• Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    It was a neat analogy for the time.

    Kinda like how “I’m a woman trapped inside a man’s body” is reductionist for explaining the trans femme experience and transness academically but if you want a quick snappy one liner it can deliver a simple explanation to reduce wild misunderstanding in a layman but anyone who’s a redditor will take it too far.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I can see it being comparable.

      I take issue with the extraordinary and reductionist claim of that’s all it is, prefaced with “in all fairness” as if to will computer toucher feelings into hard irrefutable reality. It’s like when someone says “let’s be honest” to preface an opinion where it isn’t just their “honest” opinion but an implication that it should be everyone’s “honest” opinion if they are “honest” as well.