what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they’re better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.
and it is imperative that it ends with killing the better version of yourself with your bare hands btw.
Notice 99.99% of the time the question is “what is a woman”. Nobody is asking “what is a man”.
The reason for that is because staying close to the reality of who is biologically male and who is not is a life or death assessment. A miscalculation could literally kill you. Even other males knows this. Transwomen know this. A bus of 50 trans men and a bus of 50 “cis” males is not an equivalent bus in terms of risk and harm if you’re a member of a vulnerable population. Hence people’s willingness to muse endlessly and “deconstruct” woman as a concept or aesthetic yet they somehow sober up when it comes to discussing men and indulge much less in such fanciful musings.
Men have no worries about sharing their prisons, bathrooms, clubs, and gyms because everybody is terrified of being in closed spaces with them alone. There’s zero effort from men in practice or policy to make their spaces welcoming for trans and non-binary people. Nobody dares to even suggest it. Men’s outright rejection of and intolerance of trans people is accepted like a weather report yet they’ll shout, scream, cry, throw up and act like it’s the New Jim Crow if a woman says “hey that’s fine but self Id laws don’t provide enough protection for women can we come up with another solution”. Men’s social dominance is protecting them from being “deconstructed” the way women are.
So we have a social phenomenon where only women are disrupted, imposed on, challenged, and re-defined and men are for the most part completely undisturbed/untouched? And that’s supposed to be “breaking gender barriers”. The only barriers being broken is women’s boundaries and ability to assert their needs. Which is a reproduction of the oldest gender paradigm ever.
You’re “disrupting gender” but the main benefactors of gender hierarchies are totally untouched/unbothered/undisturbed? lol k.
