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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42965 Posts
August 01 2013 18:59 GMT
#1461
On August 02 2013 03:57 Klondikebar wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:55 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:53 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:50 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:46 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:32 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:27 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:23 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:21 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:17 KwarK wrote:
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When that thing that you think is just slightly different is a dealbreaker for the other party and you know it is a dealbreaker then yes, we're getting into rape territory. Their consent is not informed consent and you are actively denying them the information that they would need in order to make the decision that produces their desired outcome because you think you know better and think their criteria are bad.

It's rapey.


Again, yes, if you know it's a dealbreaker it's rapey. Quit acting like that's what I'm talking about.

Even if it's "likely" a dealbreaker that doesn't change much. If it's likely enough that they have to ask the question with every single man they sleep with, then in practice you're asking them to just assume it's a dealbreaker with everyone. At some point they have to be allowed to assume "it's probably not a dealbreaker with this guy" and be allowed to withhold the information. Because if they have to disclose every single time because of the assumption that it's "likely" a deal breaker...we're just dealing with the first stupid scenario. In which case they just shouldn't have sex.

At some point they have to be allowed to assume "it's probably not a dealbreaker with this guy" and be allowed to withhold the information.

And if you're in a LGBT bar then you can assume. Or if you met them at a pro trans event you can assume. But if you met them as a complete stranger and 30% (hypothetical example) of complete strangers view it as a dealbreaker then you ought to disclose.


If you met a complete stranger and you just wanted to have sex with her and that's what you got...then no I don't think she needs to run down a checklist of what are even your likely hangups. Complete stranger...one time thing...there's a shitton she's not gonna know about you. I mean, would you be expected to disclose if you had a smaller than average penis. That's a dealbreaker for a lot of women.

"want to have sex with her"
Pretty much the issue here. To them you're not a her but you presented yourself as one.


If we're actually gonna get into whether or not you really think it's a her. I'm assuming you don't get boners for guys just like I don't get boners for girls.

I totally understand this line of thought gets...weird so I'm more putting it out there to flesh out and possibly tear down. I'm only very tenuously asserting anything here.

If you look at a woman, buckass naked, and you get a boner because you are a heterosexual man, do you really think it's a guy? It's just one of those instances where I'm not really sure what you say and what you obviously think are the same thing.

The people who actually think trans women are men might scream "it's a dude!" till they're hoarse, but absolutely nothing about their actions backs that up. So how seriously are we supposed to take than hangup, given that no one can actually fuck the gender to which they are not attracted.

I'm not sure I understand your point. I think transphobic people believe you tricked their arousal out of them with your cunningly disguised inside out penis.



But you can't "trick" arousal out of someone. If that were possible I would have fucked the entire football team in college. Arousal is completely internally driven. They may believe they were tricked, but that's absolutely ludicrous so how seriously are we really supposed to take them?

You totally can trick arousal out of people. If you couldn't, men couldn't be raped. And to be very clear, they can.


Umm...I wouldn't call a man doped up on roofies and viagra "aroused."

Men don't have to be doped up on roofies and viagra to be raped.
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maybenexttime
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Poland5623 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-01 19:06:29
August 01 2013 18:59 GMT
#1462
On August 02 2013 03:57 Plansix wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:54 maybenexttime wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:23 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:20 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:17 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:16 maybenexttime wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:13 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:10 maybenexttime wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:29 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:26 KwarK wrote:
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Because these things never, ever come out and it's fine to rape people as long as they don't know about it.

Learn to ethics better.


You're really playing fast and loose with the term rape. I guess your standard for informed consent is much higher than mine...particularly for a one night stand. Withholding information that has no practical consequences for the other person doesn't negate informed consent. If the other person can continue living their lives with no immediate or long term impact based on the information provided, they can provide informed consent.

We'll never agree because we have different standards of informed consent for a one night stand.


It has consequences - in form of serious trauma. Stop ignoring that. Your stupid logic justifies rape.


lol serious trauma. No. There's no trauma that results from having sex with a trans person no matter how averse to them you are. Especially if you didn't no they were trans.

It might make you uncomfortable. It might even make you disgusted. But you will not be permanently emotionally scarred.

And we've pretty clearly moved on from the rape thing. No, my logic doesn't justify rape. At worst it justifies being kinda an asshole.


Following your twisted logic, there is no trauma for a woman who's been raped by means of a rape pill, she doesn't even have any memory of the whole thing. You clearly have no idea of morality.


Are you fucking dense?! Of course there's trauma there! She didn't give ANY consent. It's not just that trivial information was withheld from her, the ability to say yes or no AT ALL was withheld. Fuck off I'm not talking to you anymore.

Trivial information.

You're just not getting this. I keep saying it and you keep not getting this. Whether or not the information is trivial is not up to you to decide. It's that simple. This is why I keep saying what you're saying is rapey. You are saying "I don't like your criteria so I'm going to withhold the information you need to make the judgement you want."


And what you keep failing to understand is that I'm not just inventing this criteria. It's trivial in terms of consequences. I'm more than willing to admit that it's non-trivial information for some people. But in that case it's their job to find out about it. If that means asking every woman they sleep with based on the tiny probability that they might be trans...that's their cross to bear.


As trivial as a heterosexual woman getting raped by a gentle man.

Holy shit, knock that off. Even I am getting tired of your dump comments. Its not rape. Its just an asshole move.


It is rape. If someone considers having sex with a transsexual disgusting and they are tricked into having it, that is fucking rape. Don't argue semantics. It's irrelevant how you label it. It's just as immoral as using a rape pill on a woman.

edit: Or having sex with a prostitute based on premise that you pay her for that and then you don't.
Shodaa
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada404 Posts
August 01 2013 19:01 GMT
#1463
On August 02 2013 03:57 KwarK wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:53 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:23 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:14 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:08 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:03 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:56 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:51 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:38 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:32 Klondikebar wrote:
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The transphobe really has thousands of sexual partners? It's really thousands of questions for him? Even the sluttiest dude doesn't have sex that much. And a dude who is incredibly slutty, will no doubt have partners that violate some of his hangups (if he even has them which is doubtful) because he doesn't expect people to divulge information not relevant to his penis for a one night stand.

