Thank you for your thoughts on this. I don't have anything mightily coherent to say (I have been extremely incoherent for the past month or so due to stress), but I wanted to thank you both for your analysis and especially for your link to Winter. Given the anthropology that I have been doing, I have been exposed (especially during my last field trip) to an appalling amount of anti-transgender stuff (although less than has been advertised, if you will). I kept repeating to myself: I did not become a feminist in order to hate. Winter was much more eloquent than I on the subject. I shall bookmark her and use the link extensively.
I have also had migraines and been unable to sleep because of flame wars, and I also have meditated on the peculiar problems of electronic media-- the quick paths to misunderstanding and the ways in which one's conversation partners can become dehumanized (even demonized) while one remains strangely vulnerable.
There have actually been studies done (although the studies were about homophobia, not transphobia), which showed that actually knowing the type of person in question-- in this case, a gay or lesbian person-- was far more likely than anything else to make someone view the group as a whole as human.
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Date: 2007-01-05 05:53 pm (UTC)I have also had migraines and been unable to sleep because of flame wars, and I also have meditated on the peculiar problems of electronic media-- the quick paths to misunderstanding and the ways in which one's conversation partners can become dehumanized (even demonized) while one remains strangely vulnerable.
There have actually been studies done (although the studies were about homophobia, not transphobia), which showed that actually knowing the type of person in question-- in this case, a gay or lesbian person-- was far more likely than anything else to make someone view the group as a whole as human.
Sorry about the disconnectedness of my thoughts.