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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      Looking at the summary now I'm pretty sure I misunderstood it (reproductive biology works the same in this world and the "gender flip" is more complicated than I perceived it as) But I told her "This is a world where all the women are men and the men are women"

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      And she actually got mad "This show is stupid, what does that even mean? How is that not just the same as our world? What's different about it?" "Well the 'stronger sex' look like women in our world but they're stronger like men"

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      "But the reason men and women look different is that men are stronger! Men are stronger because they're physically bigger! Men being stronger is why they don't have to have long hair and makeup and women do!" (My mom's not a radfem, she's a conservative Christian, but even so)

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      Anyway her surprisingly intense anger at a stupid science fiction TV show left me with a lot to think about "If men could have babies, they would BE women, and they'd have all the stuff we think of that makes women women, like being smaller and having breasts" stuck in my head

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      I have to give credit to my mom in that from a very young age, probably unintentionally, she both raised my standards for science fiction "What if?" scenarios ("The question is what DOESN'T change if you flip X and Y") and got me thinking about feminism and gender

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      I mean, I think she's wrong in the end, and the TERFs are wrong, but this conflict reveals where we are as a culture right now - it's the conflict over attempting to imagine the unimaginable

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      Again, my mom's not a radfem, she's a conservative, but sometimes I think the difference between the two is how pissed off you feel on a given day

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21

      There's a straight line from "Of course women are the weaker sex due to the biology of childbearing" to "Of course women do all the childrearing because of breastfeeding and hormonal bonding in utero Of course men are worse at those jobs, of course men work outside the home"

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    9. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Apr 21
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I mean, the thing that is shockingly hard to see from inside it (which we all are) is how SPECTACULARLY culturally-dependent all of those ideas are. You can "of course" your way to basically any gender norm you want, and it'll seem perfectly reasonable from inside it!

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21
      Replying to @iridienne

      The idea that, for instance, it's natural for women to be the ones who are "vain" and focus a lot on their personal appearance (and wear makeup and heels and dresses) is non-obvious, even with all the assumptions of patriarchy

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

      You can easily imagine a society just as patriarchal as ours, with many of the same assumptions -- especially the idea that "men do the active courting in romance" and "what makes men attractive is their wealth and achievements" -- and have men be the ones wearing lipstick

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

          That's what it was in fact like in a lot of the history of the West, which people today recoil from and make fun of ("those fruity aristocrats in France") Cf. viral "FUCK YOU BEAU BRUMMEL" thread

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 21
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne

          MRAs are trying to "reclaim" this now, with an appeal to evolutionary biology in the animal world, even ("peacocking")

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        1. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Apr 21
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          And societies like that have actually existed!

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