A couple of blue balled nights does NOT compare to the social cost of being open about being trans. Any realistic number of times asking that question will be small potatoes compared to the pain a trans person endures for admitting they are trans.

And if the question ends in an angry exchange...that should say something. If tons and tons of people feel that "are you trans?" is an offensive question, maybe the transphobe should just keep that to himself and not have sex if he's so worried about it. If your hangups piss people off, then maybe your just an asshole who can't get laid.

Statistically yes, he does have thousands. You're a huge minority. Most men won't ever be in this situation, there are thousands of encounters in which it doesn't happen to every one that it does. You're still, still failing to understand the numbers. Going "one man can't have that much sex" isn't getting it. You need to learn how to do statistics because you're just not understanding this. Your solution requires every transphobic person to ask every time, the thousands to one ratio will be accurate.


http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/ns/health-sexual_health/t/new-survey-tells-how-much-sex-were-having/#.UfqRq43ksec

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/ns/health-sexual_health/t/new-survey-tells-how-much-sex-were-having/#.UfqRq43ksec

The people having tons of sex are outliers themselves.

The average man will have about 9 sexual partners in his lifetime. I can do statistics buddy. My degree is in it. He asks that question 9 times. Not thousands of times. He can ask that question 9 times with very little effort.

Really this whole discussion is probably completely moot because the probability that a man will both hookup with a woman and that she will be trans is close to zero.


You need to ask for your money back on that statistics course. It doesn't matter if each man only has sex 9 times, that doesn't change the ratio in the slightest. Your solution involves thousands of men asking thousands of cis women if they were born a man without ever running into a trans woman just so when one of them finally does she can disclose anyway. The thousands to one ratio works regardless of how often a given man has sex. It doesn't depend upon each and every man having sex with so many people that he eventually has sex with a trans person.


No. We are talking about about two people in a bedroom. One man asks about 9 women. We've made it very clear that these hangups are personal. We're talking about individuals here.

If you want statistics to matter then this whole discussion is stupid because a man will never even have sex with a trans woman. You might as well ask how you ought to greet a unicorn.


You really, really need to get your money back on that statistics course. Also reconsider purchasing any magic beans in the future.

Firstly, the unicorn argument doesn't work. These events aren't some completely random occurrence that it's not worth worrying about. These events, in which one or more transgender person have sex, generally happen in close proximity to people who are transgender. Therefore, assuming a 25% transphobe rate, a disclosure policy based around the trans person being responsible would actually have a 25% success rate. Which is actually higher than the incidence of unicorns.

The only time the incredible unlikeliness of the scenario comes into play is when the unlikeliness of a given person being trans is a factor at which point yes, it becomes absurd. But wait, your solution was that the people who aren't trans have the responsibility. At which point yes, it becomes absurd. Your point is absurd.


Yeah, it is ridiculously absurd to have sleeping with a completely passable trans person as a hangup. It's not going to happen to you and even if it does you won't be able to identify it. So if you're gonna be the paranoid freak who worries about nothing, it's your job to avoid...nothing.

You don't get to make decisions about whether other peoples' criteria for sexual consent are acceptable. It's not up to you. Jesus. How are you not getting this? It doesn't matter if you find their criteria absurd, you still don't get to ignore their consent.


You never answered my question about a woman who had a horrible medical deformity and had surgery to fix.and cover it up. Should she be forced to tell her partners about it? You realize that "most" men want a real biological vagina? Are you saying that woman would be having sex with them without their consent considering she could reasonably assume they wouldnt want to have sex with her due to her reconstructed, skin grafted vagina?

I don't believe most men do place that much value on a vagina being as God intended. We're talking about a gender who will stick their penis in pretty much any hole it'll fit in. In a strange world where prospective partners did conceivably care about it then she should disclose.

I assume you're going down the "how is a penis any different from any other deformity on a woman that can be surgically fixed line" here and that requires me to defend and explain exactly why transphobic people are transphobic. I can't explain that. But that doesn't change whether or not they have the right to choose their partners by any criteria they want.


I don't believe transphobic people has the right to be protected from an irrational shame. Like Scarlett said, it's their problem. I won't apologize or put my identity on suspend just because a poor transphobic person could suffer.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-01 19:04:45
August 01 2013 19:02 GMT
#1464
On August 02 2013 03:56 Smat wrote:
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On August 02 2013 02:25 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:24 Klondikebar wrote:
Your first assumption is wrong. Assuming nobody asks and nobody discloses, the trans person sleeps with 9 strangers and all 9 of them are fine.

Are the strangers bigots if they are upset if they find out that they slept with a transgender and didn't know?


Yep. They would be. Why are sexual proclivities the holy grail that cannot be criticised based on prejudice while everything else can be criticized? Of course.you have UNFAIR and irrational prejudice if you become upset after sleeping with a trans woman. Only you can decide if you are ok with having that prejudice. Just dont freak out and get defensive when people call a spade a spade.

Cool. You won't mind if I say that you folks seem to be using your minority status to bully people into confirming social norms that make life easier for you. I mean, your confort level is what matters here and making sure that you don't have to disclose anythign that makes you uncomfortable. And if I don't want to sleep with someoen who is trangender, I best keep it to myself because I don't want to be called a bigot.

I am all about equal right and making sure people are treated fairly in every way. But I am pretty done when people start calling me a bigot based on who I want to sleep with.
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42965 Posts
August 01 2013 19:04 GMT
#1465
On August 02 2013 04:01 Shodaa wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:57 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:53 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:23 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:14 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:08 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:03 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:56 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:51 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:38 KwarK wrote:
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Statistically yes, he does have thousands. You're a huge minority. Most men won't ever be in this situation, there are thousands of encounters in which it doesn't happen to every one that it does. You're still, still failing to understand the numbers. Going "one man can't have that much sex" isn't getting it. You need to learn how to do statistics because you're just not understanding this. Your solution requires every transphobic person to ask every time, the thousands to one ratio will be accurate.


http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/ns/health-sexual_health/t/new-survey-tells-how-much-sex-were-having/#.UfqRq43ksec

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/ns/health-sexual_health/t/new-survey-tells-how-much-sex-were-having/#.UfqRq43ksec

The people having tons of sex are outliers themselves.

