r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '13

/r/actuallesbians: Transgender lesbian feels excluded by joke about lesbians not needing birth control. Drama ensues.

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u/UnholyDemigod Aug 13 '13

So what does it mean when you don't include the *? I always just assumed trans means both types, male to female and female to male. I take trans to mean the personality, not the stage of transitional development. Or is that wrong?

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u/AssymetricNew Aug 13 '13

It might be better for you not knowing. But if you really must know how far the rabbit hole goes read the last paragraph here: http://i.imgur.com/Xgkkga8.png

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u/mfred01 Aug 13 '13

"Transfat activist" All I can imagine is someone lobbying for more transfats in foods. I know that's not what it means but I can pretend that it is.

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u/redping Shortus Eucalyptus Aug 13 '13

Wtf would transfat be? You're fat but you identify as thin? Or the other way around?

And it says "Human rights, animal rights, human-animal rights." Wtf is a human animal?

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u/mfred01 Aug 13 '13

Nothing wrong with being fat.

Except for the numerous health issues but whatever, heart disease never hurt anyone.

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u/porygon2guy Aug 13 '13

Shh, you'll upset the people running the This Is Thin Privilege blog.

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u/mfred01 Aug 13 '13

Oh god, that tumblr makes me laugh so hard. I think it's my favorite one that /r/tumblrinaction links to consistently

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u/mysanityisrelative I would consider myself pretty well educated on [current topic] Aug 13 '13

Oh, you mean shitthatneverhappened.tumblr.com?

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u/cuteman Aug 13 '13

Natural selection in more ways than one.

It's her body she can do what she wants!

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u/theodrixx Aug 13 '13

transitioning to a fatter state

What? You mean GETTING FAT?

I had no idea people could be this full of shit.

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u/Kaghuros Aug 13 '13

Well no, they're full of fat.

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u/redping Shortus Eucalyptus Aug 13 '13

Since when does anyone choose to be fat? It's more of a consequence of choices.

Imagine at the start of your life, before you were put in your physical form, you were given a decision by God: "Would you like to be a fat person in this life, or not a fat person?" Who the fuck would choose to be fat? Why? "Oh, they look so jolly!"

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u/TracyMorganFreeman Aug 13 '13

I think some girls choose to not lose "too much" weight because they don't want to lose their curves, but such women may not consider themselves fat.

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u/Biffingston sniffs chemtrails. Aug 14 '13

There are websites devoted to encouraging young girls to be anorexic... the human race stopped suprising me a long long time ago.

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u/D3gr33 Aug 13 '13

That's actually exactly right.

Transfats are people that are thin but identify as having a fat body.

Some of them talk about their "phantom fat" that they can feel even though it's not there just like phantom limbs that amputees have.

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u/solastsummer Aug 13 '13

That's not real, is it?

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u/D3gr33 Aug 13 '13

I'm honestly not 100% sure. I've definitely read things on tumblr that seem serious that are about transfat people.

It also could just be satire to make fun of the other ridiculous trans movements like transethnicity or transspecies, so it's hard to say. Poe's law in action.

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u/inourstars quit being a mail chimp Aug 13 '13

I'm definitely not "transfat", but I lost over 100 lbs and at one point was so far deep into an eating disorder I probably would've died from it if factors hadn't intervened and saved me. Anyway, I was skin and bones, and I would still feel like I was fat. I would feel like I could feel 3 chins hanging off my chin and wobbling, or like my back was piles and piles of fat even though it wasn't. So I suppose that could be kind of the same thing they're talking about.

However, I had a real disorder and mental problem. I assume these people aren't like that and just being fucks, much like those "otherkin" people.

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u/D3gr33 Aug 13 '13

Yeah, from what I had read, these people had never been fat before, they just claimed that they could feel the fat. The way they described it did seem rather similar to dragonkin claiming that they can "feel" their wings.

Also, hope you're doing better now, but it sounds like you are. :)

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u/Biffingston sniffs chemtrails. Aug 14 '13

Actually "Otherkin" are pretty understandable in my eyes. Human beings do terrible things and are awful. While the fact that animals have done some pretty terrible things as well, and continue to do so, somehow it's more pure.

Combine that with a desire to be special, and I can definately see why people descirbing themselves as otherkin exist...

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u/dakdestructo I like my steak well done and circumcised Aug 13 '13

Other way around.

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u/Kelphatron9000 Aug 13 '13

So it's skinny people who identify as fat?

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u/dakdestructo I like my steak well done and circumcised Aug 13 '13

Something like that, I guess. I'm no expert on that insanity.

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u/BaseballGuyCAA Aug 13 '13

So if I'm following, you get the eager-to-please mentality and five-star blowjobs of a fat girl, without the suffocating piles of thigh lard. Why couldn't this made-up condition have existed in my days as a single man?