@Elizafox pls describe the boundaries between: - otherkin and/or therian - a proper furry - the average catgirl - liking animals a lot and comparing yourself to them and relating to various things and sharing some characteristic behavior (purposely or not), while having no serious issue with being human or knowing you are human and can identify with say, wolves, at the same time
it feels so terrible to spend years trying to explain people i can be a girl and that not being a perfect girly stereotype is okay, and it's a spectrum and everyone can be anywhere on it in different ways
for then someday someone who will never do any kind of transition to "identify as" an object and declare it a gender.
*this* destroys everything we're working for and trying to survive. it's turning our education effort into an absurd joke.
@webmind well you're the one insisting about experience, why? I don't and won't care about who has their feeling hurt the more and for whatever reason, and you're right it's non comparable; my priority always will be actions done against people.
people turning a movement for the survival of a group into a petty social game that supports the awful things we were fighting against in the first place
glorifying gender always hurt people, even if you make it rainbow-colored
@webmind i think the point exactly is comparing practical issues because comparing emotional experiences is endless; transphobia isn't about having your feeling hurt and must not be summed or described by that.
@webmind again it's not so much about who is it worse but who has it at all, and the kind of support those who don't bring us. it's too often negative and purposely ignorant all our practical problems.
@webmind it's not so much about it being just worse for some, but very different: the point being i don't consider displaying your gender as much of a right, but as a social game mostly for privileged people. i don't care if they lose at it and certainly can't consider it an oppression, especially when i know people who died because they were forced to be a part of it.