>If you think it was a witty remark and not unsolicited...
You should be able to see that the first post is an opening for humour. Speaking of decency and respect, the word "trap", as opposed to being an insult, is a compliment elevating a subset of transsexuals. At the risk of making a deadly faux-pas like the flagged poster, trans people do aim to have the appearance of the opposite sex right?
"Trap" hasn't had a negative meaning tied to it in our past circles (chans/Rizon), where I think it might have originated.
If someone didn't see it through that lens I could sympathize being offended by it, but even then I'd personally take it as a compliment as being "passable" ~
You said "haven't been there for years" which means you came from 4chan. So does your behavior, pretending you don't know the word "trap" or purposefully mis-gendering is an insult to transgender people. That bullshit doesn't play here. You still haven't asked any questions worth answering.
>Defamatory: "deceptive," "fooling," "pretending," "posing," "trap," or "masquerading"
>Gender identity is an integral part of a person's identity. Do not characterize transgender people as "deceptive," as "fooling" or "trapping" others, or as "pretending" to be, "posing" or "masquerading" as a man or a woman. Such descriptions are inaccurate, defamatory and insulting. (See "passing" and "stealth" as problematic terms above.)
Now you know. So stop pretending you didn't know before.
I'm not pretending to not know the word; it made sense on sight to me as "someone who fools you". Easiest term around. And that is clearly a concept of its own not a synonym for transsexuals, hence my confusion when a poster gets flagged for an affront to them.
You have actually been helpful now though, despite thinking you're slamdunking me. Passing is a bad word now too? I think I'm getting the idea; transsexuals are their own sex. But then isn't the 'trans' in the word misleading?
Next you're going explain to me that you're not a "homophobe" because you're not literally "afraid" of homosexuals, you just hate them without fearing them. That's not the way language works, and I've heard all of your arguments before. You have nothing to contribute to the conversation.
Traps were originally a feature of 4chan; something you had to look out for. I'm sure the word existed in real life too, but 4chan is how most people find it. If anything, traps existed before trans-words entered people's vocab.
There was hostility but no intended snark when I say "I'm getting the idea; transsexuals are their own sex", I was trying to rationalize why even 'passing' was unacceptable, but at a stretch I can see that passing is part of the same theme of fooling and deceiving. So trans men do strive to be women.
(sctb's request acknowledged, replying to a separate poster)
Why vouch for a post demonstrating such creepiness? And making a strange ad-hom. Nothing worth resurrecting as a HN post. I'm not even one who had flagged it.
You should be able to see that the first post is an opening for humour. Speaking of decency and respect, the word "trap", as opposed to being an insult, is a compliment elevating a subset of transsexuals. At the risk of making a deadly faux-pas like the flagged poster, trans people do aim to have the appearance of the opposite sex right?