The line that really drew my eye was "ask 'em if they'd want to be those fursonas given the chance", because Dave says it as if that desire was something positive.
It isn't.
To genuinely want to be a technicolor bipedal wolf, no matter your gender, is a mental illness. It points towards either serious hang-ups with one's own body, or a severe level of disconnection from reality. Neither is good. What the few sane furries out there know is that it's all just characters they play. Despite wearing their shag carpet "skin" as an avatar online, they're aware that it's just that: an avatar. A character. Make-believe. To "identify" with fictional characters so intensely as to want to become said character is unhealthy. It's the kind of stuff that creates surgical monsters like those Barbiedoll-lookalike girls that make the rounds every now and then.
Of course, Dave would never admit that because it's firmly in his ideological blind spot. It's actually his method for cracking "eggs": fostering this unhealthy fascination with the fictional avatar until it supplants the original identity. In short, groomers gonna groom.
It doesn't matter if there's any desire or not. If Gandalf shows up and offers to zoop you into a cyber titty tiger for a day, chances are a lot of people will take him up on that. Not because they're women inside or particularly desire to be a coombrain furry cyborg, but because it'd be a once in a lifetime adventure for the day. Even permanently people would probably go for it without having any desire, let alone think of themselves as trans.
It gets treated as some kind of crystal ball question that'll reveal you inner trans soul, but really people would just press the button for the sake of pressing it. It's no more meaningful than asking if someone would want to be a secret agent, or if they would go on a one way voyage to colonize Mars, or if they'd date the captain of the football team.
This basically. Notice how for Dave it always seems to start as: 'In a fantasy scenario where everything is perfect and side effects don't exist...' which says a lot.
A wizard appears in a puff of smoke in front of you and says 'I can skedaddle, skedoodle and turn you into a
poodle woman for a day. Wanna try it?' Most people would just say yes because fuck it, why not. In an entirely magical, fantastical and fictional scenario there are no downsides. The wizard's mere existence puts you in the mindset that magic exists and works in the thought exercise.
I don't believe Dave has
ever opened any of these hypotheticals with anything grounded in reality. It's always fantasy:
Wizard magic turns you into a woman? Acceptable to the everyman.
Life altering surgeries physically remove your penis, carve a hole where it was and sew the skin to the sides of the hole to keep it from fusing back together? Not acceptable to anyone with even a half functioning brain.
Troon logic seems to exclusively be created and maintained by imagining a fantasy, deluding themselves into thinking reality can ever compare to said fantasy, then plugging their ears and screaming 'LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU I'M A WOMAN BTW' when anything at all casts so much as a suggestion of doubt on the concept. It's the world's shittiest house of cards.
I did have a small chuckle at the 'Mix in some toxic and unrealistic expectations about people's bodies' line. I'm assuming he means that humanity being sexually dimorphic even down to the skeleton is a 'toxic and unrealistic' reality. Male and Female skeletons differ,
not with titty bones as my avatar may suggest, and that is an unavoidable and immutable fact. If male and female bodies were
not sexually dimorphic there'd be no reason for troons to take estrogen as everyone would have the same bone, muscle, facial structure and fat distribution. Preaching to the choir with this one but it bears repeating since it's such a common troon cope.
Dave will never be a woman, but it sure is entertaining watching him twist himself inside out to try to explain how he can be.