The average man will have about 9 sexual partners in his lifetime. I can do statistics buddy. My degree is in it. He asks that question 9 times. Not thousands of times. He can ask that question 9 times with very little effort.

Really this whole discussion is probably completely moot because the probability that a man will both hookup with a woman and that she will be trans is close to zero.


You need to ask for your money back on that statistics course. It doesn't matter if each man only has sex 9 times, that doesn't change the ratio in the slightest. Your solution involves thousands of men asking thousands of cis women if they were born a man without ever running into a trans woman just so when one of them finally does she can disclose anyway. The thousands to one ratio works regardless of how often a given man has sex. It doesn't depend upon each and every man having sex with so many people that he eventually has sex with a trans person.


No. We are talking about about two people in a bedroom. One man asks about 9 women. We've made it very clear that these hangups are personal. We're talking about individuals here.

If you want statistics to matter then this whole discussion is stupid because a man will never even have sex with a trans woman. You might as well ask how you ought to greet a unicorn.


You really, really need to get your money back on that statistics course. Also reconsider purchasing any magic beans in the future.

Firstly, the unicorn argument doesn't work. These events aren't some completely random occurrence that it's not worth worrying about. These events, in which one or more transgender person have sex, generally happen in close proximity to people who are transgender. Therefore, assuming a 25% transphobe rate, a disclosure policy based around the trans person being responsible would actually have a 25% success rate. Which is actually higher than the incidence of unicorns.

The only time the incredible unlikeliness of the scenario comes into play is when the unlikeliness of a given person being trans is a factor at which point yes, it becomes absurd. But wait, your solution was that the people who aren't trans have the responsibility. At which point yes, it becomes absurd. Your point is absurd.


Yeah, it is ridiculously absurd to have sleeping with a completely passable trans person as a hangup. It's not going to happen to you and even if it does you won't be able to identify it. So if you're gonna be the paranoid freak who worries about nothing, it's your job to avoid...nothing.

You don't get to make decisions about whether other peoples' criteria for sexual consent are acceptable. It's not up to you. Jesus. How are you not getting this? It doesn't matter if you find their criteria absurd, you still don't get to ignore their consent.


You never answered my question about a woman who had a horrible medical deformity and had surgery to fix.and cover it up. Should she be forced to tell her partners about it? You realize that "most" men want a real biological vagina? Are you saying that woman would be having sex with them without their consent considering she could reasonably assume they wouldnt want to have sex with her due to her reconstructed, skin grafted vagina?

I don't believe most men do place that much value on a vagina being as God intended. We're talking about a gender who will stick their penis in pretty much any hole it'll fit in. In a strange world where prospective partners did conceivably care about it then she should disclose.

I assume you're going down the "how is a penis any different from any other deformity on a woman that can be surgically fixed line" here and that requires me to defend and explain exactly why transphobic people are transphobic. I can't explain that. But that doesn't change whether or not they have the right to choose their partners by any criteria they want.


I don't believe transphobic people has the right to be protected from an irrational shame. Like Scarlett said, it's their problem. I won't apologize or put my identity on suspend just because a poor transphobic person could suffer.

They have the right to choose their partners by any criteria they want. Transphobic people still get to consent.
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Shiori
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
3815 Posts
August 01 2013 19:05 GMT
#1466
On August 02 2013 03:57 Klondikebar wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:55 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:53 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:50 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:46 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:32 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:27 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:23 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:21 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:17 KwarK wrote:
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When that thing that you think is just slightly different is a dealbreaker for the other party and you know it is a dealbreaker then yes, we're getting into rape territory. Their consent is not informed consent and you are actively denying them the information that they would need in order to make the decision that produces their desired outcome because you think you know better and think their criteria are bad.

It's rapey.


Again, yes, if you know it's a dealbreaker it's rapey. Quit acting like that's what I'm talking about.

Even if it's "likely" a dealbreaker that doesn't change much. If it's likely enough that they have to ask the question with every single man they sleep with, then in practice you're asking them to just assume it's a dealbreaker with everyone. At some point they have to be allowed to assume "it's probably not a dealbreaker with this guy" and be allowed to withhold the information. Because if they have to disclose every single time because of the assumption that it's "likely" a deal breaker...we're just dealing with the first stupid scenario. In which case they just shouldn't have sex.

At some point they have to be allowed to assume "it's probably not a dealbreaker with this guy" and be allowed to withhold the information.

And if you're in a LGBT bar then you can assume. Or if you met them at a pro trans event you can assume. But if you met them as a complete stranger and 30% (hypothetical example) of complete strangers view it as a dealbreaker then you ought to disclose.


If you met a complete stranger and you just wanted to have sex with her and that's what you got...then no I don't think she needs to run down a checklist of what are even your likely hangups. Complete stranger...one time thing...there's a shitton she's not gonna know about you. I mean, would you be expected to disclose if you had a smaller than average penis. That's a dealbreaker for a lot of women.

"want to have sex with her"
Pretty much the issue here. To them you're not a her but you presented yourself as one.


If we're actually gonna get into whether or not you really think it's a her. I'm assuming you don't get boners for guys just like I don't get boners for girls.

I totally understand this line of thought gets...weird so I'm more putting it out there to flesh out and possibly tear down. I'm only very tenuously asserting anything here.

If you look at a woman, buckass naked, and you get a boner because you are a heterosexual man, do you really think it's a guy? It's just one of those instances where I'm not really sure what you say and what you obviously think are the same thing.

The people who actually think trans women are men might scream "it's a dude!" till they're hoarse, but absolutely nothing about their actions backs that up. So how seriously are we supposed to take than hangup, given that no one can actually fuck the gender to which they are not attracted.

I'm not sure I understand your point. I think transphobic people believe you tricked their arousal out of them with your cunningly disguised inside out penis.



But you can't "trick" arousal out of someone. If that were possible I would have fucked the entire football team in college. Arousal is completely internally driven. They may believe they were tricked, but that's absolutely ludicrous so how seriously are we really supposed to take them?

You totally can trick arousal out of people. If you couldn't, men couldn't be raped. And to be very clear, they can.


Umm...I wouldn't call a man doped up on roofies and viagra "aroused."

