so, obviously the whole transphobia thing is a divide and rule tactic by the elite, who are looking for a minority group to attack. how many practicing muslims do you expect to rally against transphobia? and how many do you expect to align with the conservative groups that are otherwise out to get them?

here's the frustrating thing: the conservative muslims will do everything they possibly can to find common cause with the conservative christians, and yet the christians will never budge on their attacks on them. the conservative christians are more interested in converting the queer folks, because underneath everything else they're white supremacists, too. and, while a certain segment of useful idiots on the left will continue to reach out to them, the muslims are never going to budge an inch, either. it's the most dysfunctional love triangle you can imagine: muslims chasing christians, who are chasing queers, who are chasing muslims.

don't look at me, man, i'm just watching from a distance and writing down what i see in front of me. you don't get anywhere shooting at scribes; i don't make reality, i just observe it.

anyways.

this is what it is: an attack for political gain. and, we know that it works. but why does it work? are the religious really that stupid and ignorant, or is there something else going on?

my observation is that you get the most push back from men, for some reason. it's not that women never care, but they don't get angry so much as they get annoyed. now, i'll acknowledge that i only have my own experiences, and my own experiences are that of an attractive, androgynous white person. but, i've never had a woman yell at me or express any notion of feeling unsafe. i've only ever had women give me bitchy looks for not being into them, or exasperated expressions that indicate frustration at the current ubiquity of metrosexuals.

but, i think that this is actually at the core of the pushback you get from men. the messaging i get from women is never that they're afraid i'm going to touch them, but sometimes is that they're annoyed that i don't want to touch them. that is what i think transphobic men are picking up on.

but, it's not just jealousy, it's a control issue. if you're a jealous, controlling male you have a constant, glaring problem in your dominance: you can't follow her into the bathroom. no matter how alpha you are, no matter how much she recognizes your superiority, she can always sneak into the bathroom and cheat on you and there's nothing you can ever do about it.

as absurd as this sounds - and is - a controlling male will never get over this. he will spend his entire life freaking out over what happens when she's in the bathroom. he will never be convinced that she's really, seriously going to come back. he will always fear that she won't.

this perpetual fear is bad enough as it is. now, the government wants to let guys into the bathroom - the very place where she can cheat on him, and he can't stop it? worse, they only want to let the cute ones in that he knows she's attracted to? what? this madness must be stopped! and right now - before she leaves him for good.

considering that women tend to be curious or frustrated, there's even some surface logic to the fear, right?

except there isn't, because we're usually not functional. it's really, honestly just a question of understanding the chemistry. once you grasp what's actually happening in our bodies, there's no basis of any fears.

notwithstanding the need to abolish the patriarchy, of course.