to identify that as social contagion rhetoric, which is not bad and totally okay because it "mediates virtually all of human civilization"?
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Replying to @MjrKusanagi @BlamKaboom and
You are not even fooling yourself. You know this rhetoric explicitly equates being gay to a transmissible disease. It was intended to be negative. It was intended to put disincentives in place for gay people existing openly in public. I know you don't believe this was fine.
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Well why the fuck wouldn't it? If everything is subject to social contagion why wouldn't being around gay people make you more likely to be gay? (Here we go, this is the pointy end of the wedge right here)
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