You realize that penises can be mechanically aroused, right?
Smat
Profile Joined January 2011
United States301 Posts
August 01 2013 19:06 GMT
#1467
On August 02 2013 03:44 KwarK wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:42 Iyerbeth wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:39 Shiori wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:23 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:20 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:17 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:16 maybenexttime wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:13 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:10 maybenexttime wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:29 Klondikebar wrote:
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You're really playing fast and loose with the term rape. I guess your standard for informed consent is much higher than mine...particularly for a one night stand. Withholding information that has no practical consequences for the other person doesn't negate informed consent. If the other person can continue living their lives with no immediate or long term impact based on the information provided, they can provide informed consent.

We'll never agree because we have different standards of informed consent for a one night stand.


It has consequences - in form of serious trauma. Stop ignoring that. Your stupid logic justifies rape.


lol serious trauma. No. There's no trauma that results from having sex with a trans person no matter how averse to them you are. Especially if you didn't no they were trans.

It might make you uncomfortable. It might even make you disgusted. But you will not be permanently emotionally scarred.

And we've pretty clearly moved on from the rape thing. No, my logic doesn't justify rape. At worst it justifies being kinda an asshole.


Following your twisted logic, there is no trauma for a woman who's been raped by means of a rape pill, she doesn't even have any memory of the whole thing. You clearly have no idea of morality.


Are you fucking dense?! Of course there's trauma there! She didn't give ANY consent. It's not just that trivial information was withheld from her, the ability to say yes or no AT ALL was withheld. Fuck off I'm not talking to you anymore.

Trivial information.

You're just not getting this. I keep saying it and you keep not getting this. Whether or not the information is trivial is not up to you to decide. It's that simple. This is why I keep saying what you're saying is rapey. You are saying "I don't like your criteria so I'm going to withhold the information you need to make the judgement you want."


And what you keep failing to understand is that I'm not just inventing this criteria. It's trivial in terms of consequences. I'm more than willing to admit that it's non-trivial information for some people. But in that case it's their job to find out about it. If that means asking every woman they sleep with based on the tiny probability that they might be trans...that's their cross to bear.

Okay, so you think it's somehow better for people to interrogate every single sexual partner they have in the off chance that they're trans rather than have the trans person just say they're trans? How on earth is that better solution than the latter? We seriously wouldn't even be having this conversation if it were about any other things besides trans people. When someone could plausibly cause another person discomfort (and this is more than plausible, given the world we live in) by some trait about themselves/property/habits/whatever then it's general a matter of common decency to be upfront about it. Just because having sex with a trans person isn't in the same category as something with serious negative physical consequences (like contracting HIV) the emotional/mental well-being of people is absolutely important, and you don't get to tell them to change their habits of consent with respect to sex because you don't feel like it.

This is one of those situations in which it definitely sucks for a trans person to be in this kind of situation. But you know what? Sometimes (hell, usually) the right thing to do is inconvenient, and in many cases it can be downright embarrassing/shameful. But this notion that trans people are actually regularly getting assaulted when they tell some person at a bar that they've been chatting with that they're trans is absolutely absurd. First off, the easy solution is to bring this up sometime before you're in an isolated location and have already initiated physical contact, like, you know, before you agree to go home/to a hotel with some person. It's not rocket science, tbh. If someone is really going to attack you in the middle of a public restaurant/bar/club, they're going to get arrested pretty damn fast; assuming they're not complete idiots, they would probably just shake their heads, swallow whatever disgust they have at the situation, and leave you alone. They have nothing to gain from attacking you when all you did was talk to them.


You're missing the fact of someone outing themselves and that information being spread. Again, just providing information and reading, I already know how I approach the issue IRL.

A trans person is a trans person. Being outed as not being cis while not being cis is not the end of the world.

Lots of ignorance being demonstrated by this statement. Justa page ago you were going off about how emotionally damaging being outed as having slept with a trans person could be. Then you show complete lack of understanding as to the emotional trauma that is often caused when trans people are outed without their consent.
Shodaa
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada404 Posts
August 01 2013 19:07 GMT
#1468
On August 02 2013 04:02 Plansix wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:56 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:25 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:24 Klondikebar wrote:
Your first assumption is wrong. Assuming nobody asks and nobody discloses, the trans person sleeps with 9 strangers and all 9 of them are fine.

Are the strangers bigots if they are upset if they find out that they slept with a transgender and didn't know?


Yep. They would be. Why are sexual proclivities the holy grail that cannot be criticised based on prejudice while everything else can be criticized? Of course.you have UNFAIR and irrational prejudice if you become upset after sleeping with a trans woman. Only you can decide if you are ok with having that prejudice. Just dont freak out and get defensive when people call a spade a spade.

Cool. You won't mind if I say that you folks seem to be using your minority status to bully people into confirming social norms that make life easier for you. I mean, your confort level is what matters here and making sure that you don't have to disclose anythign that makes uncomfortable. And if I don't want to sleep with someoen who is trangender, I best keep it to myself because I don't want to be called a bigot.

I am all about equal right and making sure people are treated fairly in every way. But I am pretty done when people start calling me a bigot based on who I want to sleep with.


Because the main reason why you would refuse sex with a woman you find attractive because she told you she was trans after you already found her attractive is because you don't consider her equal to a cis woman.

Maybe you have a better justification, but this is the obvious conclusion.
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Klondikebar
Profile Joined October 2011
United States2227 Posts
August 01 2013 19:07 GMT
#1469
On August 02 2013 04:02 Plansix wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:56 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:25 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:24 Klondikebar wrote:
Your first assumption is wrong. Assuming nobody asks and nobody discloses, the trans person sleeps with 9 strangers and all 9 of them are fine.

Are the strangers bigots if they are upset if they find out that they slept with a transgender and didn't know?


Yep. They would be. Why are sexual proclivities the holy grail that cannot be criticised based on prejudice while everything else can be criticized? Of course.you have UNFAIR and irrational prejudice if you become upset after sleeping with a trans woman. Only you can decide if you are ok with having that prejudice. Just dont freak out and get defensive when people call a spade a spade.

Cool. You won't mind if I say that you folks seem to be using your minority status to bully people into confirming social norms that make life easier for you. I mean, your confort level is what matters here and making sure that you don't have to disclose anythign that makes uncomfortable. And if I don't want to sleep with someoen who is trangender, I best keep it to myself because I don't want to be called a bigot.

