Little room for BS
Joe Dirt wrote this is the comment section on a post about trans and the post factual era we live in.
I think its a brilliant summation of an exchange many of us have had with these types:
I go through this with my niece on a regular basis, her: "I am a man".
Me: No you aren't.
Her: That is transphobic, I am a man because I say I am a man.
Me: I am a billionaire.
Her: That is ridiculous, you don't have a billion dollars.
Me: And you have none of the physical features of a man, isn't that the same?
Her: I don't have room in my life for transphobes.
Me: Surrounding yourself with people who will support your fantasy isn't going to make it any more real than me having all the monopoly money Hasbro has ever made is going to make me a billionaire.
Being a man isn't a state of mind, though that can be part of it, it is a physical reality.
My favorite is when abortion comes up. I tell her she isn't allowed to have an opinion because she is a "man". Pisses her right off even though she said exactly the same thing to me before she decided she was a man.
The article in reference,
Tell me how ridiculous this is..