![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potato_headThis is one of the main reasons I hate 'lolol Justin Beiber is a gurl' jokes.
People may not literally make the trans* joke often, but the implications there are more than enough. He doesn't look or sound manly enough...ergo, he is not a boy; he must be a girl. Better yet, a girl pretending to be a boy!
It is not okay to use 'you're a girl' as an insult. That's mysogyny.
It is not okay to attack someone's gender identity. That's transphobic. EVEN IF THE PERSON IS, OR PRESUMABLY IS, CIS.
Because if a cis person's gender identity isn't safe from attack just because some people don't like his music, how is there any hope of my gender identity ever being safe.
And of course I'm sure there are plenty of people who parrot this joke without really thinking about it. Because it's the internet, and it's a meme. But ffs that's not an excuse. Think about what you're saying, don't just repeat it because other people are laughing.
Which reminds me of the year my high school German class became obsessed with the mudkips meme...without actually knowing the story behind the phrase. Everybody using it got in trouble when the teacher actually looked it up. They had no idea the origin of the meme was sexual, and were perpetually confused. It was honestly pretty hilarious.
People may not literally make the trans* joke often, but the implications there are more than enough. He doesn't look or sound manly enough...ergo, he is not a boy; he must be a girl. Better yet, a girl pretending to be a boy!
It is not okay to use 'you're a girl' as an insult. That's mysogyny.
It is not okay to attack someone's gender identity. That's transphobic. EVEN IF THE PERSON IS, OR PRESUMABLY IS, CIS.
Because if a cis person's gender identity isn't safe from attack just because some people don't like his music, how is there any hope of my gender identity ever being safe.
And of course I'm sure there are plenty of people who parrot this joke without really thinking about it. Because it's the internet, and it's a meme. But ffs that's not an excuse. Think about what you're saying, don't just repeat it because other people are laughing.
Which reminds me of the year my high school German class became obsessed with the mudkips meme...without actually knowing the story behind the phrase. Everybody using it got in trouble when the teacher actually looked it up. They had no idea the origin of the meme was sexual, and were perpetually confused. It was honestly pretty hilarious.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-03-17 11:35 pm (UTC)But to be honest I am still RAEGing from that fucking speciesist post the other day. I sat and watched it unfold completely stunned. I hate pretty much every single person who posted in that goddamn thread and I ranted about different things in it to Becki for over an hour. I was SO angry.
no subject
Date: 2011-03-18 02:07 am (UTC)Uggghhh I just left that post alone, I didn't even read it. I find myself doing that more and more often. There are certain topics that I just know I'm better off leaving alone.
no subject
Date: 2011-03-22 03:20 am (UTC)Lol that post was awful. Like the one in TQC a while back where someone asked - if your partner/spouse became disabled would you leave them? 99% of people said yes!! I was so sickened by it. It made me feel like I didn't deserve love, or a life, and people were grossed out by me. They were talking about how gross it would be to have sex with an amputee and stuff like that too... it was the most disgusting set of conversations I have ever, ever read.
Anyway when i was reading the speciesism post I said to Becki, "If you and Holly were both drowning, I'm sorry but I hope you know I'd save Holly first." And you know, I ADORE the people I love and hang around with these days. She told me she'd expect me to because she can shift for herself better anyway and she wouldn't forgive me if I didn't grab Holly first - she's my dependant and it's the right thing to do. I loved her so, so much for that.