I am all about equal right and making sure people are treated fairly in every way. But I am pretty done when people start calling me a bigot based on who I want to sleep with.


Being treated normally is not the same as being treated specially.

A woman wanting to be treated as a normal woman isn't bullying and it isn't demanding special status. If you don't want to sleep with someone who is transgender because you don't think she's a real woman and only for that reason, you'd probably be a bigot.

We've already accounted for justifiable reasons you wouldn't want a sexual relationship with a trans woman. Lord knows I can't provide emotional support well, if they needed that I really shouldn't date them. Or, hell, if they didn't transition that well and they're still kinda manly and you don't find them attractive, you don't have to sleep with them. But what we're talking about are completely passable women who won't require any emotional support because it's just a one night stand. You could probably find some reasons why you might not wanna sleep with them, but if it's "because I don't think they're real women" you're in the wrong.

I mean, sure transgender people want to make their lives easier, cause their lives are kinda hell right now. They don't want god status, they want normalcy.
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Klondikebar
Profile Joined October 2011
United States2227 Posts
August 01 2013 19:09 GMT
#1470
On August 02 2013 04:05 Shiori wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:57 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:55 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:53 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:50 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:46 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:32 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:27 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:23 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:21 Klondikebar wrote:
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Again, yes, if you know it's a dealbreaker it's rapey. Quit acting like that's what I'm talking about.

Even if it's "likely" a dealbreaker that doesn't change much. If it's likely enough that they have to ask the question with every single man they sleep with, then in practice you're asking them to just assume it's a dealbreaker with everyone. At some point they have to be allowed to assume "it's probably not a dealbreaker with this guy" and be allowed to withhold the information. Because if they have to disclose every single time because of the assumption that it's "likely" a deal breaker...we're just dealing with the first stupid scenario. In which case they just shouldn't have sex.

At some point they have to be allowed to assume "it's probably not a dealbreaker with this guy" and be allowed to withhold the information.

And if you're in a LGBT bar then you can assume. Or if you met them at a pro trans event you can assume. But if you met them as a complete stranger and 30% (hypothetical example) of complete strangers view it as a dealbreaker then you ought to disclose.


If you met a complete stranger and you just wanted to have sex with her and that's what you got...then no I don't think she needs to run down a checklist of what are even your likely hangups. Complete stranger...one time thing...there's a shitton she's not gonna know about you. I mean, would you be expected to disclose if you had a smaller than average penis. That's a dealbreaker for a lot of women.

"want to have sex with her"
Pretty much the issue here. To them you're not a her but you presented yourself as one.


If we're actually gonna get into whether or not you really think it's a her. I'm assuming you don't get boners for guys just like I don't get boners for girls.

I totally understand this line of thought gets...weird so I'm more putting it out there to flesh out and possibly tear down. I'm only very tenuously asserting anything here.

If you look at a woman, buckass naked, and you get a boner because you are a heterosexual man, do you really think it's a guy? It's just one of those instances where I'm not really sure what you say and what you obviously think are the same thing.

The people who actually think trans women are men might scream "it's a dude!" till they're hoarse, but absolutely nothing about their actions backs that up. So how seriously are we supposed to take than hangup, given that no one can actually fuck the gender to which they are not attracted.

I'm not sure I understand your point. I think transphobic people believe you tricked their arousal out of them with your cunningly disguised inside out penis.



But you can't "trick" arousal out of someone. If that were possible I would have fucked the entire football team in college. Arousal is completely internally driven. They may believe they were tricked, but that's absolutely ludicrous so how seriously are we really supposed to take them?

You totally can trick arousal out of people. If you couldn't, men couldn't be raped. And to be very clear, they can.


Umm...I wouldn't call a man doped up on roofies and viagra "aroused."

You realize that penises can be mechanically aroused, right?


And if "arousal" is simply an erect penis you'd have a point. I mean "arousal" as in sexual desire. The boner is really just a result of arousal.

When you rape a man you mechanically stimulate his penis either by drugs or just friction...wouldn't call him aroused.
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Smat
Profile Joined January 2011
United States301 Posts
August 01 2013 19:09 GMT
#1471
On August 02 2013 03:52 maybenexttime wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:48 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:12 maybenexttime wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:05 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:03 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:58 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:56 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:53 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:48 heliusx wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:32 Klondikebar wrote:
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The transphobe really has thousands of sexual partners? It's really thousands of questions for him? Even the sluttiest dude doesn't have sex that much. And a dude who is incredibly slutty, will no doubt have partners that violate some of his hangups (if he even has them which is doubtful) because he doesn't expect people to divulge information not relevant to his penis for a one night stand.

A couple of blue balled nights does NOT compare to the social cost of being open about being trans. Any realistic number of times asking that question will be small potatoes compared to the pain a trans person endures for admitting they are trans.

And if the question ends in an angry exchange...that should say something. If tons and tons of people feel that "are you trans?" is an offensive question, maybe the transphobe should just keep that to himself and not have sex if he's so worried about it. If your hangups piss people off, then maybe your just an asshole who can't get laid.


So basically fuck everyone else so you don't have to deal with your problems?


Rather, everyone else should deal with their own shit. If they don't like trans people, they can do the work to avoid them. It's not a trans persons job to help them and it's certainly not my job to care about their shit.

Except when you are being oppressed, then we should stand with you because its the right thing to do, not because it directly effects us.


Not at all. In this case the person who's a transphobe is being a bigot. He's the "oppressor." And sure, we grant that he has the right to be a transphobe. But bigots can do their own work. Why are we making it easier?

Oppression actually happens when people go out of their way to harm you when you have done nothing. You stand against that because there's no reason to think oppressors won't eventually turn on you. So you nip it in the bud.

So if I find out someone I am going to sleep with is trans and I am uncomfortable with that, I am a bigot?


I don't know what you are but we've all been using the term "transphobe" for a while. Transphobes are bigots.


You've acted like a huge asshole and bigot the past dozen or so pages, so maybe you should withhold your judgement...

Anyway, according to your twisted logic raping a woman by means of a rape pill is a non-issue as long as you don't infect her with an STD and are gentle about it. I don't think anyone would consider you a moral authority, so keep your opinions to yourself.


