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Thread: I'm Attracted to Transwomen
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10-25-2013 #1
I'm Attracted to Transwomen
A college student articulates his experience with being attracted to transwomen in addition to cisgender women. I think this is well worth the read:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/22/im_a...o_trans_women/
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10-25-2013 #2
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An article on a subject of raw emotion, emotion which unfortunately couldn't be conveyed by the flat writing of its author. I appreciate the author's sentiment, and applaud his willingness to come out publicly in this regard, but I do wish his prose didn't borrow so much of its style from a social science research paper. I had this discussion on twitter recently with a transactivist friend in which I argued that activist writing ultimately needs to have a poetry of diction which will awaken the non-activists ability to feel and perceive things from another perspective. While not the jargon laden disaster of your average queer theory paper, I nevertheless felt like this man could have shown his audience so much more of his and his girlfriends emotional experience, allowing the audience to fight the internal battles of a trans attracted man, or sweat out the terror of letting a boyfriend know that you weren't born a girl. Instead we were left with rather choppy and uninflected prose. Oh well.
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10-26-2013 #3
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Re: I'm Attracted to Transwomen
It got covered by the Young Turks also
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10-26-2013 #4
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10-26-2013 #5
Re: I'm Attracted to Transwomen
I agree that it would be a lot more appealing and engaging to those not familiar with transgender relationships and other issues if it had some emotion, whether raw or refined. I get what he is saying and it is important but it does come across as more of a speech to like-minded individuals. It would have been great if, as you said, it was more personal, showing in detail his thoughts or feelings as he met his transgender girlfriend, flirted, fell in love, etc. That would be a better way of communicating to the average person than this style of essay, but I just liked that trans-attracted individuals were writing their own article in a real venue and I saw it on a platonic transgender friend's page, so I though I would share.
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10-26-2013 #6
Re: I'm Attracted to Transwomen
Here is an article from last year on the specific subject of transsexual porn's popularity:
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/12/porn...ssexual_stars/
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10-26-2013 #7
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Re: I'm Attracted to Transwomen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexual_pornography
This wiki might help explain the appeal of transsexuals also.
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10-26-2013 #8
Re: I'm Attracted to Transwomen
It's a bad piece on multiple levels, the least of which is the writing style...unless he's intentionally mimicking a C+/B- college sophomore because he's got that down pat.
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