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I don’t give a damn what kind of porn people watch. I do care that this colors their perspective on how trans people actually live. Most of us aren’t sex workers. And most of us that are don’t do it by choice. We’re just people trying to live our lives. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous, as it leads to believing that someone just being themselves in public is an act of sexual exhibitionism. I didn’t transition as a sex thing. My life is not a costume. I transitioned and have lived my entire adult life as myself, worked my entire career and built my entire life around my transitioned name and gender. Rather than a 24/7 drag act, most days I’m wearing jeans and hoodie.
We’re just trying to live our lives in peace. But a bunch of perverts are using their porn habits to inform their moral judgments about an entire class of people.
Just thought of an alternative theory. Republican states may be more obsessed with trans porn, but maybe its not the anti-trans or Republicans in those states that are obsessed. Maybe the reason why so many are antitrans in those states is the prevalence of trans porn in their communities.
Repressed Republican is an attractive explanation, and probably true for a significant portion, but I doubt it’s the full truth.
“trans porn in their communities”?
Like, is the model here that people are hanging it from light poles? Generally people have their little fireman time at home, behind closed doors. How the fuck would you know?
really i wonder why
little frankie armistein is topself
Trumpsgender Porn ?
I’m scratching my head on this one as well…
Also explains why all the porn of us calls us slurs. I hate it.
(Seriously, it’s so hard finding trans porn that feels like it’s for trans people instead of for people that want to dehumanize us)
Honestly, I think it goes deeper than that, I think that many guys that go for trans porn actually are very into it, probably because it’s such a “taboo” subject for them.
It’s similar to whenever there is a Republican or conservative convention somewhere, immediately it becomes a Grindr hotspot.
There are boat loads of gay / trans people in those extremist communities, because of course there are, and while publicly they will bash anything LGBT, privately they get off on it
See also that mega extremist church pastor that would constantly bash the gays and then got caught snorting coke from a gay prostitute
Edit:to add to this: I think that most trans porn made is not primarily made for trans people, but for men. Similarly to how most gangbang porn also isn’t for girls, it’s for men. Sure, trans people and girls can watch it, enjoy it, everyone is free to do whatever as long as they don’t hurt anyone or thing, as far as I am concerned, but the main audience is just plain men.
I know a guy who’s a sex worker and he has had quite a few clients who are actively homophobic. When he told me this, I made a comment based on the assumption that these guys were closeted gays with internalised homophobia and he said “no, I think it’s something deeper than that”
His theory was that it’s basically a convoluted humiliation kink, where they are genuinely grossed out by the idea of having sex with a man, but they do it anyway because of the tabooness of it
I suppose there"s different kinds of extreme-right and evolutions.
All awful of course.
In Europe they misappropriate LGBT to make a point about Islam and their intollerance to it.
Same for women’s rights.
I do not particularly think they care for any of those.
Obviously everywhere they stopped being antisemitic to support their fascist zionist partners.
That lines up with my theory that a lot of Republicans are repressed homosexuals. Trans porn is probably the most ‘homosexual adjacent’ porn they are brave enough to watch.
I dislike this, as it asserts that it’s gay for a man to be attracted to a trans woman. And fellas…it’s not gay to wanna fuck a woman.
Rather the chuds are treating trans women the same way they treat cis women: as sex objects to be exploited, not human as beings deserving of rights.
While they might openly refer to trans women as “men in dresses”, they still fundamentally and unconsciously treat them not unlike any other women. Just as deviant women, less deserving of rights.
Source: Am transgender. I am treated like a woman, I experience misogyny like one.
But when someone hostile (or sometimes even the occasional well meaning but ignorant liberal), finds out I’m trans, they notably don’t treat me like a man, or even a deviant man. They still treat me like all of the above, but worse, and more objectifying, with added transphobia.
Not only repressed homosexuals, but they view ALL sex stuff as a choice. It’s beyond their comprehension that people can’t help what they’re sexually attracted to. They have gay thoughts, suppress them, and then conclude that all other gay people are the same as them but with less self-control and therefor evil people.
Whatever happened to that “are traps gay?” guy?
Its also like they all hate undocumented immigrants but only hire them for work.
My dad used to removed about immigrants taking jobs, but would swing by Home Depot to grab some Mexicans whenever he needed extra hands on a construction project. Conservatives are just hypocritical morons.
EDIT: Wow, this place bans the no-no synonym for the word “complains”? What in the seven nanny hells is that.
rant ? edit: ooh it’s probably… bitch, what a stupid word filter
Lemmy is reddit 2.0…
I literally must migrated here to avoid stupid censorship 🥲
But have you glanced at community/overall rules copypasta?
Yeah, that’s so unbelievably not fucking surprising. A weird amount of harassment I’ve gotten for being trans has been kinda (or occasionally extremely) sexual. Also the redder the area the more I get street harassment.
ETA: Oh upon reading the article, the city I’m thinking of (Lexington, KY, I basically couldn’t take a walk without being catcalled there) is in the top 10 cities.
And yeah, anti trans bigotry is interesting because it seems to be an alliance of exterminationist bigotry (“x people should not exist or should be hidden and we should work towards that goal”, examples of targeted groups include disabled people, Jewish people, and gay people) and supremacist bigotry (“x people are our lessers and must be forced into their place beneath us”, anti black racism is the classic example). You have plenty of transphobes who just want us gone no matter what, but you also have quite a few who think our place is as discreet sex workers and are mad that we are insisting we deserve to live in society as equals and do whatever work we want. They were fine with us as prostitutes, but not as mechanics, as shameful side pieces but how dare we say we deserve to be spouses.
That perspective of us is deeply entwined in the insistence that anything pertaining to us is sexual. They look at us and reduce us solely to the lens of sex then condemn us for it. Then when some of us internalize that our only value as people is as sex objects they point and say “see look, we told you”.
Their hyper-conservative, hyper-religious cultural programming has them willing to do anything to alleviate the cognitive dissonance caused by is contrast with their natural inclinations. Because toxicly masculine patriarchy runs their world, they have no idea how to process their emotions and so they can out. They feel a deep rooted need to adhere to their socia pressuresl and psychological programming, and the result is their contradicting activities, and venomous denial of their taboo activities and thoughts.
I don’t have a solution, other than to stay the fuck away from these places.
Needs to skip the maps and go right to the charts at the bottom. I was thinking this was a junk study since the map was pretty close to just being a population density map until I got down to the charts. Not a surprise since they’re measuring volume of searches and that’ll always correlate to population.
And this is also why violence often happens, as some of these men can’t deal with their own attraction, and rather kill to hide it.
Public porn surveillance is kinda wild in the USA…
technofascism will do it to ya
The only exposure Republicans have to the outside world is through porn
Ironically, they’re treating trans women the same way they treat cis women—as sexual objects who don’t deserve bodily autonomy.
Yay, equality?