Just because you think its rape to have sex with a trans woman unknowingly doesnt make it rape. We have laws thag define rape. Stop calling it rape when its not. Thats like saying that i have been raped because i slept with a woman who lost all her hair and used a wig because i find bald people not sexually attractive.


Making a person have sex with you they did not give consent to is rape. Just because you have no regard for those people and want to use them as sex toys, apparently, does not make it not rape.

Its not rape. They did give consent to sex, hence the sex.
Zetter
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Germany629 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-01 19:11:59
August 01 2013 19:11 GMT
#1472
On August 02 2013 04:04 KwarK wrote:
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On August 02 2013 04:01 Shodaa wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:57 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:53 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:23 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:14 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:08 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:03 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:56 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:51 Klondikebar wrote:
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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/ns/health-sexual_health/t/new-survey-tells-how-much-sex-were-having/#.UfqRq43ksec

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/ns/health-sexual_health/t/new-survey-tells-how-much-sex-were-having/#.UfqRq43ksec

The people having tons of sex are outliers themselves.

The average man will have about 9 sexual partners in his lifetime. I can do statistics buddy. My degree is in it. He asks that question 9 times. Not thousands of times. He can ask that question 9 times with very little effort.

Really this whole discussion is probably completely moot because the probability that a man will both hookup with a woman and that she will be trans is close to zero.


You need to ask for your money back on that statistics course. It doesn't matter if each man only has sex 9 times, that doesn't change the ratio in the slightest. Your solution involves thousands of men asking thousands of cis women if they were born a man without ever running into a trans woman just so when one of them finally does she can disclose anyway. The thousands to one ratio works regardless of how often a given man has sex. It doesn't depend upon each and every man having sex with so many people that he eventually has sex with a trans person.


No. We are talking about about two people in a bedroom. One man asks about 9 women. We've made it very clear that these hangups are personal. We're talking about individuals here.

If you want statistics to matter then this whole discussion is stupid because a man will never even have sex with a trans woman. You might as well ask how you ought to greet a unicorn.


You really, really need to get your money back on that statistics course. Also reconsider purchasing any magic beans in the future.

Firstly, the unicorn argument doesn't work. These events aren't some completely random occurrence that it's not worth worrying about. These events, in which one or more transgender person have sex, generally happen in close proximity to people who are transgender. Therefore, assuming a 25% transphobe rate, a disclosure policy based around the trans person being responsible would actually have a 25% success rate. Which is actually higher than the incidence of unicorns.

The only time the incredible unlikeliness of the scenario comes into play is when the unlikeliness of a given person being trans is a factor at which point yes, it becomes absurd. But wait, your solution was that the people who aren't trans have the responsibility. At which point yes, it becomes absurd. Your point is absurd.


Yeah, it is ridiculously absurd to have sleeping with a completely passable trans person as a hangup. It's not going to happen to you and even if it does you won't be able to identify it. So if you're gonna be the paranoid freak who worries about nothing, it's your job to avoid...nothing.

You don't get to make decisions about whether other peoples' criteria for sexual consent are acceptable. It's not up to you. Jesus. How are you not getting this? It doesn't matter if you find their criteria absurd, you still don't get to ignore their consent.


You never answered my question about a woman who had a horrible medical deformity and had surgery to fix.and cover it up. Should she be forced to tell her partners about it? You realize that "most" men want a real biological vagina? Are you saying that woman would be having sex with them without their consent considering she could reasonably assume they wouldnt want to have sex with her due to her reconstructed, skin grafted vagina?

I don't believe most men do place that much value on a vagina being as God intended. We're talking about a gender who will stick their penis in pretty much any hole it'll fit in. In a strange world where prospective partners did conceivably care about it then she should disclose.

I assume you're going down the "how is a penis any different from any other deformity on a woman that can be surgically fixed line" here and that requires me to defend and explain exactly why transphobic people are transphobic. I can't explain that. But that doesn't change whether or not they have the right to choose their partners by any criteria they want.


I don't believe transphobic people has the right to be protected from an irrational shame. Like Scarlett said, it's their problem. I won't apologize or put my identity on suspend just because a poor transphobic person could suffer.

They have the right to choose their partners by any criteria they want. Transphobic people still get to consent.


And it's still not the responsibility of the trans woman to tell everyone she's trans. If a man really doesn't want to sleep with a trans woman, he's the one who needs to take responsibility for making sure he's sleeping with a cis woman.
If he fails to do this, it's his problem.
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Smat
Profile Joined January 2011
United States301 Posts
August 01 2013 19:12 GMT
#1473
On August 02 2013 03:58 KlaCkoN wrote:
The way I see it people can have all sorts of reasons for not wanting to sleep with someone. One person might never give consent if the know that their potential partner has undergone a sex change, another might refuse to sleep with jews, or people more than 1/8 black. Yet others might on principle never sleep with people who have ever played league of legends or people who make less than 100k a year.
In principle misrepresenting or lying about anything that would make your prospective partner withdraw consent is rape. But it is in my opinion ludicrous to expect a prospective partner to tell you his/her entire life story before sex that you might sift through it for a deal breaker and cry rape if he/she forgets something that would have been important to you.
To me it makes much more sense to say that people who know that they would withdraw consent over particular traits or events in someones past are responsible to ask about those things. Eg: "Before we have sexual intercourse ma'm I must inform you that if you have ever undergone sexual reassignment surgery and or your mother is either a jew or black (but both at the same time is ok) I do not give my consent to this act."
Though if you want people to actually sleep with you you might need to find a more tactful way of asking but that's not my problem.

Good man.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42965 Posts
August 01 2013 19:12 GMT
#1474
On August 02 2013 04:07 Shodaa wrote:
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On August 02 2013 04:02 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:56 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:25 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:24 Klondikebar wrote:
Your first assumption is wrong. Assuming nobody asks and nobody discloses, the trans person sleeps with 9 strangers and all 9 of them are fine.

Are the strangers bigots if they are upset if they find out that they slept with a transgender and didn't know?


Yep. They would be. Why are sexual proclivities the holy grail that cannot be criticised based on prejudice while everything else can be criticized? Of course.you have UNFAIR and irrational prejudice if you become upset after sleeping with a trans woman. Only you can decide if you are ok with having that prejudice. Just dont freak out and get defensive when people call a spade a spade.

