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Have men rejected TW?

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Realityisreal · 22/12/2024 08:28

Is the real reason so many men insist TWAW because those same men, rather than being altruistic and concerned about the TW, have actually rejected them as men because they identify so differently and just want to push them away from their own group?

In a nutshell: Are men who spout 'TWAW' really transphobic?

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NunyaBeeswax · 22/12/2024 09:13

I've always thought that men that claim to be straight but who scream TWAW etc are gay or bisexuals in denial and feel ashamed of it.

They try to justify their arousals by saying the trans women are women, so fancying them doesn't mean they're gay in anyway.
I'd wager their porn consumption includes trans and transvestites somewhere.

Seriestwo · 22/12/2024 09:11

Trans inclusive in the streets, Terf in the sheets, right?

though a genre of porn featuring these males with breasts which I won’t name because it’ll get me banned, is very popular on p orn hub.

so I think TW are treated as badly as women by some men. Being seen as walking holes is inclusive, mate.

LetsNCagain · 22/12/2024 09:09

I think some (many?) men look down on women as inferior, weaker, dominatable. They also look down on the TW. And lump them together in that way.

I think there are some TW who think of themselves this way too. They like feeling inferior, dominatable, and they think this is what a woman is

RunoroundTheChristmasTree · 22/12/2024 09:06

Yes, this is definitely an issue for the transwomen I’ve spoken to - although I’m not sure how much of that is external and how much is internal in their case (they don’t see themselves as real men, and the only alternative they can come up with is that they must be women 🙄)

A huge issue in this area is how to broaden society’s definition of ‘men’ to accept gender non-conforming men as men. As it stands it is very easy for men to include all ‘men like us’ in their definition and everybody else is ‘not-men’ (or ‘not quite human’, depending on your pov)

WearyLady · 22/12/2024 09:05

But are the men who say TWAW prepared to date this variety of woman?

TickingAlongNicely · 22/12/2024 09:05

Yes.

Until they want sex. Then they know the difference.

JennyWren83 · 22/12/2024 09:05

Don't want to shag them though do they.

JellySaurus · 22/12/2024 09:02
  1. Adult male humans are men.

  2. If not male, then must be female.

  3. Adult female humans are women.

  4. Some men accept that other males are not-men.

  5. Therefore they believe not-men are women.

It is inappropriate application of point 2.

I am not a philosopher. No doubt someone will come along and rip my rationale to shreds, but I do think that many men reject as men other men who do not conform to their standards of masculinity, and reassign them to the only alternative: woman. And for the majority that is as far as their thought processes go. Except, of course they know that these men are not actually women, they just accept them as women as far as it does not inconvenience them: not accepting these not-men in their dating pool, for example.

JumpingPumpkin · 22/12/2024 08:55

I do think they definitely don't see them as men, not real men.

Whereas I have no problem seeing women who larp as men as real women.

MagpiePi · 22/12/2024 08:41

Good point.
I think it’s also that they can virtue signal when they actually have no skin in the game, so probably more misogynistic than transphobic. If they can keep the focus on being angry with women for not agreeing TWAW then they can avoid the elephant in the room of why don’t men date trans people.

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