RunRagged wrote:
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It's an absurd analogy. Blackface is ridicule and the color of your skin is fixed whereas gender roles are social constructions - anyone can wear heels on any given day, they are not 'women's clothes', they are clothes that belong to the wearer.
The concept of 'races' is also social construction and how your skin color relates to race is a social construction but the actual tone of your skin isn't.
But male people who "identify as women" nowadays don't simply "wear heels on any given day" like UK artist Grayson Perry does and the glam rockers of the 70s did. If all they did was dress as they want, then I'd be cheering them on just like I did back in the 70s, 80s and 90s when Marc Bolan, the New York Dolls, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Rod Stewart, Marilyn Peter Robinson, Robert Smith and the Cure, the New Romantics, Nirvana and many more all engaged in male "gender bending." And when Eddie Izzard used to say, "these aren't women's clothes, they're my clothes - I bought them."
I agree with you that "the color of your skin is fixed, whereas gender roles are social constructions." But sex is fixed too; sex runs much deeper than race, it's far more significant and involves thousands more physical differences. Sex is also binary, whereas race exists along a continuum just like gender and gender expression do. Billions of people on earth are of mixed race and ethnic ancestry, but we're all either one of the two human sexes - male or female.
Also, the majority of males who adopt a trans identity today aren't imitating women's "gender roles" or gendered clothing - they imitate and want to appropriate women's physical sex characteristics. They mimic our bodies, our voices and the more superficial and stereotyped aspects of what they believe are naturally "feminine" gestures and behaviors, such as the ways they imagine girls and women laugh, sleep, moan during sex, sneeze, cough, sigh and even breathe.
Moreover, they say they actually are women and the world must recognize and respect them as such. Many today further claim that they are biologically female too. They do not believe that those of us who actually are biologically female should have any right to define ourselves, to have conversations and meetings that don't include them, to have sports of our own, or to have any spaces or services whatsoever that exclude them such as female-only loos, change rooms, health care services, shelters, hospital wards, rape refuges, prison cells, nursing home rooms or home care arrangements for those of us who are elderly and disabled.
If and when women say "no, you are not the same as us, you are still male, we are female," many "trans women" get very, very angry and abusive towards us. A majority of them today seem unable to accept that for reasons of fairness, safety, privacy and dignity, we think it's legitimate and justifiable for women and girls to have our own sports and a few places apart from males no matter how those males identify.
These persons also frequently make extremely belittling and misogynistic remarks about women.
Caitlyn Jenner, who is father of six biological children thanks to Jenner's various wives who gestated their children for 9+ months then pushed each one out of their vaginas in an experience that takes a tremendous amount of effort now says: "The hardest thing about being a woman is deciding what to wear."
Grace Lavery, who is a "feminist" professor of literature, gender and women's studies at UC Berkeley says: "A woman is anyone who takes the receptive, submissive role in penetrative penile sex."
Andrea Long Chu, darling of the woke literary world and author of the critically acclaimed but IMO highly offensive book Females, says "the barest essentials of femaleness" are “an open mouth, an expectant xsshole, blank, blank eyes.”
Chu also sums up the views of many males who have "transitioned" today when Chu says:"I transitioned for gossip and compliments, lipstick and mascara, for crying at the movies, for being someone’s girlfriend . . . for feeling hot, for getting hit on by butches, for that secret knowledge of which dykes to watch out for, for Daisy Dukes, bikini tops, and all the dresses, and, my god, for the breasts."
How is this not insulting, demeaning, sexist and dehumanizing? How is this not ridiculing women and reducing us to misogynistic stereotypes? Please explain why it it "absurd" to draw the parallels between blackface and the sort of womanface performed by Jenner, Lavery, Chu and thousands of other males today.
Also, why is it that the "gender roles" males who say they "feel like" women are fixated on always seem to boil down to superficial things like heels, clothes, hair, makeup and accessories? Odd that so few of the "trans women" in today's world are clamoring to take on the less glamorous "gender roles" of girls and women like wiping noses, changing diapers, cleaning the house, scrubbing the toilet, doing clerical work and caring for the sick and elderly. Strange that so many envision "womanhood" as being about "tiddies," "whore moans," thigh highs, kitten ears, skirts that "go spinny" and pillow fights but not about motherhood, mastitis, menopause, varicose veins or facing sex discrimination and ageism.