the success of this post, which i assume was mostly upvoted by cis people who have some animosity towards trans people
Thaaaat seems like a very weird theory. I expect it was mostly upvoted by cis people since most people are cis, but it seems way more likely to me that people upvoted it because it’s an attempt at taking an unflinching look at yourself to try to understand what’s real, independent of what you would prefer to be real — which is a major, explicit goal of this community.
That’s just my intuition, but I note that as of now the top-voted comment, by a factor of 2.6, mostly just says ‘This essay is introspective and vulnerable and writing it was gutsy as hell’. I would suggest taking that as probably-representative rather than imputing some other hidden motive to the upvotes.
Thaaaat seems like a very weird theory. I expect it was mostly upvoted by cis people since most people are cis, but it seems way more likely to me that people upvoted it because it’s an attempt at taking an unflinching look at yourself to try to understand what’s real, independent of what you would prefer to be real — which is a major, explicit goal of this community.
That’s just my intuition, but I note that as of now the top-voted comment, by a factor of 2.6, mostly just says ‘This essay is introspective and vulnerable and writing it was gutsy as hell’. I would suggest taking that as probably-representative rather than imputing some other hidden motive to the upvotes.