• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Not once have I encountered a trans person on a dating app who wasn’t 100% transparent about it.

    …that you know of. not defending bigots or bullying, but that statement doesn’t make sense.

    • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      I mean, isn’t that also just true of anyone you’ve interacted with? Their point was that they never “found out” someone they were dating on there was trans, and everyone that dated from those apps who oc every discovered were trans were straightforward about it.

      Why would you need or want to be that precise about your language?

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        5 months ago

        Their point

        oh geez, thank you for explaining someone else’s point, you must be quite an insider into their thoughts 😂

        was that they never “found out”

        that is not what was said

        why would you need or want to be that precise about your language

        you need to be precise with your language because that is what allows us to communicate ideas to each other and logic through arguments, eventually accepting or refuting them.

        for example you can call these two strawberry, and nuclear submarine, but it is going to seriously hinder your communication with others, because that is now what is commonly understood under these terms.

        you can see it in the comment we are discussing. because i read the implication original commenter tried to make as it never happened to me => it is not a problem that needs to be addressed.

        which is incorrect implication in itself, but more importantly, as i pointed out, the premise of the implication is flawed.