Cool. You won't mind if I say that you folks seem to be using your minority status to bully people into confirming social norms that make life easier for you. I mean, your confort level is what matters here and making sure that you don't have to disclose anythign that makes uncomfortable. And if I don't want to sleep with someoen who is trangender, I best keep it to myself because I don't want to be called a bigot.

I am all about equal right and making sure people are treated fairly in every way. But I am pretty done when people start calling me a bigot based on who I want to sleep with.


Because the main reason why you would refuse sex with a woman you find attractive because she told you she was trans after you already found her attractive is because you don't consider her equal to a cis woman.

Maybe you have a better justification, but this is the obvious conclusion.

Maybe not equally as attractive but why should they have to? They're not literally the same thing. Trans is not the same as cis. It's not a distinction I especially care about but if someone else does and all they want to do is deny the trans person their penis then that's their call.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
August 01 2013 19:13 GMT
#1475
On August 02 2013 04:07 Shodaa wrote:
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On August 02 2013 04:02 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:56 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:25 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:24 Klondikebar wrote:
Your first assumption is wrong. Assuming nobody asks and nobody discloses, the trans person sleeps with 9 strangers and all 9 of them are fine.

Are the strangers bigots if they are upset if they find out that they slept with a transgender and didn't know?


Yep. They would be. Why are sexual proclivities the holy grail that cannot be criticised based on prejudice while everything else can be criticized? Of course.you have UNFAIR and irrational prejudice if you become upset after sleeping with a trans woman. Only you can decide if you are ok with having that prejudice. Just dont freak out and get defensive when people call a spade a spade.

Cool. You won't mind if I say that you folks seem to be using your minority status to bully people into confirming social norms that make life easier for you. I mean, your confort level is what matters here and making sure that you don't have to disclose anythign that makes uncomfortable. And if I don't want to sleep with someoen who is trangender, I best keep it to myself because I don't want to be called a bigot.

I am all about equal right and making sure people are treated fairly in every way. But I am pretty done when people start calling me a bigot based on who I want to sleep with.


Because the main reason why you would refuse sex with a woman you find attractive because she told you she was trans after you already found her attractive is because you don't consider her equal to a cis woman.

Maybe you have a better justification, but this is the obvious conclusion.

Would you rather I forced my way through it, being reluctant and unhappy, just to avoid being shamed and called a bigot for being unconfortable in a sexual situtation?
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42965 Posts
August 01 2013 19:15 GMT
#1476
On August 02 2013 04:11 Zetter wrote:
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On August 02 2013 04:04 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 04:01 Shodaa wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:57 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 03:53 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:23 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:14 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:08 KwarK wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:03 Klondikebar wrote:
On August 02 2013 01:56 KwarK wrote:
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You need to ask for your money back on that statistics course. It doesn't matter if each man only has sex 9 times, that doesn't change the ratio in the slightest. Your solution involves thousands of men asking thousands of cis women if they were born a man without ever running into a trans woman just so when one of them finally does she can disclose anyway. The thousands to one ratio works regardless of how often a given man has sex. It doesn't depend upon each and every man having sex with so many people that he eventually has sex with a trans person.


No. We are talking about about two people in a bedroom. One man asks about 9 women. We've made it very clear that these hangups are personal. We're talking about individuals here.

If you want statistics to matter then this whole discussion is stupid because a man will never even have sex with a trans woman. You might as well ask how you ought to greet a unicorn.


You really, really need to get your money back on that statistics course. Also reconsider purchasing any magic beans in the future.

Firstly, the unicorn argument doesn't work. These events aren't some completely random occurrence that it's not worth worrying about. These events, in which one or more transgender person have sex, generally happen in close proximity to people who are transgender. Therefore, assuming a 25% transphobe rate, a disclosure policy based around the trans person being responsible would actually have a 25% success rate. Which is actually higher than the incidence of unicorns.

The only time the incredible unlikeliness of the scenario comes into play is when the unlikeliness of a given person being trans is a factor at which point yes, it becomes absurd. But wait, your solution was that the people who aren't trans have the responsibility. At which point yes, it becomes absurd. Your point is absurd.


Yeah, it is ridiculously absurd to have sleeping with a completely passable trans person as a hangup. It's not going to happen to you and even if it does you won't be able to identify it. So if you're gonna be the paranoid freak who worries about nothing, it's your job to avoid...nothing.

You don't get to make decisions about whether other peoples' criteria for sexual consent are acceptable. It's not up to you. Jesus. How are you not getting this? It doesn't matter if you find their criteria absurd, you still don't get to ignore their consent.


You never answered my question about a woman who had a horrible medical deformity and had surgery to fix.and cover it up. Should she be forced to tell her partners about it? You realize that "most" men want a real biological vagina? Are you saying that woman would be having sex with them without their consent considering she could reasonably assume they wouldnt want to have sex with her due to her reconstructed, skin grafted vagina?

I don't believe most men do place that much value on a vagina being as God intended. We're talking about a gender who will stick their penis in pretty much any hole it'll fit in. In a strange world where prospective partners did conceivably care about it then she should disclose.

I assume you're going down the "how is a penis any different from any other deformity on a woman that can be surgically fixed line" here and that requires me to defend and explain exactly why transphobic people are transphobic. I can't explain that. But that doesn't change whether or not they have the right to choose their partners by any criteria they want.


I don't believe transphobic people has the right to be protected from an irrational shame. Like Scarlett said, it's their problem. I won't apologize or put my identity on suspend just because a poor transphobic person could suffer.

They have the right to choose their partners by any criteria they want. Transphobic people still get to consent.


And it's still not the responsibility of the trans woman to tell everyone she's trans. If a man really doesn't want to sleep with a trans woman, he's the one who needs to take responsibility for making sure he's sleeping with a cis woman.
If he fails to do this, it's his problem.

