• Lileath
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    1 year ago

    Don’t you just love it when the punchline is simply transphobia

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      I personally think the sex-workers (both trans and cis) are often sexy as hell. Hence the title.

      Trans culture is more accepted in Thailand which is why their red-light district is known to have more trans people. The meme is about the awareness of this fact from western tourists visiting the area. The meme implies he has a preference but it doesn’t say in which direction. Not everything that mentions queer culture is mean-spirited Lileath.

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        I don’t think it needs to be mean spirited to be transphobic. The implication seems to be that he is tying to determine whether a sex worker is trans by asking if they are a boy. There’s probably a better way to word that question, but then it wouldn’t fit the meme.

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          Ah, I see. Someone might read this to mean trans women aren’t women. I didn’t mean it that way but I suppose that makes sense.

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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        I suppose the post title really needs to be read after the bottom line of the image - depending on the client it may appear above, etc