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 @MjrKusanagi and
Is cisness a social contagion?
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @joyfulrivers and
So you can convince children to be cis through persistent exposure to cisnormative ideology?
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No, you don't understand what Motoko is saying Yes, you can use the term "social contagion" this way, and maybe some people do, but it makes it a vacuous, pointless term Same reason the "real" meaning of "meme" never really got off the ground
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
Literally no one uses the real meaning of meme
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