(March 23, 2018 at 5:58 pm)Hammy Wrote:(March 23, 2018 at 5:50 pm)Shell B Wrote: No, we're not.
That is what I've been arguing the entire time. I've consistently stated that I'm specifically talking about people who are still convinced by the person's artificial body and I'm arguing that getting distracted by how someone used to be has nothing to do with it. I've also stated that not being attracted to a transperson because you happen to find them unattractive is not transphobic. And yet I've been repeatedly misrepresented as saying the opposite. I'm not attracted to 99% of transwomen and if it was 100% that wouldn't make me transphobic. If I was already attracted and continued to be attracted after I discovered that she was trans, but I recoiled because I kept thinking about what she used to be like, and buried my feelings about who she was now, because I was phobic of the fact she was trans and the fact her vagina was artifical despite the fact that I was still attracted to it and her as it and she appears right now.... then that would be transphobic of me
You can lose attraction for a vagina you originally thought looked good after finding out it's a fake vag made out of penis tissue. Not because of how it looks, but because of the idea of it. Sexual attraction is a complex thing, and is completely involuntary.
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