It's interesting to me that the fiber arts (knitting, crocheting, sewing etc.) are highly female-dominated, yet I've never seen MtFs expressing interest in them. In fact, they're the most gendered activities I can think of -- Ravelry's user base is over 90% female. Yet MtFs don't gravitate to them, despite lady brains that supposedly drive them towards "feminine gender expression."
Why is that? My theory is that these activities have nothing to do with transforming oneself into a beautiful and/or fuckable object and are not public performances, so they have no value to the narcissist.
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Same question: how many transgender people do you know? How many straight people, male or female? Of the thousands of people that you've met in your life, how many have you ever asked "Do you knit?" Come on, admit it: it isn't a "theory" of yours. It's barely a hypothesis. It's just an uninformed guess that you think might prove useful to you in your search for another slur to cast upon transgenders.
If 90% of the fiber arts are performed by females, does that mean that 90% of all females are drawn to the fiber arts? I mean, is that anything like a typical 'feminine gender expression?'
I think you're just gasping at straws to find ways to abuse or marginalize MtF's. Probably because even if they are becoming beautiful and/or sexually active PEOPLE, they still won't fuck your dumb ass.
Erm, do you have any idea of how statistics actually work?
How many women are into fiber arts? Personally don't know any, and I know plenty of women. It's definitely not all that popular as you'd like. Trans people are a minuscule part of population. There definitely won't be a significant number of them in anything, especially not an already not exactly popular pasttime.
This is probably the first time I've ever seen a TERF use words "beautiful/fuckable" in relation to transwomen, in any context. Is this person a TERF version of ultraliberal, or what?
Erm, one of my friends who is an MtF actually does a lot of this stuff so, there goes you argument. I won`t touch any of it myself and for a good reason, these things bore me the fuck out. Does this means I`m less of a woman for that? Perhaps less of a lady but I was never much of a lady to begin with, so tough shit.
The knitting thing makes me laugh because of the popularity of the 2017 Japanese film "Close Knit", which is about a transwoman teaching her boyfriend's niece how to knit to help the little girl deal with her troubled home life.
You know why "fiber arts" are "highly female dominated"? Because the gender stereotypes and attitudes push potential male practitioners away. I would imagine the same would apply to MtF transgender people since they were most likely raised male and told they needed to throw around a football instead.
The OP's theory about transwoman only doing things to make them "beautiful and/or fuckable" speaks volumes.
Oh and for the record, there are some highly skilled men in the "fiber arts". The guy making the prototype plushies for my Sick Man and Madness characters is one hell of tailor that pays his bills making custom cosplay gear. And he's a burly straight dude into sci fi & sports. Take that , phobicat!
This is pretty stupid as logic goes.
Revelry isn't a Carolina BATHROOM. You don't have to show a birth certificate to join as a female.
90% of the women on the site could be in transition or completed. Or transvestites, or gay men or straight men who knit but don't want to be teased about it. Or neuter.
There's just no way to support the bullshit conclusion from the unverified evidence the idiot thinks he's come up with.
Yes, because all women must have traditionally western feminine hobbies or they aren't real women. And because you've never seen it, it doesn't happen. And because they aren't fitting your version of cultural norms, they must be narcissistic assholes that are only in it for vanity reasons? Is it just me, or are TERFs like this actually regressing in their views on women?
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