We already did this argument a few hours ago. Basically the assumption that a given person is cisgender is, given no other information, reasonable. With an accuracy of 99.99% that assumption is fine and someone not asking the question can still legitimately care about the issue. It is not reasonable to demand anyone who is transphobic to ask everyone they encounter if they are cis or trans when their default assumption will be correct 99.99% of the time.
However the trans person is aware that they are an extreme outlier. The transphobic person and the trans person are not working from equal amounts of information, the trans person knows which situations include a trans person with much more accuracy because they are the trans person in question. It is reasonable to put the responsibility on them.
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Smat
Profile Joined January 2011
United States301 Posts
August 01 2013 19:15 GMT
#1477
On August 02 2013 04:02 Plansix wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:56 Smat wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:25 Plansix wrote:
On August 02 2013 02:24 Klondikebar wrote:
Your first assumption is wrong. Assuming nobody asks and nobody discloses, the trans person sleeps with 9 strangers and all 9 of them are fine.

Are the strangers bigots if they are upset if they find out that they slept with a transgender and didn't know?


Yep. They would be. Why are sexual proclivities the holy grail that cannot be criticised based on prejudice while everything else can be criticized? Of course.you have UNFAIR and irrational prejudice if you become upset after sleeping with a trans woman. Only you can decide if you are ok with having that prejudice. Just dont freak out and get defensive when people call a spade a spade.

Cool. You won't mind if I say that you folks seem to be using your minority status to bully people into confirming social norms that make life easier for you. I mean, your confort level is what matters here and making sure that you don't have to disclose anythign that makes you uncomfortable. And if I don't want to sleep with someoen who is trangender, I best keep it to myself because I don't want to be called a bigot.

I am all about equal right and making sure people are treated fairly in every way. But I am pretty done when people start calling me a bigot based on who I want to sleep with.

If you dont want to sleep with a trans woman then make it known. Not my fault that you are insecure.about the fact that you dont find trans women sexually appealing due internal transphobia. Maybe you should stand up for your beliefs more and then trans girls.wont be interested in you.
Darkwhite
Profile Joined June 2007
Norway348 Posts
August 01 2013 19:17 GMT
#1478
On August 02 2013 03:58 KlaCkoN wrote:
The way I see it people can have all sorts of reasons for not wanting to sleep with someone. One person might never give consent if the know that their potential partner has undergone a sex change, another might refuse to sleep with jews, or people more than 1/8 black. Yet others might on principle never sleep with people who have ever played league of legends or people who make less than 100k a year.
In principle misrepresenting or lying about anything that would make your prospective partner withdraw consent is rape. But it is in my opinion ludicrous to expect a prospective partner to tell you his/her entire life story before sex that you might sift through it for a deal breaker and cry rape if he/she forgets something that would have been important to you.
To me it makes much more sense to say that people who know that they would withdraw consent over particular traits or events in someones past are responsible to ask about those things. Eg: "Before we have sexual intercourse ma'm I must inform you that if you have ever undergone sexual reassignment surgery and or your mother is either a jew or black (but both at the same time is ok) I do not give my consent to this act."
Though if you want people to actually sleep with you you might need to find a more tactful way of asking but that's not my problem.


I need you to clear up a hypothetical for me.

Let's say I have a first cousin who's lived her whole life in a different country. I go there in the summer and approach her as a stranger without disclosing our kinship. She takes a liking to me - we start dating and having sex.

Later, she finds out I am her first cousin and that I knew this all along but didn't tell her. Is it her fault that she didn't explicitly make it clear when she met me that she wouldn't want to have a sexual relationship with close family members?
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Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
August 01 2013 19:19 GMT
#1479
On August 02 2013 04:17 Darkwhite wrote:
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On August 02 2013 03:58 KlaCkoN wrote:
The way I see it people can have all sorts of reasons for not wanting to sleep with someone. One person might never give consent if the know that their potential partner has undergone a sex change, another might refuse to sleep with jews, or people more than 1/8 black. Yet others might on principle never sleep with people who have ever played league of legends or people who make less than 100k a year.
In principle misrepresenting or lying about anything that would make your prospective partner withdraw consent is rape. But it is in my opinion ludicrous to expect a prospective partner to tell you his/her entire life story before sex that you might sift through it for a deal breaker and cry rape if he/she forgets something that would have been important to you.
To me it makes much more sense to say that people who know that they would withdraw consent over particular traits or events in someones past are responsible to ask about those things. Eg: "Before we have sexual intercourse ma'm I must inform you that if you have ever undergone sexual reassignment surgery and or your mother is either a jew or black (but both at the same time is ok) I do not give my consent to this act."
Though if you want people to actually sleep with you you might need to find a more tactful way of asking but that's not my problem.


I need you to clear up a hypothetical for me.

Let's say I have a first cousin who's lived her whole life in a different country. I go there in the summer and approach her as a stranger without disclosing our kinship. She takes a liking to me - we start dating and having sex.

Later, she finds out I am her first cousin and that I knew this all along but didn't tell her. Is it her fault that she didn't explicitly make it clear when she met me that she wouldn't want to have a sexual relationship with close family members?

insest equivalencies now lol
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42965 Posts
August 01 2013 19:20 GMT
#1480
On August 02 2013 04:17 Darkwhite wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2013 03:58 KlaCkoN wrote:
The way I see it people can have all sorts of reasons for not wanting to sleep with someone. One person might never give consent if the know that their potential partner has undergone a sex change, another might refuse to sleep with jews, or people more than 1/8 black. Yet others might on principle never sleep with people who have ever played league of legends or people who make less than 100k a year.
In principle misrepresenting or lying about anything that would make your prospective partner withdraw consent is rape. But it is in my opinion ludicrous to expect a prospective partner to tell you his/her entire life story before sex that you might sift through it for a deal breaker and cry rape if he/she forgets something that would have been important to you.
To me it makes much more sense to say that people who know that they would withdraw consent over particular traits or events in someones past are responsible to ask about those things. Eg: "Before we have sexual intercourse ma'm I must inform you that if you have ever undergone sexual reassignment surgery and or your mother is either a jew or black (but both at the same time is ok) I do not give my consent to this act."
Though if you want people to actually sleep with you you might need to find a more tactful way of asking but that's not my problem.


I need you to clear up a hypothetical for me.

Let's say I have a first cousin who's lived her whole life in a different country. I go there in the summer and approach her as a stranger without disclosing our kinship. She takes a liking to me - we start dating and having sex.

Later, she finds out I am her first cousin and that I knew this all along but didn't tell her. Is it her fault that she didn't explicitly make it clear when she met me that she wouldn't want to have a sexual relationship with close family members?

Add contraception and I really like this argument.
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