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One particular reason I dislike ‘transandrophobia discourse’ is it often follows a motte-and-bailey structure.

A person claims “transandrophobia does not exist”. The obvious interpretation of this claim is “transmasculine people do not experience oppression”.

Upon receiving pushback, the discourser retreats to the bailey: “Androphobia does not exist; men are not oppressed”.

This completely ignores the fact that the reason the word transandrophobia was chosen was to acknowledge the fact that systematic misandry is not a feature of our society, and more insidiously paints anyone responding to the motte argument as stupid, sexist, or otherwise unreasonable.

If you do not believe that transmasculine people do not face oppression, then don’t phrase your claims in a way that implies it.

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Hating an entire demographic is poisonous and will inevitably lead to both rotten politics and a rotten personality.

Yes even if it’s “punching up”.

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You can call me Smoke.

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I think the concept of “privilege” is generally a flawed framework; not in the sense that it doesn’t exist, but in that it incentivizes cutting the nonoppressed class down to size rather than uplifting the oppressed class.