#leaving this in the tags because i don't have a serious dog in the transandrophobia discourse
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#leaving this in the tags because i don't have a serious dog in the transandrophobia discourse#but from the posts i've seen i don't think the term's defenders actually understand the critiques made by its detractors#just saw a post saying “if you think transandrophobia must be the opposite of transmisogyny then you must believe in oppositional sexism”#when the actual critique (as i understand it) is that positioning transandrophobia as comparable to transmisogyny…#…(a term to describe the intersection of transphobia and misogyny)…#…implies that transandrophobia would be the intersection of transphobia and “androphobia”#which is obviously absurd#i don't think that's necessarily the way the transandrophobia folks are intending to use the term#i think they intend it to parse as “transandro” + “phobia”#not “trans” + “andro” + “phobia”#(which is why i'm not interested in getting super into the discourse - not worth making a federal case out of)#but i can't know that for sure b/c their responses to those critiques aren't engaging with the actual critique……
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